Document transcriptions, etc

Publications:

• Sun Fire insurance records, 1774-1782
• Fire insurance and ceramic history including extracts from the Sun Fire insurance policy registers, 1782-1793
• Staffordshire Potteries Insured with the Salop Fire Office, 1780-1825
• Patent practice in the 18th century. The diary of Samuel Taylor, threadmaker and inventor, 1722-1723
• Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
• Plymouth Building Accounts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London. Documents
• Local Port Book of Southampton for 1439-40
• Local Port Book of Southampton, 1435-36
• Port Books or Local Customs Accounts of Southampton for the Reign of Edward IV. Volume 1, 1469-1471. Volume 2, 1477-1481
• Portsmouth Customs Letter Books, 1748-1750
• Potters, Potteries and China, Glass and Earthenware Sellers, 1793 to 1813, from the Sun Fire Policy Registers
• Prices Patent Candle Co Ltd
• Publishing Firm of Cadell & Davies. Select correspondence and accounts, 1793-1836
• Quackery and Commerce in Seventeenth Century London. The proprietary medicine business of Anthony Daffy
• R R Angerstein's Illustrated Travel Diary, 1753-1755. Industry in England and Wales from a Swedish perspective
• Rebuilding of Wroxham Bridge in 1576. A transcript of the account book
• Records of a Commission of Sewers for Wiggenhall, 1319-1324
• Records of the Commissioners of Sewers in the Parts of Holland, 1547-1603
• Records of the Several Coal Owners' Association of Monmouthshire & South Wales
• Records of the Cromford & High Peak Railway Co
• Report of the Trial of the Directors and Managers of the City of Glasgow Bank; with an introduction by E A French
• Sam. An East End cabinet maker. The pocket book memoir of Sam Clarke, 1907-1979
• Selected Letters of Josiah Wedgwood
• Letters to Macmillan
• Selection of Letters Written by the Richardson Brothers (Glasssmakers of Stourbridge) to and from their Premises at 75 Lamb's Conduit Street, 1847-1851
• Dear Mr Murray. Letters to a gentleman publisher
• Selected Papers
• Selected Papers of Boulton & Watt. Vol 1. The engine partnership, 1775-1825
• Selling Silks. A merchant's sample book, 1764
• Seventeenth Century Customs Service Surveyed. William Culliford's investigation of the Western ports, 1682-84
• 'Shifnal Ironworks Accounts, 1583-90' in Shropshire Historical Documents. A miscellany
• Shires, Sales and Pigs. The story of an Ely family of auctioneers, George Comins, 1856-1997
• Sidney Ironworks Accounts, 1541-1573
• Smelting of Copper in the Swansea District from the Time of Elizabeth to the Present Day
• Society of Merchants Trading to the Continent, 1801-1936
• Some newly discovered letters from Jonathan Hornblower, 1753-1816
• Southampton Port and Brokage Books, 1448-49
• 'Supply of timber to the Royal Navy, c1803-c1830' in Susan Rose (ed), Naval Miscellany, Volume 7
• Svedenstierna's Tour Great Britain, 1802-3. The travel diary of an industrial spy ... with a new introduction by M W Flinn
• Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain. Documents
• Thames Navigation Commissioners Minutes, 1771-1790
• The American System of Manufactures. The Report of the Committee on the Machinery of the United States, 1855, and the special reports of George Wallis and Joseph Whitworth, 1854; with an introduction by Nathan Rosenberg for the University Press
• The Cely Letters, 1472-1488
• The Corsini Letters
• The Early English Customs System. A documentary study of the institutional and economic history of the customs from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century
• The English in West Africa. The local correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699. Part 1, 1681-1683; Part 2, 1685-1688; Part 3, 1691-1699
• The Factory System. Volume 1, Birth and growth. Volume 2, Factory system and society
• The Forgotten Trade; comprising the log of the 'Daniel & Henry' of 1700 and accounts of the slave trade from the minor ports of England, 1698-1725
• The Fuller Letters, 1728-1755. Guns, slaves and finance
• The Great Exhibition. A documentary history
• The Great Fishmonger of the Tay. John Richardson of Perth and Pitfour, 1760-1821
• The London Compositor. Documents relating to wages, working conditions and customs of the London printing trade, 1785-1900
• The new East India Board at the Court of Directors, 1784
• The Watchful Clothier. The life of an eighteenth century Protestant capitalist
• Thomas Chippendale's fire insurance
• Trade of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century
• Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700-1914. Volume 1. Travel and destinations
• Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700-1914. Volume 2. Spa tourism
• Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700-1914. Volume 3. Seaside holidays
• Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700-1914. Volume 4. Seaside resorts
• Trial of the City of Glasgow Bank Directors
• Trouble at the Company of Cutlers
• Two documents concerning the New Draperies
• Two Shropshire Ironmasters. Biographical extracts, letters and memoranda relating to Richard and William Reynolds
• Very Private Heritage. The family papers of Samuel Theodore Mander, 1853-1900
• Victorian Horsham. The diary of Henry Michell, 1809-1874
• 'Dockyards' in D A Baugh (ed), Naval Administration, 1715-1750
• 'Victualling' in D A Baugh (ed), Naval Administration, 1715-1750
• Virginia letters of Isaac Hobhouse, merchant of Bristol
• Voyages Metalurgiques, ou Recherches et Observations sur Les Mines et Forges de Fer, La Fabrication de L'Acier celle du Fer Blanc et plusieurs Mines de Charbon de Terre .. . [1757-1769] en Allemagne, Suede, Norvege, Angleterre et Ecosse ...
