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 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 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 90:
edited by James Collett-White (2011)
This is the third volume in BHRS's series of poll books and covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of William Pitt the younger. It was a period when Britain was constantly at war, when it ...
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 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 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 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 ...
Volume Survey of Ancient Buildings, volume 3:
by F. G. Emmison and J. Steele Elliott (1936)
Contents:
'Turnpike roads and toll gates of Bedfordshire', by F. G. Emmison
'Map of turnpike roads', drawn by F. G. Emmison, 1935
'The pounds of Bedfordshire', by J. Steele Elliott
'Local duck decoys', by J. Steele Elliott
Much of the volume ...
Volume 68:
edited by Edwin Welch (1989)
The first Moravian settlement in Britain was established in Bedford in 1745 and its members lived and worshipped as a close-knit community. The Bedford congregation is exceptionally well documented. In this edition Edwin Welch presents extracts from the principal sources ...
Volume 36:
(1956)
Contents:
‘A note on the foundation of Northill College in 1406’, by Peter Hull. [An introduction is followed by a transcription in Latin of the College's foundation grant.]
‘The origin of St. Mary's Square, Bedford’, by J. Fines. [Transcription in English of ...
Volume 47:
edited by Joyce Godber (1968)
Although described in the introduction as 'a life', this book, written as a guide to more than 7000 letters held in Bedfordshire Archives, is far more than that. It is a biography of Jemima, Marchioness Grey (1722-1797), mainly pieced together ...
Volume 44:
edited by Joyce Godber (1965)
The development of hunts in Bedfordshire is recounted in the introduction and through transcriptions of documents from several collections in Bedfordshire Archives. The documents relate to private hunts (1708-1797) and to the Oakley hunt (1795-1920). They include the hound book ...
Volume 15:
(1933)
Contents:
'The relief of the poor at Eaton Socon, 1706-1834', by F. G. Emmison.
'Tithe at Pavenham, 1759/60', contributed by C. D. Linnell. [Transcriptions of two documents held by Trinity College, Cambridge. The first is a report on the tithes at Pavenham ...
Volume 20:
(1938)
Contents:
'Jacobean household inventories,' by F. G. Emmison. [The editor claims that this is the first collection of inventories to be published with analytical notes. A 50-page introduction and analysis of the inventories under the headings houses, furniture, domestic life, farmyard ...
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 4:
(1917)
Contents:
'The will of Roger Benetheton, 1438/9,' edited by the late Rev. R. M. Serjeantson. [A Latin transcription with English translation of a will entered on the court rolls of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire.]
'Ancient Bedfordshire deeds II: Deeds relating to Elstow,' by ...
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 92:
by Jonathan Rodell (2014)
This radical re-examination of the rise of the largest popular movement in early nineteenth-century Britain draws on a wide range of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in Bedfordshire, an unlikely ...
Dr Jonathan Rodell has prepared a video to accompany his book The Rise of Methodism: a study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851 ...