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Volume 88:

A soldier in Bedfordshire, 1941-1942: the diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers

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 94:

Bedford's Musical Society:a history of Bedford Choral Society

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 98:

Bedfordshire Probate Inventories before 1660

Edited by Barbara Tearle (2024) Fewer than two hundred probate inventories were thought to have survived for Bedfordshire and most were published in Bedfordshire Historical Record Society volumes 20 and 32. Recently more came to light, bringing the total of known pre-1660 inventories to almost ...
Volume 85:

How Bedfordshire voted, 1685-1735: the evidence of local poll books, Volume 1, 1685-1715

edited by James Collett-White (2006) This is the first volume of BHRS's series of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century poll books. Poll books tell the story of local people and their link with national history. This book is the first in a series by ...
Volume 87:

How Bedfordshire voted, 1685-1735: the evidence of local poll books, volume 2, 1716-1735

James Collett-White, (2008) This second volume of BHRS`s series of late seventeenth and early eighteenth century poll books continues the story of Bedfordshire voting in the context of local and national politics up to the election in 1734. It contains transcriptions of the ...
Volume 90:

How Bedfordshire voted, 1735-1784: the evidence of local documents and poll books

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 93:

Pride of Peacocks: a memoir of a Bedford firm of auctioneers, estate agents and surveyors

by Keith Lazenby (2014) This memoir provides a glimpse into the well-known and long-standing local Bedford company of W. & H. Peacock during the years 1902-1988. The author draws on a wide variety of sources, many from his own collection, including property instruction books, ...
Volume 89:

The 2nd Bedfords in France and Flanders 1914-1918

edited by Martin Deacon (2010) This is an edition of the official war diary of the 2nd Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment and complements BHRS's 2004 volume The Shiny Seventh: the 7th (Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at War 1915-1918, also edited by Martin Deacon. A War Diary ...
Volume 91:

The Accounts of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, Luton 1526/7-1546/7

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 96:

The Bedford Diary of Leah Aynsley, 1943-1946

edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson (2020) The Bedford Diary of Leah Aynsley, 1943-1946, provides a fascinating insight into the daily life of a working class woman during the Second World War. Leah hoped that her diary, which she gave as a bequest to Bedfordshire Archives Service, ...
Volume 86:

The Bousfield diaries: a middle-class family in late Victorian Bedford

edited by Richard Smart (2007) The diaries of Charlotte Bousfield, extending from 1878 to 1896, paint a vivid picture of the activities of the multi-talented Bousfield family of Bedford, led by its strong-minded matriarch. The Bousfields were prominent in local life. Charlotte's husband, Edward, was an ...
Volume 92:

The rise of Methodism: a study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851

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 ...
Volume 97:

The Turner Letters Letters from Home: from Milton Ernest, Bedfordshire to St Andrews, New Brunswick, 1830-1845

edited by David Newman, Bob Ricketts CBE and James Collett-White (2022) The Turner Letters cover the years 1830-45 and give a lively view of life in a rural village in times of upheaval. The Turner Letters originated in Milton Ernest in Bedfordshire. They travelled to St Andrews in New Brunswick, Canada, to ...
Volume 95:

Willington and the Mowbrays After the Peasants' Revolt

by Dorothy Jamieson (2019) Drawing on documentary evidence dating between 1382 and 1522, this volume examines a single manor parish that was dominated by the powerful Mowbray family, the Dukes of Norfolk, and by Katherine Neville, widow of the second Duke, as part of ...

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