• William Buchanan and the Nineteenth Century Art Trade.100 letters to his agents in London and Italy
• William Melrose in China, 1845-1855. The letters of a Scottish tea merchant
• William Smith, Richard Trevithick and Samuel Homfray. Their correspondence on steam engines, 1804-1806
• Woollen Industry of South West England
• York Mercers and Merchant Adventurers, 1356-1917
• A city in search of yarn. The journal of Edward Taylor of Norwich, 1817
• A man of property. Richard Sykes, merchant and alderman of Leeds
• A Scottish Firm in Virginia, 1767-1777. W Cuninghame & Co
• A Selection from the Records of Philip Foley's Stour Valley Iron Works, 1668-74. Parts I and II
• A trip to Whitehaven to visit the coal works there in 1739 by Sir John Clerk
• A West Looe shipbuilding contract of 1686
• A Year in Europe Comprising a Journal of Observation in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Switzerland, the North of Italy and Holland in 1818 and 1819
• A Yorkshire Town of the Eighteenth Century. The probate inventories of Whitby, North Yorkshire, 1700-1800
• Account Book of the York Company of Silkweavers, 1611-1700
• Alexander Fothergill and the Richmond to Lancaster Turnpike Road. The diary and other documents transcribed, indexed and introduced
• Aluminium Co Ltd. Some early documents
• American correspondence of a Bristol Merchant, 1766-1776. Letters of Richard Champion
• An Aleppo merchant's letters
• An American Quaker in the British Isles. The travel journals of Jabez Maud Fisher, 1775-1779
• An Eighteenth Century Shopkeeper. Abraham Dent of Kirkby Stephen
• 'An Exact and Industrious Tradesman'. The letter book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711-1720
• Anglo American life insurance, 1800-1914
• Cannock Chase Ironworks, 1590
• Business, Life and Letters of Frederick Cornes. Aspects of the evolution of commerce in modern Japan, 1861-1910
• Coal mining at Hoyland
• Chester Customs Accounts,1301-1566
• Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865. The industrial transformation
• City of Glasgow Bank Publications
• Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain
• Autobiography of William Stout of Lancaster, 1665-1752
• Bank of England. Selected tracts, 1694-1804. A collection of seven rare works republished from originals in the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, the University of London
• Battles over Free Trade
• Birmingham Small Arms Co. Extracts from records for the period 1861-1900
• Bound for the Tyne. Extracts from the diary of Ralph Jackson, apprentice hostman of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1749-1756
• Brewer's Tale. A history of ale in Yorkshire
• Bridges of Shrewsbury
• British Company Legislation and Company Accounts, 1844-1976
• British Cotton Trade, 1600-1815
• Brunel's 'locked diary'
• British Economic Development in South East Asia, 1800-1939
• Collected Letters of A W N Pugin
• Collection of Letters to Sir Charles William Siemens, 1823-1883
• Commercial Papers of Sir Christopher Lowther, 1611-1644
• Correspondence of Sir John Lowther of Whitehaven, 1693-1698. A provincial community in wartime
• Committee Books of the Theatre Royal, Norwich, 1768-1825
• Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire. Extracts from the records of the Cutlers' Company
• Company of White Paper Makers in Hampshire. An inventory of plant
• Compt Buik of David Wedderburne, Merchant of Dundee, 1587-1630; together with the shipping lists of Dundee, 1580-1618
• Cooks of York
• Coopers' Company, London. Historical memoranda, charters, documents and extracts from the records of the Corporation and the Company, 1396-1848
• Correspondence of David Scott, Director and Chairman of the East India Company, Relating to Indian Affairs. Volume 1, 1787-99. Volume 2, 1800-05
• Courtauld Family Letters, 1782-1900
• Customs Letter Books of the Port of Liverpool, 1711-1813
• Daniel Hechstetter the Younger. Memorabilia and letters, 1600-1639. Copper works and life in Cumbria
• Day Book of John Walker, Inventor of Friction Matches. Annotated extracts
• Devon and the Slave Trade. Documents on African enslavement, abolition and emancipation from 1562 to 1867
• Devon Cloth Industry in the Eighteenth Century. Sun Fire Office inventories of merchants' and manufacturers' property, 1726-1770
• Diaries of James Simmons, Papermaker of Haslemere, 1831-1868
• Diaries of John Bird of Cardiff. Clerk to the first Marquess of Bute
• Diary of a Shipston Solicitor, 1826
• Diary of Charles Wood of Cyfarthfa Ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil, 1766-1767; with an introduction by Philip Riden
• Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, weaver, 1860 to 1864
• Diary of Mary Hardy, 1773-1809
• Diary of Sir Edward Watkin
• Diary of Thomas Butler of Kirkstall Forge, 1796-1799
• Diary of Thomas Turner, 1754-1765
• Diary of a Georgian Shopkeeper. A selection
• Diary of Tryall Holcroft, 1809-1880
• Diary of William Henry Tucker, 1825-1850
