Source guides - types

Publications:

• History Theses, 1901-70. Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom
• History Theses, 1981-90. Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom
• History Theses, 1971-80. Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom
• Transport history in university theses
• Transport history in British university theses, 1959-63
• Transport history in British university theses, 1964-72
• 'Propositions put forward by quite honest men'. Company prospectuses and their contents, 1856-1940
• 'Railway prospectuses' in J Simmons, The Express Train and other Railway Studies
• Compendium of Useful Information Relating to the Companies Formed for Working British Mines; containing copies of the prospectuses ... with general observations on their progress
• General Guide to the Companies Formed for Working Foreign Mines with their Prospectuses and an Appendix Showing their Progress since their Formation
• West Riding Wool Textile Industry, 1770-1835. A study of fixed capital formation
• Indexes of the Fire Insurance Policies of the Sun Fire Office and the Royal Exchange Assurance, 1775-1787
• 'Practice of insurance against fire, 1750-1840, and historical research' in O Westall (ed), The Historian and the Business of Insurance
• Building history from fire insurance records
• Fire Insurance Records for Family and Local Historians, 1696 to 1920
• Business history from insurance policy registers
• West Riding Woollen and Worsted Industries, 1689-1770. An analysis of probate inventories and insurance policies
• Devon Cloth Industry in the Eighteenth Century. Sun Fire Office inventories of merchants' and manufacturers' property, 1726-1770
• Insurance valuations of textile mills, Dorset and Somerset
• Ceramic insurances in the Sun Company archives, 1766-1774
• Potters, Potteries and China, Glass and Earthenware Sellers, 1793 to 1813, from the Sun Fire Policy Registers
• Sun Fire insurance records, 1774-1782
• Fire insurance and ceramic history including extracts from the Sun Fire insurance policy registers, 1782-1793
• Further extracts from the Sun fire insurance policies, Guildhall; MS11,936 [1782-87]
• Thomas Chippendale's fire insurance
• Fixed capital formation in the British cotton industry, 1770-1815
• British Book Trades, 1775-1787. An index of insurance policies
• Organ builder history from fire insurance policies
• Staffordshire Potteries Insured with the Salop Fire Office, 1780-1825
• Revealing her assets. Liberating the Victorian businesswoman from the sources
• Textile factory before Arkwright. A typology of factory development
• Content and reliability of nineteenth century trade directories
• British Directories as Sources in Historical Geography
• Directories, rate books and the commercial structure of towns
• Use of business directories in comparing the industrial structure of towns. An example from the south west Pennines
• Giving directions to the town. The early town directories
• Guide to the National and Provincial Directories of England and Wales, excluding London, before 1856
• Historic Trade Directories in Guildhall Library
• The trade directory. A source for the study of early nineteenth century urban economies
• Trades and professions in late 18th century England. Assessing the evidence of directories
• Universal British Directory. A warning
• Measuring industrial growth from trade directories
• Probate Records and the Local Community
• Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in Britain, 1660-1760
• Interpreting seventeenth century probate documents. John Carter, master carpenter in St Albans
• Women and business in sixteenth century Edinburgh. Evidence from their testaments
• Material Culture of the Tradesmen of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1545-1642. The Durham probate record evidence
• Material Culture of the Tradesmen of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1545-1642. The Durham probate record evidence
• 'Limitations of the probate inventory' in J Chartres & D Hey (eds), English Rural Society, 1500-1800. Essays in honour of Joan Thirsk
• Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600-1750
• Clothing of the Common Sort, 1570-1700
• 'Probate inventories and provincial retailers in the seventeenth century' in P Riden (ed), Probate Records and the Local Community
• A man of property. Richard Sykes, merchant and alderman of Leeds
• A Yorkshire Town of the Eighteenth Century. The probate inventories of Whitby, North Yorkshire, 1700-1800
• Pinners' and Wiresellers' Book, 1462-1511
• Board minute books as a source for the study of a multinational enterprise. The case study of J & P Coats before 1914
• Joseph Robinson, turnpike road surveyor, 1772-92
• Business records at the Public Record Office
• Business records in the Public Record Office in the age of the Industrial Revolution
• Guide to equity suits in the J series at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane
• Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK
• Note on series J90 in the Public Record Office
• Public Records relating to Commerce and Industry. Proceedings of a seminar
• Records of Interest to Social Scientists, 1919 to 1939 [Public Record Office Handbook]
• Records of the Registrar of Companies
• Tracing Scottish free-standing companies. The use of the dissolved companies files in the National Archives of Scotland
• Researching shareholding and investment in England and Wales. Approaches, sources and methods
• Documentary sources relating to the work of the British Royal Navy's Victualling Board during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, 1793-1815
• Patent Cases in the Court of Chancery 1714-58
• Role of British Consular Service in overseas trade, 1825-1914
• Consular reports. A rich but neglected historical source
• British Consular Reports on the Trade and Politics of Latin America, 1824-1826
• Public records and recent British economic historiography
• Should historians trust late nineteenth century company financial statements?
