Volume 88:
edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson (2009)
Denis Argent, a professional journalist, joined the British Army in 1940 at the age of 23. He was already writing for Mass Observation, the innovative research organisation founded in 1937.
During most of his first two years in uniform, when he ...
Volume 62:
by Betty Chambers (1983)
Widely regarded as a model of its kind, this book, which took eighteen years to prepare, catalogues the printed County maps of Bedfordshire from Christopher Saxton (1576) to the Ordnance Survey of 1901. It also describes the town plans for ...
Volume 40:
(1960)
The documents in this volume, together with that of Benjamin Rogers in volume 30, bring into print most of the surviving diaries of Bedfordshire people.
Contents:
‘John Harvey of Ickwell, 1688-9’, edited by Margaret Richards. [The diary of John Harvey, later MP ...
Volume 78:
Stephen Bunker (1999)
This volume, based on the author’s PhD thesis, traces the transformation of Luton from a market town to a manufacturing centre during the mid-nineteenth century. Its development was built on the straw hat industry. While this trade, from which the ...
Volume 91:
edited by Barbara Tearle (2012)
Religious guilds or fraternities proliferated throughout England until their dissolution in the late 1540s, yet remarkably few of their records have survived. Amongst the survivals are the last twenty-one years of the accounts of the Luton Guild of the Holy ...
Volume 84:
by Anne Allsopp (2005)
This book, based on the author's PhD thesis, examines the education of Luton girls and the relationship with employment opportunities. The acknowledged independence of spirit to be found in Luton was especially noticeable among its female population who enjoyed considerable ...
Volume 2:
(1914)
Contents:
In memoriam C. G. C. [Clifford Gore Chambers, d. 1913]
‘The Bedfordshire wills and administrations proved at Lambeth Palace and in the archdeaconry of Huntingdon’, by F. A. Page Turner [parallel Latin transcriptions and English translations or abstracts of 23 wills ...
Volume 25:
(1947)
Contents:
'The meeting-place of Wixamtree hundred,' by F. W. Marsom [Marsom suggests that the meeting place was in the centre of the hundred at Deadman’s Oak where old trackways meet.]
'Two Cranfield manors,' by Joyce Godber [This article identifies the medieval origins ...
Volume 5:
(1920)
Contents:
'The assessment of knight service in Bedfordshire, no. 2,' by John E. Morris [For the barony of Beauchamp of Bedford.]
'St. John of SouthilI,' by F. A. Page-Turner [The family and descendants of Francis St. John, b.1559, with pedigree.]
'Some Saxon charters,' ...
Volume 8:
(1924)
Contents:
‘Stagsden and its manors’, by J. Steele Elliott [A reconstruction of the location of the manors in 1086, with a map of them and the adjoining manors.]
‘Three records of the alien priory of Grove and the manor of Leighton Buzzard’, ...
Volume 9:
(1925)
Contents:
‘The Shefford beaker’, by Cyril Fox [The beaker, dating to about 1800 BC, was found between Shefford and Campton in 1819. It is stated to be the only authentic example of a beaker-folk artefact found in the upland valley of ...
Volume 39:
by A. T. Gaydon, (1959)
The introduction explains the method of taxation in the thirteenth century. By the 1290s, taxes were levied as a fixed proportion of the value of a person’s goods: a ninth, a fifteenth, a thirtieth or other fraction, as ordered. The ...
Volume 82:
by Len Holden (2003)
This book traces the rise and decline of the once mighty company, Vauxhall, which in the third quarter of the twentieth century dominated the Luton economy. Beginning as a small London engineering company, at the peak of its production in ...
Volume 57:
(1978)
Contents:
'Bedfordshire chapelries: an essay in rural settlement history', by Dorothy Owen [The existence of chapels, in addition to churches, in many parishes in pre-Reformation England is explained. A list of rural parochial chapels in Bedfordshire between c.1123 and 1540 is ...