• Documents Illustrative of the Slave Trade to America
• Documents Illustrating the Wiltshire Textile Trades in the Eighteenth Century
• Documents Illustrating the Overseas Trade of Bristol in the Sixteenth Century
• 'Letters of Henry Hindley of Mere, 1662-75' in J de L Mann (ed), Documents Illustrating the Wiltshire Textile Trades in the Eighteenth Century
• Letter Books of Joseph Holroyd (cloth factor) and Samuel Hill (clothier). Documents illustrating the organisation of the Yorkshire textile industry in the early 18th century
• 'Papers of George Wansey of Warminster, 1731-61' in J de L Mann (ed), Documents Illustrating the Wiltshire Textile Trades in the Eighteenth Century
• 'Letters of Usher & Jeffries of Trowbridge, 1726-42' in J de L Mann (ed), Documents Illustrating the Wiltshire Textile Trades in the Eighteenth Century
• East India Company, 1600-1858. A short history with documents
• Overseas Trade of London. Exchequer customs accounts, 1480-1
• Overseas Trade of Boston in the Reign of Richard II
• Ducal Estate Management in Georgian Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire. The diary of William Gould, 1783-1788
• Early Days in a Dundee Mill, 1819-23. Extracts from the diary of William Brown, an early Dundee spinner
• Early English Cotton Industry; with some unpublished letters of Samuel Crompton
• Early History of the Don Navigation
• Early Kentish Seaside, 1736-1840. Selected documents with a commentary
• 'Edmund Drummer's 'Account of the general progress and advancement of His Majesty's New Dock and Yard at Plymouth, December 1694'' in Naval Miscellany, Volume 6
• Eliot Papers. Volume 1. John Eliot of London, merchant, 1735-1813
• Elizabethan Keswick. Extracts from the original account books, 1564-1577, of the German miners in the archives of Augsburg
• Entrepreneurship in Britain, 1750-1939
• Extracts from the Records of the Company of Hostmen of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Extracts from the Records of the Merchant Adventurers of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Faber & Faber. The untold history of a great publishing house
• Ferrner's Journal, 1759/60. An industrial spy in Bath and Bristol
• Free Banking
• Francis Thompson's visit to Cardiganshire mines in 1788
• Further extracts from the Sun fire insurance policies, Guildhall; MS11,936 [1782-87]
• Georgian Diary, 1780. George Hodgkinson junior, apprentice attorney of Southwell, Nottinghamshire
• Glen Account Book, 1838-1858; with an introduction and indexes by Arnold Myers
• Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 4. BP
• Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 2. BBC
• Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 1. Barclays Bank
• Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 9. Rio Tinto
• Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 5. Cable & Wireless
• Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 7. Marks & Spencer
• Global Companies in the Twentieth Century. Selected archival histories. Vol 8. Royal Dutch Shell
• Great Bubbles
• Gunpowder Mills. Documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
• History of Banking II. 1844-1959
• History of Banking I
• History of Corporate Finance. Development of Anglo American securities markets, financial practices, theories and laws
• History of Corporate Governance. The importance of stakeholder activism
• History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995
• History of Insurance
• History of the Company. Development of the business corporation, 1700-1914. Parts 1 and 2
• Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835; with a new introduction by W H Chaloner
• Incorporated Company of Barber Surgeons & Wax & Tallow Chandlers of Newcastle upon Tyne
• Industrial Britain under the Regency. The diaries of Escher, Bodmer, May and de Gallors, 1814-18
• Papers Relating to the Ships and Voyages of the Company of Scotland Trading to Africa & the Indies, 1696-1707
• Oakes Diaries. Business, politics and the family in Bury St Edmunds. Volume 1, 1778-1800. Volume 2, 1801-27
• Observations Made on a Journey through the Western Counties of Scotland in the Autumn of MDCCXCII relating to the Scenery, Antiquaries, Customs, Manners, Population, Agriculture, Manufactures, Commerce, Political Condition and Literature of these Parts
• Iron in the Making. Dowlais Iron Company letters, 1782-1860
• J C Fischer and his Diary of Industrial England, 1814-1851
• John Isham, Mercer and Merchant Adventurer. Two account books of a London merchant in the reign of Elizabeth I
• Johann Conrad Fischer, 1773-1854. Tagebucher
• 'John Sutcliffe, clothier of Holdsworth, Ovenden,1723-1801' in F Atkinson (ed), Some Aspects of the Eighteenth Century Woollen and Worsted Trade in Halifax
• Joshua Field's diary of a tour in the Midlands, 1821; with introduction and notes
• Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 through the provinces, 1821, Part II; with introduction and notes
• Joshua Johnson's Letterbook, 1771-1774. Letters from a merchant in London to his partners in Maryland
