Records of Social and Economic History

Britain possesses one of the most remarkable sets of records of economic and social history in the world – a continuous series of cartularies, revenue-rolls, account books, personal diaries and correspondence, relating to all kinds of agricultural, urban, domestic, industrial, commercial and demographic subjects. This series exists to publish primary sources that aid the study of social and economic history – proving particularly valuable as a means of publishing material that does not fall within the scope of any one local record society.

The series publishes primary sources that aid the study of social and economic history, with the original series containing nine volumes (published 1914–1935). In 1970, the British Academy established a new series, in light of the increasing interest in this type of history.

Project Chair: Professor Julian Hoppit FBA

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Proposals for volumes are welcomed. If you have an idea, please read the series overview and then email the Chair, Julian Hoppit, at [email protected], to discuss.

Download a proposal form. Please do not complete this form before discussing your proposal with the series Chair.

Vol. 68. The Amity Papers, 1690: The Siege of Limerick and Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks
edited by Thomas M. Truxes and John Shovlin
9780197267899 (2025) hbk

Vol. 67. Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798
edited by Richard Ansell
9780197267806 (2024) hbk

Vol. 66. The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury: Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part Two
edited by David Brown
9780197267417 (2023) hbk

Vol. 65. The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury: Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part One
edited by David Brown
9780197267400 (2023) hbk

Vol. 64. The Cantelowe Accounts: Multilingual Merchant Records from Tuscany, 1450-1451
edited by Megan Tiddeman
9780197266854 (2022) hbk

Vol. 63. The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509): From the Archives of St John's College, Cambridge
edited by Susan Powell
9780197267042 (2022) hbk

Vol. 62. Navigating the Old English Poor Law: The Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836
edited by Peter Jones and Steven King
9780197266816 (2020) hbk

Vol. 61. The Diaries and Letters of Lord Woolton 1940-1945
edited by Michael Kandiah and Judith Rowbotham
9780197266847 (2020) hbk

Vol. 60. Business and Family in the North of England During the Early Industrial Revolution: Records of the Lives of Men and Women in Trade, 1788-1832
edited by Hannah Barker and David Hughes
9780197266700 (2020) hbk

Vol. 59. Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c. 1690-1834
edited by Joseph Harley
9780197266656 (2020) hbk

Vol. 58. The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 2
edited by Barbara Harvey and Christopher Woolgar
9780197266632 (2020) hbk

Vol. 57. The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1
edited by Barbara Harvey and Christopher Woolgar
9780197266625 (2020) hbk

Vol. 56. The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736
edited by Anne L. Murphy
9780197266366 (2018) hbk

Vol. 55. Documents of the First Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland, 1767-1839
edited by Robert J. Bennett
9780197266243 (2018) hbk

Vol. 54. Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in Scotland, 1885-1979
edited by Ian Levitt
9780197265796 (2014) hbk

Vol. 53. The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad
edited by L. M. Cullen, John Shovlin, and Thomas M. Truxes
9780197265628 (2013) hbk

Vol. 52. The Latin Cartulary of Godstow Abbey
edited by Emilie Amt
9780197265581 (2014) hbk

Vol. 51. The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603
edited by Jane A. Lawson
9780197265260 (2013) hbk

Vol. 50. Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715, Part 2: Outside Lincolnshire
edited by John Broad
9780197265192 (2012) hbk

Vol. 49. Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715, Part 1: Lincolnshire
edited by John Broad
9780197265185 (2012) hbk

Vol. 48. Inside the Department of Economic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the Diary of an 'Irregular', 1964-6
edited by Roger Middleton
9780197265000 (2012) hbk

Vol. 47. Nehemiah Grew and England's Economic Development: The means of a most ample increase of the wealth and strength of England, 1706-7
edited by Julian Hoppit
9780197264959 (2012) hbk

British Academy Review article by Richard M. Smith on Volumes 43, 44 and 46

Vol. 46. The Early English Censuses
edited by E. A. Wrigley
9780197264799 (2011) hbk

