Our Museum shop sells a range of books and booklets on local history, as well as historic maps, posters, CDs, cards, postcards and gifts, some of which are only available at Barnet Museum. Many of our books have reductions!
Local History Bulletins. For full lists see below:
Local History Bulletins. For full lists see below:
Books
800 Years of Barnet Market - £3.50
All over by Christmas - £15.99
A Slice of Life: Hadley Highstone in Victorian times - £15.00
A Thousand Years of Barnet Boundaries - £1.75
A Walk around Chipping Barnet (Barnet Hill) - £1.50
A Walk around Chipping Barnet (Wood Street & High Street) - £1.50
A Walk around East Barnet - £1.50
A Walk around New Barnet - £1.50
Barnet & Hadley Past - £15.95
Barnet, 1471 - £12.99
Barnet History Journal - £4.00
Barnet Physic Well - £3.00
Barnet Royal Timeline - £2.50
Barnet Then and Now - £14.99
Centenary of ‘The Elizabethan’ - £0.35
Friern Barnet Library - £10.99
Geoffrey de Mandeville - £12.00
Georgian Hadley - £3.50
Hertfordshire Militia Lists (Totteridge) - £1.00
Historic Barnet - £4.00
Monken Hadley Church & Village - £5.00
New Barnet War Memorial - £2.00
Opposite the Prince - £2.00
QE Girls’ School, ‘A School of our Own’ - £10.00
Rambles Round Barnet volume 2 - £4.00
Some notes about the Memorials - £0.10
The Battle of Barnet - £3.00
The Chipping Barnet War Memorial WW1 - £10.00
The Chipping Barnet War Memorial WW2 - £15.00
The Diary of Benjamin Woodcock - £22.00
The End of the Line - £1.50
The Friern Hospital Story - £14.99
The Life & Times of Richard III - £2.75
The Steam Engine at Wrotham Park - £5.00
The Wars of the Roses (Pitkin Guide) - £6.00
Trawling for Treasures - £3.00
Victorian Barnet - £2.00
All over by Christmas - £15.99
A Slice of Life: Hadley Highstone in Victorian times - £15.00
A Thousand Years of Barnet Boundaries - £1.75
A Walk around Chipping Barnet (Barnet Hill) - £1.50
A Walk around Chipping Barnet (Wood Street & High Street) - £1.50
A Walk around East Barnet - £1.50
A Walk around New Barnet - £1.50
Barnet & Hadley Past - £15.95
Barnet, 1471 - £12.99
Barnet History Journal - £4.00
Barnet Physic Well - £3.00
Barnet Royal Timeline - £2.50
Barnet Then and Now - £14.99
Centenary of ‘The Elizabethan’ - £0.35
Friern Barnet Library - £10.99
Geoffrey de Mandeville - £12.00
Georgian Hadley - £3.50
Hertfordshire Militia Lists (Totteridge) - £1.00
Historic Barnet - £4.00
Monken Hadley Church & Village - £5.00
New Barnet War Memorial - £2.00
Opposite the Prince - £2.00
QE Girls’ School, ‘A School of our Own’ - £10.00
Rambles Round Barnet volume 2 - £4.00
Some notes about the Memorials - £0.10
The Battle of Barnet - £3.00
The Chipping Barnet War Memorial WW1 - £10.00
The Chipping Barnet War Memorial WW2 - £15.00
The Diary of Benjamin Woodcock - £22.00
The End of the Line - £1.50
The Friern Hospital Story - £14.99
The Life & Times of Richard III - £2.75
The Steam Engine at Wrotham Park - £5.00
The Wars of the Roses (Pitkin Guide) - £6.00
Trawling for Treasures - £3.00
Victorian Barnet - £2.00
CDs
World War One Memorials in the Barnet area - £5.00
The names appearing on 19 war memorials in the Barnet area
Barnet Press Index of Events - £3.00
Searchable list of births, marriages, deaths, court cases and other notable events, taken from the Barnet Press (mainly Chipping Barnet), covering most of 2nd half of 19th century.
The names appearing on 19 war memorials in the Barnet area
Barnet Press Index of Events - £3.00
Searchable list of births, marriages, deaths, court cases and other notable events, taken from the Barnet Press (mainly Chipping Barnet), covering most of 2nd half of 19th century.
Historic Ordnance Survey Maps
All maps cost £2.50
- East Barnet & Southgate
- New Barnet
- Barnet & Hadley
- Barnet Common
- Monken Hadley
- Totteridge
- Whetstone
- North Finchley
- North London
Local History Bulletins
Short articles on local history, with photographs, produced by Barnet Museum (A5 pamphlets, 8-16 sides) priced £1.50 each.
- Food Supplies in East Barnet during the First World War
- A Barnet Choirboy during World War One
- An 18th century Totteridge General: Alexander Maitland
- Arbella Stuart: a royal escape from East Barnet
- Barnet Theatre
- Boys’ Farm Home, East Barnet
- Education in East Barnet in the 19th Century
- Gubbins in North Mymms
- HMS Musketeer: East Barnet’s adopted ship in WW2
- How Barnet got its Railways
- Little Grove House and Grounds
- Oak Hill House and park
- St Mary the Virgin Church, Monken Hadley
- The Hassells of Wood Street
- The Old Red Lion Underhill
- The Ravenscrofts
- The Red Lyon Inn and Assembly Rooms
- The Salisbury
- Victorian ‘nuisance disposal’ in East Barnet
The Second Boer War: Remembering Men of Chipping Barnet who served
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Provides information about the service and family histories of several men of Chipping Barnet who served in the Second Boer War, 1899-1902. The book explains the background to the conflict and charts the course of the war. It includes a timeline which explores some key events of the British Empire from 1600-to-date.
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Barnet History Journal 2018
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Contains a series of articles about Barnet history, with topics ranging from a dispute at a medieval tennis match to airships in World War One. Produced by Barnet Museum and Local History Society, this is the first Barnet History Journal, which is planned to be an annual publication.
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Barnet Royal Timeline
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Describes the royal associations with Barnet (focussing on Chipping Barnet, East Barnet, New Barnet, Hadley and surrounding areas). It has been produced to mark the visit by HRH The Duke of Gloucester to the Museum in May 2017.
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CD: World War One Memorials in the Barnet area
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CD with the names appearing on 19 war memorials in the Barnet area.
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Post Sales
If you would like buy items from our shop by post, postage is £2.00 per item in the UK (except for Barnet Museum Bulletins, BMLHS newsletters and the 'A Walk Around...' series which are £1.00 postage per item in the UK). To place an order, please write to Barnet Museum Shop, Barnet Museum, 31 Wood Street, Barnet, Herts, EN5 4BE, sending a cheque (made payable to Barnet Museum) for the price of the item(s) and postage.
Internet Sales
Many of our books are also available online at genfair.co.uk. Postage prices are set by Genfair, so may not be the same as books ordered directly from us.