• Journal and Letter Book of Nicholas Buckeridge, 1651-1654
• Journal of a Tour of Scotland in 1819; with introduction and notes by C H Herford
• Journal of Thomas Cuningham of Campvere, 1640-1654
• Journeys of Celia Fiennes
• Lancashire and Cheshire coal mining records
• Lancashire and Whitehall. The diary of Sir Raymond Streat. Volume 1, 1931-39. Volume 2, 1939-57
• Later Kentish Seaside, 1840-1974. Selected documents with a commentary
• Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-1550
• Ledger of Thomas Speed, 1681-1690
• Legal Regulation of British Company Accounts, 1836-1900. Vol 1, Statutory companies. Vol 2, Registered companies
• 'Letter book of John Clerk, 1644-45' in Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, Volume 15
• Letter Book of Thomas Hill, 1660-1661. Westcountry mercantile affairs and the wider world
• Letter Books of W Gilbertson & Co Ltd, Pontardawe, 1890-1929
• Letters and Papers Concerning the Establishment of the Trent, Ancholme & Grimsby Railway, 1860-1862
• Letters from Dumfries to a Scottish factor at Rotterdam, 1676-83
• Letters of Henry Liddell to William Cotesworth
• Letters of Josiah Wedgwood
• Letters of Philip Stannard, Norwich Textile Manufacturer, 1751-1763
• Letters of Sir George Simpson, 1841-1843
• London Correspondence Inward from Sir George Simpson, 1841-42
• Letters of William Freeman, London Merchant, 1678-1685
• Lunar Society. Its membership and organisation
• 'Management of the Royal Dockyards, 1672-1678' in Naval Miscellany, Volume 5
• Metallurgist Johann Conrad Fischer, 1773-1854
• Minutes of Meetings of the Cromford Canal Company, 1789-1799
• Minutes of the Board of Directors of the Reading, Guildford & Reigate Railway Co
• Minutes of the Chesterfield Canal Company, 1771-80
• Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1671-1674
• Minutes of the trustees of the turnpike roads from Liverpool to Prescot, St Helens, Warrington and Ashton in Makerfield, 1726-1789. Part I, 1776-53; Part II, 1753-89
• Monopoly on the Tyne, 1650-58. Papers relating to Ralph Gardner
• Notebook and Account Book of Nicholas Stone, Master Mason to James I and Charles I
• Notebook of Thomas Shakeshaft, 1751-1764, Carpenter and Cabinet Maker, 1731-1821
• Notes of a Tour in the Manufacturing Districts of Lancashire; with a new introduction by W H Chaloner
• 'A wine merchant's letter book' in R Pares & A J P Taylor (eds), Essays Presented to Sir Lewis Namier
• Acts and Ordinances of the Company of Merchant Taylors in the City of York
• James Brindley, 1716-72, and his remuneration as a canal engineer. New evidence
• James Watt and the Steam Revolution
• Merchant Taylors' Company of London. Court minutes, 1486-1493
• 'The Batten Castle. The account book of a small home trade sailing vessel' in S Fisher (ed), West Country Maritime and Social History
• Account books of the Disko Bay of Newcastle, 1784-1802. A case study of vessel management costs and profitability in the British shipping industry
• Innocent Espionage. The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' tour of England in 1785
• Notebook of Thomas Noblet, Joiner from the Fylde in Lancashire
• Notebook of Thomas Noblet, a Lancashire joiner
• Inventory of George Ecton, 'potter' of Abingdon, Berkshire, 1696
• Cornwall, the Canaries and the Atlantic. The letter book of Valentine Enys, 1704-1719
• Norfolk inventory of mercery, 1403
• Three Letters from Thos Telford; with an introduction and notes
• A London merchant's letter book, 1698-1704
• James Claypoole's Letter Book, London and Philadelphia, 1681-1684
• Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London. An edition and translation
• Wardens' Accounts and Court Minute Books of the Goldsmiths' Mistery of London, 1334-1446
• The Kalmeter Journal. The journal of a visit to Cornwall, Devon and Somerset, 1724-25, of Henric Kalmeter, 1693-1750
• The Hatchett Diary. A tour through the counties of England and Scotland in 1796, visiting their mines and manufactories
• Map Trade in the late Eighteenth Century. Letters to the London map sellers, Jefferys & Faden
• Extracts from the letter book of a Dover merchant, 1737-1741
• Birth of the Great Western Railway. Extracts from the diary and correspondence of George Henry Gibbs
• George Sitwell's Letterbook, 1662-66
• 'Joseph Holroyd, cloth factor, of Sowerby, Halifax' in F Atkinson (ed), Some Aspects of the Eighteenth Century Woollen and Worsted Trade in Halifax
• Joseph Johnson Letterbook
• Leaves from Consett Iron Company Letter Books, 1887-1893
• Letterbook of Richard Crawshay, 1788-1797
• Letterbook of Greg & Cunningham, 1756-57, Merchants of New York and Belfast
• 'Samuel Hill, clothier, of Making Place, Soyland,1677-1759' in F Atkinson (ed), Some Aspects of the Eighteenth Century Woollen and Worsted Trade in Halifax
• Some Aspects of the Eighteenth Century Woollen and Worsted Trade in Halifax
• Arctic Whaling Journals of William Scoresby, the Younger
