Our newsletter History in Bedfordshire is published several times each year.
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Back issues are available for download below. Our editor welcomes contributions, email him at editor@bedfordshire-lha.org.uk |
Spring 2010 Issue 5.3 |
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- BLHA AGM and Annual Conference 2010
- Notes and News
- Association's new website
- Local and Community History Month
- WH Allen engineering works
- Stewartby Brickworks
- 'Three Market Towns' DVD
- Woburn Heritage Trust: Open Gardens and Scarecrow Competition
- The Women's Land Army in Bedfordshire during the First World War—Part 1, by Stuart Antrobus
- Promoting our County
- National History Month
- Heritage Open Days
- The Millbrook War Memorial
- Book Review
- Biggleswade and the Great War: Our Own Flesh and Blood by Kenneth Wood (The History Press)
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Winter 2009/10 |
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- BLHA Spring Event: Adding Branches to your Family Tree
- BLHA Annual Conference 2010 and AGM
- Gold in the Attic
- A church and village memorials project, by Elisabeth Roberts
- Village memorials projects
- Book Review
- British Built Aircraft, Volume 4, Central and Eastern England, by Ron Smith
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Autumn 2009 |
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- 2009 BLHA Annual Conference and AGM
- 2010 BLHA Annual Conference and AGM
- Archaeology Review (event)
- Woad in Bedfordshire, by Vivian Billington
- 'Winds of Change' Exhibition (event) (letter to Editor)
- BLHA List of Speakers
- New publications:
- A Soldier in Bedfordshire: The Diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers, by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson
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Spring 2009 |
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- 2009 BLHA Annual Conference and AGM
- Ailesbury Mausoleum: 2009 Opening Dates
- Ampthill Castle or Manor—A Brief Historical Outline by Kevin Fadden
- Summary of Information obtained from Accounts for the King's Manor of Ampthill 1533—1539, by MJB Turner
- Book offer from Chris Pickford
- New publications
- Signals: A Railway Miscellany, by Murray Eckett
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Winter 2008/9 |
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- 2009 BLHA Annual Conference and AGM
- 'The Biggest Archaeological Dig in Bedfordshire' (talk)
- BLHA Website Competition
- Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
- Ampthill Historian receives national award (Andrew Underwood)
- Clapham Historical Society
- Farming in Bedfordshire 1883
- British Association for Local History
- New publications
- Lutonian Odyssey: Reminiscences of Lily Field for 1915 - 52, by Clive D Field OBE
- Leighton Buzzard and Linslade History, by Paul Brown
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Summer 2008 |
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- BLHA Autumn Meeting
- 2009 Local History Conference and AGM
- 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
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Spring 2008 |
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- Annual General Meeting 2008
- A Record for Luton—The Dominion Record Company by Barry Wolsey
- Recent Deposits in the Bedfordshire & Luton Archives and Record Service by the Ampthill & District Archaeological and Local History Society
- BLHA Meeting Celebrating Fifteen Years—A Member's Report by Pauline Wolsley
- BLHA Committee Elected for 2008/9
- Toddington Town Band
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Winter 2007/8 |
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- 15th Anniversary Meeting of BLHA
- 2008 Local History Conference and AGM
- Digging up Sharnbrook's Past, by Des Hoar and June Barnes
- Caddington Local History Group
- New Publications:
- Bridges of Time by Shela Porter
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Summer 2007 |
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- 2008 Local History Conference and AGM
- 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
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Spring 2007 |
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- 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
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Winter 2006/7 |
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- The Hiberno-Saxon Runic Stone at the Church of St Peter de Merton, Bedford
- Ampthill & District Archaeological and Local History Society
- New Publications:
- How Bedfordshire Voted 1685 - 1735: The Evidence of Local Poll Books (Vol 1 1685 - 1715) by James Collet-White
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Summer 2006 |
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- 2006 Annual Conference
- 2006 AGM
- 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 of my Shoes—Memoirs of a Chilterns Childhood by Keith T Norcott
- Potton Baptists by Stan Evers
- Bedfordshire Women's Land Army
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Spring 2006 |
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- 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
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Winter 2005/6 |
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- 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 Conquest 1838 - 1878 by Simon Houfe
- Cameo of Fashion 1951 - 1982 by Thelma Marks
- Bygone Biggleswade—Volume 3
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Autumn 2005 |
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- The Bedfordshire Local History Association
- 2005 Annual Conference and AGM
- Digital Newspapers as a Local History Tool by Barry Dackombe
- Bedford Hills Historical Museum, New York State
- Obituary—Anne Mary Buck
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