Book Reviews

Gordon charts comprehensively the life and achievements of the Victorian architect Henry Clutton. Clutton was an influential mid-Victorian Gothic revivalist architect who designed many churches and country houses. He was a consulting architect to the Anglican National Society (designing Steppingley […]

Bedford’s Foster Hill Road Cemetery, opened in 1855, forms a key part of the town’s Victorian heritage, with its red-brick Tudor-style Gatehouse  and neo-Gothic twin chapels (one chapel for Anglicans and the other for Dissenters), both designed by the Bedford

This volume pulls together information from the 1911 Census and the Ampthill News to create an insightful and moving picture of life in Clophill during the First World War and chronicling the subsequent lives of those servicemen who survived the

This publication is intended ‘to refresh your knowledge of Bedford’s history, to follow-up particular periods or themes which interest you, or as a handy source of reference’. It achieves all three. The book begins with two short narrative sections on

This book, the first publication in several years from BHRS, represents a welcome addition not just to BHRS’s stable and to the history of Medieval Willington, but to the literature on manorial history and early estate management. Scholarly and well-researched,

This is Brian’s second book exploring Bedfordshire’s landscape (the first was An Unassuming County The Making of the Bedfordshire Countryside, published in 2014). ‘A Certain Degree of Magnificence’ traces the county’s landscape history from the early settlement to the present,

This book tells the story of Willington and its inhabitants during the First World War, from the 69 local men who served on the Western Front, around the Mediterranean, at sea and at home (whose names are commemorated in the

This book is a successor to Secret Luton by Paul Adams. His previous works include The Borley Rectory Companion, Extreme Hauntings, Haunted Luton & Dunstable, Haunted Stevenage, Ghosts & Gallows and Written in Blood. The author in his introduction states

A delightful, richly illustrated pictorial record of historic and present views of Colmworth, Bushmead Crossroads, Little Staughton, Bolnhurst, Keysoe, Thurleigh, Ravensden and Wilden. The concept mirrors that of Bedford Past & Present, with views from the late-19thC or early 20thC

Sir John Gostwick was an eminent entrepreneur and one of England’s earliest national bureaucrats, servant and friend of Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell and King Henry VIII. He was a man of influence, nationally and locally, and, as a wealthy landowner,