• East India Company Journals of Captain William Keeling and Master Thomas Bonner, 1615-1617
• Extracts from the Journals of Mary Waterhouse, 1825-1880
• Journal of a West India Proprietor; kept during a residence in the island of Jamaica
• 'Beginning and the End of the Lewis Chemical Works, 1857-1874' in Scottish Industrial History. A miscellany
• 'Journal of Henry Brown, woollen manufacturer, Galashiels, 1828-1829' in Scottish Industrial History. A miscellany
• 'Journal of Henry Kalmeter's travels in Scotland, 1719-1720' in Scottish Industrial History. A miscellany
• 'North British Railway Inquiry of 1866' in Scottish Industrial History. A miscellany
• Journal of Joseph Robinson Pease, 1822-1865
• Lady Charlotte Guest. Extracts from her journal, 1833-52
• Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Extracts from her journal, 1853-91
• 'Lawrence Oxley's accounts, 1672-81' in J V Beckett (ed), A Seventeenth Century Scarsdale Miscellany
• Journal of Sir Peter Laurie
• Memoirs of a Victorian Master Mariner by Captain Hilary Marquand; ... with an introduction by Philip Riden
• Memoirs of a Smuggler Compiled from His Diary and Journal; containing the principal events in the life of John Rattenbury of Beer
• Memoirs of Edwin Waterhouse. A founder of Price Waterhouse
• Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney; with selections from his journal and memoirs
• 'Mines of the Sixties'. A selection of contributions of H C Salmon, Truro. Correspondence in the Mining Journal between 1860 and 1864
• Mining in Chile's Norte Chico. Journal of Charles Lambert, 1825-1830
• Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore
• Sir Moses Montefiore. A centennial biography with extracts from letters and journals
• Slate Trade in North Wales
• Slave Captain. The career of James Irving in the Liverpool slave trade
• Memoirs of Captain Hugh Crow. The life and times of a slave trade captain
• A link with Rennie
• Abiah Darby, 1716-1793, of Coalbrookdale, Wife of Abraham Darby II
• An Engineer at Work in the West Midlands. The diary of John Urpeth Rastrick for 1820
• Astrological Diary of the Seventeenth Century. Samuel Jeake of Rye, 1652-1699
• Boulby Alum. The works diary of George Dodds, 1772-1788
• Charcoal Iron Industry of Powys Land
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The architectural papers
• Chronicle of Small Beer. The early Victorian diaries of a Hertfordshire brewer
• Diaries of Sanderson Miller of Radway
• An Eighteenth Century Correspondence; being the letters ... to Sanderson Miller
• Diaries of Sir Daniel Gooch; with an introduction by Sir Theodore Martin
• Sir Daniel Gooch. Memoirs and diary
• Diaries of Sir Edward Pease, the Father of English Railways
• Diary of Abigail Gawthern of Nottingham, 1751-1810
• Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester, 1712-15
• Diary of John Campbell. A Scottish Banker and the 'Forty-Five' ... ; with an introduction by John S Gibson
• Diary of John Holt
• Diary of John Holt and the Voyage of the Maria
• Diary of Joseph Jenkinson of Dronfield, 1833-43
• 'Diary of Joseph Rogerson, scribbling miller of Bramley, 1808-1814' in W B Crump (ed), Leeds Woollen Industry
• 'Records of mill practice' in W B Crump (ed), Leeds Woollen Industry
• Diary of Julius Hardy, 1788-1793, button maker of Birmingham
• Diary of William Mackenzie; the first international railway contractor
• William Metcalfe - His Book. The diary of a North Yorkshire farmer and banker, 1786-99
• Edwin Octavius Tregelles. Civil engineer and minister of the gospel
• From Guano to Gold. The diary and letters of Vicary Gibbs from 1883-85
• From R B Dockray's Diary
• John Smeaton's Diary of his Journey to the Low Countries from the Original MS in the Library of Trinity House, London; with an introduction by Arthur Tilney
• Leaves from the Past. The diary of John Allen, sometime brewer of Wapping, 1757-1808. Written between February and July 1777
• Luke Graves Hansard, his Diary, 1814-1841. A case study in the reform of patronage
• Ossie Clark Diaries
• Oxley Parker Papers. From the letters and diaries of an Essex family of land agents in the nineteenth century
• Quaker Journal; being the diary and reminiscences of William Lucas of Hitchin, 1804-1861
• The Unexpurgated Beaton. The Cecil Beaton diaries as they were written
• Thomas Sopwith; with excerpts from his diary of fifty seven years
• Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant, 1647-1656
• Yorkshire blanketmaker's diary
• Extracts from the private ledger of Arthur Heywood of Liverpool, merchant and banker
• Ledger of Andrew Halyburton : conservator of the privileges of the Scotch nation in the Netherlands, 1492-1503 : together with the book of customs and valuation of merchandises in Scotland, 1612
• Ledger of Charles Ackers, Printer of the London Magazine
• Letters of John Paige, London Merchant, 1648-1658
• London Bridge. Selected accounts and rentals, 1381-1538
• The Spanish Company
