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.

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Agriculture

• Cockayne Hatley - Apple Orchards

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Airfields

• Cranfield Airfield
• RAF Henlow 
• Tempsford Airfield

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Airships

• Cardington Hangars
• R101

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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

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Architecture

• Ampthill - Albert Richardson

• Milton Bryan - Joseph Paxton

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Art

• Bedford - Dora Carrington

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Bridges

• Biggleswade - Bridges

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Castles

• Bedford Castle
• Cainhoe Castle

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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

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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

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Disasters

• The Black Death
• Easter Floods of 1998
• Floods of 1947
• Great Fire of Biggleswade 1785
• R101

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Famous Visitors

• Bedford - General Giuseppe Garibaldi visits the Britannia Iron Works

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Folklore

• Dunstable - Dunstable Witches
• Toddington - The 'Old Woman' of Conger Hill

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Food

• Bedfordshire Clanger

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Health and Medicine

• The Black Death

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Historic Buildings

• Bedford Castle
• Cainhoe Castle
• Cardington Hangars
• Chicksands Priory
• Elstow Abbey
• Houghton House
• Moggerhanger Park

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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

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Monuments and Statues

• Ampthill - Katherine's Cross, Ampthill Park
• Dunstable - Eleanor Cross

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Multicultural

• Bedford - Arrival of the Italian Community
• Bedford - Joe Clough

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Music

• Bedford - Glenn Miller
• Bedford - BBC at Bedford
• Dunstable - John Dunstable (musician)

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Parks and Gardens

• Whipsnade - Tree Cathedral

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Religion

• Bedford - Joanna Southcott
• Elstow - John Bunyan

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Royalty

• Catherine of Aragon

• Queen Eleanor

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Science and Technology

• Milton Bryan - Thomas Tompion

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Sport

• Biggleswade - Dan Albone

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Trades and Industries

• Biggleswade - Dan Albone
• Cockayne Hatley - Apple Orchards
• Flitwick - Flitwick Water
• Milton Bryan - Thomas Tompion

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Weather

• Easter Floods of 1998
• Floods of 1947
• Tornado 1950

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World War I

• Whipsnade - Tree Cathedral

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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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Zoos

• Whipsnade - White Lion

Page last updated: 25th May 2005

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