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| BEDFORDSHIRE LOCAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION | HISTORY IN BEDFORDSHIRE | ||
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| Subject Index, Vols 1–10 | Compiled by TED MARTIN | ||
| NB: Ephemeral items such as notices of meetings have not been included but all notices of BLHA AGMs and Conferences are indexed. Issues in Volumes 1–6 consisted of 4 pages only so page numbers are not necessary. From volume 7 page numbers are included. Books reviewed or notices and periodicals are shown in italics. Below is a table showing all the issues of HIB to date. | |||
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| Issue 1.1 Winter 1992/3 Issue 1.2 Spring 1993 Issue 1.3 Summer 1993 Issue 1.4 Autumn 1993 Issue 1.5 Winter 1993/4 Issue 1.6 Spring 1994 Issue 1.7 Summer 1994 Issue 1.8 Autumn 1994 Issue 1.9 Winter 1994/95 Issue 1.10 Spring 1995 Issue 1.11 Summer 1995 Issue 1.12 Autumn 1995 | Issue 2.1 Winter 1995/6 Issue 2.2 Autumn 1996 Issue 2.3 Winter 1996/7 Issue 2.4 Spring 1997 Issue 2.5 Summer 1997 Issue 2.6 Autumn 1997 Issue 2.7 Winter 1997/8 Issue 2.8 Summer1998 Issue 2.9 Winter 1998/9 Issue 2.10 Summer 1999 Issue 2.11 Winter 1999 Issue 2.12 Spring 2000 | Issue 3.1 Summer 2000 Issue 3.2 Winter 2000/1 Issue 3.3 Summer 2001 Issue 3.4 Winter 2001/2 Issue 3.5 Summer 2002 Issue 3.6 Autumn 2002 Issue 3.7 Winter 2002/3 Issue 3.8 Summer 2003 Issue 3.9 Winter 2003/4 Issue 3.10 Summer 2004 Issue 3.11 Spring 2005 Issue 3.12 Autumn 2005 | Issue 4.1 Winter 2005/6 Issue 4.2 Spring 2006 Issue 4.3 Summer 2006 Issue 4.4 Autumn 2006 Issue 4.5 Winter 2006/2007 Issue 4.6 Spring 2007 Issue 4.7 Summer 2007 Issue 4.8 Winter 2007/2008 Issue 4.9 Spring 2008 Issue 4.10 Summer 2008 Issue 4.11 Winter 2008/2009 Issue 4.12 Spring 2009 |
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| Issue 5.1 Autumn 2009 Issue 5.2 Winter 2009/2010 Issue 5.3 Spring 2010 Issue 5.4 Summer 2010 Issue 5.5 Autumn 2010 Issue 5.6 Winter 2010/2011 Issue 5.7 Spring 2011 Issue 5.8 Summer 2011 Issue 5.9 Autumn 2011 Issue 5.10 Winter 2011/12 Issue 5.11 Spring 2012 Issue 5.12 Summer 2012 | Issue 6.1 Autumn 2012 Issue 6.2 Winter 2012/13 Issue 6.3 Spring 2013 Issue 6.4 Summer 2013 Issue 6.5 Autumn 2013 Issue 6.6 Winter 2013/2014 Issue 6.7 Spring 2014 Issue 6.8 Summer 2014 Issue 6.9 Autumn 2014 | Issue 7.1 Winter 2015 Issue 7.2 Spring 2015 Issue 7.3 Summer 2015 Issue 7.4 Autumn 2015 Issue 7.5 Winter 2015/16 Issue 7.6 Spring 2016 Issue 7.7 Summer 2016 Issue 7.8 Autumn 2016 Issue 7.9 Winter 2016/17 Issue 7.10 Spring 2017 Issue 7.11 Summer 2017 Issue 7.12 Autumn 2017 | Issue 8.1 Winter 2017/18 Issue 8.2 Spring 2018 Issue 8.3 Summer 2018 Issue 8.4 Autumn 2018 Issue 8.5 Winter 2018/19 Issue 8.6 Spring 2019 Issue 8.7 Summer 2019 Issue 8.8 Autumn 2019 Issue 8.9 Winter 2019/20 Issue 8.10 Spring 2020 Issue 8.11 Summer 2020 Issue 8.12 Summer Special 2020 |
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| Issue 9.1 Autumn 2020 Issue 9.2 Winter 2020/21 Issue 9.3 Spring 2021 Issue 9.4 Summer 2021 Issue 9.5 Autumn 2021 Issue 9.6 Winter 2021/22 Issue 9.7 Spring 2022 Issue 9.8 Summer 2022 Issue 9.9 Autumn 2022 Issue 9.10 Autumn 2022 Special Issue Issue 9.11 Winter 2022/23 Issue 9.12 Spring 2023 | Issue 10.1 Summer 2023 Issue 10.2 Autumn 2023 | ||
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| 1227, Bedfordshire Life in the Year, 2.3 126th Coy Canadian Forestry Corps,3.4 1285, As it was in, so it is in 1994, 1.6 1881 Census, 1.11 1899, Education, Silsoe, in, 2.4 1901 Census, 3.4 1910 ‘Domesday’ Finance Act Records, The, 3.2 1951 Festival of Britain, see Festival of Britain 20th Century Defences in Britain, 1.12 |
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| A | A bridge too far . . . : 10.2: 4 em>‘A Little Older than our Teeth’: Langford Methodist Church, c1835–2012, 5.12 A panacea in Bedford, 5.11 A Place in the Country, 8.1: 2 Abbott, George Percy, 8.9: 3 Accident, early, on the Great Northern Railway, 7.7: 10 Accounts of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, Luton, 1526/7–1546/7, The, 6.4 Addingtons of Langford and Henlow, The, 9.3: 5 Admiral Byng, The Dillys of Southill, and Dr Johnson, 5.8 Admiral Hugh Evan-Thomas (1862–1928), 8.6: 5 Aeronautical Research Heritage, An, Wings over Thurleigh, 3.5 Agricultural machinery powered by steam, 10.2: 4 AGM and Conference see BLHA Agriculture, notes from the Beds Mercury: 9.6: 20 Aircraft - British Built, Volume 4, Central and Eastern England, 5.2 - Mosquito MK NF XVII HK304, 9.9: 4 Airfield, Everton & Tempsford 2.7 Albone, Daniel, 3.8 All Change at Bedford, 6.2 Allen, W H, engineering, 5.3, 7.1: 5 Allotments, Nineteenth Century, from Local Sources: Breaking New Ground:, 5.5 American - at Wrest: Wrest Park in Edwardian Times, 8.1: 3 - Forces in WW2 Bedford, 1942–1945, 9.8: 14 Ampthill - and District Archaeological and Local History Society, BLARS deposits by, 4.5, 4.9 - Around, 1.1 - Artist, Richardson, Sir Albert, 9.7: 22 - Benjamin Rhodes of, c1610–57, 5.6, 5.7 - Castle or Manor, A Brief Historical Outline, 4.12 - Full Steam Ahead, 3.5 - Gas and Coke Company, 1848–1936, The, 6.3 - historian receives national award, 4.11 - in Old Picture Postcards, Vol 3, 1.12 - King’s Manor of, Summary of information obtained from Accounts of, 1533–1539, 4.12 - Muster at the King’s Manor of, in 1536, 6.6 - Seventeenth Century, & Hugh Reeve its ‘True & Lawful Parson’, 3.2 - The Knoll, 2.12 An Unassuming County: The Making of the Bedfordshire Countryside, 9.12: 34 Ancestors, Tracing in Bedfordshire, 2.1 Anglia University – Centre for Regional Studies, 2.7 Anglo-Saxon Church, Saint Peter’s, Bedford, An, 3.5 Anne Mary Buck, 3.12 Antrobus, Stuart, National Award, 10.1: 3 Apprenticeship, legal, baker, not having served, 2.10 Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 1886–1959, 6.1 Arch, Harry, 2.10 Archaeology - Bedfordshire * Vol 21, 1.7 * Vol 22, 2.3 - Biggleswade, Hidden history revealed in, 7.5: 5 - Greensand Ridge, North, 9.10: 11 - in Lockdown 2020–21, 9.5: 6 - Roman Horse Find, Broom, 9.11: 4 - Sharnbrook, digging up its past, 4.8 - Willington * west of, 7.2: 5 * what’s been going on in, 6.5 Archery, Letter, 3.9 Archive CD Books, Letter, 3.10 Argent, Private Denis, Royal Engineers, The Diary of, Soldier in Bedfordshire, A: 5.1 Aristocracy, Victorian, Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the, 9.7: 25 Around Ampthill, 1.1 Artists - Bloomfield, Robert (1766–1823), the self-taught rural poet, 9.7: 5 - Flitwick, 9.7: 11 - Pearse, Captain Alfred (1856–1933), 9.7:11 - Richardson, Sir Albert: an Ampthill artist, 9.7: 22 - Ryland, Henry (1856–1924), painter and illustrator, 9.7: 8 - Sheldon-Williams, Ina Maud, 1876–1955, 9.7: 17 - Sheldon-Williams, Inglis (1870–1940), 9.7: 16 - Stannard, Henry, RBA (1844–1920), 9.7: 13 - Stannard, Henry John Sylvester, RBA, RSA (1870–1951), 9.7: 13 As it was in 1285 so it is in 1994, 1.6 Aspley Guise in the 19th Century (1815–1914), 2.9 Astronomers, Bedfordshire’s 9.9: 12 At the Long Ford, 9.5: 4, 21 Atherton, Robert, From Plough to Parsonage, 9.3: 23 Auctioneers, Estate Agents and Surveyors, Memoir of a Bedford Firm of, Peacocks, Pride of, 7.1: 12 Augustus Henry Orlebar and the Schneider Trophy, 5.9, 5.10 Aussies in your Attic?, 2.2 Aynsley, Leah, The Bedford Diary of 1943–1946, 8.10: 21 |