• Shipbuilding on the Exe. The memoranda book of Daniel Bishop Davy, 1799-1874, of Topsham, Devon; with a biography of Robert Davy, 1762-1862
• Extracts from an old Leeds merchant's memorandum book, 1770-1786, and copies of certain loose papers therein
• Woollen Manufacturing in Yorkshire. The memorandum books of John Brearley, cloth frizzer at Wakefield, 1758-1762
• Local Customs Accounts of the Port of Exeter, 1266-1321
• Portsmouth & Sheet Turnpike Commissioners' Minute Book, 1711-1754
• Business as usual
• Samuel Roberts, Clockmaker. An eighteenth century craftsman in a Welsh rural community
• Business Diaries of Sir Alexander Grant
• Printer to the House. The story of Hansard
• William Duesbury's Account Book, 1751-53
• British Consular Reports on the Trade and Politics of Latin America, 1824-1826
• Extracts from 18th century London newspapers and Petworth House archives
• Dinner Book of the London Drapers' Company, 1564-1602
• Trowbridge Woollen Industry as Illustrated by the Stock Books of John & Thomas Clark, 1804-1824
• The Cely Papers. Selections from the correspondence and memoranda of the Cely family, merchants of the Staple, AD 1475-1488
• Cheshire Motor Vehicle Registrations, 1904-07
• William Green, coffer maker to Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I
• George Moore and Friends. Letters from a Manx merchant, 1750-1760
• Records Relating to the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol in the Seventeenth Century
• Goldney Family. A Bristol merchant dynasty
• Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth Century Slave Trade to America
• Politics and the Port of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century. The petitions of the Society of Merchant Venturers, 1698-1803
• Port of Bristol, 1848-1884
• Proceedings, Minutes and Enrolments of the Company of Soapmakers, 1562-1642
• Merchants and Merchandise in Seventeenth Century Bristol
• 'Some eighteenth century trading accounts' in F N L Poynter (ed), The Evolution of Pharmacy in Britain
• John Galloway, 1804-1894, Engineer of Manchester and his 'Reminiscences'
• Letters of Thomas Langton, Flax Merchant of Kirkham, 1771-1788
• A holograph letter from George Stephenson
• George Stephenson. The engineer and his letters
• Register of Letters etc of the Governour and Company of Merchants of London Trading into the East Indies, 1600-1619
• Letters of Henry Hoare, 1760-1781
• Notebook of a Devon Great Consols Mine Captain, 1886-1900
• Walter Morrell’s ‘Manufacture for the New Draperie’ (1616)
• Gilbert Szlumper and Leo Amery of the Southern Railway. The diaries of a general manager and a director
• Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736
• Fleet Street, Press Barons and Politics. The journals of Collin Brooks, 1932-1940
• Literary Correspondence of the Tonsons
• York Oswaldkirk Turnpike Trust, 1768-1881
• Old Hand Knitters of the Dales
• Early Yorkshire Woollen Trade. Extracts from the Hull custom's rolls and complete transcripts of the ulnagers' rolls
• Customs Accounts of Hull, 1453-1490
• Seventeenth Century Economic Documents
• Tudor Economic Documents; being select documents illustrating the economic and social history of Tudor England. Volume 1, Agriculture and industry
• Tudor Economic Documents; being select documents illustrating the economic and social history of Tudor England. Volume 2, Commerce, finance and the poor law
• Tudor Economic Documents; being select documents illustrating the economic and social history of Tudor England. Volume 3, Pamphlets, memoranda and literary extracts
• Norwich's textile industry in 1784, observed by Maximilien de Lazowski
• Customs accounts of Dumfries and Kirkcudbrightshire, 1560-1660
• Customs Accounts of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1454-1500
• James Buckley's Cash Book, 1729-1733
• Merchant Adventurers of England. Their laws and ordinances with other documents
• Papermaking in the Stamford Mercury, 1714-1814
• Correspondence of Robert Dodsley, 1733-1764
• World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930
• Charter of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards
• Law Book of the Crowley Ironworks
• Records of the Company of Shipwrights of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1622-1967
• Lowther family estate books, 1617-1675
• Alfred Booth. Some memories, letters and other family records
• Diary of George Mushet, 1805-1813
• Documents of the First Chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland, 1767-1839
• Newbury and Chilton Pond Turnpike Records, 1766-1791
• 'I Hope to Have a Good Passage...'. The business letters of Captain Daniel Jenkins, 1902-11
• Victorian Cabinet Maker. The memoirs of James Hopkinson, 1819-1894
• Life and Travels of James Upjohn
• John Smith, Papermaker of East Morton, 1794-1871
• Old Glasgow Weavers; being records of the Incorporation of Weavers
• Pens and Patronage. Some unpublished letters to Joseph Gillott
• Account role of a fifteenth century ironmaster
• Southchurch Chapel and the earliest building contract in England
