General: Bedford since 1800

Conisbee, L.R., A Bedfordshire Bibliography (1962), Bedfordshire Historical Record Society

Dinning, Min, Graham, Halina, Kerr, Colin, and Wildman, Richard, Bedford Portrayed:  Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Bedford Through Artists' Eyes (1992), Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Museum, Bedford

Godber, Joyce, The Story of Bedford (1978), White Crescent Press, Luton

Lysons, The Revds David and Samuel, Magna Britannia,  Vol I (1806), repr.1978 E.P.Publishing, Wakefield

Matthiason, J.H., Bedford and its Environs (1831), W. White, Bedford

Meynell, Laurence, Bedfordshire (1950), Robert Hale

Pevsner, Nikolaus, The Buildings of England: Bedfordshire and the County of Huntingdon and Peterborough (1968), Penguin

The Victoria History of the Counties of England: A History of the County of Bedford, Vols I, II and III (1904), Constable

White, William Hale, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1988, first pub. 1881), Libris

Wildman, Richard, Bedford Past and Present (1975), Paul Hooley, Bedford

Wildman, Richard, Bedford: A Pictorial History (1991), Phillimore, Chichester

Artists: General Reference

(for individual artists see relevant pages)

Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (new edn. 1903-4), George Bell

Graves, Algernon, A Dictionary of Artists 1760-1893 (1901), Henry Graves

Graves, Algernon, The Royal Academy of Arts Exhibitors: Dictionary of Contributors, 1769-1904 (1905), Henry Graves (repr.1970, S.R.Publishers, Wakefield)

Houfe, Simon, The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914 (1978), Baron Publishing, Woodbridge

Mackenzie, Ian, British Prints (1987), Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge

Redgrave, Samuel, A Dictionary of Artists of the English School (1878), George Bell

Wood, Christopher, Dictionary of Victorian Painters (1978), Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge

Religious Life

Bell, Patricia, Belief in Bedfordshire (1986), Belfry Press, Bedford

Cirket, Alan F., Souvenir Guide to the John Bunyan Museum, Library and Bunyan Meeting Free Church (1992), Fidelity Colour, Essex

Kuhlicke, F.W., A History of the Hospital and Parish Church of St John the Baptist, Bedford (1961), booklet, including 'An Account of John Bunyan and St John's' by H.G.Tibbutt

Nicholson, John, An Illustrated Guide to Bunyan's Bedford (1989), B.M.Bozo

Tibbutt, H.G., Bunyan Meeting 1650-1950 (1950), Trustees of the Bunyan Meeting, Bedford

Welch, Edwin (ed.), The Bedford Moravian Church in the Eighteenth Century: A Selection of Documents (1989), Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, Vol 68

Social Welfare

Cashman, Bernard, Private Charity and the Public Purse: The Development of Bedford General Hospital 1794-1988 (1988), North Bedfordshire Health Authority

Cashman, Bernard, A Proper House: Bedford Lunatic Asylum 1812-1860 (1992), North Bedfordshire Health Authority

Godber, Joyce, The Harpur Trust 1552-1973 (1973), The Harpur Trust, Bedford

Stockdale, Eric, A Study of Bedford Prison 1660-1877 (1977), Phillimore, Chichester

Underwood, Andrew, Bedford Modern School of the Black and Red (1981), Bedford Modern School

The River

Hand, Mary, 'Some Bedfordshire bridges', Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 12 (1970), pp. 267-8

Roberts, Margery, 'Some Bedfordshire bridges', Bedfordshire Magazine, Vol 4 (1955), pp. 320-4

Bedford Borough Council   www.beds.co.uk

Bedfordshire County Record Office   www.beds.co.uk/town/record.htm

Bedford Museum   www.bedfordmuseum.org

Bedford Tourist Information Office   www.bcclgis.gov.uk/yoyo/yyc_tourism.htm

Bunyan Meeting House   www.kbnet.co.uk/bedford/town/meeting.htm

Cecil Higgins Art Gallery and Museum  www.cecilhigginsartgallery.org

John Bunyan Museum   www.museums.bedfordshire.gov.uk/sites/bunyan/museum.html

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