Bøker utgitt av John Owen Smith

Walk in the footsteps of Sir Robert Hunter, co-founder of The National Trust, over Hindhead Common and around Waggoners Wells. Plus a short history of The National Trust's acquisitions at the west of The Weald

Flora Thompson has become known almost exclusively as the author of 'Lark Rise to Candleford'. These nature notes, written in the 1920s while she lived in Liphook, Hampshire, predate that work by more than a decade and show many of the characteristics which were to emerge later in her more famous work.

When Canadian troops arrived in Great Britain during the Second World War, they were given quarters in old, cold, damp barracks buildings in the military town of Aldershot. For these young men thousands of miles from home, and in many cases away from their families for the first time, it was a depressing experience.Imagine their joy then, when they found their next station in England was not another military camp, but a charming rural village with pubs, girls, dances - and a welcome for them from the local population.All Tanked Up is the story of their benign 'invasion' of a Hampshire village over a period of four years, told from the point of view of both Villagers and Canadians.For those to whom 'Peace in our Time' came too late.

Philip Brooks mastered the intricacies of medieval Latin to translate the contents of the Winchester Pipe Rolls, and in this book he opens our eyes to the rich source of information found in the medieval and Tudor records. Having had first-hand experience of using traditional farming techniques he is particularly well-informed on agricultural matters. This knowledge has given him a remarkable insight into the world of ox plough teams, hand-sown crops and a community whose very survival was dependent on the produce of the land.Essential reading for local historians and anyone with an interest in how our ancestors really lived.

This is the first in a series of publications through which we intend to illustrate the history of the parish of Headley from different perspectives. In this book, we show some of the buildings, locations and features which have defined the character of the parish up to the middle of the twentieth century. In this book you are taken on a tour of the parish by means of three journeys -the first around the centre of Headley and Arford, the second to Headley Down and beyond, and the third along the River Wey and its tributaries. In doing so, we venture occasionally outside today's civil parish boundaries-but that too is all part of the history of Headley. Further information on the history of Headley may be found on the Internet at website www.headley-village.com/history/

Written to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Grayshott Civil Parish in 1978, this book tells the history of the village from its earliest beginnings as a minor hamlet of Headley to its status as a fully independent parish flourishing on (and across) the borders of Hampshire and Surrey.

This is the story of one of Australia's Pioneer Women, who spent most of her life in the gold fields of Bendigo.In 1841, aged only 19, Ellen Suter fled poverty and squalor in the back-streets of Portsmouth and set off alone to live in the new colony of Victoria on the other side of the world.In Melbourne, she met and married James Read, a settler from Ipswich, Suffolk, more than twenty years her senior. Over the next 20 years she bore him fourteen children, only five of whom survived.Her story has been pieced together from the accidental discovery of seven letters written between 1853 and 1875 to her brother, William Suter, a papermaker in Headley, Hampshire.