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Library - Section L (Guides to Records) (Ref: Library L 1-88)Ref: Library L 1/1
Joseph Wright (editor)
The English Dialect Dictionary: being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years, volume 1, A - C
Oxford University Press, 1961
Ref: Library L 1/2Joseph Wright (editor)
The English Dialect Dictionary: being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years, volume 2, D - G
Oxford University Press, 1961
Ref: Library L 1/3Joseph Wright (editor)
The English Dialect Dictionary: being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years, volume 3, H - L
Oxford University Press, 1961
Ref: Library L 1/4Joseph Wright (editor)
The English Dialect Dictionary: being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years, volume 4, M - Q
Oxford University Press, 1961
Ref: Library L 1/5Joseph Wright (editor)
The English Dialect Dictionary: being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years, volume 5, R - S
Oxford University Press, 1961
Ref: Library L 1/6Joseph Wright (editor)
The English Dialect Dictionary: being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years, volume 6, T - Z
Oxford University Press, 1961
Ref: Library L 2/1William Little, H.W. Fowler and J. Coulson with C.T. Onions (editor)
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume 1, A - M
Oxford University Press, 1959
Ref: Library L 2/2William Little, H.W. Fowler and J. Coulson with C.T. Onions (editor)
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, volume 2, N - Z
Oxford University Press, 1959
Ref: Library L 3J.E. Manson (editor)
Harrap's Shorter French and English Dictionary
George G. Harrap and Company Ltd, 1966
Ref: Library L 4Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short
A Latin Dictionary: founded on Freund's Latin Dictionary, revised, enlarged and in great part rewritten
Oxford University Press, 1958
Ref: Library L 5J.H. Baxter and Charles Johnson with Phyliss Abrahams
Medieval Latin Word List from British and Irish sources
Oxford University Press, 1962
Ref: Library L 6R.E. Latham
Revised Medieval Latin Word List from British and Irish sources
The British Academy / Oxford University Press, 1965
Ref: Library L 7Cecil Geeson
A Northumberland and Durham word book, the living dialect
Harold Hill and Son, Ltd., 1969
Ref: Library L 8Adriano Cappelli, (ed.)
Lexicon Abbreviaturarum Dizionario di Abbreviature Latine ed Italiano usate nelle carte e codici specialmente del medio-evo riprodotte con oltre 14,000 segni incisi, con-l 'aggiunta di uno studio sulia brachigraphia
Ulrico Hoepli, 1967
Ref: Library L 9[Rev. Canon] J.S. Purvis
Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Terms
Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1962
Ref: Library L 10John L. Fisher
A medieval farming glossary of Latin and English words, taken mainly from Essex records
The Standing Council for Local History / The National Council of Social Service, 1968
Ref: Library L 11G.C. Greenwell
A glossary of terms used in the coal trade of Northumberland and Durham [3rd edition]
Bemrose and Sons, 1888
Ref: Library L 12Association of County Archivists
The common chronicle: An exhibition of archive treasures from the County Record Offices of England and Wales
Victoria and Albert museum, 1983
Ref: Library L 13Eilert Ekwall
The concise Oxford dictionary of English Place-names [4th edition]
Oxford University Press, 1966
Ref: Library L 14G.J. Copley
English place names and their origins
David and Charles, 1968
Ref: Library L 15Thomas Hall
A compendious law dictionary, containing both an explanation of the terms and the law itself, intended for the use of the Country Gentleman, the Merchant and the Professional Man
B. & R. Crosby and Co., 1813
Ref: Library L 16/1Ann Rycraft
Sixteenth and seventeenth century handwriting, series 1
University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 2nd revised edition, 1969
Ref: Library L 16/2Ann Rycraft
Sixteenth and seventeenth century handwriting, series 2
University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 2nd revised edition, 1969
Ref: Library L 16/3Ann Rycraft
English mediaeval handwriting
University of York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, 2nd revised edition, 1973
Ref: Library L 16/4Scottish Records Association
Scottish handwriting, 1500 - 1700, A self help pack
Scottish Record Office, 1994
Ref: Library L 16/5Ann Rycraft
Sixteenth and seventeenth century wills, inventories and other probate records
University of York, 1973
