Katherine Gwyn talks to Louise Allen about her involvement with Bucks Archives' Black History Research Group, and her research into the connections between a company based at Slough Trading Estate and Pitch Lake, Trinidad.

**29 min**

Mark Bateman (Buckinghamshire Libraries) interviews arguably Marlow's most famous resident, author of Frankenstein's Monster, and inventor of the science fiction genre, Mary Shelley.  

**20min**

Wing Commander George Laurence Bazett Hull died in an air crash in 1946, and was buried in Oving, Buckinghamshire.  When a team of archaeologists and historians found the wreckage of this crash in a field in 2017, they did not anticipate the journey that Hull, or 'BOK' as he was known to some, would take them on.  Here is that story.  

**46 min**

Tony Sargeant talks Archivist Katherine Gwyn through some of his research into Black Lives in Buckinghamshire, conducted as part of Buckinghamshire Archives' Black History Research Group.  The lives discussed include Samson Ethiope, Pharo, Ann, John and Mary Herbert, Henery Pompey and Catherine Duleep Singh.  

**33 min**

In 1969 Dillibe Onyeama became the first Black pupil to finish his studies at Eton College, which was then in Buckinghamshire.  Three years later he published his memoirs documenting that experience.  Dillbe has gone on to have a long and successful career in publishing, and as an author.  Ahead of Penguin's new edition of his first book, Judi McGinley and Katherine Gwyn link-up with Dillibe from his home in Nigeria.  

Pre-order A Black Boy At Eton here: https://amzn.to/32i6sMI

Here at Buckinghamshire Archives we have been running a project during 2021: the Black History Research Group, with the aim of hunting through our collections to find Black Lives that date to before 1948.  But we were struggling - this is a hard ask.  So Katherine Gwyn reached out for help, and who better than Dr Caroline Bressey?  Caroline has researched black Victorians in London, and was sure to have some wisdom to share...

**22 min**

Gardens are important but highly changeable elements of our physical and cultural landscape; can the needs of gardeners and historians ever reconcile?  

Claire de Carle of Buckinghamshire Garden Trust talks with Jackie Hunt, Gardener at Turn End in Haddenham.  Claire and Jackie discuss recent research by the Buckinghamshire Garden Trust into mid to late 20th century gardens and designed landscapes in the county and focus on Peter's Aldington's Turn End, the only post-war English Listed house and garden created by the same hand. What other projects in Buckinghamshire have been proposed for recognition and protection? What was architect Peter Aldington's ethos for creating his village houses and garden in Haddenham in the 1960s?  How can we help raise awareness and recognition of post war landscape projects?

https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/

https://www.turnend.org.uk/

https://local-heritage-list.org.uk/buckinghamshire  

**18 mins**  

The Repair Shop's Jay Blades talks to Design Historian Helena Chance about his time based in High Wycombe, as a student, leader of youth engagement projects, and learner furniture restorer.  The conversation covers Jay's love of High Wycombe furniture by Gomme and Parker Knoll, his time at Buckinghamshire New University, what life's like in the Repair Shop Barn, and his pride in his Dyslexia.

**25 min**

Professional researcher and house historian Cathy Soughton gives us her top tips for starting your own house history.

**7 min**

All around the country people are itching to learn about the history of their home.  This is driven by the success of the BBC series 'A House Through Time', which takes a property and over four episodes, explores the lives of some of the people who lived there.  Historian Melanie Backe-Hansen is consultant to that show, and has co-written the book of the series with its presenter David Olusoga. 

In this podcast Melanie chats to fellow house historian Cathy Soughton, about the show, how she got into this line of research, and some of her favourite houses.