| B | Bagshawe's (Engineering) & Cross’s (Paperware), Old Trades of Dunstable, 3.2 Baker, not having served legal apprenticeship, 2.10 Baptists, Potton, 4.3 Bassingbourn Fen, The Dinosaurs on, 2.9 Battersea Dogs Home, Grave of the founder of, 5.11 Battle of Britain - One of the Few, 8.7: 13 Battle of Jutland, 8.6: 5 BBC Hands on History, 5.5 BCRO see Record Office Beating the Invader, 9.4: 3 Beats, Boots and Thieves – A History of Policing in North Bedfordshire, 6.3 Bedford, 8.5: 15 - All Change at, 6.2 - American Forces in, WW2, 1942–1945, 9.8: 14 - apple a day, 8.5: 15 - Aynsley, Leah, The Bedford Diary of 1943–1946, 8.10: 21 - Bousfield Diaries, The: A middle class family in late Victorian, 4.7 - Bridewell, The, 8.5: 16 - Bridge to, 5.5 * industrial past, relic, 7.1: 5 - Brewery in, 4.1 - Bunyan’s, 8.11: 17 - Choral Society, 7.7: 15 - Diary of Leah Aynsley, The, 1943–1946, 8.10: 23 - Duchess of, 7.4: 4 * and the colour of naval uniforms, 8.7: 4 - Ely Deaconesses Institution in, Sisters of, from 1869 to 1921, 9.1: 10 - executions, public, in, 8.5: 17 - Faith Groups in, 10.1: 25 - First Generation Italians in, Memories of, Hidden Voices, 2.10 - First World War, Life on the Home Front in, during the, 8.3: 8 - Granada Cinema, 8.2: 14 - Great Storm of 1672, 8.10: 17 - Halliley family, and, 8.12: 12 - Harpur, Sir William – or not? 8.10: 17 - Historical Record Society, 1.4 - History Timeline, 8.7: 4, 18 - ‘Holidays at Home’ in, during the Second World War, 8.7: 5 - Home Front, during First World War, Life in, 8.3: 8 - Life in during the Second World War, 9.5: 23 - Last Pillbox in, 8.7: 14 - Laxton Brothers, 8.5: 15 - Le Mesurier family, and, 8.12: 2 - Leah Aynsley, The Bedford Diary of 1943–1946, 8.10: 21 - Library, postcard collection at 7.6, 8; 7.7: 4 - Local History Magazine, 6.9, 7.9: 20; 7.11: 18, 8.5: 20, 8.6: 18 8.12: 24 * Special Issue, Faith Groups, 10.1: 25 - Lunatic Asylum: l8l2–1860, A Proper House, 1.3 - Memoir of a Firm of Auctioneers, Estate Agents and Surveyors, Peacocks, Pride of, 7.1: 12 - Motoring Heritage, 3.8 - Palgrave, Charles, 8.5: 18 - public executions in, 8.5: 17 - Saint Mary’s Church, 8.5: 16 - Saint Peter de Merton * Anglo-Saxon Church, An, 3.5 * brief history of, 8.7: 2 * Hiberno-Saxon Runic Stone, 4.5 * Norman arch, 7.1: 6 - Saint Etheldreda’s, q.v. - Saint Leonard’s Hospital, brief history, 4.4 - Scenes of, historic postcard/photograph collection at Bedford Central Library, 7.8: 8 - School, see Bedford School - Secret, 8.5: 19 - Sir William Harpur – or not? 8.10: 17 - Sister Fanny (1836–1907), pioneer Church of England deaconess in, 9.1: 2 - Spy School, 6.7 - Tacchi Family, of, 10.1: 13; 10.2: 18 - Times, notes from, 8.11: 23 - to Hitchin Railway, 5.11 - Town Centre Statues: A Self-Guided Walk with Street Map, 6.6, 6.7 - Vehicles in the Second World War, 9.4: 17 - White House, 8.5: 18 Bedford Choral Society, 7.7: 15 Bedford Diary of Leah Aynsley 1943–1946, 8.10: 21 Bedford Hills Historical Museum, New York State, 3.12 Bedford History Timeline, 8.7: 4, 18 Bedford Library, postcard collection at, 7.6, 8; 7.7: 4; 7.8: 8 Bedford Local History Magazine, 6.9, 7.9: 20, 7.11: 18, 8.5: 20, 8.6: 18, 8.12: 24 * Special Issue, Faith Groups, 10.1: 25 Bedford’s Motoring Heritage, 3.8 Bedford School - a History of the Vice-Masters at 9.9: 25 - Secret Old Boys and their Special Operations in World War Two, 6.7 Bedfords, Second, in France and Flanders 1914–1918, 5.6 Bedford Times, Notes from, 8.11: 23 Bedford Vehicles in the Second World War, 9.4: 17 Bedfordshire (see also under individual places) - 1940s–1990s, 3.8 - and Luton Records Service see Record Office - and Northamptonshire, Characters and events in the history of, Folk, 1.8 - Archaeology * Vol 21, 1.7 * Vol 22, 2.3 - Archives and Records Service, see Record Office - Astronomers, 9.9: 12 - at War in Old Photographs, 2.6 - Auctioneers, Estate Agents and Surveyors, Memoir of Firm of, 7.1: 12; 7.2: 13 - Beats, Boots and Thieves – A History of Policing in North, 6.3 - Bernard West’s, 4.7 - Bibliography, The, 8.1: 2 - Bridges of, 2.6 - Captain Swing’ in: Rural unrest and protest, 1830–1832, 9.2: 4 - Churches * 1820–1865, 1.7 * in the 19th Century, Pt. 3, Parishes S-Y, 3.2; Part 4, Appendices and Index, 3.4 - Clergy (q.v.), rich and poor, in, 3.7, 6.8, 6.9 - Coprolite Industry, in, 2.7 - Countryside, The Making of, An Unassuming County:, 9.12: 34 - County Record Office see Record Office - Designed Landscapes of: Conference Report, 8.8: 20 - Dialect,9.2: 2, 21; 9.3: 14 - East, Steam on Road and Field in, 1.5 - Episcopal Visitations in, 1706–1720, 3.7 - Family, The True Story of a, Threads of Time, 3.1 - Family History Society, 1.2 - Farmer’s Boy, Nostalgic Thoughts of a, Gleanings Revisited, 1.12 - Farming in,1883, 4.11 - Festival of Britain 1951 * legacy of, in, 9.6: 2 * Village Signs, 2.8, 9.8: 4 - First blue plaque, 5.4 - Fossil Diggings, The, 6.7 - Gardens Trust, 3.11 - Gold Rush, Pulloxhill Gold Mine, 8.10: 3 - Hearth tax, Bedfordshire in 1670, evidence from, 6.7, 6.8 - Heritage Website Competition, 3.4, 3.5 - Historic Environment Record, The, 2.11 - Historical Miscellany: Essays in Honour of Patricia Bell, 1.6 - Historical Record Society see Bedfordshire Historical Record Society - How Bedfordshire Voted, * 1635-1715, Vol 1, 4.5 * 1685–1735, 4.10 * 1735–1784, 6.1 - in 1670: evidence from the hearth tax, 6.7, 6.8 - Journeys into, 1.8 - Landscapes, Designed, of, Conference Report, 8.8: 20 - Libraries Gateway to the Internet, 3.3 - Life in the Year 1227, 2.3 - Local History Association see BLHA - Local History Magazine, 8.1: 16 - Magazine, see Bedfordshire Magazine - Methodism in, rise of, study of 1736–1851, 6.9; 7.1: 11 - Mid-Beds villages in the 1920s and 1930s, self-sufficiency in, 6.5 - Milestones, 6.4 - Muster Lists 1539–1841, 1.1 - Papermaking in, 6.4 - Parish Poor Law Papers 1622–1834, 4.3 - Polar heroes, 8.9.3 - Promoting, 5.3 - Place Names, 6.7 - playwright, Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), 9.12: 6 - Quiz Book, A, 2.9 - Regiment see Bedfordshire Regiment - Rich and poor clergy (q.v.) in, 3.7, 6.8, 6.9 - Shire Guide to, 1.11 - Soldier in, A: The Diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers, 5.1 - Spy Capital of Britain, The – Bedfordshire’s secret war 1939–1945, 4.7 - Suffrage Movement in: Votes for Women, 8.2: 6 - Then and Now, 2.3 - Tracing Ancestors in, 2.1 - Trade Tokens: A Conundrum, 9.11: 5 - Village Signs, 2.8, 9.8: 4 - Voting: 1635-1715, 4.5; 1685–1735, 4.10; 1735–1784, 6.1 - Wills * 1484–1533, 2.6 * 1531–1539, 4.3 - Woad in, 5.1 - Women’s Land Army see Bedfordshire Women’s Land Army - Wool Trade, in, 5.9 - Yesteryears * Vol 2, 1.8 * Vol 3, Craftsmen and Trades People, 1.12 Bedfordshire and Luton Records Service see Record Office Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service see Record Office Bedfordshire County Record Office see Record Office Bedfordshire Dialect,9.2: 2, 21; 9.3: 14 Bedfordshire Family History Society, 1.2 Bedfordshire Historical Record Society - Fowler Library, 3.10 - interactive database of secondary sources, 4.11 Bedfordshire Local History Association see BLHA Bedfordshire Magazine, 2.9 - 50th Anniversary, 2.4 - at risk, 2.3 Bedfordshire Mercury, Notes from - agriculture, 9.6: 20 - wild life, 9.1: 20 Bedfordshire Regiment. 