Northamptonshire Past and Present

  • Volume 5
  • Number 4
  • 1976
NPP: Volume 5: Number 4

Contents

  • Particulars of the Society
  • Institutional Members of the Society
  • Notes and News 
  • Little Houghton 1972 - A Parish Field Survey by David N. Hall
  • Which Winwick? by M.D. Hooper
  • Three Lost Northamptonshire Houses and Their Owners by J.S.W. Gibson
  • Anne Bradstreet, the First American Poetess, and her Father, Governor Thomas Dudley by Karl Josef Holtgen
  • The Washington Surname in Northamptonshire by Patrick King
  • One Branch of the Virginia Washingtons by George Washington
  • Oundle in the Eighteenth Century Through the Eyes of John Clifton by J.L. Cartwright
  • Literacy at Northampton, 1761-1900: A Third Interim Report by Victor A. Hatley
  • A Nineteenth-Century Giant, George Ward Hunt by Margaret Main Schoenberg
  • A Northamptonshire Cricket Song by James D. Coldham
  • Book Reviews:
    • A.E. Brown, Landscape Archaeology
    • T.C. Simmons, “Hedges”
    • S.C. Norsworthy, Naseby. A Parish History
    • Gyles Isham, Hatchments in Britain. I. Northamptonshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire
    • Geoffrey H. Starmer, Fieldwork in Industrial Archaeology
    • H. J. Voss, ‘A History of Northampton General Hospital’ 1743 to 1948
    • Cyril B. Wilson, Finedon otherwise Thingdon
  • Obituaries:
    • Earl Spencer, T.D., M.A., F.S.A., D.LITT.(Hon.) 
    • Sir Frederick Villiers Robinson, Bart., M.C.