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 original series contained nine volumes (published 1914–1935). In 1970 the British Academy established a New Series, in the light of the increasing interest in this type of history.
Article by Richard Smith in British Academy Review.
Series chair: Professor Julian Hoppit FBA
Publications in the New Series
Vol. 67. Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798, edited by Richard Ansell
ISBN: 978-0-19-726780-6 hbk (2024)
284 pages
Vol. 66. The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury: Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part Two, edited by David Brown
ISBN: 978-0-19-726741-7 hbk (2023)
556 pages
Vol. 65. The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury: Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part One, edited by David Brown
ISBN: 978-0-19-726740-0 hbk (2023)
496 pages
Vol. 64. The Cantelowe Accounts: Multilingual Merchant Records from Tuscany, 1450-1451, edited by Megan Tiddeman
ISBN: 978-0-19-726685-4 hbk (2022)
204 pages
Vol. 63. The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509): From the Archives of St John's College, Cambridge, edited by Susan Powell
ISBN: 978-0-19-726704-2 hbk (2022)
818 pages
Vol. 62. Navigating the Old English Poor Law: The Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836, edited by Peter Jones and Steven King
ISBN: 978-0-19-726681-6 hbk (2020)
400 pages
Vol. 61. The Diaries and Letters of Lord Woolton 1940-1945, edited by Michael Kandiah and Judith Rowbotham
ISBN: 978-0-19-726684-7 hbk (2020)
352 pages
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
ISBN: 978-0-19-726670-0 hbk (2020)
385 pages
Vol. 59. Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c. 1690-1834, edited by Joseph Harley
ISBN: 978-0-19-726665-6 hbk (2020)
320 pages
Vol. 58. The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 2, edited by Barbara Harvey and Christopher Woolgar
ISBN: 978-0-19-726663-2 hbk (2020)
424 pages
Vol. 57. The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1, edited by Barbara Harvey and Christopher Woolgar
ISBN: 978-0-19-726662-5 hbk (2020)
336 pages
Vol. 56. The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736, edited by Anne L Murphy
ISBN: 978-0-19-726636-6 hbk (2018)
352 pages
Vol. 55. Documents of the First Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland, 1767-1839, edited by Robert J Bennett
ISBN: 978-0-19-726624-3 hbk (2018)
732 pages
Vol. 54. Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in Scotland, 1885-1979, edited by Ian Levitt
ISBN: 978-0-19-726579-6 hbk (2014)
292 pages + 4 plates
Vol. 53. The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757: Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad, edited by L M Cullen, John Shovlin and Thomas M Truxes
ISBN: 978-0-19-726562-8 hbk (2013) now manufactured on demand
356 pages
Vol. 52. The Latin Cartulary of Godstow Abbey, edited by Emilie Amt
ISBN: 978-0-19-726558-1 hbk (2014)
542 pages
Vol. 51. The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603, edited by Jane A Lawson
ISBN: 978-0-19-726526-0 hbk (2013)
752 pages
Vol. 50. Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715, Part 2: Outside Lincolnshire, edited by John Broad
ISBN: 978-0-19-726519-2 hbk (2012)
612 pages
Vol. 49. Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln, 1706-1715, Part 1: Lincolnshire, edited by John Broad
ISBN: 978-0-19-726518-5 hbk (2012)
514 pages
Vol. 48. Inside the Department of Economic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the Diary of an 'Irregular', 1964-6, edited by Roger Middleton
ISBN: 978-0-19-726500-0 hbk (2012)
252 pages
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
ISBN: 978-0-19726495-9 hbk (2012)
156 pages
[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
ISBN: 978-0-19-726479-9 hbk (2011)
340 pages + 5 plates and a free CD
