Note : News of the "Jewels of Milton Keynes" section and the first year of the overall project is listed separately. To read the latest, click here

24.10.2008 - Education Home Page with categorised links to areas of educational interest

Cosgrove Heritage is being featured in a new site being developed

Towcester & District Local History Society is developing a feature on the history of Towcester Fire Brigade. The Society is also working on a comprehensive survey of Towcester Cemetery, research on the 1855 rate book for Towcester and a section on the history of Veterinary facilities in the town.

The Two Villages Archive Trust is about to start developing a family history database using the model developed at Hanslope.

Yardley Gobion History Group is continuing to develop new features for the site.

18.12.2006 - Yardley Gobion History Group launches a further update of its site, including details of the Shakeshaft family and the two world wars. Click here for details.
14.12.2006 - Sherington Historical Society launches a feature on its Open Day (held on 30th September 2006). The theme this year was Sherington Artists. Apart from photos of the event itself, 179 photos of the artwork that was on display are now online.
13.12.2006 - Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group) launches a further update of its lecture programme and on-line summaries of talks given over the past year.
04.12.2006 - The Western Front Assocation (Milton Keynes Branch) re-launches it site
27.11.2006 - Newport Pagnell Historical Society has reduced the price of most of its publications.
21.11.2006 - Olney & District Historical Society launches a major update to its site, including the complete 1891 Census for Olney and an article on the 'Son of Cowper's Oak', with video clips.
15.11.2006 - Castlethorpe Village Group launches a major update of its site, with new features such as bazaars, concerts, fetes, village crime, news articles and chronicles, and also extra e-books.
14.11.2006 - Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group) launches a further update of its lecture programme and on-line summaries of talks given over the past year.
30.10.2006 - Woburn Sands Collection completes its entries for all the Trade Directories for Woburn Sands. There are now 25 fully transcribed directories from 1847 to 1940. Also added in this update is a biography of Gertrude Page, a noted romantics author who lived in Aspley Heath.
30.10.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association updates its Census database with 1891 and 1901 census records for Gayhurst
24.10.2006 - Castlethorpe Village Group updates its School section.
10.10.2006 - Yardley Gobion History Group updates its People section.
22.09.2006 - Wolverton and district Archaeological and Historical Society publishes its Lecture Programme for 2006-7
14.09.2006 - The Stacey Hill Society publishes its Winter Programme 2006-7 of talks on local history
14.09.2006 - Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group) launches a further update of its lecture programme and on-line summaries of talks given over the past year.
02.09.2006 - Another addition to the Tours & Trails page has been added: the history and tour of St Lawrence's Church, Towcester
01.09.2006 - In August 2006, the site recorded its two millionth visitor since January 2002, when site access log files began to be analysed by software, rather than manually. MKHA is proud of its record in bringing the heritage of the sub-region to a global audience, and is grateful to the worldwide visitors who have shown interest and support as well as the Heritage Lottery Fund, which has twice supported projects to extend this site.
31.08.2006 - Woburn Sands Collection adds another postcard trail to the site, that of the High Street, comprising 35 views of it, with their modern-day equivalents.
29.08.2006 - Hanslope & District Historical Society launch an extra to their family history database adding a transcription of the Wesleyan-Methodists baptism records for 1838 to 1899.
24.08.2006 - Hanslope & District Historical Society launch new edition of their family history database adding baptism data for the period 1813-1845.
