This collection of fifteen essays was presented to Patricia Bell on her retirement as BHRS Honorary General Editor.
Contents:
'Pre-1841 censuses and population listings in Bedfordshire', by Colin Chapman
'The Bedfordshire Historic Environment Record', by David Baker
'Archives and the visual arts: Potsgrove Church, its fourteenth century glazing and other fittings', by Richard Marks
'The geography of dissent in Bedfordshire', by Edwin Welch
'Samuel Bennett of Tempsford', by David Bushby
'The case against Hugh Reeve, a seventeenth century recusant', by Andrew Underwood
'William Cirket of Elstow', by Alan Cirket
'Some unpublished letters of the Revd Legh Richmond', by Simon Houfe
'Astry and Orlebar correspondence from two Ashton Court papers (1709-1721)', by Margaret McGregor
'My Choice: a poem written in 1751 by Mary Orlebar', by James Collett-White
'Mantuamakers and milliners: women making and selling clothes in eighteenth century Bedfordshire', by Anne Buck
'Activities of an estate agent in mid-eighteenth century England: Robert Butcher and the town of Bedford', by Hermann Wellenreuther [Butcher was land agent for the Duke of Bedford.]
'Leaves from the Mayor's album: Geoffrey Howard's eventful year of office 1901-2', by Richard Wildman
'The Bedford medical community in the nineteenth century', by Bernard Cashman
'The Crescent, Bedford', by Elizabeth Moser
'A remarkable school: Bedford County School 1869-1916', by Sylvia Woods
- ISBN10 085155055X
- ISBN13 9780851550558
- Publish Date 1 January 1993
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 26 May 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 247
- Language English