“If it should be done the WVS will do it”. Established in 1938 by Stella Isaacs, Marchioness of Reading, the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS)...

This morning, as like every other, the last thing I did was to check my appearance in the mirror before I left the house to brave the world,...

Frederick Burnaby has been described as a modern day (well Victorian) Hercules and was born in Bedford in 1842 at St. Peter’s Rectory (now ...

Usually on the Object of the Week blog we show you an object which you won’t be able to see in the flesh until we reopen, but this week’s ob...

Like most of us, I have watched films and read books about life in the Ice Age. More often or not these films have involved a variety o...

For the last week I have had my head well and truly stuck in teapots. Despite being one of the few people in this country that doesn’t drink...

Liz, our Keeper of Archaeology, has been preparing a blog post on mammoths in Bedfordshire coming next week!), and while chatting about it, ...