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Kingsbury Barn, dendrodated to 1373/4 by English Heritage, was built for St Albans Abbey when John Moote was initially Cellarer and subsequently Abbot.
The street memorials found on building in the Abbey parish in St Albans that commemorate the dead of the First World War form a unique feature of our city. Jon Mein discusses their origins.
The history of the White Hart tracks the rise and fall of coaching inns in St Albans, and how those that survived had to adapt to changing trading conditions.
With the encouragement of then Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Scouts around the country, including Hertfordshire, pitched in to help with the war effort.
Did King John of France stay at the Fleur de Lys pub on French Row?
The following report briefly records the outcome of a small excavation undertaken close to the Roman basilica but outside the ...
Isobel Thompson reviews the conference on late Roman Verulamium held at the end of June 2019, co-organised by the Society with Welwyn Archaeological Society and St Albans Museums.
The Hertfordshire Historic Environment Record (HER) spans the Palaeolithic to the 20th century and includes Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows, Iron Age hill forts, Roman villas, medieval settlements, field systems, buildings (both historic and more recent), industrial sites, railways and canals.
This collection of probate documents dating from 1600 to 1615 provides rich insights into the lives of the people, their occupations and trades, and the economy of the town.
Nineteenth century residents of St Albans did not have far to go to find a pub, and for a while even the Clock House (as the Tower was then called) retailed beer.
The SAHAAS Library holds a wide variety journals and periodicals, maps and other large format material, images (including photos and pictures), miscellaneous papers on a wide range of topics, and special collections.
How a dedicated team used historical detective work to create a map of the St Albans in the early 19th century
An extraordinary vision of how the wall paintings of St Albans Abbey would have appeared to medieval pilgrims
Since its formation, the Society has enjoyed a close connection with the Abbey, and led some of the earliest archaeological excavations undertaken in the grounds of the former monastery.
St Julian’s was once an estate sitting astride Watling Street. Its history dates back to when a leper hospital was founded there in medieval ...
A 17th century wine vintner of St Albans, and the Wine Charter he traded under, to the benefit of St Albans Grammar School.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many emigrants sailed from Britain to new lands, taking a few possessions and the ...
After a long delay, the Society's 175th anniversary exhibition finally opens in the St Albans Museum + Gallery
In April 1924, there was a major excavation of the area formerly occupied by the Abbey's cloisters. Ernest Woolley's report was published by the Society in its Transactions for 1926, and includes contemporary photos.
The so-called Spanish influenza outbreak in 1918/19 killed many people worldwide. What were the effects in St Albans ?
For most of the history of this area, the principal local administrative units were not boroughs but parishes, centred on ...