Volume 56:
edited by Eric Stockdale (1977)
This history of Bedford Prison is told through the story of the family of gaolers who ran it for many years and the contributions of five men closely associated with the prison.
To the account of John Bunyan’s trial and imprisonment ...
Volume 94:
by Michael Benson (2015)
The Bedford (Amateur) Musical Society, now Bedford Choral Society, was formed in 1867. Its beginnings were not auspicious - an article in a local newspaper reported that ‘no one felt very sanguine about the success of the proposed Society ... ...
Volume 75:
edited by Edwin Welch (1996)
Edwin Welch has created an invaluable list of the licenses which were obtained from the Bedford Archdeaconry or Quarter Sessions for places for nonconformist religious worship. Arranged alphabetically by place, the list names the person seeking the license, the building ...
Volume 73:
edited by Chris Pickford (1994)
This is the first in a series of four volumes describing Bedfordshire's parish churches in detail. It is based on new and specially commissioned research, bringing together original official sources and contemporary accounts. This volume covers Ampthill to Gravenhurst. Many ...
Volume 77:
edited by Chris Pickford (1998)
This is the second in a series of four volumes describing Bedfordshire's parish churches in detail. It is based on specially commissioned research, bringing together original official sources and contemporary accounts. This volume covers Harlington to Roxton. Many churches are ...
Volume 79:
edited by Chris Pickford (2000)
This is the third in a series of four volumes describing Bedfordshire's parish churches in detail. It is based on specially commissioned research, bringing together original official sources and contemporary accounts. This volume covers Salford to Yelden. Many churches are ...
Volume 80:
edited by Chris Pickford (2001)
This is the last in a series of four volumes describing Bedfordshire's parish churches in detail. The aim is to present a detailed account of each church together with text from five important nineteenth century sources. It is based on ...
Volume 70:
edited by Chris Pickford (1991)
The dictionary is preceded by an introduction on timekeeping and the history of clock- and watchmaking in Bedfordshire. Extracts are included from a selection of documents to illustrate the sources used in compiling the dictionary. They range over advertisements, Bedfordshire ...
Volume 72:
(1993)
This collection of fifteen essays was presented to Patricia Bell on her retirement as BHRS Honorary General Editor.
Contents:
'Pre-1841 censuses and population listings in Bedfordshire', by Colin Chapman
'The Bedfordshire Historic Environment Record', by David Baker
'Archives and the visual arts: Potsgrove Church, ...
Volume 71:
edited by Nigel Lutt (1992)
The volume contains the surviving lists of Bedfordshire men who were liable for military service between 1539 and 1831: they are held at either The National Archives or Bedfordshire Archives (open in new windows). Many lists have not survived and ...
Volume Survey of Ancient Buildings, volume 2:
by J. Steele Elliott (1933)
The book contains an introduction and descriptive catalogue of springs, wells, ditches and other water-related artefacts. It cites old documents and place names as evidence for their provenance.
The photographs were taken between 1870 and 1932, and also include twelve of ...
Volume 54:
edited by D. W. Bushby (1975)
In the nineteenth century most of the education of Bedford was provided and run by the Harpur Trust, at both elementary and secondary levels (Bedford, Bedford Modern, the High School and Dame Alice Harpur schools). This study shows the extent ...
Volume 74:
edited by James Collett-White, (1995)
This is an edition of household inventories which list in detail the contents of sixteen Bedfordshire country houses. Among them are lesser known houses such as the Hasells and the Prebendal House at Leighton Buzzard as well as mansions such ...
Volume 61:
by Eric Stockdale (1982)
These five essays on issue of law and order grew out of the author’s earlier research on local crime for his book on Bedford Prison (BHRS vol. 56).
The first essay recounts the riots following the enactment of the Militia Act ...
Volume 49:
(1970)
Contents:
‘Contracting arable lands in 1341’, by A. R. H. Baker [The retreat of settlements and abandonment of marginal land is examined through the returns of the 1341 tax of one ninth of the value of corn, wool and lambs for ...
Volume 59:
(1980)
Contents:
'The internal politics of Bedford 1660-1688', by Michael Mullet [Describes the constitution of Bedford's corporation and the effects of religion on the town's politics in the reign of Charles II. The article shows how John Bunyan drew on Bedford for ...
Memorial in Stanbridge Church to Henry and Hannah Fleet, Methodist missionaries who died in Sierra Leone in 1839 (photo: ...
This article supplements The Rise of Methodism: a Study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851, BHRS vol. 92 by Dr Jonathan Rodell.
It lists ...
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 23:
by Ernest Oscar Payne (1946)
In the first part of the book, based on his University of London PhD thesis, the author draws on the correspondence and other writings of Richard How of Aspley Guise (1727-1801?) to present a picture of life in the Bedfordshire ...
Volume 50:
edited by AIan F. Cirket (1971)
The notebooks kept by Samuel Whitbread II of Southill (1764-1815) are a rare survival, recording in detail the cases he handled in his capacity as a Justice - or Magistrate - for the County. The original notebooks are difficult to ...
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 Survey of Ancient Buildings, volume 1:
J. Steele Elliott
This book contains photographs of all the windmills in the county for which any illustration was known at the date of publication. There are photographs of 36 windmills, or their remains, in twenty-seven Bedfordshire towns and villages, taken between 1858 ...