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The Street Names of Hitchin

and their Origins: Book 1: The Town Centre

by Sue Fitzpatrick & Barry West

Egon Publishers, 1997, ISBN 1 899998 25 X

Paperback booklet, 21*15 cm, 48 pages, many line drawings, maps

The Street Names of Hitchin

and their Origins: Book 2: Eastern Hitchin

by Barry West

Egon Publishers, 1998, ISBN 1 899998 25 X

Paperback booklet, 21*15 cm, 56 pages, many line drawings, maps

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Joseph Ransom's Naturalist's Notebook

1804-1816

The Nature Notes of A Hitchin Quaker

 Transcribed and annotated by Val Campion

2004.  ISBN 0 9512109 7 1

"Two hundred years ago a physically disable Hitchin Quaker with a deep interest in natural history kept notes of his sightings of birds, mammals and flowers as he went about his daily business. He painstakingly copied these in tiny copperplate handwriting into a slim volume which lay hidden for many years in the Natural History Archive of North Hertfordshire Museum."

"Val Campion's transcription provides us with a rare and magical window into the natural world of the early nineteenth century. Her addition of a commentary and biographical material relating to Joseph and his family, forebears of the Ransom Pharmaceutical dynasty, has brought this young man, once a popular and well-respected figure in his community, back to life."

While this book is not "local" history in the commonly accepted sense, it shows how aspects of the past can be brought to life from old documents, and a well-written and researched commentary.

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Hitchin's Straw Plait Industry

by N. Agar

First Issued 1982. New Edition 1998. 

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Early Education in Hitchin

by Robert Walmsley

First Issued 1985. New Edition 1998

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