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100 years – Booker Memorial Hall and celebration of peace

Booker school 1889 – 1939 by Roberta Wilson

Booker Wesleyan methodist chapel  by Ray Tilly

A suitable climate: How the Spanish civil war came to Booker  by Kevin Jewell

Booker common, a tithing revealed C.1700-C.1800  by Frances Kerner  This paper was published in Records of Bucks 2012 52 179-190

Slavery in High Wycombe  by Gerry Palmer

Booker’s secret war by Gerry Palmer

Two miracles (in High Wycombe) and a muddy show (in Marlow) by Gerry Palmer

The Hughenden dragon  by Gerry Palmer

Red hot pokers and vitriol – Hugh Wycombe’s Swing riots by Gerry Palmer

Copper bottom beaters, Marlow and the Battle of Trafalgar by Gerry Palmer

High Wycombe’s Pigtailed Pilot by Gerry Palmer

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