Well, several members of BHRS Council spent two enjoyable days at Who Do You Think You Are? at Olympia last weekend, 4 and 5 May. We met lots of family historians who either live in Bedfordshire now or whose ancestors lived there.
The main area of interest was the east of the county, especially around Biggleswade, although the Society's three books on Luton excited some interest - Strawopolis, The Education and Employment of Girls in Luton, and Vauxhall Motors and the Luton Economy 1900-2002 - as did the The Shiny Seventh: the 7th (Service) Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment at War 1915-1918.
People wanted to know "what we had on ..." their village and we were able to direct them to the Bedfordshire Family Society History stand where there was a wider range of books for sale and to BLARS stand for advice on the resources of the Bedfordshire and Luton Archive and Record Service.
I had a long discussion with one lady about the importance of poll books in throwing light on political, economic and social background. With the publication in August of the Society's second volume of poll book transcriptions, the voting patterns in Bedfordshire for the 50-year period 1685-1735 will be available.
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Thursday, 8 May 2008
Thursday, 17 April 2008
Who Do You Think You Are - LIVE
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society has a stand at WDYTYA for the two days, Saturday and Sunday 3 and 4 May.
We shall be selling recent BHRS volumes and a few of the older ones, all at competitive prices.
Of particular use to family historians is How Bedfordshire Voted, volume 1 edited by James Collett-White. It contains 8,500 names of people who voted in the Parliamentary elections for representatives for the borough of Bedford and county of Bedfordshire in the period 1685-1715. The poll books transcribed in this volume were not printed at the time, so the information is a new published source for people researching Bedfordshire's history. Introductions to each election put it in a local and national context. The second volume will be published in August this year taking coverage to 1734 and revealing the voting history of the county for a 50 year period. The two volumes contain nearly 20,000 names.
Amongst the older volumes on sale will be the four Church volumes - Bedfordshire Churches in the Nineteenth Century, by Chris Pickford, BHRS vols 73, 77, 79 and 80. They are a mine of authoritative information about the design, architecture, artefacts and administration of Church of England churches including the many mission churches and rooms built in the 19th century to provide for the increase in population in such places as Luton.
We shall be selling recent BHRS volumes and a few of the older ones, all at competitive prices.
Of particular use to family historians is How Bedfordshire Voted, volume 1 edited by James Collett-White. It contains 8,500 names of people who voted in the Parliamentary elections for representatives for the borough of Bedford and county of Bedfordshire in the period 1685-1715. The poll books transcribed in this volume were not printed at the time, so the information is a new published source for people researching Bedfordshire's history. Introductions to each election put it in a local and national context. The second volume will be published in August this year taking coverage to 1734 and revealing the voting history of the county for a 50 year period. The two volumes contain nearly 20,000 names.
Amongst the older volumes on sale will be the four Church volumes - Bedfordshire Churches in the Nineteenth Century, by Chris Pickford, BHRS vols 73, 77, 79 and 80. They are a mine of authoritative information about the design, architecture, artefacts and administration of Church of England churches including the many mission churches and rooms built in the 19th century to provide for the increase in population in such places as Luton.
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