Includes extensive official and private records of Parliament, and the urban history of London, Glasgow, Cardiff and other major cities.
Survey of London
Detailed studies of the capital's architecture and topography, since 1894. 41 volumes.
Cardiff Records
Calendars and transcripts of medieval and early modern records. 5 volumes.
Statutes of the Realm
The full text of Statutes passed into law by the two Houses of Parliament. 3 volumes.
The Commissions for building fifty new churchesThe minute books, 1711-27, a calendar
Records of the body charged with building new churches to provide for the rapidly growing population of London after the Great Fire. Amongst these 50 churches were several by Nicholas Hawksmoor.
Register of the Freemen of the City of York: Vol. 21559-1759
Publications of the Surtees Society, vol. 102. The register records admissions to the freedom of the city, arranged chronologically by regnal year. This second volume covers the period from the accession of Elizabeth I to the death of George II.
Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660The full text of legislation passed into law during the Interregnum. Contains over 900 pieces of legislation. ranging from that concerning the trial and execution of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury to the regulation of trade in currants, and from the propagation of the Gospel in the New World to the draining of the Great Fen. Originally published in three volumes, it is here given together, along with a table of acts passed and a substantial introduction.
Roger Whitley's Diary 1684-1697Bodleian Library, MS Eng Hist c 711
Diary of a Cheshire gentleman, Whig Member of Parliament for Chester in 1689-97 and landholder in Wales, covering a period in which he steered a difficult political course. Michael Stevens' transcription is published by permission of the Bodleian Library.
Calendar of Border Papers: volume 21595-1603
The second of two volumes of border papers, bringing the coverage up until the accession of James VI of Scotland as king of England.
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities, 1550-1820A dictionary of nearly 4,000 terms found used in documents relating to trade and retail in early modern Britain. It represents part of a larger dataset produced by the Dictionary Project at the University of Wolverhampton, by whose kind permission it is reproduced here.
Four Shillings In The Pound Aid 1693/4The City of London, the City of Westminster, and Metropolitan Middlesex
The assessments raised for this tax raised by Parliament to fund King William's European warfare. It was produced by the 'Metropolitan London in the 1690s' project, based at the CMH.
Hasted, History of Kent
The second edition of Edward Hasted's history, published between 1797 and 1801. 12 volumes.
Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: volume 1Republished with large additions by John Throsby
John Throsby's republication and expansion of Robert Thoroton's 'The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire' (first published in 1677). This volume covers the parishes of the hundreds of Rushcliffe, Bingham and Newark. In each file, Thoroton's original text is followed by that of Throsby.
A History of the County of Durham: Volume 3Covers the cathedral city of Durham, including an account of the cathedral itself. Also covers Stockton ward in the south-east of the county (bordering North Yorkshire) including Hartlepool and Stockton on Tees.