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Georgina Babey |
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was born and bred on the edge of the New Forest and developed an enormous respect for her native area. She is well aware that her life would have been very different had her grandfather not decided to give up the commoning way of life that his ancestors had followed (in Bramshaw) for many generations. In 1994 Georgina realised two lifelong ambitions - to run a second-hand bookshop and to be a free-lance writer. In the last nine years she has become familiar with pretty well every book ever written on the New Forest. In her own writings she concentrates on social aspects of Forest history - writers, artists, personalities and village history. Georgina has just finished her fifth book and was for nine year editor of a bi-annual magazine. She is currently Project Co-ordinator of the Recording Boldre project, jointly funded by The National Park Authority Sustainable Development Fund and Boldre Parish Council. The first of three exhibitions was held at Boldre Memorial Hall on 24/5th February 2007. Books include:- Images of England - New Forest (Tempus) A New Forest Christmas (Halsgrove) Ashurst & Colbury Churches of the New Forest (with B Peckham) Lyndhurst (with P Roberts) Editor of Nova Foresta Magazine for 9 years. A regular contributor to the New Forest Magazine. |
as with many bookdealers, was a keen collector before he joined Georgina in starting the bookshop. He has been involved in New Forest conservation since the mid 80's and was appointed to the Court of Verderers in 1994. He resigned in 2001 and has since concentrated on local history research and writing. He is a past President of the county's premier history 'club' the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society and currently vice-chairman of the New Forest Association, the leading conservation charity in the area established in 1867. In 1992 he obtained a certificate in local history at Portsmouth University. The introduction to over 500 sources provided a firm basis for his later studies. He is keen to link village and Forest history, believing that for a fuller understanding of either the two are inseparable. He is currently undertaking, with Richard Reeves, a research and publication project on New Forest documents funded by Leader+ and the New Forest Museum. Books include:- Ashurst Minstead Ruin and Reform, New Forest Administration 1739 - 1769 (editor) Lyndhurst (with G Babey) A regular contributor to the New Forest Magazine and Nova Foresta Magazine. Articles have appeared in the Hampshire Field Club's Hampshire Studies and Newsletters
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