Reference
X354/7
Title
Archives of the Bedfordshire Magazine
Date free text
1947-onwards
Production date
From: 1947 To: 2026
Admin/biog history
The Bedfordshire Magazine was 'A Quarterly Miscellany and Reivew of Bedfordshire Life and History'. Originally published in 1947 it ceased publication in 1999 with issue 208 (volume 26).
The magazine had been founded by Harold White and from 1980 publication was made possible by publisher Peter White of the White Crescent Press Limited in memory of Harold White. In the announcement of the the suspension of the magazine Peter wrote 'In spite of strenuous efforts, we have failed to atrract sufficient new readers and sales have been declining over many years. Advertising, a crucial element in our income, has also fallen to an unsatisfactory level. The subsidy likely to be required for furture publication is more than can reasonably be borne by the present publishers. Efforts were made to lauch a new magazine 'in which the very best of the Bedfordshire Magazine would be retained but in a refocused format targeted to a more specific market interested in the heirtage of the area.
The copyright and assets of the original magazine were given to the Bedfordshire Historical Records Society.
Scope and Content
The material only covers the later period of the two last editors, Betty Marion Chambers (1974-1997) and Ann Collett-White (1997-1999). Some of the material covers the struggles to keep the magazine going during the 1990s and suggestions for a replacement.
Archival history
Deposited in 2012 by the last editor, Ann Collett-White.
Level of description
sub-fonds