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The Hexham Historian: the annual journal of the Society
Hexham Historian Index - Issues 1 to 15
Hexham Historian Index - Issues 1 to 20 (1991-2010) This download is available in both Word and PDF format at the bottom of this page.
Hexham Historian 21 (2011) Under the unlawful defence of some mighty person; Two Hexham ballads; The medieval paintings of Hexham abbey; Hexham's first historian: Andrew Biggs Wright; John Grey and the Dilston-based Greenwich Hospital Estates; Where there's a will; Index to issues 16-20. £6.00
Hexham Historian 20 (2010) From Bilbao to Hexham; "This barbarous and irreligious contry"; The history of a house 3: Maiden Cross; Towards a history of Protestant dissent in Hexham; Hexham and the Royal Forestry Society. £6.00
Hexham Historian 19 (2009) The diary of Elizabeth Gill; A century of two Hexham churches; A note on the early photographic career of J P Gibson; Witherite mining in Tynedale; A short history of Hexham railway station; Was Hexham fortified?: The "watchtower" and town walls. £6.00
Hexham Historian 18 (2008) Obituary of Rodney Higgins; Robbs: the building of a business; Hexham Hydro's Winter Gardens; Shopkeepers to Hexham: the Welches of Hexham; Dotland deserted; The tale of Uchtred; The birth of Egger. £6.00
Hexham Historian 17 (2007) Obituaries of Tom Corfe, Anna Rossiter, L C Coombes & Brian Jenkins; Sport, war & business: the three sons of James T Robb; Silly Burn Mine; The history of a house 2: The Larches; Two contested 19th century elections; The Ordnance Survey: a history. £6.00
Hexham Historian 16 (2006) Wayside crosses; Clock and watchmakers of Hexham; How many rioters were there?; The history of a house; Suffragettes in Hexham; Pattinsons of Hexham - and beyond. £6.00
Hexham Historian 15 (2005) The Roman bridge at Corbridge: "the work of giants"; The Hagulstadian church: some notes on early Hexham; A load of old cobblers: Hexham shoemakers in the 17th and 18th centuries; The Great Flood of 1771 in Hexham; Two Hexham iron works; Only fools and horses: Gallipoli 1915. £6.00
Hexham Historian 14 (2004) Order, disorder and criminal activity in Medieval Northumberland; Two militia lists (1762 & 1803) for Hexham; The Society of Shoemakers; Hexham Hydro - a chronological history; Soldiers who died in the Great War. £6.00
Hexham Historian 13 (2003) The Hospital of St Giles at Hexham; Eilaf's vision: Scots, saints and Hexham historians; Border warfare and Hexhamshire in the Later Middle Ages; 1841 and a revolution in Hexham's townscape. £6.00
Hexham Historian 12 (2002) The Wars of the Roses in Northumberland, 1461-64; Hexham Mechanics' Literary and Scientific Institution; The Rev John G Bowran and the building of Hexham Primitive Methodist Church; The 1853 cholera outbreak in Hexham; Death in Hexham in the late 16th and 17th centuries: what we can learn from the records; Death in the Tyne valley. £5.00
Hexham Historian 11 (2001) The end of Hexham Priory; Holmes, sweet Holmes; The origins of Hexham Hydro; Memoirs of Hexham Hydro; Restoration of Hexham Abbey: Savage versus Lockhart. £5.00
Hexham Historian 10 (2000) A decade of archaeology in Hexham; A house in Hexhamshire: recent investigations of The Tenement, Steel; Hexham cinemas; Life in a Hexham street: Priestpopple, Cattle Market, Battle Hill; Economic & social indicators for Hexham: an analysis of the 1851 & 1861 censuses. £6.00
Hexham Historian 9 (1999) From Grammar School to High School: Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School from the foundation to the mid-nineteenth century; A new school for a new century; Hexham Grammar School, 1910-1976; After 400 years - the present achievement; The school song. £6.00
Hexham Historian 8 (1998) The archaeology of Warden Hill; The queen and the robber: a Hexham story; Joseph Catherall of the Hexham Courant, 1839-1881; Two (1872 & 1935) contemporary accounts of poor housing. £4.50
Hexham Historian 7 (1997) Before Wilfrid: Britons, Romans and Anglo-Saxons in Tynedale. Conference papers: The Romans in Tynedale; Roman roads and bridges in Tynedale; The aftermath of Rome; An Anglo-Saxon watermill at Corbridge; Bernicia before Wilfrid; The Battle of Heavenfield; Hexham before Wilfrid? £6.00
Hexham Historian 6 (1996) Medieval Bingfield; The government of Hexham in the 17th Century; A school board for Hexham. £2.50
Hexham Historian 5 (1995) The place-name Hexham; Hexham after the Vikings; The medieval topography of Hexham; Mapping Medieval Acomb; The two William Hewsons; The growth of Hexham in the 1890s; Regional government headquarters. £3.00
Hexham Historian 4 (1994) Special edition covering all aspects of the history of the Cockshaw area of Hexham - particular coverage of the leather trade. £5.00
Hexham Historian 3 (1993) Excavations at Hexham Abbey, Jan/Feb 1993; The Inspeximus of 1298; Bridging the Tyne at Hexham in the eighteenth century; Sir Percy Loraine of Kirkharle; Wilfrid Wilson Gibson: profile of a Hexham poet. £3.00
Hexham Historian 2 (1992) Two wells; Sundials around Hexham; The dating of High Shield; The Ranters in Hexhamshire; A day in the life of the Borough Court. £2.00
Hexham Historian 1 (1991) War memorials; A museum for Hexham?; Hexham excavations, 1990; Dr Joseph Parker; St Mary's Chare; The Gentleman's Magazine, 1755; How Hexham got its name. £3.00
Newsletters
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Occasional Publications Series
11 Benjamin (2010) A Hexham timeline £1.90 (available from local booksellers and now online)
10 Corfe (2nd rev edn 2005) Hexham heritage £6.50
9 Rossiter (2010) Hexham in the Seventeenth Century: economy, society and government in a northern market town Paperback £ Hardback £ Download £
8 Jennings (2007) Canon Sidney Savage: cleric and man of action £4.50
7 Corfe (2006) Hexham lives. 164 biographical sketches £12.50
6 Jennings (2005) Hexham 1854-1939: local government in a market town £19.99
5 Jennings et al (2005) The heart of all England: Hexham's story in original documents £14.00
4 Jennings & Jennings (2004) Hexham cemetery: a place of charm and historic interest. Please note that this title is not sold by the Society. Copies may be purchased from Hexham Town Council Offices, St Andrew's Cemetery, West Road, Hexham NE46 3RR
3 Finding out: a brief guide to researching the history of Hexham (2002) £2.50
2 Dallison & Jennings (2001) Vanishing Hexham street and place names £2.00 (digital sales only)
1 Oliver (2001) Aydon Castle in the 1920s £3.50
Other publications sold by the Society
Corfe (2nd rev edn 2005) Hexham heritage £6.50
Hexham walks: a guide to the centre of Hexham (2003) £0.45
Hexham walks: a guide to essential Hexham (2003) £0.50
Chapman (2004) A walk back in time: a guide to Hexham's buildings £2.75