Ref: Library L 16/6P.M. Hoskin, S.L. Slinn and C.C. Webb
Reading the past: 16th and 17th Century English handwriting
University of York, 2001
Ref: Library L 16/7P.M. Hoskin and S.L. Slinn
Reading the past: Medieval handwriting
University of York, 2003
Ref: Library L 17Charles Trice Martin
The Record Interpreter: a collection of abbreviations, Latin words and names used in English historical manuscripts and records [second edition]
Stevens and Sons Ltd., 1949
Ref: Library L 18Andrew Wright
Court Hand Restored: or, the student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. neatly engraved on twenty four copper plates describing the Old Law Hands, with their contractions and abbreviations; with an appendix containing the ancient names of Places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames and a glossary of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in dictionaries [fourth edition]
R. Bickerstaff, 1815
Ref: Library L 19Andrew Wright and Charles Trice Martin
Court Hand Restored: or, the student's assistant, in reading old deeds, charters, records, etc. neatly engraved on twenty four copper plates describing the Old Law Hands, with their contractions and abbreviations; with an appendix containing the ancient names of Places in Great Britain and Ireland; an alphabetical table of ancient surnames and a glossary of Latin words found in the works of the most eminent lawyers and other ancient writings, but not in dictionaries [ninth edition]
Reeves and Turner, 1879
Ref: Library L 20L.C. Hector
The Handwriting of English Documents
Edward Arnold, 1958
Ref: Library L 21Giles E. Dawson and Laetitia Kennedy-Skipton
Elizabethan handwriting, 1500 - 1650: A guide to the reading of documents and manuscripts
Faber and Faber, 1966
Ref: Library L 22Hilda E.P. Grieve
Examples of English Handwriting 1150-1750; with transcripts and translations; Part 1 from Essex Parish Records; Part 2 from other Essex Archives [Essex Record Office Publications No. 21]
Essex Education Committee for Essex Record Office, 1954
Ref: Library L 23E.E. Thoyts
How to read old documents
Phillimore, 1980
Ref: Library L 25C.R. Cheney (ed.)
Handbook of Dates for Students of English History
Royal Historical Society, 1978
Ref: Library L 26(Sir) F. Maurice Powicke (editor) and E.B. Fryde (editor)
Handbook of British Chronology [second edition]
Royal Historical Society, 1961
Ref: Library L 27Janet Foster and Julia Sheppard
British Archives: A Guide to Archive Resources in the United Kingdom [third edition]
Macmillan, 1982
Ref: Library L 28F.W.D. Manders
Bibliography of British Newspapers, Durham and Northumberland
The British Library, 1982
Ref: Library L 29Jane E. Norton
Guide to the National and Provincial Directories of England and Wales, excluding London, published before 1856
Royal Historical Society, 1950
Ref: Library L 30L.S. Pressnell and John Orbell
A Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking
Gower Publishing Company Limited, 1985
Ref: Library L 31J.T. Morris, Colin A. Russell and John Graham Smith
Archives of the British Chemical Industry
British society for the History of Science, 1988
Ref: Library L 32/1Lesley Richmond and Alison Turton
Directory of Corporate Archives [second edition]
Business Archives Council, 1987
Ref: Library L 32/2Lesley Richmond and Alison Turton
Directory of Corporate Archives [fourth edition]
Business Archives Council, 1997
Ref: Library L 33Lesley Richmond and Bridget Stockford
Company Archives: The survey of the records of 1000 of the first registered companies in England and Wales
Gower Publishing Company Limited, 1986
Ref: Library L 34Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England
Survey of Architectural Surveys
Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England, 1986
Ref: Library L 35K.M. Thompson
Short Guides to Records [guides 1 - 48]
including:
(1) Ida Darlington Rate Books
(2) John Cannon Poll Books
(3) Francis Steer Probate Inventories
(4) F.G. Emmison Estate Maps and Surveys
(5) Jane M. Colman Guardians' Minute Books
(6) Lawrence S. Snell Chantry Certificates
(7) Roger Howell Hearth Tax Returns
(8) Dorothy M. Owen Episcopal Visitation Books
(9) Maurice Bond Estate Acts of Parliament
(10) R. Sharpe France Wills
(11) J. Anthony Williams Recusant Rolls
(12) A.D. Carr Deeds of Title
(13) D.M. Barratt Glebe Terriers
(14) W.E. Tate Enclosure Awards and Acts
(15) A.E.B. Owen Records of Commissioners of Sewers
(16) H.G. Hunt Land Tax Assessments
(17) S.C. Newton Parliamentary Surveys
(18) Baron F. Duckham Turnpike Records