23.08.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association adds to its History of Wesley's Coaches with features on the disposal of the business and the situation after the takeover by York's Coaches
22.08.2006 - MKHA members are supporting the national Heritage Open Days scheme in September. Click here for further details
11.08.2006 - MK Inspire has joined MKHA as an Associate Member
07.08.2006 - Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society launches the final major expansion to its feature on Thornton Village. The latest sections deal with the final developments and changes on the Thornton Estate, as well as the Thornton Register of Births, marriages and deaths 1562-1812.
07.08.2006 - The Bletchley & Fenny Stratford Schools site is updated with an increased number of photos and details in the archive.
07.08.2006 - Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group) launches a further update of its site with more on-line summaries of talks given over the past year.
01.08.2006 - Yardley Gobion History Group makes further additions to its page on the Lambert family
31.07.2006 - Castlethorpe Village group adds new features on the School, the Railway (including an e-book), and the football team (including an e-book)
31.07.2006 - Olney & District Historical Society updates its site, with a redesigned front page and an addition to genealogical resources - a copy of the Electoral Register for 1945.
30.07.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association proudly presents Grace Clark's account of Children's Games in North Bucks in the 1920s and 1930s, with illustrations by Eleanor Dixon. This original research is reproduced by kind permission of the author, and also includes an update based on Cedars School, Newport Pagnell in 1990. Indulge your nostalgia for those playground games!
26.07.2006 - Buckingham Canal Society launches extensions to its Gallery of images of the canal route, plus an extra pages on correspondence recieved by the canal company.
24.07.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association adds two more features by Bernard Barton on his times in Stoke Goldington: Buckskin & Old Lace, and A Year of Augusts
20.07.2006 - New Bradwell Heritage Group launches a virtual tour using images and Google mapping
18.07.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches a feature on Bernard Barton's article on Holiday Rambles in 1893, plus the addition of the details on the 1970s period to its history of Wesley's Coaches
16.07.2006 - Yardley Gobion History group adds a page on the Bonham family
11.07.2006 - Woburn Sands Collection has added a map of Woburn Sands and Aspley Heath, with notes on the road names; biographies of Jeremiah and Benjamin Wiffen, noted local literary men; and two research works on the Quaker Meeting House, which is now the Woburn Sands Library.
10.07.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches a feature on Bernard Barton's article on The Godfreys of Stoke Goldington, reproduced with the kind permission of "This England".
10.07.2006 - The Castlethorpe Village group adds a scenic tour of Castlethorpe in winter and another e-book on the sale of Manor Farm
06.07.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches a feature on Bernard Barton's article on The Stoke Goldington Chapel, reproduced with the kind permission of "This England".
03.07.2006 - New Bradwell Heritage Group launches the first sections of its site
03.07.2006 - The Castlethorpe Village group adds features on the electrification of the railway line, the Choral Society, and the British Legion. New interactive 'e-books' are part of the update.
03.07.2006 - Yardley Gobion History Group updates its site with the launch of The first part of the Lambert history with its special book produced by Stan Turner for his family. See the book in normal text format or an an interactive "e-book".
29.06.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association updates its feature on monument inscriptions by adding 300 new photos of headstones in the churchyard
16.06.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches a feature on sketches of the village and surrounding district done by local artists, and also adds the 1960s period to its history of Wesley's Coaches

