A-Z Topics
These short articles aim to provide a very brief introduction to a topic, there is a list of further reading at the end of each article. If you would like to know more about these or any other local studies topics, please do not hesitate to Contact Us.
Agriculture
Airfields
Archaeology
- Biddenham - Palaeolithic Tools
- Biddenham - Roman Well Shaft
- Caddington - Palaeolithic Caddington
- Dunstable - Five Knolls Barrow Cemetery
- Dunstable - Roman Dunstable
- Dunstable - Swan Jewel
- Dunstable - Worthington George Smith
- Elstow - Elstow Abbey
- Houghton Regis - Maiden Bower
Architecture
Art
Bridges
Castles
Churches and Religious Houses
- Ampthill - St. Andrew's Church
- Bedford - Church of St. Francesca Cabrini
- Bedford - St. Mary's Church
- Bedford - St. Paul's Church
- Bedford -St. Peter de Merton with St. Cuthbert
- Barton - St. Nicholas's Church
- Biddenham - St. James's Church
- Biggleswade - St. Andrew's Church
- Blunham - Church of St. St. James or St. Edmund
- Campton - All Saints
- Chicksands - Chicksands Priory
- Cockayne Hatley - Church of St. John the Baptist
- Dunstable - Priory Church
- Elstow - Elstow Abbey
Crime and Punishment
- Bedford - Gamaliel Ratsey (highwayman)
- Cardington - John Howard
- Dunstable - The Great Currency Swindle
- Elstow - John Bunyan
- Dunstable - Dunstable Witches
- Leighton Buzzard - The Great Train Robbery
- Southill - Admiral John Byng
Disasters
Famous Visitors
Folklore
Food
Health and Medicine
- Bedford Castle
- Cainhoe Castle
- Cardington Hangars
- Chicksands Priory
- Elstow Abbey
- Houghton House
- Moggerhanger Park
Literature
- Bedford - William Hale White (Mark Rutherford) (author)
- Campton - Robert Bloomfield (poet)
- Cockayne Hatley - W.E. Henley (poet)
- Dunstable - Miracle Play
- Ampthill - Masquerade and the Golden Hare
Monuments and Statues
Multicultural
Music
Parks and Gardens
Religion
Royalty
Science and Technology
Sport
Trades and Industries
- Biggleswade - Dan Albone
- Cockayne Hatley - Apple Orchards
- Flitwick - Flitwick Water
- Milton Bryan - Thomas Tompion
Weather
World War I
World War II
- BBC at Bedford
- Biggleswade - Log Book of the Biggleswade Urban District Savings Committee for the Wings for Victory Campaign 1943
- Cranfield Airfield
- Development of the Limpet Mine
- Elstow - Royal Ordnance Factory
- Milton Bryan - World War II Recording Studio
- RAF Henlow
- Tempsford Airfield
- Woburn - The Propaganda War
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