7th Battalion, 1915–1918, 3.10 Bedfordshire Women’s Land Army, 4.3 - during the First Word War, 5.3, 5.4 - History of, ‘We Wouldn’t Have Missed it for the World’, 4.10 - Outline History of the, Part 1, 3.9; Part 2, 3.10 Bedfordshire’s Astronomers, 9.9: 12 Bedfordshire’s Other Admiral, 8.6: 5 Beetroot, Sugar from in 1869 Clapham, 4.10 Bell, Patricia, Essays in Honour of: Bedfordshire Historical Miscellany, 1.6 Benjamin Rhodes of Ampthill c1610–57, 5.6, 5.7 Benjamin Rogers Rector of Carlton, 1720–1771, Historical Carlton through the Diary of, 2.12 Bernard West’s Bedfordshire, 4.7 Betty Chambers, 3.3 Between The Hills – The Story of Lilley, a Chiltern Village, 1.6 Biddenham - Village of, through the Ages, The, 6.4, 6.5 Biggleswade - and District History Society, 4.6 - and the Great War: Our Own Flesh and Blood, 5.3 - Body-snatchers at the Catherine Wheel?, 9.11: 23 - Brewery, The Story of, 1.5 - Bygone, Vol 2, 3.9; Vol 3, 4.1 - Catherine Wheel, Body-snatchers at?, 9.11: 23 - Common, 7.3: 4 - Hidden history revealed in, 7.5: 5 - History Society, index to 5 volumes of photos, 3.1 - Home Guard, 9.4: 15 - Old, Vol 4, 1.1 Biggleswade’s Laughing Policeman: Charles Penrose (1873–1952), 7.11: 14 - Postscript, 7.11: 17 Blackgrove Wood, Tilsworth, murder in, 1821, 5.6 BLARS see Record Office Bletchley Park, The Forgotten Giant of, 9.9: 33 BLHA - Annual Conference & AGM 1994, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 1995, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 running, 1.12 1996, 1.12, 2.1, 2.2 1997, 2.4, 2.5 1998, 2.6, 2.8 1999, 2.9 2000, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 3.1 2001, 3.2 2002, 3.4, 3.5 2003, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 2004, 3.8, 3.9 2005, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12 2006, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 2007, 4.4, 4.5 2008, 4.8, 4.9 2009, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 5.1 2010, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4 2011, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 2012, 5.10, 5.11 2013, 6.3 2014 & AGM, 6.7 2015, 7.3: 3 2016, 7.3: 4; 7.6, 2; 7.8: 3 2017, 7.9: 2; 7.10: 2–4; 7.11: 2–4 2018, 8.2: 2, 8.3: 2, 8.4: 5 2019, 8.5: 4, 8.6: 2–4, 8.8: 20 2020, 8.9: 2, 8.10: 2 2021 update on, 9.2: 2; 9.3: 2 2022, 9.4: 2, 9.7: 2; Report, 9.9: 30 2023, 9.12: 2 - Autumn Forum of Member Societies, 4.3 - BLARS Users Panel, BLHA representative on, 4.2 - booklet: Henry John Sylvester Stannard, 8.2: 5 - Conference delegates get their just desserts, 7.3: 16 - Extraordinary General Meeting, 1.5 - Fifteenth Anniversary Meeting, 4.7, 4.8 - First year, 1.6 - Inaugural General Meeting, 1.1, 1.2 - Inauguration, 1.3 - meeting, Clapham Village Hall, 4.9 - Networking initiative, 7.9: 3 - Speakers, Register of, 4.2 - sponsored workshops at the Record Office, 7.8: 6 - Spring [2019] Workshop on GIS, 8.9: 20 - Successful First Event, 1.4 - Summary of Perceived Needs, 1.1 - website, 3.11, 4.11, 5.3 Blue plaque, Bedfordshire’s first, 5.4 Bloomfield, Robert (1766–1823), self-taught rural poet, 9.7:5 Body-snatchers at the Catherine Wheel, Biggleswade?, 9.11: 23 Bolton, John, Vicar of Sharnbrook, Pastoral Problems, 9.11: 10 Bonnewit, Sergeant J, 9.9: 8 Books, Archive CD, Letter, 3.10 Bousfield Diaries, The: A middle class family in late Victorian Bedford, 4.7 Breaking New Ground: Nineteenth Century Allotments from Local Sources, 5.5 Brewery in Bedford, 4.1 Bridge maintenance in 19th century, 10.2: 4 Bridge to Bedford, 5.5 Bridges - of Bedfordshire, 2.6 - of Time, 4.8 Brief History of the Feoffee Cottages of Toddington, 4.3 British Built Aircraft, Volume 4, Central and Eastern England, 5.2 Brittain, Vera, searches for John Bunyan, 9.3: 17 Broadbridge, Rev Jim, 5.2 Brooks Family of Flitwick, 5.12 * Connections between, and Dells, 3.11 Brooks, John Hatfield, 1843–63, Diary of an Indian Cavalry Officer 1843–63, 3.10 Broom, * Bridge accident, 10.2: 4 * Roman Horse Find, 9.11: 4 Brown [Lancelot] Capability, landscapes, 7.6, 6 Brown family of Carlton and the Bunyan Connection, 8.11: 5 Brunt, Vic, 1917–2021, 9.5: 2 Buck, Anne Mary, 3.12 Buildings of England: Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire and Peterborough, The, 6.9 Bunyan, John - Bedford, and, 8.11: 17 - Brown family of Carlton, and, 8.11: 5 - His Life and Times, 1.12 - searches for, Vera Brittain, 9.3: 17 - Vera Brittain searches for, 9.3: 17 Bunyan’s Bedford, 8.11: 17 Bushmead Priory, 4.4 Butchers, On the Value of, 1.6 Bygone Biggleswade, Vol 2, 3.9; Vol 3, 4.1 Byng, Admiral, The Dillys of Southill, and Dr Johnson, 5.8 |
| C | Caddington - in the Year 2000, 3.5 - Local History Group, 4.8 Calendar of Close Rolls (1279–1288) – 13 Edward I (1285), 1.6 Cameo of Fashion1951–1982, 4.1 Canadian Forestry Corps, 126th Coy, 3.4 Capability Brown’s landscapes, 7.6, 6 ‘Captain Swing’ in Bedfordshire: Rural unrest and protest,1830–1832, 9.2: 4 Carlton - Brown family of, and the Bunyan Connection, 8.11: 5 - Historical, through the Diary of Benjamin Rogers Rector of Carlton, 1720–1771, 2.12 - Stayesmore Manor, 5.5, 5.6 - and Chellington History Society, 8.9: 2 Carve Her Name with Pride, 9.5: 18 Catherine Wheel, Biggleswade, Body-snatchers at?, 9.11: 23 CD Books, Archive. Letter, 3.10 Census - 1881, 1.11 - 1901, 3.4 Centenary of BLARS, 5.10 Centre for Regional Studies – Anglia University, 2.7 Chalk on my Shoes: Memoirs of a Chilterns Childhood, 4.3 Chambers, Betty, 3.3 Chambers, Clifford Gore Brown Wyatt, 8.10: 7 Changing Face of Luton, The, 1.3 Changing Village, A, Clapham, 4.10 Charter Marks, Record Office, and Local Government Reorganisation, 1.5 Cherry-Garrard, Apsley, 1886–1959, 6.1; 8.9: 5 Chicksands, 1.3, 1.4 - Priory, 1.12 - Questionnaire. 