• Thieveley Lead Mines, 1629-1635
• Nicholas Hawksmoor's building notebook
• All that Glittered. Selected correspondence of Lionel Phillips, 1890-1924
• Documents relating to the Lorraine glassmakers in North Staffordshire with some notes thereon
• Minutes Relating to Messrs Samuel Walker & Co, Rotherham, Iron Founders and Steel Refiners, 1741-1829, and Walkers Parker & Co, Lead Manufacturers, 1788-1893
• Letters of a West African Trader, Edward Grace, 1767-70; with an introduction by T S Ashton
• Ship Registers of the Port of Hayle, 1864-1882
• River Wear Commissioners. Extracts from their papers, 1717-1846
• Derbyshire Lead Industry in the Sixteenth Century
• Glassmaking at Wollaton in the early seventeenth century
• Origins of an Industrial Region. Robert Morris and the first Swansea copper works, c1727-1730
• Quaker Homespun. The life of Thomas Fox of Wellington, serge maker and banker, 1747-1821
• Directions for the conduct of a merchant's counting house, 1766
• Naught But Trouble - the Hays in Yell, 1755-1824
• Some experiences of a country bookseller, Henry Stone, 1818-1895 (written about the year 1879)
• Leominster Fair, 1556
• Letters of John Buddle to Lord Londonderry, 1820-1834
• The Making of King's Lynn. A documentary survey
• A Warwickshire Colliery in the Seventeenth Century
• Papers on Peter May, Land Surveyor, 1749-1793
• Partners in Science. Letters of James Watt and Joseph Black
• Matthew Murray, Pioneer Engineer. Records from 1765 to 1826
• Building in England down to 1540. A documentary history
• Letters of Richard Reynolds; with a memoir of his life
• Navigation of the Great Ouse Between St Ives and Bedford in the Seventeenth Century
• Reynolds-Rathbone Diaries and Letters, 1753-1839. Edited by Mrs Eustace Greg
• Derby Modellers, 1786-1796. Extracts from original documents
• 'Journal of Matthias Dunn, 1831-1836. Some observations of a colliery viewer' in R W Sturgess (ed), Essays on North East Coalmining in the Nineteenth Century
• Free Trade and Protection
• Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550-1590
• The Great Reclothing of Rural England. Petty chapmen and their wares in the seventeenth century
• A medieval Scots merchant's handbook
• John Norton & Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia; being the papers from their counting house for the years 1750 to 1795
• Account of the Mining Districts of Alston Moor, Weardale and Teesdale in Cumberland and Durham ...
• Letters from Hudson Bay, 1703-40
• John Dwight's Fulham Pottery, 1672-1978. A collection of documentary sources
• Luddites
• 'A Bristol glassworks, c1730' in P McGrath (ed), A Bristol Miscellany
• 'Calendar of correspondence of William Miles to John Tharp, 1770-1789' in P McGrath (ed), A Bristol Miscellany
• Port Books of Southampton; or Anglo French accounts of Robert Florys, water bailiff and receiver of petty customs, AD1427-1430
• Capitalism, Community and Conflict. The South Wales coalfield, 1898-1947
• Markets and Merchants of the Late Seventeenth Century. The Marescoe-David letters, 1668-1680
• Gresford Colliery Explosion, 1934
• English Historical Documents, Vols 1-5, 8-12
• Andrew Graham's Observations on Hudson's Bay, 1767-91; with an introduction by Richard Glover
• Minutes of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1679-1684. First part, 1679-82; Second part, 1682-84
• Letters Outward, 1688-1696. Hudson's Bay copy booke of letters, commissions, instructions, outward, 1688-1696
• Letters Outward, 1679-1694. Copy Book of Letters Outward etc, Begins 29 May1680, Ends 5 July 1687
• Eden Colvile's Letters, 1849-1852. London correspondence inward from Eden Colvile, 1849-1852
• Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296-1483
• Warwickshire Grazier and London Skinner, 1532-1555. The account book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage
• Brokage Books of Southampton for 1477-78 and 1527-28
• Ordinance Book of the Merchants of the Staple
• Thomas of Coldingham, burgess and merchant of Berwick
• Brokage Book of Southampton from 1439-40. Volume 1, 1439-40
• Brokage Book of Southampton, 1443-1444
• China Trade and Empire. Jardine Matheson & Co and the origins of British rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843
• Port Book of Southampton, 1509-10; with an introduction and glossary by J E Hewittincluding exports and impoprts
• English Economic History. Select documents
• Bright Meyler Papers. A Bristol West India connection, 1732-1837
• History of the Virginia Company of London; with letters to and from the first colony never before printed
• Life and Letters of Alexander Macmillan
• Bristol's Trade with Ireland and the Continent, 1503-1601. The evidence of Exchequer Customs Accounts
• Letters of Alexander Macmillan
• British economic development since 1945
• Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640
• Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company, 1576 to 1602; from Register B
• Records of the Court of the Stationers' Company, 1602 to 1640
