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Brings together papers from various sources, form an archive - quite separate from Bulstrode Whitelocke's Diary. This book includes about 1000 names from the Diary, and assembled biographical details that elucidate the Diary references. Many entries shed light on the politics of the period, since Whitelocke knew all the characters personally.

The censuses from the first half of the nineteenth century provided invaluable information about English economy and society. This new edition corrects earlier errors and omissions, in particular to make good the failure to record men in the armed forces and at sea. An accompanying CD contains the largest data tables.

A scholarly edition of the travel journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

An account book of a small yeoman farmer in Lancashire, running from 1724 to his death in 1767. It provides a record of expenditure on domestic, personal, and farming items. It offers a detailed view of household life and domestic economy in a stratum of society from which very few documents of any sort have survived.

Contains surveys for the whole estate made in the reigns of Henry I and Henry II, 13th-century custumals for Minchinhampton, Avening, and Felsted, and 26 charters and leases, some of which relate to property in London. They provide valuable evidence of social conditions and changing methods of estate exploitation, printed for the first time.

Provides a detailed picture of late fourteenth-century England. This title contains the poll tax records of 1377, 1379 and 1381, containing information about the individuals, their occupations, and their relationships.

As personal testimonies of people claiming relief, often written in a 'private' tone, pauper letters allow deep insights into the living conditions, experiences and attitudes of the labouring poor in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This edition contains some 750 of these letters, all those presently known to survive in the county of Essex.

The immensely rich archives from the administration of the English poor law before 1834 include letters to the overseers of the poor that came from the poor themselves. This edition contains 750 of these letters, and aims to demonstrate the importance of this source, both for the social historian and for the comparative study of literacy.

The diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke MP reveals sharp insights into public affairs during the Civil Wars and Interregnum. It stands alongside the diaries of Pepys, Evelyn, and Josselin as a major source for the study of seventeenth-century politics and society.

A comprehensive study that makes source accessible to historians of the later medieval nobility. This work contains household accounts that includes evidence on daily life, diet, hospitality, etiquette, travel, the arts, politics, as well as on medieval finance generally.

The English poll taxes of 1377, 1379, and 1381 taxed householders, wives, dependants, and servants individually. The tax records therefore provide information about people who are rarely, if ever, mentioned in other documents. This massive resource is being published in three volumes - this first volume covers all three taxes for Bedfordshire to Leicestershire.

Contains two of the most important sources for population studies in the early modern period. This edition includes the bishops' returns of 1563 and 1603 that represent the earliest census-type information that has survived in England and Wales. The 1563 returns, surviving from twelve dioceses, record the number of households.

Lynn was a port of the late eleventh century, founded on the estates of the Bishop of Norwich. This collection of documents provides evidence for the origin and topography of medieval Lynn, and also for its religious, social and economic life.

The honour of Mowbray was one of the greatest feudal estates of the Anglo-Norman kingdom. The 400 collected charters of the first three generations of the Mowbray family provide abundant material for a study of the feudal structure, economy, and administration of the honour between 1107 and 1191.

This is a long-awaited edition of three twelfth-century surveys and thirty charters, relating to the estates of Shaftesbury Abbey, which was the richest nunnery in England. The documents provide a significant contribution to our understanding of economic, social and monastic life in twelfth-century England.

These documents illuminate the conduct of British trade in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain's Atlantic empire. Detailing the commercial and plantation interests of two Bristol families, the volume sheds light on how fortunes were created by merchants striving for social improvement.

Contains 263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson that trace a range of commercial, political and personal dramas played out in Britain, India and China. The correspondence covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843.

Contains household accounts that includes evidence on daily life as well as on medieval finance generally. This work also includes special accounts for expenses on jewels, furs, cloth, and armour. It provides a catalogue of extant medieval English household accounts.