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🔍 Thinking about starting your family history journey?Did you know that Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) ...
14/05/2026

🔍 Thinking about starting your family history journey?

Did you know that Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) and all Hertfordshire Libraries offer free access to family history websites like Ancestry and Find My Past?

📚 At HALS, you’ll also find a fantastic range of family history books to guide your research and spark new discoveries.

🧬 Hit a brick wall with your ancestors? HALS offers one hour family history sessions for just £15.40 — perfect for unravelling tricky branches of your tree and figuring out your next steps.

✨ Find out more: Family history research | Hertfordshire County Council

Hertfordshire Archives And Local Studies

This Foster Care Fortnight (11 - 24 May) we are shining a spotlight on some of our favourite picture books to help young...
14/05/2026

This Foster Care Fortnight (11 - 24 May) we are shining a spotlight on some of our favourite picture books to help young children understand about being adopted or fostered.

Check out our booklist here: https://tinyurl.com/5dc5fyu5

🎉We are so excited to be celebrating 100 Years of Buntingford Library 🎉🎙On the 1st of June, Buntingford Library will be ...
13/05/2026

🎉We are so excited to be celebrating 100 Years of Buntingford Library 🎉

🎙On the 1st of June, Buntingford Library will be turning 100 years old! And we will be celebrating in style - 1920s style!

🎙Join us for a memorable evening of 1920's inspired music, refreshments and books, including a talk about the history of Buntingford Library from humble beginnings in the Parish Room where the first book was issued on 1st June 1926 to our current High Street location.

🎫Monday 1st June 2026
🎫6pm-8.30pm
🎫Book in the Library as places are limited
🎫This is a free event, refreshments included

If you can't make it to the evening celebration, Carol will also be presenting her talk on the History of Buntingford Library on:
🎫Thursday 28th May 2026
🎫2-3pm
🎫Book in the Library as places are limited
🎫This is a free event, refreshments included

📣 Friday Club News! 📣This Friday our Friday Club session is going hand in hand with Explore Your Archives and Local Hist...
13/05/2026

📣 Friday Club News! 📣

This Friday our Friday Club session is going hand in hand with Explore Your Archives and Local History Month because we are going to make time capsules!

Buntingford Library is turning 100 years old so we thought that you’d like to make a time capsule with us that you can take home, fill with important bits and then hide for as long as you want! Will you choose to leave it for a 100 years? Or maybe just for the Summer?

🗳️ Friday 15th May, 4pm till 5pm
🗳️ Ages 3+, children under 8 must be accompanied by an adult

📍Marvellous Maps📍As part of Explore Your Archive and Local History Month we are opening our map cabinet and the map arch...
12/05/2026

📍Marvellous Maps📍

As part of Explore Your Archive and Local History Month we are opening our map cabinet and the map archive. Come along to see maps of Buntingford both past and present and compare the then and now on a side-by-side comparison. In the HUB room with refreshments.

Thursday 21st May 10am-2pm
Drop in, Donations welcome

January’s so-called Blue Monday is long gone, and summer is well and truly on its way…However that’s no reason to take y...
11/05/2026

January’s so-called Blue Monday is long gone, and summer is well and truly on its way…

However that’s no reason to take your mental health for granted.

Mental Health Awareness Week runs May 11 - 17 2026 and our Mental Health Awareness blog https://tinyurl.com/2j2xvwud will be able to signpost you to a variety of useful organisations to assist you on your journey to better mental health. We also tell you about the many other ways libraries can help (such as social groups) and provide a special list of useful books found in Hertfordshire libraries.

Prefer not to ask? DID YOU KNOW every library has a Social Care Hub where you can browse information – no questions needed.

What's on this week...🪇Baby Rhyme TimeMonday 10.30am & 11.30amDrop in, donations welcome🧩Jigsaw & CardsTuesday 10.30am-1...
10/05/2026

What's on this week...

🪇Baby Rhyme Time
Monday 10.30am & 11.30am
Drop in, donations welcome

🧩Jigsaw & Cards
Tuesday 10.30am-12.30pm
Drop in, donations welcomed

📚Storytime
Thursday 10.30am
No need to book, these sessions are FREE, donations welcomed

🎨🖌The Friday Club
For children aged 3-9
Friday 4pm-5pm
£4.40 per child
Book in the library

Pop in, browse our books, contribute to our communal jigsaw puzzle, read some magazines, read a newspaper on a tablet, or just enjoy a chat.

🗺️ Did you know?Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) holds an incredible collection of maps just waiting to b...
09/05/2026

🗺️ Did you know?
Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies (HALS) holds an incredible collection of maps just waiting to be explored!

From Ordnance Survey maps and town centre plans to aerial photographs, tithe maps, enclosure maps and estate maps — there’s a whole world of cartographic history to discover.

Whether you’re researching local history or simply love a good map, why not visit HALS and find your favourite?

🔎 Learn more at: www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/hals

Hertfordshire Archives And Local Studies

4th-10th May is Deaf Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is ‘right to understand - together, we break barriers.’ To he...
08/05/2026

4th-10th May is Deaf Awareness Week, and this year’s theme is ‘right to understand - together, we break barriers.’

To help break down barriers and increase understanding we are sharing our booklist of board and picture books either featuring BSL, or characters who are Deaf or have hearing loss: https://tinyurl.com/m9wk4bvu

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Buntingford
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Thursday 10am - 5:30pm
Friday 2pm - 5:30pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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