For the second time in a few weeks the HHS has featured on the BBC. Peter Barber, our president, was interviewed in the Old Schoolhouse for the BBC1 documentary Pubs,…
…Feet”. About Peter Barber Peter Barber is President of Hornsey Historical Society, and former Head of Maps and Topography at the British Library. Doors Open Doors open 6.30pm, the talk…
…Peter Barber. Newsletter 38: December 1986 The sad saga of Cromwell House has continued. In July, Haringey, heeding the complaints of local residents and The Highgate Society, refused planning permission…
…Early maps of Highgate Peter Barber, our President, in ‘Early Maps of Highgate’ explores maps of Highgate dating from 1608 to 1688, including the earliest known relatively detailed one, of…
…Lifetime Achievement Award by the British Association of Local History. Our current President is Peter Barber OBE FSA, former Head of Maps at the British Library, who is a longstanding…
…down to manageable proportions. Our material represents a good chronological spread: from the mid-seventeenth century, in the article by our president, Peter Barber, about the fortunes of the wooden figures…
…featured an important article about the early maps of Highgate by our President, Peter Barber, one on medieval pilgrims, badges and holy well by our Chair, Keith Fawkes, as well…
…64 – 71 Janet Owen, John Farrer The Man who changed Hornsey, Hornsey Historical Society, 2009 Edwin Monk, Memories of Hornsey, 3rd edition 2005, 11- 12 Peter Barber, Gin and…
…the President, Peter Barber, OBE Apologies for absence Minutes of 47th Annual General Meeting held on 11th July, 20198 Matters arising from the minutes Annual Report and accounts for the…
…HHS, 2015, page 59, part of a section entitled, ‘A Variety of Monuments’, pages 37 – 60. Images The memorial in Old Hornsey Church – courtesy of Peter Barber; Old…