1.9 Childhood - Chilterns, Memoirs of a: Chalk on my Shoes, 4.3 - Knighton Grange, Memories of My Childhood on a Lone Farm, 6.1 - The Family, and Schooldays, 1.6 Chiltern Village, Lilley, a, The Story of, Between The Hills,1.6 Chronicle of Victorian Life in Pulloxhill 1875–1881, 3.7 Church - and village memorials project, 5.2 - Graveyards, Public Safety in, 4.2 Church of England, pioneer deaconess in Bedford, Sister Fanny (1836–1907), 9.1: 2 Churches - Bedfordshire * 1820–1865, Vol 1, 1.7 * in the 19th Century, Part IV, Appendices and Index, 3.4 Clapham - A Changing Village, 4.10 - Historical Society, 4.11 - School, Journal of Mr E Wilkinson, Headmaster, 1943–1956, 2.11 - Sugar from Beetroot in 1869, 4.10 Clare, John, the peasant poet, 9.12: 12, Clayton, letter, 2.2 Clergy, rich and poor in Bedfordshire - and their patrons, 3.7 - in the 18th century, 6.8, 6.9 Clophill, census returns for, 4.6 Clutton, Henry, Victorian Architect of Gothic Revival Churches and Country Houses, 9.12: 32 Cobbler Hero, 7.4: 10 Coin hoard, - Henlow, update, 8.10: 10 - Langford, Saxon, find in, 9.6: 7 Coldham’s Common, The Dinosaurs on, 2.9 Colmworth - and Neighbouring Villages, 8.6: 18 - and Neighbours History Society, Journal of, 4.2 Volume 1, November 2011, 5.11; Volume 2, June 2013, 6.5; Volume 3, November 2014, 7.2: 14; Volume 4, December 2020, 9.5: 20; Volume 5, 10.1: 23 - in Context, 2.7 - Rector of, The Rev Thomas Whitehurst, 6.3 Colony, The, Woodbury Estate, 9.10: 37 ‘Common Ground – Parish Map’, letter, 1.12 Comparison of Historical Knowledge with a Resistance Survey, A, 4.1 Connections between Brookses and Dells of Flitwick Manor, 3.11 Coprolites - Everton Estate, 9.10: 15 - industry in Bedfordshire, 2.7 Country Houses, Gothic Revival Churches and, Henry Clutton, Victorian Architect of, 9.12: 32 Countryside, Bedfordshire, The Making of, An Unassuming County: 9.12: 34 Court for Crown Cases Reserved, 10.2: 4 Court rolls, Manor, Willington, 8.7: 2 Covid Pandemic 2020–21, see Lockdown; Pandemic Craftsmen and Trades People, Bedfordshire’s Yesteryears, Vol 3, 1.12 Cranes, Grafton, 9.11: 15 Cromwell’s Rest, Woodbury Estate, 9.10: 33 Cross’s (Paperware), & Bagshawe’s (Engineering), Old Trades of Dunstable, 3.2 Crosshall, Hall of, the Rise and Fall of, 8.1: 9 |
| D | D-day, my small part in, 6.9 Dales Dubbin and Flemons’ Herbs, Old Trades of Dunstable (1), 2.3 Dashing Dragoon, Anguished Emissary: The story of William Samuel Hogge in Southern Africa, 6.8 De Havilland Mosquito MK NF XVII HK304, 9.9: 4 Deaconess, pioneer Church of England, in Bedford, Sister Fanny (1836–1907), 9.1: 2 Dells, connections between and Brookses of Flitwick Manor, 3.11 Defences, Twentieth Century, in Britain, 1.12 Designed Landscapes of Bedfordshire, The: Conference Report, 8.8: 20 Dialect, Bedfordshire, 9.2: 2, 21; 9.3: 14 Diary of an Indian Cavalry Officer 1843–63 – John Hatfield Brooks1843–63, 3.10 Digital Newspapers as a Local History Tool, 3.12 Dillys of Southill, Dr Johnson and Admiral Byng, 5.8 Dinosaurs on Coldham’s Common, 2.9 on Sandy Heath, 2.9 Dinosaurs – continued on Bassingbourn Fen, 2.9 Disasters from Bedfordshire’s Skies: Flying Duchess, 7.4: 4 R101 Disaster, 1930, 7.3: 6 Discovering Prehistoric England, 1.5 Doctor Johnson, The Dillys of Southill and Admiral Byng, 5.8 Domesday and Triangulation, vicar of Keysoe, and, 9.8: 22 Dominion [Gramophone] Records, 4.9 Dorothy Clotilda Shuttleworth, 7.12: 2 Dottle Tree, Scraunchings from Beneath the, 3.11 Dovecote, Tudor, Willington, 6.7 centenary of, 7.1: 3 Drax, Rev Dr Edward, 8.5: 5 Duchess of Bedford, 7.4: 4 and the colour of naval uniforms, 8.7: 4 Duck decoy, in search of a, 2.8 Duck Decoys, Local, 2.8 Dunstable A Brief History of, 1000-2000AD: Proud Heritage, 3.1 Dunstaplelogia, 3.7 Early, in Maps and Pictures, 6.7, 6.8 Old Trades of Bagshawe’s (Engineering) & Cross’s (Paperware), 3.2 Dales Dubbin and Flemons’ Herbs, 2.3 Shops and Markets, 2.6 Whiting Works, The, 2.9 Some Memories, 1.11 Twenty-five Years of, 1952–1977, 3.6 with the Priory, 1.8 Dunstaplelogia, 3.7 Durham Miners, Unemployed, Came to Potton, 1.11 DVD, ‘Three Market Towns’, 5.3 Dyer, Dr James, 6.6 |
| E | Eagles, Sister Fanny (1836–1907), pioneer Church of England deaconess in Bedford, 9.1: 2 Early Dunstable in Maps and Pictures, 6.7, 6.8 East Beds, Steam on Road and Field in, 1.5 Eaton Socon Cage, 7.2: 6 Editorial, 7.1: 3; 7.2: 3 Education, Silsoe, in 1899, 2.4 Edward Rust of Maulden labourer, 2.10 Edwardian Times, Wrest Park in, an American at Wrest, 8.1: 3 Eighteenth Century’s Underclass, 2.5 Elger, Thomas Gwyn Empy, 9.9: 20 Elstow, excavations at, 2.3 Eltisley History Society book, 6.9 Emmison, F G, 1907–1995 – A Bedfordshire Perspective, 2.1 Enclosure, Everton Parish, 9.10: 25 English Heritage websites, 4.7 English Local History, 3.6 Episcopal Visitations in Bedfordshire 1706–1720, 3.7 Essays in Honour of Patricia Bell: Bedfordshire Historical Miscellany, 1.6 Evan-Thomas, Admiral Hugh (1862–1928), 8.6: 5 Eversholt Odds and Ends, 1.1 Everton, 9.10: 20, 23 - & Tempsford Airfield, 2.7 - Cum-Tetworth, History of Saint Mary’s Church, 3.2 - during and after WW2, 9.10: 28 - enclosure of parish, 9.10: 25 - St Mary the Virgin, 3.2; 9.10: 20 Everton Estate, 9.10: 13 - coprolites, 9.10: 15 - land and house, 9.10: 13 - permissive footpath, 9.10: 15 - Pym family and, 9.10: 13 * 19th and 20th-century buildings, 9.10: 17 - Repton, Humphry and later, 9.10: 14 - The Hazells, 9.10: 14 Everton House site, now Park Farm, 9.10: 27 Executions. public, in Bedford, 8.5: 17 |
| F | Factory lnspector’s Report 1890, 2.11 Faith Groups in Bedford, 10.1: 25 Fallen of Gravenhurst in the Great War, 7.12: 11 Family, The, Childhood and Schooldays, 1.6 Fanny, Sister (1836–1907), pioneer Church of England deaconess in Bedford, 9.1: 2 Farmers, Consumers, Innovators: The World of Joan Thirsk, 7.9: 19 Farming in Bedfordshire 1883, 4.11 Fashion 1951–1982, Cameo of, 4.1 Felmersham, The History of a Riverside Parish, 3.9 Feoffee Cottages of Toddington, A Brief History of, 4.3 Festival of Britain 1951 - in Bedfordshire * legacy of, 9.6: 2 * Village Signs, 2.8; 9.8: 4 - memories of, 9.6: 6 Festival of British Archaeology, 2015, 7.3 4 Fever Hospitals and Fever Nurses, A British Social History of Fever Nursing, 3.11 Fever Nurses, Fever Hospitals, and, A British Social History of Fever Nursing, 3.11 Field, Lily, Reminiscences of for 1915–52: Lutonian Odyssey, 4.11 Final Offa, 10.1: 29 Finance Act Records, The 1910 ‘Domesday’, 3.2 Fire Service, 2.1 - Leighton Buzzard, history of, 4.2 - Horse Engine House, 2.1 First Viscount Peel, 2.2 First World War, see also Women’s Land Army - Bedford, Life on the Home Front in, during, 8.3: 8 - Biggleswade and: Our Own Flesh and Blood, 5.3 - Gravenhurst, Fallen of, 7.12: 11 - Lidlington casualties, 7.6, 13 - Man who Ran London during: The Diaries and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd, GCVO, KCB, DSO, 1853–1926, 5.5 - Military Hospital at Wrest