Bob Ricketts Editor

David Newman was born in Bedfordshire and moved to Milton Ernest in 1992 where he was elected as a Parish Councillor in 2003. Being interested in local history he was surprised that no book had ever been written about the village and after many years of research rectified this by writing The Importance of Milton Ernest, which was published in 2006 Bob Ricketts CBE was educated at Bedford Modern School and the University of Cambridge, where he developed a lifelong passion for history. He served in senior positions in the NHS, Department of Health and NHS England for forty-one years before retiring in 2020. He is chairman of Bedfordshire Historical Record Society and Bedford Architectural, Archaeological and Local History Society, and editor of Bedford Local History Magazine. In 2019 he co-authored Bedford History Timeline: Over a thousand Years of the Town's History James Collett-White is an archivist and has worked at the Isle of Wight Record Office (1970-1974), Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service (1975-2012) and has been Archivist to Sir Samuel Whitbread since 1997. He has contributed to several BHRS volumes and was, for a short time, the Society's general editor. He has published articles to celebrate the hundredth anniversaries of Bedfordshire Archives and Records Service and BHRS and researches, lectures and writes on history in Bedfordshire. He is working with Bob Ricketts and David Newman on another volume for BHRS on the Turner family of Milton Ernest.