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 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 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 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 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 51:
edited by H. G. Tibbutt (1972)
The transcriptions of early church books from eight Independent churches provides a picture of the membership, fortunes and practices of the churches themselves and also of local social and agricultural conditions.
The churches are: Kensworth, 1675-1694; Keysoe Brook End, 1658-1677; Stevington, ...
Volume 96:
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 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 86:
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 55:
edited by H. G. Tibbutt (1976)
These are the administrative records of the Bunyan Meeting, dealing with admissions, expulsions and discipline as well as spiritual matters. The book includes membership lists for 1650-1735, 1741, 1754 and 1761; and deaths 1681-1688.
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 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 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 ...