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BHRS’s annual volumes have been published and sold by Boydell & Brewer Ltd since 2002. Those titles still in print are listed together on Boydell & Brewer’s BHRS page (opens in new window) Boydell & Brewer Ltd (opens in new window) is a leading publisher of academic books in the humanities and music, the publisher for the Victoria County Histories and for several UK local and national record societies. It has companies or partners in Spain and th...
Volume Survey of Ancient Buildings, volume 1:
J. Steele Elliott
This book contains photographs of all the windmills in the county for which any illustration was known at the date of publication. There are photographs of 36 windmills, or their remains, in twenty-seven Bedfordshire towns and villages, taken between 1858 ...
Volume Survey of Ancient Buildings, volume 2:
by J. Steele Elliott (1933)
The book contains an introduction and descriptive catalogue of springs, wells, ditches and other water-related artefacts. It cites old documents and place names as evidence for their provenance.
The photographs were taken between 1870 and 1932, and also include twelve of ...
Volume Survey of Ancient Buildings, volume 3:
by F. G. Emmison and J. Steele Elliott (1936)
Contents:
'Turnpike roads and toll gates of Bedfordshire', by F. G. Emmison
'Map of turnpike roads', drawn by F. G. Emmison, 1935
'The pounds of Bedfordshire', by J. Steele Elliott
'Local duck decoys', by J. Steele Elliott
Much of the volume ...
Volume Quarto memoirs, volume 3:
edited by G. Herbert Fowler (1929)
The volume contains two documents: the sheriff’s roll of writs and returns 1333-1334, found in the William Salt Library in Stafford in the early 1920s; and the county roll of pleas for Bedfordshire 1332-1333, in private hands in Northamptonshire in ...
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by L. R. Conisbee and A. R. Threadgill (1962-1978)
This bibliography and its three supplements were published over the period 1962-1978 and were aimed at providing lists of books, articles and newspaper extracts about Bedfordshire, published from the early years of printing in Britain to 1975 and held by ...
Thomas Jefferys and Betty Chambers (1983)
This is a reproduction of the county map of Bedfordshire engraved on eight sheets at a scale of 1:31680 by Thomas Jefferys in 1765. A plan of Bedford at a scale of 1:4700 is at the top right corner of ...
One hundred years ago in November 1912 BHRS was founded by Dr Fowler and others to research and publish Bedfordshire’s rich history. Except for the years of the two world wars, the Society has published a volume every year, covering all manner of subjects and periods of Bedfordshire’s history from Domesday to the late twentieth century. The first event to mark the Society’s centenary took place in early June 2012 with a garden party at the home o...
. . . . is BHRS’s official stockist for its out of print volumes. The Eagle Bookshop (opens in new window) was established by Peter Budek in 1991 in the Castle Road area of Bedford, the county town of Bedfordshire, situated about 50 miles north of London. Read more about its development (opens in new window) in his own inimitable style! The shop has now moved to St. Peters Street. In 2014 Peter Budek and the Society agreed that The Eagle Bookshop...
Volume 93:
by Keith Lazenby (2014)
This memoir provides a glimpse into the well-known and long-standing local Bedford company of W. & H. Peacock during the years 1902-1988. The author draws on a wide variety of sources, many from his own collection, including property instruction books, ...
BHRS and the County Record Office (now called Bedfordshire Archives) (opens in new window) were the brainchild of one man, Dr G. Herbert Fowler, and have developed side by side since 1912. BHRS and the County Record Office offer one another mutual help and support. For many years County Archivists performed the role of General Editor of BHRS and oversaw the publication by the Society of transcriptions and abstracts of records held by the Record O...
In 2000 the Library of the University of Northampton (opens in a new window) accepted the Library of Dr G. Herbert Fowler on deposit. Dr Fowler was the founder of BHRS and of the Bedfordshire County Record Office. The Library contains his personal collection of books, journals, record society publications and state papers on topics of interest to him: local and national history, archives and their administration. On his death in 1940, he left i...
Memorial in Stanbridge Church to Henry and Hannah Fleet, Methodist missionaries who died in Sierra Leone in 1839 (photo: Ewart Tearle) This is a list of the obituaries, sketches, memoirs and death notices published between 1784 and 1889 for individuals who belonged, before 1851, to societies that were part of Bedfordshire circuits. It is a supplement to The Rise of Methodism: a study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851, by Dr Jonathan Rodell, BHRS vol. 92,...
... Dr Jonathan Rodell has prepared a video to accompany his book The Rise of Methodism: a study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851 BHRS vol. 92 (2014). In it, he recounts where and how Methodism grew in Bedfordshire. ...
Who were the clergy and priests who tended the spiritual well-being of Bedfordshire people? Pre-Reformation Bedfordshire clergy The higher clergy of the Church of England from 1066 to 1857 – bishops, priors, deans and sub-deans, archdeacons, precentors, treasurers, chancellors, canons and prebendaries of secular cathedrals – are listed in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, which is the standard authority, providing summary career details for all named i...
Ralph Agas, the Elizabethan surveyor, was commissioned by Henry Cheney to survey his estate at Toddington in 1581. The resulting map measured 11 ft 4 in. x 8 ft 6 in. and is one of the finest extant early field system maps, showing buildings and other features in meticulous detail. It is now held by the British Library (Add MS 38065). Two present-day Toddington residents, John Little and Alan Higgs, have spent many years studying it and teamed up...
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Who we are Bedfordshire Historical Record Society (BHRS) was established in 1912 as a focus for the study of Bedfordshire history. What we do BHRS has been publishing the results of research by members and non-members of the Society for more than one hundred years. Volumes include: collections of well-researched articles doctoral theses monographs transcriptions of original records relating to the county, each with a helpful introduction and deta...
Volume 92:
by Jonathan Rodell (2014)
This radical re-examination of the rise of the largest popular movement in early nineteenth-century Britain draws on a wide range of evidence to give a bottom-up account of the growth, life and impact of early Methodism in Bedfordshire, an unlikely ...
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Membership is open to anyone who supports the aims of the Society and new members are always welcome. Members are entitled to: receive a copy of each year’s new volume, posted free of charge purchase ebooks at a discounted rate attend the AGM and annual lecture stand for membership of BHRS Council BHRS is a member of the British Association for Local History (BALH) (opens in a new window) and BHRS members may take advantage of members’ rates for ...
Volume 84:
by Anne Allsopp (2005)
This book, based on the author's PhD thesis, examines the education of Luton girls and the relationship with employment opportunities. The acknowledged independence of spirit to be found in Luton was especially noticeable among its female population who enjoyed considerable ...