Books on Hertfordshire

The Book of Hatfield

A Portrait of the Town

by Robert Richardson

Baracuda Books Limited, 1978

Quarto Hardback, 132 pages, good text and many pictures

Chapter Headings

• Chronicles and Kings (Saxon origins)

• To begin at the beginning (Prehistoric finds)

• Let us Pray (The Bishop's Palace, Churches and Chapels)

• First Family (The Cecil Family of Hatfield House)

• The Great Roads North

• The Planemakers (de Havilland aircraft)

• Running in the family (the people of Hatfield - including the shopkeepers of 1780 and 1900)

• Power of Assembly (Crime and Governance)

• Under Instruction (Hatfield Schools)

• Musket, Fife and Drum (Military connections)

• Pleasurable Pursuits (Hunting, Sports and other entertainments)

• Brave New World (Mid-twentieth-century changes)

• Sources and Bibliography

• Index