Park, 7.6, 8 * fire at, 7.7: 5 - Pirton – A Village in Anguish: The story of 30 men from a Hertfordshire Village who died in WW1, 5.4 - Second Bedfords in France and Flanders 1914–1918, 5.6 - Twentieth Century Defences in Britain, 1.12 Fisher, Thomas, 5.4 Flemons’ Herbs, Dales Dubbin, and, Old Trades of Dunstable, 2.3 Flitwick - A Daily Tonic, 3.7 - A Vanishing Village, 1.1, 1.8 - artists, 9.7: 11 * Pearse, Captain Alfred (1856–1933), 9.7:11 * Sheldon-Williams, Ina Maud, 1876–1955, 9.7: 17 * Sheldon-Williams, Inglis (1870–1940), 9.7: 16 * Stannard, Henry John Sylvester, RBA, RSA (1870–1951), 9.7: 13 - The Brooks Family of, 5.12 - Manor, Brookses and Dells of, Connections between, 3.11 Folk: Characters and events in the history of Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire, 1.8 Flying Duchess, 7.4: 4 Footpaths, Greensand Ridge - map, 9.10: 11 - Church End to Tempsford Airfield, 9.10: 32 - permissive, Everton Estate, 9.10: 15 Fowler Library, Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 3.10 From Plough to Parsonage, Robert Atherton, 9.3: 23 From ploughboy to missionary: The life of Arthur Hills, Part 1, 7.11: 7; Part 2, 7.12: 3 Full Moon Gateway, Gamlingay Park9.10: 43 Full Steam Ahead, Ampthill, 3.5 Funeral Eulogies and Bedfordshire Archive Service, 7.11: 4 |
| G | Gamlingay Cinques, 9.10: 41 - Common, 9.10: 46 Gamlingay Park, house and garden, 9.10: 41 - Full Moon Gateway, 9.10: 43 - site, 9.10: 41 Genealogical Services Directory 2000, The, 3.1 Gilman, Peter, artist, 9.1: 21 Girls in Blue, The Story of the Luton Girls Choir, 3.4 GIS, Workshop on, 8.9: 20 Gleanings Revisited, Nostalgic Thoughts of a Bedfordshire Farmer’s Boy, 1.12 Godber, Joyce, 2.12 Gold mine and gold rush at Pulloxhill, 8.10: 3 Gothic Revival Churches and Country Houses, Henry Clutton, Victorian Architect of, 9.12: 32 Gramophone] Record for Luton, 4.9 Grafton, Alexander, 1845–1907, 9.11: 15 Grafton Regis events, 7.10: 5 Granada Cinema, Bedford, 8.2: 14 Grand Junction Canal in West Hertfordshire 1791–1841, Passing Through, 8.10: 19 Grave of the founder of Battersea Dogs Home, 5.11 Gravenhurst, * Fallen of, in the Great War, 7.12: 11 * Home Guard –1944, 9.4: 5 Graveyards, Church, Public Safety in, 4.2 Great Ouse Valley, Prehistoric Roman and Post-Roman Landscapes of the, 3.6 Great Storm of 1672 in Bedford, 8.10: 17 Great War see First World War. Greensand Ridge, North, 9.10: 6 passim - archaeology, 9.10: 11 - Everton, 9.10: 20 - Everton Estate, 9.10: 13 - Everton House, 9.10: 27 - footpaths, 9.10: 11, 15, 32 - Gamlingay * Cinques, 9.10: 41 * Common, 9.10: 46 *Park, house and garden, 9.10: 41 - landscape, introduction to, 9.10: 6 - overview, 9.10: 6 - Pinnacle, The, 9.10: 8 - Sand Lane, Ridge, 9.10: 8 - Tempsford Airfield, 9.10: 32, 36 - Tetworth Hall, 9.10: 41, 44 - Walk No 5, 9.10: 7 - Warden Hill Gap, 9.10: 16 - Water, availability of, 9.10: 12 - Woodbury Estate, 9.10: 29 - Woodlands, importance of, 19.10: 9 Guild of the Holy Trinity, Luton, The Accounts of the, 1526/7–1546/7, 6.4 |
| H | Hall of Crosshall, the Rise and Fall of, 8.1: 9 Halliley family and Bedford, 8.12: 12 Hanus, Josef Jan, 8.7: 13 Harrold Priory, 8.8: 6; 10.1: 4 Harpur, Sir William – or not? 8.10: 17 Harry Arch, 2.10 Hat Industry of Luton and its Buildings, 6.6, 6.7 Hats and Bonnets, Straw, 3.9 Hawkins, Hester Periam, 9.9: 24 Hazells, The, Everton Estate, 9.10: 14 Hearth tax, Bedfordshire in 1670, evidence from, 6.7, 6.8 Henlow * Addingtons of Langford and, 9.3: 5 * Common, coin hoard, 7.9: 6 update, 8.10: 10 * RAF station, history, 8.4: 10 Henry John Sylvester Stannard, with notes on his daughter Theresa Sylvester Stannard, 8.2: 20 Heritage * Lottery Fund, 6.1, 6.3 * Open Days, 5.3, 5.8 * Website Competition, Bedfordshire, 3.4, 3.5 Hertfordshire’s Mills, The Story of: Wind, Water and Steam, 7.9: 18 Hiberno-Saxon Runic Stone at St Peter’s de Merton, Bedford, 4.5 Hidden history revealed in Biggleswade, 7.5: 5 Hidden Voices: Memories of First Generation Italians in Bedford, 2.10 Hills, Arthur, The life of, from ploughboy to missionary: Part 1, 7.11: 7; Part 2, 7.12: 3 Historic Environment * Record, The Bedfordshire, 2.11 * Research Conferences 2011–2012, 5.9 Historical Knowledge with a Resistance Survey, A comparison of, 4.1 Historical Miscellany, Bedfordshire: Essays in Honour of Patricia Bell, 1.6 History in Bedfordshire No 1, 1.1 History of * Luton, A, from the Conquerors to Carnival, 5.7 * Saint Mary’s Church, Everton-Cum-Tetworth, The, 3.2 History pin, 5.4 Hoddlesden and its Satellite Villages, 7.2: 16 Hogge William Samuel, Dashing Dragoon, Anguished Emissary: The story of, in Southern Africa, 6.8 ‘Holidays at Home’ in Bedford during the Second World War, 8.7: 5 Home Guard * Biggleswade, 9.4: 15 * Gravenhurst–1944, 9.4: 5 Horse Engine House, 2.1 Houghton Conquest, 4.1 * Victorian Family at, 1838–1878, 4.1 How Bedfordshire Voted * 1635-1715, Vol 1, 4.5 * 1685–1735, 4.10 * 1735–1784, 6.1 Hugh Reeve, Seventeenth Century Ampthill & its ‘True & Lawful Parson’, 3.2 |
| I | Iceland, Volcano in?, 5.8 Images of Old Offley, 1.5 Indexing Project, Local Newspapers, an Account of an, 3.4 Indian Cavalry Officer, Diary of an, 1843–63 – John Hatfield Brooks 1843–63, 3.10 Industry * Relic of Bedford’s industrial past, 7.1: 5 Inquest, Broom Bridge accident, 10.2: Internet, Bedfordshire Libraries Gateway to the, 3.3 Iron Age and Roman Settlement on the Stagsden Bypass, 3.2 Italians in Bedford, First Generation, Memories of, Hidden Voices, 2.10 Ivel [Tractor] Story, The 3.8 |
| J | Jarrett, Sue, 1955–2020, 9.4: 2 John Bunyan His Life and Times, 1.12 John Hatfield Brooks1843–63, Diary of an Indian Cavalry Officer 1843–63, 3.10 Journal Archive, New Home for, 1.12 Journeys into Bedfordshire, 1.8 Joyce Godber, 2.12 Joys of getting side-tracked in Historical Research, 7.5: 6 |
| K | Kempston excavations at, 2.3 Old, 3.4 Keysoe, vicar of and Domesday and Triangulation, 9.8: 22 King Offa, 10.1: 29 Knighton Grange, Memories of My Childhood on a Lone Farm, 6.1 Knitting Bishop, 7.1: 9 Knoll, The, Ampthill, 2.12 |
