Bedfordshire Churches in the Nineteenth Century

Alan Cirket was a member of staff in Bedfordshire County Record Office from 1936 to 1983, except for war service.  He was also honorary curator of the Bunyan Museum, Bedford.

Andrew Underwood (1934-2012) taught in Ampthill and then at Bedford Modern School from 1966 to 1989, where he was subsequently the school archivist.  He researched and wrote extensively on his native Ampthill.

Anne Buck OBE (1910-2005) was a fashion historian and museum curator, first at Luton museum (1938-1947) and later at the Platt Hall, Manchester (1947-1972) where she was  keeper of the Gallery of English Costume.

Bernard Cashman (1920-1996) was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bedford General Hospital from 1961 to 1985 and held an honorary research post at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Oxford. On his retirement, he was commissioned to write a history of the hospital and was guided in his research by Patricia Bell. He also wrote a history of Bedford Asylum (described in one review as ‘a meticulously detailed history’).

Colin Chapman has worked for eighteen years in the Middle East, teaching in seminaries in Cairo, Bethlehem, Beirut, Bristol, and Birmingham, and is now retired in Cambridge.

David Baker is a history and science writer for SimonWhistler.com who holds the world's first PhD in Big History, studying under David Christian. He has delivered award-winning lectures at Macquarie University and the University of Amsterdam, is a visiting lecturer at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, and wrote the YouTube series Crash Course Big History, hosted by John and Hank Green in partnership with the Gates Big History Project. He is the author of The Shortest History of the World, and Sex.

David Bushby was a school teacher in Biggleswade. He obtained a second degree in the history of education and has published on education in Bedfordshire and other local history topics.

Edwin Welch (1927-1998) was an archivist and worked in various parts of England from 1951 to 1971 and subsequently in Canada. He was an expert and writer on Dissenting history.

Elizabeth Moser has been a JP and treasurer of the Bedford branch of the Historical Association.

Eric Stockdale was called to the Bar in 1950 and appointed a Circuit judge in the 1970s.  He is a senior bencher of the Middle Temple.  He has published many articles and books on criminal justice and historical topics, including two works inspired by the links of many leaders of the American Revolution with the Middle Temple.  His book From wig and pen to computer: reflections of a legal author (London, Wildy, Simmonds and Hill, 2008) is about his experiences as a legal author and one chapter deals with crime and punishment in Bedfordshire.

Hermann Wellenreuther is Professor Emeritus at the Georg-August University in Göttingen.

Margaret McGregor was an archivist in the Bedfordshire County Record Office for several years before returning to her native Bristol to work in the record office there.

Simon Houfe FSA is a journalist, author and Bedfordshire historian. He was on the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum and is the author of The Dictionary of British Illustrators and Caricaturists and former editor of The Antique Collector.