(19) J.H. Thomas Fire Insurance Policy Registers
(20) Lionel M. Munby Tithe Apportionments and Maps
(21) Shelagh Bond Chapter Act Books
(22) D.M. Woodward Port Books
(23) Richard Hunt Quarter Sessions Order Books
(24) H.J. Smith Local Reports to the General Board of Health
(25) David Dymond Churchwardens' Accounts
(26) Martyn Bennett Constables' Accounts
(27) G.W. Oxley Overseers' Accounts
(28) Kathryn Thompson Settlement Papers
(29) Kathryn Thompson Apprenticeship and Bastardy records
(30) Christopher Pickford Parish Registers
(31) not included
(32) David Robinson Bishops' Registers
(33) David Wykes The 1669 Return of Nonconformist Conventicles
(34) Jacqueline Bower Probate Accounts
(35) Edward Higgs Census Returns in England and Wales
(36) Brian M. Short The Lloyd George Finance Act Material
(37) Simon Fowler Assistant Poor Law Commissioners' Correspondence
(38) David Crook Pipe Rolls
(39) Gillian Cookson Building Plans
(40) Richard Oliver Ordnance Survey maps
(41) not included
(42) David Smith Canal and Railway Plans
(43) Peter A. Neaverson Fire Insurance Plans
(44) Pamela Horn School Log Books
(45) J.A. Vickers The 1851 Religious Census
(46) J.A. Cole & C. Rodgers Coroners' Inquest Records
(47) P.D.A. Harvey Manorial Court Rolls
(48) David Hawkings Prison Registers and Prison Hulk Records
The Historical Association
Ref: Library L 36Lowri Garland and John Bradshaw
Photographic collections in the North of England
Northern Arts, 1987
Ref: Library L 37D.J. Rowe
Northern Business Histories: a bibliography
The Library Association, 1979
Ref: Library L 38Newcastle Upon Tyne Libraries Joint Working Party
Local Studies Group: Directory
Newcastle Upon Tyne Libraries, 1980
Ref: Library L 39Stewart R. Craggs
Bibliography of Theses on North East England
Sunderland Polytechnic Library, 1983
Ref: Library L 41John Richardson
The Local Historian's Encyclopaedia
Historical Publications Limited, 1974
Ref: Library L 42H.A.L. Cockerell and Edwin Green
The British Insurance Business, 1547 - 1970
Heinemann Educational Books Ltd., 1976
Ref: Library L 43William A. Barber and A. Frank Brown
The Royal Cypher Labels of Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, 1701 - 1922
William A. Barber, 1988
Ref: Library L 44David A. Reeder (editor)
Archives and the Historian: proceedings of a workshop held at the University of Leicester, 17 June 1988
Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester, 1989
Ref: Library L 45Seamus Helferty and Raymond Refaussé
Directory of Irish Archives
Irish Academic Press, 1988
Ref: Library L 46Lesley Richmond and Alison Turton
The brewing industry: a guide to historical records
Manchester University Press, 1990
Ref: Library L 47Gareth Shaw and Allison Tipper
British Directories: a bibliography and guide to directories published in England and Wales (1850 - 1950) and Scotland (1773 - 1950)
Leicester University Press, 1988
Ref: Library L 48Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Records of British Business and Industry, 1760 - 1914, Textiles and leather
[Guides to sources for British History, based on the National Register of Archives, 8]
HMSO, 1990
Ref: Library L 49Philip Riden
How to trace the history of your car: a guide to motor vehicle registration records in the British Isles [second edition]
Merton Priory Press, 1998
Ref: Library L 50[Rev.] Oliver Heslop
Northumberland words: a glossary of words used in the County of Northumberland and on the Tyneside
[English Dialect Society] Kegan Paul, Trench, Trench, Truebner and Co., 1892
Ref: Library L 51Susan Lumas
Making use of the census: PRO Readers' guide no. 1
PRO Publications, 1992
Ref: Library L 52Dictionary of First Names (incorporating Jack and Jill by Professor Ernest Weekley)
Tiger Books International, 1994
Ref: Library L 53HMSO
Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office, 1: The British Isles, c.1410 - 1860
HMSO, 1967
Ref: Library L 54E.G Withycombe
The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian names [third edition]
Oxford University Press, 1977
Archivists, 2000
Ref: Library L 55P.H. Reaney and R.M. Wilson
A dictionary of English surnames [third edition]
Routledge, 1991
Ref: Library L 57Wendy Habgood [editor]
Chartered accountants in England and Wales
Manchester University Press, 1994
Ref: Library L 58The Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Records of British Business and Industry, 1760 - 1914: Metal processing and engineering
Guides to sources for British History 9
HMSO, 1994
Ref: Library L 59Richard William Cox