| L | Lancastria tragedy, The, and Private Ronald Charles Pates, 9.1: 16 Land Army, Women’s, see Women’s Land Army Land girls, - historical research, 7.5: 6 - life as a, 9.5: 9, 9.6: 11 Landscapes - Capability Brown’s, 7.6, 6; 7.7: 3 - Designed. of Bedfordshire, The: Conference Report, 8.8: 20 Langford - [& District] History Society, 6.3 - Addingtons of, and Henlow, 9.3: 5 - At the Long Ford, 9.5: 4, 21 - Cobbler Hero, 7.4: 10 - Coin Hoard find in, 9.6: 7 - Fatal Accident in 1904, 7.7: 16 - historian: Ralph Turner 1923 to 2019, 8.8: 4 - in 1827, 7.6, 16 - in Lockdown 2020–21, 9.5: 4 - in the Nineteenth Century, 9.3: 12 * photographic bequest, 5.6 * website, 5.3 - Index of Names, 7.2: 4 - Methodist Church, c1835–2012, ‘A Little Older than our Teeth’, 5.12 - Mill, 6.4 - papermaking in, 6.4 - Saxon Coin Hoard find in, 9.6: 7 - Through the Lens, 1.1 Last Pillbox in Bedford, 8.7: 14 Laxton Brothers, 8.5: 15 Lazelle, Brian, 9.11: 3 LBC at Stewartby, World War II and, 5.9, 5.10 Le Mesurier family, and Bedford, 8.12: 2 Le Mesurier, John, 8.12: 18 Legacies – Tales and Legends of Luton and the North Chilterns, 1.6 Leighton Buzzard - & District Archaeological and Historical Society, 5.4 - and Linslade: A History, 4.11 - Fire Service, history of, 4.2 - in 50 Buildings, 8.7: 17 - Way to School, The, 1.8 Lidlington – A[n] Historical Guide through the Bedfordshire Village, 2.7 - First World War, casualties, 7.6, 13 Life in Bedford during the Second World War, 9.5: 23 Life Runneth as The Brooks: The Brooks Family in Bedfordshire, 5.11, 5.12 Lilley, a Chiltern Village, The Story of, Between The Hills,1.6 Linslade, Leighton Buzzard and: A History, 4.11 Lloyd, Lieutenant General Sir Francis, GCVO, KCB, DSO, 1853–1926: Man who Ran London during the Great War: The Diaries and Letters of, 5.5 Local Duck Decoys, 2.8 Local Government Reorganisation, Record Office, Charter Marks, and, 1.5 Local History - Conference, 1995, running, 1.12 - Digital Newspapers as a Tool, 3.12 - English, 3.6 - in Lockdown 2020–21, 9.5: 6 Local Newspapers, an Account of an Indexing Project, 3.4 Lockdown, 2020–21 - archaeology, in, 9.5: 6 - Langford, 9.5: 4 - local history in, 9.5: 6 - Sharnbrook, 9.5: 5 - Turvey, 9.5: 2 London Brick Company see LBC Love and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy, Tangled Souls, 9.7: 25 Luton - Accounts of the Guild of the Holy Trinity, The, 1526/7–1546/7, 6.4 - and the North Chilterns, Tales and Legends of – Legacies, 1.6 - Celebrates 50 Years of History (1920s–1970s), video, 1.11 - Changing Face of, The, 1.3 - Factory lnspector’s Report 1890, 2.11 - Hat Industry of, and its Buildings, 6.6, 6.7 - History of, A, from the Conquerors to Carnival, 5.7 - Museum see Luton Museum - Record [Gramophone], for, 4.9 - Red Cross Band, 8.1: 13 - [School] for Girls and Boys, 3.11 - Strawopolis, Luton Transformed, 2.11 - Transformed, Strawopolis, 2.11 - Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 3.8 Luton, The, for Girls and Boys, Vol 1, ‘Rhubarb and Custard’; Vol 2, Crimson and Gold, 3.11 Luton Girls Choir, The Story of the, Girls in Blue, 3.4 Luton Museum and Art Gallery, 1.12 - in Partnership with the Local Community, 3.6 Luton Peace Day Riots: 9.2: 12 Lutonian Odyssey: Reminiscences of Lily Field for 1915–52, 4.11 |
| M | Mackintosh, Aeneas Lionel Acton. 8.9: 7 Maclear, Sir Thomas, 9.9: 15 Making of the Sharnbrook Landscape, The, 9.5: 5 Man who Ran London during the Great War: The Diaries Man who Ran London during the Great War: The Diaries and Letters of Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd, GCVO, KCB, DSO, 1853–1926, 5.5 Manorial records, manors and: Part 1, 2.5; Part 2, 2.6; Part 3, 2.7 Manor court rolls, Willington, 8.7: 2 Manors and manorial records: Part 1, 2.5; Part 2, 2.6; Part 3, 2.7 Markets, Shops and, Old Trades of Dunstable, 2.6 Maulden - Edward Rust of, labourer, 2.10 - Mausoleum, 3.3, 3.6, 3.11, 4.10 * vandalised by lead thieves, 4.10 Mausoleum, Maulden, 3.3, 3.6, 3.11 Methodism, rise of, study of Bedfordshire 1736–1851, 6.9; 7.1: 11 Methodists, Millers and, 5.4 Mid-Beds villages in the 1920s and 1930s, self-sufficiency in, 6.5 Millbrook - Church and village memorials project, 5.2 - War Memorial, 5.3 Millers and Methodists, 5.4 Milton Ernest, Letters from, to St Andrews, New Brunswick 1830–1845: The Turner Letters, 9.12: 30 Miners, Unemployed Durham, Came to Potton, 1.11 Miss Caroline [Orlebar]’s Campaign, 6.7 Monoux, Lady Dorothy (1684–1758), portrait of, 7.12: 2 Mosquito MK NF XVII HK304, 9.9: 4 Motor Meet at Wrest Park in 1907, 7.9: 4 Motoring, Bedford’s Motoring Heritage, 3.8 Mowbrays, Willington and the: After the Peasants’ Revolt, 8.8: 18 Muncaster, Sergeant J W G, 9.9: 8 Murder - Blackgrove Wood, Tilsworth, 1821, 5.6 - Leighton Buzzard, in, 7.6, 15 Murders and Mysteries People and Plots, 1.3 Museums, Bedford Hills Historical Museum, New York State, 3.12 Muster - at the King’s Manor of Ampthill in 1536, 6.6 - Lists 1539–1841, Bedfordshire, 1.1 Mysteries, Murders and, People and Plots, 1.3 |
| N | National History Month, 5.3 Natural history, new book from Stevington, 7.6, 7 Naval uniforms, Duchess of Bedford and the colour of 8.7: 4 New Home for Journal Archive, 1.12 New Light on Dr George Witt, 1804–69, 7.9: 7; 7.10: 6 New York State, Bedford Hills Historical Museum, 3.12 Nineteenth Century Allotments from Local Sources: Breaking New Ground, 5.5 Newspapers Digital, as a Local History Tool, 3.12 Local, an Account of an Indexing Project, 3.4 Nineteenth century Aspley Guise in the (1815–1914), 2.9 Bedfordshire Churches in the, Part 3, Parishes S–Y, 3.2; Part 4, Appendices and Index, 3.4 Langford in the, 9.3: 12 Victorian Life in Pulloxhill 1875–1881, 3.7 Nineteenth century, Bedfordshire Churches in the 19th Century Norman Arch at St Peter de Merton, Bedford: 7.1: 6 Norman Cross, prison at: a ‘Time Team’ investigation, 5.7 North Chilterns, Luton and the, Tales and Legends of – Legacies, 1.6 Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and, Characters and events in the history of. Folk, 1.8 Norton, Mary, 5.4 Notes from the Beds Mercury, Wild Life, 9.1: 20 |
| O | O’Connor, Bernard, the books of, 6.6, 6.7 Offley, Old, Images of, 1.5 Old Biggleswade Vol 4, 1.1 Old Kempston, 3.4 Old Toddington Revisited, 1.1 Old Trades of Dunstable Bagshawe’s (Engineering) & Cross’s (Paperware), 3.2 Dales Dubbin and Flemons’ Herbs, 2.3 Shops and Markets, 2.6 Whiting Works, The, 2.9 On the Value of Streams, Butchers and Transport, 1.6 Orangery at Wrest Park, 3.8 Orchards East, 8.6: 17 Orlebar, Augustus Henry, and the Schneider Trophy, 5.9, 5.10, Orlebar, Miss Caroline, campaign, 6.7 Osborn Papers, The, 1.9 Our Fire Service, 2.1 Outline History of the Bedfordshire Women’s Land Army, Part 1, 3.9; Part 2, 3.10 |