Vol. 44. The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 2: 1734-1743 (Somerset), edited by John Money
ISBN: 978-0-19-726455-3 hbk (2010)
464 pages + 11 plates
Vol. 43. The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 1: 1684-1733 (Somerset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire), edited by John Money
ISBN: 978-0-19-726454-6 hbk (2010)
392 pages + 11 plates
Vol. 42. The Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296-1483, edited by Anne F Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs
ISBN: 978-0-19-726440-9 hbk (2009) manufactured on demand from 2011
454 pages + 4 plates
Vol. 41. The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648, edited by Judith M Spicksley
ISBN: 978-0-19-726432-4 hbk (2012)
446 pages + 9 plates
Vol. 40. The Bright-Meyler Papers: A Bristol-West India Connection, 1732-1837, edited by Kenneth Morgan
ISBN: 978-0-19-726405-8 hbk (2007)
728 pages + 6 plates
Vol. 39. Charters and Custumals of Shaftesbury Abbey, 1089–1216, edited by N E Stacy
ISBN: 978-0-19-726375-4 hbk (2006)
266 pages
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
ISBN: 978-0-19-726337-2 hbk (2006) reprinted in 2007, manufactured on demand from 2010
648 pages + 6 plates
Vol. 37. The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 3: Wiltshire–Yorkshire, edited by Carolyn C Fenwick
ISBN: 978-0-19-726336-5 hbk (2005)
808 pages
Vol. 36. Keynes and his Critics: Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution, 1925–1946, edited by G C Peden
ISBN: 978-0-19-726322-8 hbk (2004) manufactured on demand from 2012
390 pages
Vol. 35. Matthew and George Culley: Travel Journals and Letters, 1765–1798, edited by Anne Orde
ISBN: 978-0-19-726275-7 hbk (2002) out of print
284 pages
Vol. 34. ‘An Exact and Industrious Tradesman’: The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711–1720, edited by S D Smith
ISBN: 978-0-19-726258-0 hbk (2002) manufactured on demand from 2014
928 pages + 9 plates
Vol. 33. Surveys of the Estates of Glastonbury Abbey, c. 1135–1201, edited by N E Stacy
ISBN: 978-0-19-726253-5 hbk (2001) 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
ISBN: 978-0-19-726245-0 hbk (2001) out of print
310 pages
Vol. 31. The Diocesan Population Returns for 1563 and 1603, edited by Alan Dyer and D M Palliser
ISBN: 978-0-19-726244-3 hbk (2005) manufactured on demand from 2009
684 pages
Vol. 30. Essex Pauper Letters, 1731–1837, edited by Thomas Sokoll
ISBN: 978-0-19-726242-9 hbk (2001)
ISBN: 978-0-19-726348-8 pbk (2006)
772 pages + 20 plates
Vol. 29. The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 2: Lincolnshire-Westmorland, edited by Carolyn C Fenwick
ISBN: 978-0-19-726228-3 hbk (2001)
716 pages + 1 plate
Vol. 28. Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-57: Merchants of New York and Belfast, edited by Thomas M Truxes
ISBN: 978-0-19-726219-1 hbk (2001) manufactured on demand from 2014
464 pages + 9 plates
Vol. 27. The Poll Taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381, Part 1: Bedfordshire-Leicestershire, edited by Carolyn C Fenwick
ISBN: 978-0-19-726186-6 hbk (1998) manufactured on demand from 2013
688 pages
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
ISBN: 978-0-19-726173-6 hbk (1997) reprinted in 1998, manufactured on demand from 2014
726 pages + 9 plates
Vol. 25. The Register of Thetford Priory, Part 2: 1518–1540, edited by David Dymond
ISBN: 978-0-19-726161-3 hbk (1996) manufactured on demand from 2009
556 pages + 5 plates
Vol. 24. The Register of Thetford Priory, Part 1: 1482–1517, edited by David Dymond
ISBN: 978-0-19-726160-6 hbk (1995) manufactured on demand from 2014
410 pages + 4 plates
Vol. 23. The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England, Part 2: Prima Camera, Essex, edited by Michael Gervers
ISBN: 978-0-19-726138-5 hbk (1996) out of print
324 pages
Vol. 22. Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen, Part 2: The French Estates, edited by John Walmsley
