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 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 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 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 67:
edited by David Bushby (1988)
This volume presents original material to illuminate the state of elementary education in Bedfordshire during the second half of the nineteenth century, a vital period of change in the development of education.
Amongst the documents from which extracts are taken are: ...
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 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 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 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 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 16:
(1934)
Contents:
'In memoriam J. E. M.' [Dr John Edward Morris]
'The rural population of Bedfordshire, 1671 to 1921', by Lydia M. Marshall. [Based on the hearth tax return of 1671 and the census returns of 1801 and 1921, with a transcription of ...
Volume 53:
by F. G. Cockman (1974)
This is an account of the impact made by railways on Victorian society in Bedfordshire between 1846 and 1890. There are chapters about the main railway lines through and within the county; schemes that failed; contractors and navvies, travelling by ...
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 83:
edited by M. G. Deacon (2004)
The Shiny Seventh was an ordinary Kitchener battalion, a body of men raised for the duration of the war, forming part of an ordinary county regiment. They saw extraordinary things and performed extraordinary actions as part of 18th (Eastern) Division, ...
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 93:
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 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 89:
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 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 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 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 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 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 ...
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 ...