| P | Palgrave, Charles, 8.5: 18 Panacea Society, 5.11 Pandemic, 2020–21 - archaeology, in, 9.5: 6 - Langford, in, 9.5: 4 - local history in, 9.5: 6 - Sharnbrook, in, 9.5: 5 - Turvey, in, 9.5: 2 Papermaking in Bedfordshire, 6.4 Papers - Osborn, The, 1.9 - Parliamentary, 1.7 - Poor Law, 1622–1834, Bedfordshire, 4.3 Parish - Church of St Thomas, Stopsley, The, 6.5 - ‘Map’ – Common Ground, letter, 1.12 - Poor Law Papers 1622–1834, Bedfordshire, 4.3 Park Farm, Everton House site, 9.10: 27 Parliamentary Papers, 1.7 Parsonage to, From Plough, Robert Atherton, 9.3: 23 Passing Through: The Grand Junction Canal in West Hertfordshire 1791–1841, 8.10: 19 Pastoral Problems: John Bolton, Vicar of Sharnbrook, 9.11: 10 Pates, Private Ronald Charles, the Lancastria tragedy and, 9.1: 16 Patricia Bell, Essays in Honour of: Bedfordshire Historical Miscellany, 1.6 Pavenham, The Lifestory of a Village, 1.5 Peacocks, Pride of, A Memoir of a Bedford Firm of Auctioneers, Estate Agents, 7.2: 13 Pearse, Captain Alfred (1856–1933), 9.7:11 Peasant poet, John Clare, 9.12: 12 Peasants revolt, - After the: Willington and the Mowbrays, 8.8: 18 - did the Willington?, 8.1: 2 Peel, First Viscount, 2.2 Penrose, Charles (1873–1952): Biggleswade’s Laughing Policeman, 7.11: 14 - Postscript, 7.11: 17 Peter Gilman, artist, 9.1: 21 Pevsner, A New!, 6.9 Photographs - Bedfordshire Then and Now, 2.3 - Offley, Old, Images of, 1.5 - War, Bedfordshire at, in Old, 2.6 Picture Postcards, Ampthill in Old, Vol 3, 1.12 Pilfering Problems Predicted for Prewar Potton, 1.11 Pillbox, last, in Bedford, 8.7: 14 Pinnacle, The, Greensand Ridge, 9.10: 8 Pirton – A Village in Anguish: The story of 30 men from a Hertfordshire Village who died in WW1, 5.4 Placename Boards, Festival of Britain, in Bedfordshire, 2.8 Plain Mr Whitbread, 4.4 Playwright, Bedfordshire-born, Nicholas Rowe (1674–1718), 9.12: 6 Plough, From, to Parsonage, Robert Atherton, 9.3: 23 Ploughboy to missionary, from: The life of Arthur Hills, Part 1, 7.11: 7; Part 2,7.12: 3 Poachers, Thugs and Thieves, 7.8: 6 Poet - John Clare, 9.12: 12 - self-taught rural, Robert Bloomfield, (1766–1823), 9.7:5 Polar medals, 6.5 Policing, Beats, Boots and Thieves – A History of, in NorthBedfordshire, 6.3 Portrait of Dorothy Lady Monoux (1684–1758), 7.12: 2 Postcard from the Front, 1918: The Cobbler Hero, 7.4: 10 collection at Bedford Library, 7.6, 8 Postcards, Picture, Ampthill in Old, Vol 3, 1.12 Potton - Baptists, 4.3 - Manor – an enigma, 2.7 - Prewar, Pilfering Problems Predicted for, 1.11 - Unemployed Durham Miners Came to, 1.11 Pratt, Mike, 10.1: 2 Prehistoric Roman and Post-Roman Landscapes of the Great Ouse Valley, 3.6 Prewar Potton, Pilfering Problems Predicted for, 1.11 Priories - Bushmead, 4.4 - Chicksands, 1.12 - Dunstable, 1.8 - Harrold, 8.8: 6 Prison at Norman Cross: a ‘Time Team’ investigation, 5.7 Private Ronald Charles Pates, the Lancastria tragedy and, 9.1: 16 Proper House, A, Bedford Lunatic Asylum: l8l2–1860, 1.3 Proud Heritage: A Brief History of Dunstable, 1000-2000AD, 3.1 Public Safety in Church Graveyards, 4.2 Publications - Improve your, 8.10: 10 - society, 8.9: 2; 8.10: 18 Pulloxhill - Chronicle of Victorian Life in, 1875–1881, 3.7 - Gold mine and gold rush at, 8.10: 3 Pym family and Everton Estate, 9.10: 13, 17 |
| Q | Quarter Sessions 19th December 1754, 2.10 |
| R | R101 Disaster, 1930, 7.3: 6 Railways - All Change at Bedford, 6.2 - Bedford to Hitchin, 5.11 - Cranes, Grafton, 9.11: 15 - Great Northern, an early accident on, 7.7: 10 - Signals: A Railway Miscellany, 4.12 Ravensden, Sunderland family, Wythes family and, 9.12: 18 Record Office, 7.5: 4 - 80th Anniversary, 1.3 - booking system, 3.10, 6.8 - Centenary of 5.10 - Charter Mark, 2.3 and Local Government Reorganisation, 1.5 - Deposits by the Ampthill and District Archaeological and Local History Society, 4.9 - Emmison, F G, 1907–1995 – A Bedfordshire Perspective, 2.1 - Funeral Eulogies, and, 7.11: 4 - news from, 2.6 - Users Panel, BLHA representative on, 4.2 Records, Manors and Manorial, Part 1, 2.5; Part 2, 2.6; Part 3, 2.7 Rector of Colmworth, The Rev Thomas Whitehurst, 6.3 Reeve, Hugh, Seventeenth Century Ampthill & its ‘True & Lawful Parson’, 3.2 Register of Speakers, 4.2 Relic of Bedford’s industrial past, 7.1: 5 Repton, Humphry, 9.10: 14 Research & Publications Working Group, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.9 Rhodes, Benjamin, of Ampthill c1610–57, 5.6, 5.7 Rich and poor Bedfordshire clergy - and their patrons, 3.7 - in the 18th century, 6.8, 6.9 Richardson, Alan, 7.3: 4 Richardson, Sir Albert: an Ampthill artist, 9.7: 22 Rise of Methodism, The: A Study of Bedfordshire 1736–1851, 6.9; 7.1: 11 Riseley History Society, 2.11 - millennium book, 3.1 River Ivel, 9.2: 19 Rogers, Benjamin, Rector of Carlton, 1720–1771, Historical Carlton through the Diary of, 2.12 Roman - and Post-Roman Landscapes, Prehistoric, of the Great Ouse Valley, 3.6 - Settlement, Iron Age and, on the Stagsden Bypass, 3.2 - Horse Find, Broom, 9.11: 4 Rowe, Nicholas (1674–1718), Bedfordshire-born playwright, 9.12: 6 Roxton - Village, an Exploration and History, 3.5 Runic Stone, Hiberno-Saxon, at St Peter’s de Merton, Bedford, 4.5 Rural unrest and protest, in Bedfordshire 1830–1832, ‘Captain Swing’, 9.2: 4 Russells, Willington and the, 5.12 Rust, Edward, of Maulden labourer, 2.10 Rutt, Richard, 1925–2011, 7.1: 9 Ryland, Henry (1856–1924), painter and illustrator, 9.7: 8 |
| S | St Andrews, New Brunswick, Letters from Milton Ernest to 1830–1845: The Turner Letters, 9.12: 30 Saint Etheldreda’s, Bedford, 9.1: 12 - Chapel, 9.1: 11 Saint Helena, 8.10: 9 Saint Leonard’s Hospital, Bedford, brief history, 4.4 Saint Mary the Virgin, Everton, 9.10: 20 - The History of. 3.2 Saint Peter de Merton Church see Bedford Saint Thomas, Stopsley, Parish Church of, 6.5 Sand Lane, Greensand Ridge, 9.10: 8 Sandy Heath, The Dinosaurs on, 2.9 Saunderson Tractors, 8.2: 17 Saxon coin hoard find in Langford, 9.6: 7 Scandal. Love and, among the Victorian Aristocracy, Tangled Souls, 9.7: 25 Schneider Trophy, Augustus Henry Orlebar and the, 5.9, 5.10 School - The Way to [Leighton Buzzard], 1.8 - Year September 1943–September 1944, Journal of Mr E Wilkinson, Headmaster, Clapham School 1943–1956, 2.11 Schooldays, The Family, Childhood and, 1.6 Schools - The Luton for Girls and Boys, Vol 1, ‘Rhubarb and Custard’; Vol 2, Crimson and Gold, 3.11 Scraunchings from beneath the Dottle Tree, 3.11 Second Bedfords in France and Flanders 1914–1918, 5.6 Second World War, see also Women’s Land Army - American Forces in Bedford, 1942–1945, 9.8: 14 - Beating the Invader, 9.4: 3 - Bedford Diary of Leah Aynsley1943–1946, 8.10: 21 - Bedford Vehicles in, 9.4: 17 - Holidays at Home in Bedford during, 8.7: 5 - Home Guard, * Biggleswade, 9.4: 15 * Gravenhurst–1944, 9.4: 5 - land girl, life as, 9.5: 9; 9.6: 11 - Last Pillbox in Bedford, 8.7: 14 - Life in Bedford during the, 9.5: 23 - One of the Few, 8.7: 13 - Soldier in Bedfordshire, A: The Diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers, 5.1 - Stewartby brickworks, the LBC at during, 5.9, 5.10 - Twentieth Century Defences in Britain, 1.12 - VE Day, 8.11: 2 * Memories, 8.11: 24 Secret Bedford, 8.5: 19 Self-sufficiency in mid-Beds villages in the 1920s and 1930s, 6.5 Settlement, Iron Age and Roman, on the Stagsden Bypass, 3.2 Seventeenth Century Ampthill & Hugh Reeve its ‘True & Lawful Parson’, 3.2 Sharnbrook - digging up its past, 4.8 - in Lockdown 2020–21, 9.5: 5 - John Bolton, Vicar of, Pastoral Problems, 9.11: 10 - Making of the Sharnbrook Landscape, 9.5: 5 Sheldon-Williams, Ina Maud, 1876–1955, 9.7: 17 Sheldon-Williams, Inglis (1870–1940), 9.7: 16 Shepherd, George, 5.4 Shiny Seventh, The, 3.10 Shire Guide to