12.06.2006 - Former members of Bletchley & Fenny Stratford Schools launch a site detailing the history of the schools in the two towns. The site includes a front-page slide show, class photos and galleries, stories, reminiscences, and much more.
12.06.2006 - The Castlethorpe Village group adds a movie on the Castlethorpe castle earthworks
08.06.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches a section on the Kitchener Collection of villages photos from the 1920s
05.06.2006 - The Castlethorpe Village group updates its site with further details on the parish - taken from the Council's Minute Books.
05.06.2006 - Olney & District Historical Society updates its site with the 1936 Register of Electors, a major article on Percy Wright's Letters, and two video clips added to the John Lord and Brian Mynard articles.
05.06.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches another three sections on the bus fleet of Wesley's Coaches
01.06.2006 - The Castlethorpe Village group launches a discussion forum attached to its Church Records page
23.05.2006 - Two Villages Archive Trust (Milton Keynes Village & Broughton) updates its lecture programme for 2006-7
22.05.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches another in the series of Bob Clarke stories: My Mother & Others plus Dick Croot's account of A Country Boy in the RAF
19.05.2006 - The Castlethorpe Village group launches its site with extensive information on the village's past, plus interactive photo albums, Census data, church records, wills data and much more.
16.05.2006 - Woburn Sands Collection has added the complete census for 1881 for Aspley Guise and Wavendon, also photos of a Goss and Crestware collection
16.05.2006 - Yardley Gobion Local History Group makes minor updates to the Church, Burials, and school sections of its site.
15.05.2006 - Hanslope & District Historical Society launch new edition of their family history database featuring period maps of parts of the village with details of house occupancy based on the 1901 census.
15.05.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association publishes Bob Clarke's account of how people got around the countryside in the early years of the last century
08.05.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association publishes its programme of talks for 2006-7
04.05.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association publishes Bob Clarke's account of his childhood in the village.
04.05.2006 - Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group) launches a further update of its site.
03.05.2006 - Yardley Gobion Local History Group updates its site with field maps, additions to the church feature, and extra photos of bands and the centenary.
03.05.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association adds first details of Wesley's fleet coaches to its History of Wesley's Coaches.
21.04.2006 - Woughton Heritage Project launches its site, with a special feature on the development of Marshworth community.
20.04.2006 - Buckingham Canal Society launches a redesign of its site with new features, including new aerial views of the line of the canal and a gallery featuring past and present work.
11.04.2006 - Kingsmead Community launches its site with details of this new development on the south-western fringe of Milton Keynes. Kingsmead is one of the new communities being built as part of the expansion of the city.
10.04.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association launches the introduction to its History of Wesley's Coaches. This will be another major feature of the site, detailing the history of the firm, with many illustrations of the coach fleet.
30.03.2006 - Minor updates to the feature on the British journeys of Empress Elisabeth of Austria
28.03.2006 - Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group) launches a further update of its site.
18.03.2006 - Hanslope & District Historical Society launches an update to its Family History Database. The latest data includes Baptisms for the period 1846 to 1893, Burials for the period 1813 to 1878, also data on Hanslope-born people who appear in records from other parts of the county or, in some cases, further afield. The data so far included in the database is: Census data for 1851 from Bucks, Northants and Herts, plus Marriages recorded elsewhere in Bucks.
23.03.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association presents a gallery of paintings of Stoke and the surrounding district, done by local artist Esther Hollman.
17.03.2006 - The Greek Orthodox Community of St. Ambrosius and St. Stylianos updates its Greek pages on the school, the church services and the activities.
14.03.2006 - Yardley Gobion Local History Group launches its site with features on the village: its history, school, celebrations and also census data to aid genealogical researchers.
07.03.2006 - Olney & District Historical Society extends its site with details on the railway at Olney and athletics in 1878 - this feature including an interactive "e-book".
06.03.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association updates its Census database, along with an index of names in it. The Association has now also published an account of Barnardo's children fostered in the village.
02.03.2006 - Buckinghamshire Family History Society (Northern Group) launches a further update of its site, with details of its 2006 programme and summaries of talks given by previous guest speakers.
23.02.2006 - The Woburn Sands Collection of archive photos, stories, historical accounts and genealogical details is now on-line, prior to the official launch at a public event at Woburn Sands Library on Saturday February 25th.
23.02.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association publishes Bob Clarke's account of village poachers, and also gives a list of the Rectors of Stoke Goldington.
22.02.2006 - West Haddon Local History Group has joined MKHA.
21.02.2006 - Yardley Gobion History Group was formally joined MKHA. Check news below for details of the launch of their site.
13.02.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association expands its feature on Life below Stairs at Gayhurst House, by incorporating sound clips of Esther Wesley talking about her time there.
12.02.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association publishes its feature on the Roll of Honour to the men of Stoke Goldington and Gayhurst who died in the two World Wars
08.02.2006 - The Greek Orthodox Community of St. Ambrosius and St. Stylianos launches its site with details of services and activities for 2006.
06.02.2006 - Olney & District Historical Society is extends its site with a tour of the historic market place, showing building usage over the last 200 years and featuring a Regsiter of Electors from 1936. There are also interactive maps showing the development of the town over the last 50 years.
24.01.2006 - Final major sections on Gayhurst House launched by Stoke Goldington Association. There are now a full features on the history, estate and gardens. The whole section has now been listed as a new "Jewel of Milton Keynes"
24.01.2006 - Newport Pagnell History Society updates its site with the programme of activities and opening times for 2006
18.01.2006 - Bletchley Archaeological & Historical Society updates its Publications page.
16.01.2006 - Stoke Goldington Association adds to its account of Gayhurst with a transcription of a talk by Esther Wesley on her 'Life Below Stairs' at Gayhurst. Read this fascinating account of a servant's view of life in a large country house.
15.01.2006 - Hanslope & District Historical Society publishes a new update of its key feature "The Hanslope Park tragedy". The Society has been contacted by a grandson of William Farrow, who has supplied new information, as well as details and photos of the family's life before and after the Tragedy. Click on either the 'Aftermath' or the 'Ninety Years On' pages.
01.01.2006 - Wolverton & District Archaeological & Historical Society launches a major expansion to its feature on Thornton Village. The latest sections deal with the developments and changes on the Thornton Estate, including its land usage. Census data for Thornton parish is also now on-line.