BLHA NEWSLETTER HISTORY IN BEDFORDSHIRE Bedfordshire Local History Society's newsletter "History in Bedfordshire" is published 3 or 4 times each year.  These are now available to download in PDF format.

World War II Wireless Station, Milton Bryan

Summer 2008                                                                             [download - 233kB]

• BLHA Autumn Meeting
• 2009 Local History Conference and Annual General Meeting
• Maulden Mausoleum Vandalised by Lead Thieves
  
• A Changing Village - Clapham, by John F. Pickering
• Sugar from Beetroot in 1869 Clapham
  
• Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education, Bedford - forthcoming courses
  
• New Publications -
• "We wouldn't have missed it for the World" - the Women's Land Army in Bedfordshire by Stuart Antrobus
• Mr.Metcalfe's Congregational Chapel at Roxton by Stella Gibbs
• How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735: The Evidence of Local Poll Books (Vol.2 1716-1735) by James Collett-White
  

Spring 2008                                                                             [download - 120kB]

• Annual General Meeting 2008
  
• A Record for Luton - The Dominion Record Company, by Barry Wolsey
  
• Recent Deposits in the Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Record Service by the Ampthill &District Archaeological &Local History Society
  
• BLHA Meeting celebrating Fifteen Years - A Member's Report by Pauline Wolsley
• BLHA Committee Elected for 2008/2009
  
• Toddington Town Band
  

Winter 2007/8                                                                             [download - 237kB]

• 15th Anniversary Meeting of BLHA
• 2008 Local History Conference and Annual General Meeting
  
• Digging up Sharnbrook's Past, by Des Hoar and June Barnes
  
• Caddington Local History Group
  
• New Publications -
• Bridges of Time by Shela Porter
  

Summer 2007                                                                             [download - 195kB]

• 2008 Local History Conference and Annual General Meeting
  
• 15th Anniversary Meeting of BLHA
• English Heritage Websites
• Two Years in the Life of a Local History Group - Willington
  
• New Publications -
• Bernard West's Bedfordshire edited by Gordon Vowles
  
• The Bousfield Diaries: A Middle Class Family in Late Victorian Bedford  edited by Richard Smart
• The Spy Capital of Britain - Bedfordshire's Secret War 1939-1945 by Stephen Bunker
  

Spring 2007                                                                             [download - 153kB]

• Autumn Palaeography Workshop
  
• Some Gleanings from the Censuses for Clophill, Bedfordshire, by Colin Watt
• Population
• Life Expectancy
• Occupations
• Migration
• Study - The Ashwells
  
• The Biggleswade History Society
• Willington History Group
  

Winter 2006/7                                                                             [download - 149kB]

• The Hiberno-Saxon Runic Stone at the Church of St.Peter's de Merton, Bedford
• Ampthill & District Archaeological & Local History Society
• New Publications -
• How Bedfordshire Voted 1685-1735: The Evidence of Local Poll Books (Vol.1 1685-1715) by James Collet-White
  

Autumn 2006                                                                               [download - 188kB]

• Bushmead Priory
• A Brief History of St.Leonard's Hospital, Bedford, by Stephen Coleman
• The Dunstable & District History Society
• New Publications -
  
• Plain Mr. Whitbread by S.C.Whitbread
  

Summer 2006                                                                              [download - 205kB]

• 2006 Annual Conference
• 2006 Annual General Meeting
• A Brief History of the Feoffee Cottages of Toddington, by John Viner
  
• Reviews -
  
• Bedfordshire Wills 1531-1539
• Bedfordshire Parish Poor Law Papers 1622-1834
  
• New Publications -
  
• Chalk on my Shoes - Memoirs of a Chilterns Childhood by Keith T. Norcott
• Potton Baptists by Stan Evers
• Bedfordshire Women's Land Army

Spring 2006                                                                                 [download - 132kB]

• Register of Speakers
• BLHA Newsletter - articles required
  
• Leighton Buzzard Fire Service - A History, by Maurice Blackman
• BLHA Representative on BLARS User Panel
• Public Safety in Church Graveyards
• Profile of Colmworth & Neighbours' History Society

Winter 2005/6                                                                              [download - 443kB]

• Appeal for Articles for BLHA Newsletter
• A Comparison of Historical Knowledge with a Resistance Survey, by Kevan Fadden and Mike Turner
• New Publications -
  
• A Brewery in Bedford by Roger Protz
• A Victorian Family at Houghton Cconquest 1838-1878 by Simon Houfe
• Cameo of Fashion 1951-1982 by Thelma Marks
• Bygone Biggleswade, Volume 3

Autumn 2005                                                                               [download - 110kB]

• The Bedfordshire Local History Association
• 2005 Annual Conference and Annual General Meeting
• Digital Newspapers as a Local History Tool, by Barry Dackombe
• Bedford Hills Historical Museum, New York State
• Obituary - Anne Mary Buck