The Paths to Crime Project
The Paths to Crime Project
Paths to Crime was a two-year project to catalogue and repackage the Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions Rolls from 1831-1900. This collection of court papers is a valuable resource for both the family and social historian, as explained in the original project brief. The cataloguing, carried out by two part-time cataloguers, was funded by a grant from the National Cataloguing Grant Programme for Archives. The repackaging was being carried out by volunteers and was made possible by generous donations from Bedfordshire Family History Society, present and former High Sheriffs of Bedfordshire, and the Rotary Club of Sandy. We particularly wish to thank all the volunteers who helped us with the Paths to Crime project. They made a fantastic contribution and we could not have done it without them.
From this page we share some of the stories we uncovered during the course of the project. You may also like to explore our Paths to Crime self-guided walks. Many other stories remain for you to discover for yourself.
Documents of the month
2011-4 Little Paradise
2011-5 One Wife Too Many
2011-6 Cattle Plague
2011-7 Bound for Australia
2011-8 On the Beat
2011-9 CSI Wymington
2011-10 Taking a Test Drive
2011-11 Remember Remember
2011-12 Christmas Turkey
2012-1 Off to Market
2012-2 and 3 Workhouse Week
2012-4 Gaol Fever
2012-5 I is for Inventory
2012-6 J is for Jubilee
2012-7 A Life on the Ocean Wave
2012-8 Poetic Licence
2012-9 Fire!
2012/10 Chim-Chim-Cheree!
2012-11 Garden Paths to Crime
2012-12 'Tis the season to steal holly!
2013-1 Buyer Beware
2013-2 Strike Up the Band
2013-3 Man of Means