Bedfordshire, 1.11 Shops and Markets, Old Trades of Dunstable, 2.6 Shuttleworth, Dorothy Clotilda, 7.12: 2 Signals: A Railway Miscellany, 4.12 Silsoe, Education, in 1899, 2.4 Sister Fanny (1836–1907), pioneer Church of England deaconess in Bedford, 9.1: 2 Smith, Worthington George, and other studies, 2.6 Smyth, Admiral William Henry, 9.9: 13 Smyth, Charles Piazzi, 9.9: 18 Society - of Genealogist’s library, appeal for local histories, 2.12 - publications * Improve your, 8.10: 10 Soldier in Bedfordshire, A: The Diary of Private Denis Argent, Royal Engineers, 5.1 Some Dunstable Memories, 1.11 Speakers, Register of, 4.2 Spy Capital of Britain, The – Bedfordshire’s secret war 1939–1945, 4.7 Stagsden Bypass, Iron Age and Roman Settlement on the, 3.2 Stannard, Henry, RBA (1844–1920), 9.7: 13 Stannard, Henry John Sylvester, RBA, RSA (1870–1951), 9.7: 13 Stannard, Henry John Sylvester, with notes on his daughter Theresa Sylvester Stannard, 8.2: 20 Stayesmore Manor, Carlton, 5.6 Steam - on Road and Field in East Beds, 1.5 - ploughing, 10.2: 4 Stevington, new natural history book from, 7.6, 7 Stewartby brickworks, 5.3 - World War II and the LBC at, 5.9, 5.10 Stopsley - Parish Church of St Thomas, The, 6.5 - Picture Book, The, 3.1 Story of Biggleswade Brewery, The, 1.5 Straw Hats and Bonnets, 3.9 Strawopolis, Luton Transformed, 2.11 Streams, On the Value of, 1.6 Success and Failure of the Turnpike Trusts, 2.10 Suffrage Movement in Bedfordshire: Votes for Women, 8.2: 6 Sugar from Beetroot in 1869 Clapham, 4.10 Sunderland family, Wythes family and Ravensden, 9.12: 18 Sutton - scandal in, the Rev Dr Edward Drax, 8.5: 5 Sweetland, Frank, 6.7 Szabo, Violette, father-in-law trained with, 9.5: 17 |
| T | Tacchi Family, 10.1: 13; 10.2: 18 Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the Victorian Aristocracy, 9.7: 25 Tealby, Mary, 5.11 Tempsford - Airfield, 2.7; 9.10: 32, 36 - excavations at, 2.3 Tetworth Hall, 9.10: 41, 44 ‘The Colony’, Woodbury Estate, 9.10: 37 Thirsk, Joan, The World of: Farmers, Consumers, Innovators, 7.9: 19 Three Counties Hospital Gas Works, 1857–1952, The, 6.3 ‘Three Market Towns’, DVD, 5.3 Thurleigh, - Wings over, An Aeronautical Research Heritage, 3.5 Tilsworth, Murder in Blackgrove Wood, 1821, 5.6 Tiltman, Brigadier John, 9.9: 33 Timber Corps/Women’s Land Army, Gladys Louise West and the, 8.8: 16 ‘Time Team’ investigation, prison at Norman Cross,‘5.7 Toddington - A Brief History of the Feoffee Cottages of, 4.3 - Its Annals and People, 3.2 - Old, Revisited, 1.1 - Town Band, 4.9 Tracing Ancestors in Bedfordshire, 2.1 Tractors - Ivel Story, The 3.8 - Saunderson. 8.2: 17 Trade Tokens: A Bedfordshire Conundrum, 9.11: 5 Transport, On the Value of, 1.6 Treds and tilth, 9.2: 2 Triangulation, vicar of Keysoe, and, and Domesday, 9.8: 22 Tudor Dovecote, Willington, 6.7 - centenary of, 7.1: 3 Turner, Ralph, 1923 to 2019, Langford’s historian, 8.8: 4 Turner Letters, The: Letters from Milton Ernest to St Andrews, New Brunswick 1830–1845, 9.12: 30 Turnpike Age, 6.2 Turnpike Trusts, Success and Failure of the, 2.10 Turvey, - in Lockdown 2020–21, 9.5: 2 - West Walk, 9.5: 3 Twentieth Century Defences in Britain, 1.12 Twenty-five Years of Dunstable 1952–1977, 3.6 |
| U | UK archives, support and leadership for, 5.8 Underclass, Eighteenth Century’s, 2.5 Underwood, Andrew, 4.11 Unemployed Durham Miners Came to Potton, 1.11 United States Forces in WW2 Bedford, 1942–1945, 9.8: 14 Upper Caldecote, excavations at. 2.3 |
| V | Value of Streams, Butchers and Transport, 1.6 Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy, 3.8 VE Day, 8.11: 2 - Memories, 8.11: 24 Vice-Masters at Bedford School, A History of, 9.9: 25 Victorian - Architect of Gothic Revival Churches and Country Houses, Henry Clutton, 9.12: 32 - Aristocracy, Tangled Souls: Love and Scandal among the, 9.7: 25 - Family at Houghton Conquest, 1838–1878, 4.1 - Life, Chronicle of, in Pulloxhill 1875–1881, 3.7 Village - memorials projects, 5.2 - of Biddenham through the Ages, The, 6.4, 6.5 - Shop Records, 5.10 Villagers: 750 Years of Life in an English Village, 5.8 Visitations, Episcopal, in Bedfordshire 1706–1720, 3.7 Volcano in Iceland, A,?, 5.8 Voted, How Bedfordshire - 1635-1715, 4.5 - 1685–1735, 4.10 - 1735–1784, 6.1 Votes for Women: The Suffrage Movement in Bedfordshire, 8.2: 6 |
| W | Wallpaper, beautiful, secret rooms with, at Wrest Park, 7.9: 6 War, Bedfordshire at, in Old Photographs, 2.6 War Gen, 8.8: 5 War Memorial, Millbrook, 5.3 Warden Abbey, 7.4: 16 Warden Hill Gap, Greensand Ridge, 9.10: 16 Wartime Strangers, 8.12: 23 Water, availability of, Greensand Ridge, 9.10: 12 Way to School, The, [Leighton Buzzard], 1.8 ‘We Wouldn’t Have Missed it for the World’: The History of the Women’s Land Army in Bedfordshire, 4.10 Website, Bedfordshire Heritage, Competition, 3.4, 3.5 West, Gladys Louise, and the Women’s Land Army/Timber Corps, 8.8: 16 West Gallery music, 5.11 What’s been going on in Willington, 6.5 Whitbread, Plain Mr, 4.4 Whitehurst, The Rev Thomas, Rector of Colmworth, 6.3 Whiting Works, The, Old Trades of Dunstable, 2.9 Wild, Ernest, 8.9: 17 Wild, Frank, 8.9: 15 Wild Life, Notes from the Beds Mercury, 9.1: 20 Wildman, Richard Hugh (1947–2018), 8.4: 4 Wilkinson, Mr E, Headmaster, Clapham School, 1943–1956, Journal of, 2.11 Willington - and the Mowbrays: After the Peasants’ Revolt, 8.8: 18 - and the Russells, 5.12 - celebrates, 7.1: 3 - did the peasants revolt?, 8.1: 2 - Dovecote and Stables, * 2015 programme, 7.2: 4 * archaeology: west of, 7.2: 5 - excavations at, 2.3 - local history group, 4.6 * two years in the life of, 4.7 - manor court rolls, 8.7: 2 - What’s been going on in, 6.5 Wills, Bedfordshire, 1484–1533, 2.6 Wilshamstead, Homestead of Friends, 3.6 Wilstead see also Wilshamstead Wind, Water and Steam: The Story of Hertfordshire’s Mills,7.9: 18 Wings over Thurleigh, An Aeronautical Research Heritage, 3.5 Witt, Dr George, 1804–69, New Light on, Part I, 7.9: 7, 7.10: 6 Woad - in Bedfordshire, 5.1 - Licence, 5.12 Women’s Land Army - historical research, 7.5: 6 - History of the, in Bedfordshire, ‘We Wouldn’t Have Missed for the World’, 4.10 - land girl, life as, 9.5: 9, 9.6: 11 - in Bedfordshire during the First Word War, 5.3, 5.4 - Timber Corps, Gladys Louise West and the, 8.8: 16 Women’s Suffrage Movement in Bedfordshire: Votes for Women, 8.2: 6 Wool Trade in Bedfordshire, 5.9 Workshop on GIS, 8.9: 20 World War II and the LBC at Stewartby, 5.9, 5.10 Worthington George Smith and other studies, 2.6 Wrest Park - American at, in Edwardian Times, 8.1: 3 - First World War Military Hospital at, 7.6, 8 * fire at, 7.7: 5 - Motor Meet at, in 1907, 7.9: 4 - Orangery at, 3.8 - wallpaper, beautiful, secret rooms with, at, 7.9: 6 Wythes family, Sunderland family and Ravensden, 9.12: 18 |
| Y | Yelden Past and Present, 3.4 |
| Z | Zeebrugge Raid, 5.12, 6.1 |