Our newsletter History in Bedfordshire is published several times each year and back issues are available for download below. Our editor welcomes contributions, email him at editor@bedfordshire-lha.org.uk
Summer 2008
  • 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
Spring 2008
  • 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
Winter 2007/8
  • 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
Summer 2007
  • 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
Spring 2007
  • 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
  • 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
Summer 2006
  • 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
Spring 2006
  • 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
  • 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
Autumn 2005
  • 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