Printed Maps and Town Plans of Bedfordshire, 1576-1900

Printed Maps and Town Plans of Bedfordshire, 1576-1900
Author: Betty Chambers
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1983
Genre: Bedfordshire
ISBN:

Widely regarded as a model of its kind, this book, which took eighteen years to prepare, catalogues the printed County maps of Bedfordshire from Christopher Saxton (1576) to the Ordnance Survey of 1901. It also describes the town plans for Bedford, Leighton Buzzard and Luton for the same period. The complex history of different editions of maps is discussed and explained, making the book an indispensable work of reference for collectors, dealers and local historians. One of the most detailed maps discussed, Jeffery's map of 1765, has been reprinted by BHRS.

The Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth Century

The Bedfordshire Farm Worker in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Nigel E. Agar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1102
Release: 1981
Genre: Agricultural laborers
ISBN: 9780851550428

This is a collection of extracts from Parliamentary Papers and documentary material in Bedfordshire County Record Office to describe the life of the farm worker in nineteenth-century Bedfordshire. A general overview is followed by sections concerned with the poor law, the life of the labourer, migration and emigration, housing, access to land and education, and the Agricultural Labourers' Union. The volume begins with a tribute In Memoriam to Harold Owen White, secretary of BHRS 1965-1980.