A very useful analysis of the political debates of the times. ANCESTORS (for volume I)

Diaries of a wife and mother, active in local society, paint a fascinating picture of social life in provincial Victorian England.

The Bedford (Amateur) Musical Society, now Bedford Choral Society, was formed in 1867. Its beginnings were not auspicious - an article in a local newspaper reported that 'no one felt very sanguine about the success of the proposed Society ... the idea being that musical people were a quarrelsome lot and could not hold together for any length of time.' Despite this, the Society has had a long and almost continuous history and is still thriving today. This volume records the characters who have shaped the Society through the years, the varied musical programmes and the links with well-known...