Index to sporting manuscripts in the UK
British Society of Sports History, 1995
Ref: Library L 60Denis Stuart
Latin for local and family historians: a beginners' guide
Phillimore and Co. Ltd., 1995
Ref: Library L 61L.A. Ritchie (editor)
The shipbuilding industry: a guide to historical records: Studies in British archives series
Manchester University Press, 1992
Ref: Library L 62William Spencer
Army Service records of the First World War (3rd expanded edition)
Public Record Office, 2001
Ref: Library L 63Simon Fowler, Peter Elliott, Roy Conyers Nesbit and Christina Goulter
RAF Records in the PRO [PRO Readers guide no. 8]
Public Record Office Publications, 1994
Ref: Library L 64Ian Coulson and Anne Crawford (editors)
Archives in Education: Living Archives series no. 1
Public Record Office Publications, 1995
Ref: Library L 65Simon Fowler
Sources for Labour History [PRO Readers Guide no. 12]
Public Record Office Publications, 1995
Ref: Library L 66Jane Cox
New to Kew? A first time guide for family historians at the Public Record Office, Kew [PRO Readers Guide no. 16]
Public Record Office Publications, 1997
Ref: Library L 67Ann Morton
Education and the state from 1833 [PRO Readers Guide no. 18]
Public Record Office Publications, 1997
Ref: Library L 68Lionel M. Munby
Dates and Time: a handbook for Local Historians
British Association for Local History, 1997
Ref: Library L 69Rita V. Bryon and Terence N. Bryon (editors)
Maritime Information: a guide to libraries and sources of information in the United Kingdom
Maritime Information Association, 1983
Ref: Library L 70Norman Holding
More sources of World War I army ancestry [third edition]
Federation of Family History Societies, 1998
Ref: Library L 71Richard H.A. Cheffins
Parliamentary constituencies and their registers since 1832: A list of constituencies from the Great Reform Act with the British Library's holdings of Electoral Registers together with the library's holdings of Burgess Rolls, Poll Books and other registers
The British Library, 1998
Ref: Library L 72A guide to special collections of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester
John Rylands University of Manchester, 1999
Ref: Library L 73Lesley Richmond and Alison Turton
Directory of Corporate Archives
Business Archives Council, 1992
Ref: Library L 74N.A.M. Rodger
Naval records for genealogists [Public Record Office Handbook No. 22]
PRO Publications, 1998
Ref: Library L 75M. Jurkowski, C.L. Smith and D. Crook
Lay taxes in England and Wales, 1188 - 1688 [Public Record Office Handbook No. 31]
PRO Publications, 1998
Ref: Library L 76William Spencer
Records of the Militia and Volunteer Forces, 1757 - 1945 [Public Record Office Readers Guide No. 3]
PRO Publications, 1997
Ref: Library L 77Garth Thomas
Records of the Royal Marines [Public Record Office Readers Guide No. 10]
PRO Publications, 1994
Ref: Library L 78Kelvin Smith, Christopher T. Watts and Michael J. Watts
Records of Merchant Shipping and Seamen [Public Record Office Readers Guide No. 20]
PRO Publications, 1998
Ref: Library L 79Roger Kershaw and Mark Pearsall
Immigrants and Aliens: A guide to source on UK immigration and citizenship [Public Record Office Readers Guide No. 22]
PRO Publications, 2000
Ref: Library L 80P.D.A Harvey
Manorial Records [Archives and the User no. 5]
British Records Association, 1999
Ref: Library L 81The Royal Bank of Scotland
A guide to the Historical Records of The Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland, 2000
Ref: Library L 82A glossary of provincial words used in Teesdale in the county of Durham
London, 1849
Ref: Library L 83Hilary Jenkinson
The latter court hands in England, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century
Cambridge University Press, 1927
Ref: Library L 84David Yaxley
A researcher's glossary of words found in historical documents of East Anglia
Larks Press, 2003
Ref: Library L 85Rosemary E. Boyns, Trevor Boynes and John Richard Edwards
Historical accounting records: A guide for Archivists and Researchers
Society of Archivists, 2000
Ref: Library L 86W. Y. Carman
British Military Uniforms From Contemporary Pictures
The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd, 1968
Ref: Library L 87Henry Grove
Alienated Tithes in Appropriated and Impropriated Parishes commuted or merged under Local Statutes and the Tithe Acts, together with all Crown Grants of Tithes from Henry VIII to William III, 1896
Ref: Library L 88George Pemberton Leach
The Tithe Acts and the Rules under the Tithe Act 1891
5th edition
Shaw & Sons, London