Vol. 44. The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 2: 1734-1743 (Somerset)
edited by John Money  
9780197264553 (2010) hbk

Vol. 43. The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 1: 1684-1733 (Somerset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire)
edited by John Money
9780197264546 (2010) hbk

Vol. 42. The Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296-1483
edited by Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs
9780197264409 (2009) hbk

Vol. 41. The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648
edited by Judith M. Spicksley
9780197264324 (2012) hbk

Vol. 40. The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837
edited by Kenneth Morgan
9780197264058 (2007) hbk

Vol. 39. Charters and Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089–1216
edited by N. E. Stacy
9780197263754 (2006) hbk

Vol. 38. China Trade and Empire: Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the Origins of British Rule in Hong Kong, 1827–1843
edited by Alain Le Pichon
9780197263372 (2006) hbk

Vol. 37. The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 3: Wiltshire–Yorkshire
edited by Carolyn C. Fenwick
9780197263365 (2005) hbk

Vol. 36. Keynes and his Critics: Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution, 1925–1946
edited by G. C. Peden
9780197263228 (2004) hbk

Vol. 35. Matthew and George Culley: Travel Journals and Letters, 1765–1798
edited by Anne Orde
9780197262757 (2002) hbk - out of print

Vol. 34. ‘An Exact and Industrious Tradesman’: The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711–1720
edited by S. D. Smith
9780197262580 (2002) hbk

Vol. 33. Surveys of the Estates of Glastonbury Abbey, c. 1135–1201
edited by N. E. Stacy
9780197262535 (2001) hbk - out of print

Vol. 32. Lower Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction in Late-Medieval England: The Courts of the Dean and Chapter of Lincoln, 1336–1349, and the Deanery of Wisbech, 1458–1484
edited by L. R. Poos
9780197262450 (2001) hbk - out of print

Vol. 31. The Diocesan Population Returns for 1563 and 1603
edited by Alan Dyer and D. M. Palliser
9780197262443 (2005) hbk

Vol. 30. Essex Pauper Letters, 1731–1837
edited by Thomas Sokoll
9780197262429 (2001) hbk
9780197263488 (2006) pbk

Vol. 29. The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 2: Lincolnshire-Westmorland
edited by Carolyn C. Fenwick
9780197262283 (2001) hbk

Vol. 28. Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-57: Merchants of New York and Belfast
edited by Thomas M. Truxes
9780197262191 (2001) hbk

Vol. 27. The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 1: Bedfordshire-Leicestershire
edited by Carolyn C. Fenwick
9780197261866 (1998) hbk

Vol. 26. The Diary of Robert Sharp of South Cave: Life in a Yorkshire Village, 1812–1837
edited by Janice E. Crowther and Peter A. Crowther
9780197261736 (1997) hbk

Vol. 25. The Register of Thetford Priory, Part 2: 1518–1540
edited by David Dymond
9780197261613 (1996) hbk

Vol. 24. The Register of Thetford Priory, Part 1: 1482–1517
edited by David Dymond
9780197261606 (1995) hbk

Vol. 23. The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Part 2: Prima Camera, Essex
edited by Michael Gervers
9780197261385 (1996) hbk - out of print

Vol. 22. Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen, Part 2: The French Estates
edited by John Walmsley
9780197261378 (1994) hbk - available on Pen & Sword

Vol. 21. The Books of Assumption of the Thirds of Benefices: Scottish Ecclesiastical Rentals at the Reformation
edited by James Kirk
9780197261255 (1995) hbk - out of print

Vol. 20. Lordship and Landscape in Norfolk, 1250–1350: The Early Records of Holkham
edited by William Hassall and Jacques Beauroy
0197260934 (1993) hbk - out of print

Vol. 19. The Warwickshire Hundred Rolls of 1279–80: Stoneleigh and Kineton Hundreds
edited by Trevor John
0197261221 (1992) hbk - out of print

