Bedfordshire Historical Record Society (BHRS) was established in 1912 as a focus for the study of Bedfordshire history. We have been publishing research by members and non-members of the Society for more than one hundred years.
Who were the clergy and priests who tended the spiritual well-being of Bedfordshire people?
Pre-Reformation Bedfordshire clergy
The higher clergy of the ...
BHRS and the County Record Office (now called Bedfordshire Archives) (opens in new window) were the brainchild of one man, ...
One hundred years ago in November 1912 BHRS was founded by Dr Fowler and others to research and publish Bedfordshire’s ...
Record Office
Bedfordshire Archives (opens in a new window)
This is the County Record Office for Bedfordshire (Bedford Borough, Central Bedfordshire and ...
BHRS is governed by Officers and a Council, elected annually at the AGM.
Officers 2023-2024
Chairman: Bob Ricketts, CBE (2018-
Secretary: Margaret Evans ...
In 2000 the Library of the University of Northampton (opens in a new window) accepted the Library of Dr G. ...
This article supplements The Rise of Methodism: a Study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851, BHRS vol. 92 by Dr Jonathan Rodell.
It lists ...
This is a selection of national sources for Bedfordshire research. We welcome suggestions for additional sources.
General history sources
British Association for ...
Finding village societies and community history websites
Links to specific village societies and community history groups in Bedfordshire have not been ...
Bedford museums
The Higgins, Bedford (opens in a new window)
Combines the former Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Bedford Museum. The social ...
Maximilian Wilson (image: courtesy of Dr Jonathan Rodell)
This article supplements The Rise of Methodism: a Study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851, ...
Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire Archives (opens in a new window) is at Aylesbury, and also covers areas formerly in the county but now ...
Membership is open to anyone who supports the aims of the Society and new members are always welcome. Members are ...
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Ralph Agas, the Elizabethan surveyor, was commissioned by Henry Cheney to survey his estate at Toddington in 1581. The resulting ...
BHRS’s annual volumes have been published and sold by Boydell & Brewer Ltd since 2002. Those titles still in print ...
Dr Jonathan Rodell has prepared a video to accompany his book The Rise of Methodism: a study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851 ...
Memorial in Stanbridge Church to Henry and Hannah Fleet, Methodist missionaries who died in Sierra Leone in 1839 (photo: ...
. . . . is BHRS’s official stockist for its out of print volumes.
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The Bedfordshire Historical Record Society has been publishing material on the history of Bedfordshire since 1912.
A new volume in the ...
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