• States of the Annual Progress of the Linen Manufacture, 1727-1754
• Documents in English Economic History. Volume 2, England since 1760
• Documents in English Economic History. Volume 1, England from 1000 to 1760
• Source Book of Scottish Economic and Social History
• James Brindley's Notebooks
• Cumberland and Hudson House Journals, 1775-82. First series, 1775-79; Second series1779-82
• Letters of Charles John Brydges, 1883-1889, Hudson's Bay Company Land Commissioner
• Letters of Charles John Brydges, 1879-1882, Hudson's Bay Company Land Commissioner
• Pressure Groups in Britain, 1720-1970. An essay on interpretation with original documents
• A Pitman's Notebook. The diary of Edward Smith, Houghton Colliery viewer, 1749-1751
• Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648
• Wright & Elwick of Wakefield, 1748-1824. A study in provincial patronage
• Accounts of the English Crown with Italian Merchant Societies, 1272-1345
• Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool, c1200-c1327
• The Financial Revolution, 1660-1760
• Gunfounding at Heathfield in the eighteenth century
• British Linen Company, 1745-1775
• A colliery payroll in 1802
• Centenary Memorial of the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey, Compiled from Original Sources
• Fort Victoria Letters, 1846-1851
• James Isham's Observations on Hudson's Bay, 1743, and Notes and Observations on a Book Entitled 'A Voyage to Hudson's Bay in the Dobbs Galley', 1749
• Colin Robertson's Correspondence Book, September 1817 to September 1822
• Hudson's Bay Miscellany, 1670-1870
• Journal of Occurrences in the Athabasca Department by George Simpson, 1820 and 1821, and Report
• Moose Fort Journals, 1783-85
• The Oldest London Bookshop. A history of two hundred years ... to which is appended a family correspondence of the eighteenth century
• Laws of the goldsmiths of Norwich
• Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, from AD1550 to AD1563
• Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London
• Minutes of the Council of the Northern Department of Rupert Land, 1821-31
• Letters of John McLoughlin from Fort Vancouver to the Governor and Committee. First series, 1825-38, second series, 1839-44, third series, 1844-46
• Great Tour of John Patteson, 1778-1779
• Correspondence of Lord FitzWilliam of Milton and Francis Guybon, His Steward, 1697-1709
• Clothiers and Merchants in Spanish Cloth, 1627-1665. The Ashe family of Somerset, Wiltshire and London and their account books
• Hugh Alley's Caveat. The markets of London in 1598
• History of the Blacketts
• Dutch Hatmakers of Late Medieval and Tudor London
• An account book of William Gadcum. A glimpse into working life of a Farnham carpenter, 1754-1842
• Staffing and finance of a minor theatre
• Edinburgh Goldsmiths' Minutes, 1525-1700
• Records of a Scottish Cloth Manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire, 1681-1703
• Arthur Pond's journal of receipts and expenses, 1734-1750
• 'Daily ledger of John Dorne, 1520' in C R L Fletcher (ed), Collectanea First Series
• 'Coaching in and out of Oxford, 1820-40, by William Bayzand' in Collectanea. Fourth series
• A Wealth of Happiness and Many Bitter Trials. The journals of Sir Alfred Edward Pease, a restless man
• Alexander Stuart Strahan, c1835-1918. 'A most generous publisher'
• Early Chancery Proceedings concerning members of the book trade
• Plymouth Porcelain Factory. Letters to Thomas Pitt, 1766-69. Parts I and II
• 'William Bulmer's will' in Studies in the Book Trade in Honour of Graham Pollard
• Collected Letters of William Morris. Vol 1, 1848-80; Vol 2A, 1881-84; Vol 2B, 1885-88; Vol 3, 1889-92; Vol4, 1893-96
• A King's Printer at work. Two documents of Robert Barker
• Minute Book of the Petworth Turnpike Trustees, 1757-1801
• Unequall'd elegance. Mayhew & Inces's furniture for James Alexander, 1st Earl of Caledon
• William Palmer, Master Engraver, 1735-1812
• Unravelling the Mystery. Vol 1. The story of the Goldsmiths' Company in the twentieth century. Vol 2. A selection of minutes
• Thomas Warden, c1660-1701, and cane chair-makers in the City of London
• Documents of the Rose Playhouse
• 'Playhouses, 1560-1660' in G Wickham, H Berry & W Ingram (eds), English Professional Theatre, 1530-1660
• Recovering a 'lost' account. Thomas Chippendale at No 11 St James's Square, London
• Benjamin Vulliamy and the Derby Porcelain Manufactory, 1784–1795; from original documents ...
• John Coleman Isaac, 'importer of curiosities'. An outline of his life and the 1846 Continental Diary
• Bedford Street Warehouse and the London China Trade, 1773-1796. References from original documents
• European Competition, Trade and Influence, 1768-1796
• 'Sun Fire Office. Insurance policies of keyboard instrument builders active in London, 1775-1787. Parts I and II' in Mark Humphreys, Handbooks for Studies in 18th Century English Music, Vols, 12-13
• The Bow insurances and related matters
• Sun Fire Insurance policies from the Country Department policy registers