ISBN: 978-0-19-726137-8 hbk (1994) available from Pen & Sword
160 pages
Vol. 21. The Books of Assumption of the Thirds of Benefices: Scottish Ecclesiastical Rentals at the Reformation, edited by James Kirk
ISBN: 978-0-19-726125-5 hbk (1995) out of print
986 pages
Vol. 20. Lordship and Landscape in Norfolk, 1250–1350: The Early Records of Holkham, edited by William Hassall and Jacques Beauroy
ISBN: 0-19-726093-4 hbk (1993) out of print
660 pages
Vol. 19. The Warwickshire Hundred Rolls of 1279–80: Stoneleigh and Kineton Hundreds, edited by Trevor John
ISBN: 0-19-726122-1 hbk (1992) out of print
374 pages
Vol. 18. Household Accounts from Medieval England, Part 2, edited by C M Woolgar
ISBN: 978-0-19-726113-2 hbk (1993) manufactured on demand from 2006
398 pages
Vol. 17. Household Accounts from Medieval England, Part 1, edited by C M Woolgar
ISBN: 978-0-19-726112-5 hbk (1992) manufactured on demand from 2006
446 pages
Vol. 16. An American Quaker in the British Isles: The Travel Journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775–1779, edited by Kenneth Morgan
ISBN: 978-0-19-726096-8 hbk (1992) manufactured on demand from 2006
368 pages
Vol. 15. The Account Book of Richard Latham, 1724–1767, edited by Lorna Weatherill
ISBN: 978-0-19-726092-0 hbk (1990) manufactured on demand from 2006
324 pages
Vol. 14. Contemporaries of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605–1675: Biographies, Illustrated by Letters and Other Documents, edited by Ruth Spalding
ISBN: 978-0-19-726081-4 hbk (1990) manufactured on demand from 2006
552 pages + 16 plates and 1 chart
Vol. 13. The Diary of Bulstrode Whitelocke, 1605–1675, edited by Ruth Spalding
ISBN: 978-0-19-726080-7 hbk (1990) reprinted in 1992, manufactured on demand from 2007
918 pages
Vol. 12. Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century: The Marescoe–David Letters, 1668–1680, edited by Henry Roseveare
ISBN: 0-19-726052-7 hbk (1987) out of print
ISBN: 978-0-19-726106-4 pbk (1991) out of print
668 pages
Vol. 11. The Early Records of Medieval Coventry, edited by Peter R Coss, with Trevor John
ISBN: 978-0-19-726038-8 hbk (1986) out of print
450 pages
Vol. 10. The Compton Census of 1676: A Critical Edition, edited by Anne Whiteman, with Mary Clapinson
ISBN: 978-0-19-726041-8 hbk (1986) manufactured on demand from 2014
938 pages
Vol. 9. The Making of King’s Lynn: A Documentary Survey, edited by Dorothy M Owen
ISBN: 978-0-19-726027-2 hbk (1984) manufactured on demand from 2006
524 pages
Vol. 8. The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642, edited by Donald Woodward
ISBN: 978-0-19-726029-6 hbk (1984) manufactured on demand from 2006
422 pages
Vol. 7. The Correspondence of Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven, 1693–1698: A Provincial Community in Wartime, edited by D R Hainsworth
ISBN: 978-0-19-726016-6 hbk (1983) manufactured on demand from 2014
790 pages
Vol. 6. The Cartulary of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem in England: Secunda Camera, Essex, edited by Michael Gervers
ISBN: 0-19-725996-0 hbk (1982) out of print
822 pages
Vol. 5. Charters and Custumals of the Abbey of Holy Trinity Caen, edited by Marjorie Chibnall
ISBN: 978-0-19-726009-8 hbk (1982) manufactured on demand from 2007
218 pages + 1 plate
Vol. 4. Warwickshire Grazier and London Skinner 1532-1555, edited by N W Alcock
ISBN: 0-19-726008-X hbk (1981) now manufactured on demand
310 pages
Vol. 3. The Diary of Ralph Josselin, 1616-1683, edited by Alan Macfarlane
ISBN: 0-19-725955-3 hbk (1976) out of print
ISBN: 978-0-19-726103-3 pbk (1991)
754 pages
Vol. 2. The Lay Subsidy of 1334, edited by Robin E Glasscock
ISBN: 978-0-19-725933-7 hbk (1975) manufactured on demand from 2006
554 pages + 1 plate
Vol. 1. Charters of the Honour of Mowbray, 1107–1191, edited by D E Greenway
ISBN: 978-0-19-725926-9 hbk (1972) manufactured on demand from 2006
392 pages + 1 plate