Vol. 18. Household Accounts from Medieval England, Part 2
edited by C. M. Woolgar
9780197261132 (1993) hbk

Vol. 17. Household Accounts from Medieval England, Part 1
edited by C. M. Woolgar
9780197261125 (1992) hbk

Vol. 16. An American Quaker in the British Isles: The Travel Journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775–1779
edited by Kenneth Morgan
9780197260968 (1992) hbk

Vol. 15. The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724–1767
edited by Lorna Weatherill
9780197260920 (1990) hbk

Vol. 14. Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605–1675: Biographies, Illustrated by Letters and Other Documents
edited by Ruth Spalding
9780197260814 (1990) hbk

Vol. 13. The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605–1675
edited by Ruth Spalding
9780197260807 (1990) hbk

Vol. 12. Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century: The Marescoe–David Letters, 1668–1680
edited by Henry Roseveare
0197260527 (1987) hbk - out of print
9780197261064 (1991) pbk - out of print

Vol. 11. The Early Records of Medieval Coventry
edited by Peter R. Coss, with Trevor John
9780197260388 (1986) hbk - out of print

Vol. 10. The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition
edited by Anne Whiteman, with Mary Clapinson
9780197260418 (1986) hbk

Vol. 9. The Making of King’s Lynn: A Documentary Survey
edited by Dorothy M. Owen
9780197260272 (1984) hbk

Vol. 8. The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642
edited by Donald Woodward
9780197260296 (1984) hbk

Vol. 7. The Correspondence of Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven, 1693–1698: A Provincial Community in Wartime
edited by D. R. Hainsworth
9780197260166 (1983) hbk

Vol. 6. The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England: Secunda Camera, Essex
edited by Michael Gervers
0197259960 (1982) hbk - out of print

Vol. 5. Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity Caen
edited by Marjorie Chibnall
9780197260098 (1982) hbk

Vol. 4. Warwickshire Grazier and London Skinner 1532-1555
edited by N. W. Alcock
019726008X (1981) hbk

Vol. 3. The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683
edited by Alan Macfarlane
0197259553 (1976) hbk - out of print
9780197261033 pbk (1991) pbk

Vol. 2. The Lay Subsidy of 1334
edited by Robin E. Glasscock
9780197259337 (1975) hbk

Vol. 1. Charters of the Honour of Mowbray, 1107–1191
edited by D. E. Greenway
9780197259269 (1972) hbk

The original series was reissued by Kraus in 1981.

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Vol. IX. Records of the Templars in England in the Twelfth Century: The Inquest of 1185, with illustrative charters and documents
edited by Beatrice A. Lees
(1935) hbk - out of print

Vol. VIII. Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
edited by D. C. Douglas
(1932) hbk - out of print

Vol. VII. The Cartulary and Terrier of the Priory of Bilsington, Kent
edited by N. Neilson
(1928) hbk - out of print

Vol. VI. The Account Book of a Kentish Estate, 1616–1704
edited by Eleanor C. Lodge
(1927) hbk - out of print

Vol. V. Documents illustrative of the Social and Economic History of the Danelaw
edited by F. M. Stenton
(1920) hbk - out of print

Vol. IV. I: A Terrier of Fleet, Lincolnshire, from a Manuscript in the British Museum
edited by N. Neilson
(1920) hbk - out of print

Vol. IV. II: An Eleventh-Century Inquisition of St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury
by Adolphus Ballard
0197258441 (1920) hbk - out of print

Vol. III. The Register of St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, commonly called the Black Book, Part II
edited by G. J. Turner and H. E. Salter
0197258433 (1924) hbk - out of print

Vol. II. The Register of St. Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, commonly called the Black Book, Part I
edited by G. J. Turner and H. E. Salter
0197258425 (1915) hbk - out of print

Vol. I. Survey of the Honour of Denbigh, 1334
edited by Paul Vinogradoff and Frank Morgan
0197258417 (1914) hbk - out of print