• Company financial statements as source material for business historians
• Company financial statements as source material for business historians. Observations on the underlying conceptual framework
• Forgotten ledgers, law and the business historian. Gleanings from the Adam Smith Business Records Collection
• Some problems of accounting history, 1830-1900
• 'Company financial statements. An essay in business history' in T A Lee & R H Parker (eds), Evolution of Corporate Financial Reporting
• Historical business accounting records
• 'Company financial statements. An essay in businsss history, 1830-1950' in S Marriner (ed), Business and Businessmen. Studies in business, economic and accounting history
• Historical Accounting Records. A guide for archivists and researchers
• Who invested in Argentine and Uruguay?
• Saddleworth parish registers as a source for the history of the West Riding textiles industry during the eighteenth century
• John Johnson Collection. Catalogue of an exhibition
• Nation of Shopkeepers. Trade ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection. An exhibition in the Bodleian Library
• Encyclopedia of Ephemera. A guide to the fragmentary documents of everyday life for the collector, curator and historian
• Printed Ephemera. The changing uses of type and letterforms in English and American printing
• Guide to the Records of Parliament
• Sources for economic history amongst the Parliamentary records of the House of Lord's Record Office
• Factory returns, 1850-1905
• Validity of the factory returns, 1833-50
• Her Majesty's Inspectors of Factories, 1833-1983. A select historical bibliography
• Historical Trade Catalogues. An exhibition
• Literature surveys. The role of secondary journals
• Trade Catalogues. A hundred years, 1850-1949. An exhibition catalogue
• Trade journals as primary sources. Constructing histories and deconstructing knowledge
• Trade literature. Its nature, significance and treatment
• Trade Catalogues, 1542 to 1842
• Industrial welfare and recreation in Boots Pure Drug Co. Methodological perspectives
• Exploring corporate culture. The potential of company magazines for the business historian
• Heal's Catalogues, 1853-1934. Middle class furnishing. Pages reproduced from catalogues
• Business Documents. Their origins, sources and uses in historical research
• Government sources and private business. Shipbuilding in merchant yards during the Napoleonic Wars
• Devizes in the eighteenth century. The evidence from fire insurance records
• Port and Trade of Early Elizabethan London. Documents
• Scottish Customs & Excise Records; with particular reference to Strathclyde
• The Bow insurances and related matters
• Cloth, copyright, and cultural exchange. Textile designs for export to Africa at The National Archives of the UK
• Secret Life of Textiles. Six pattern book archives in North West England
• An eighteenth century woollen and worsted pattern book
• 'Reading registrations. A comparative overview of 100 years of trademark registrations in France, the United Kingdom and the United States' in T da Silva Lopes & P Duguid (eds), Trademarks, Brands and Competitiveness
• My Ancestor Was a Lawyer
• Management Accounting. An historical perspective
• Counting seafarers. The published records of the Registry of Merchant Seamen, 1849-1913
• Motive power in British industry and the accuracy of the 1870 Factory Returns
• Prometheus insured. The Sun Life Agency in Leeds during urbanization, 1716-1826
• Wealth, occupation and insurance in the late eighteenth century. The policy registers of the Sun Fire Office
• Building history from insurance records. An autobiographical fragment
• Some approaches to the study of small scale industries prior to 1914
• British fire insurance plans in the 19th and 20th centuries assist industrial historians
• British Fire Insurance Plans
• Reliability of the English port books
• Two problems in the interpretation of the port books
• London Port Books
• Appointment of ports
• Short guides to records. Port books
• Sources for maritime history. The port books of England and Wales
• Excheque port books as a source for the history of the English cloth trade
• 'Assessment of the brokage books' in M Hicks (ed), English Inland Trade, 1430-1540. Southampton and its region
• 'Brokage books as a source for local and family history' in M Hicks (ed), English Inland Trade, 1430-1540. Southampton and its region
• From Cloth to Iron. The Anglo Baltic trade in the late seventeenth century. Part I, The growth, structure and organisation of trade. Part II, The customs accounts as sources for the study of trade
• Local Customs Accounts of the Port of Exeter, 1266-1321
• King's Lynn Port Books, 1610-1614
• Port Books of Boston, 1601-1640
• 'A Somerset mercantile community. The customs district of Bridgwater, 1320-1500' in A J Webb (ed), A Maritime History of Somerset, Volume 3
• Evolution of the British Economy. Anglo-Scottish trade and political union, an inter-regional perspective, 1580-1750
• Maritime Trade of the East Anglian Ports, 1550-1590
• Pre-industrial Trade on the River Severn. A computer-aided study of the Gloucester Port Books, c1640-c1770
• Ipswich port books
• Gloucester Coastal Port Books, 1575-1765. A summary
• Study of the Edinburgh furnishing trade taken from contemporary press notices, 1708-1790
• At the coal face of history. Personal reflections on using newspapers as a source
• Newspapers as a source for studying the music business in England, 1660-1750
• North of England newspapers and their value to historians
• Regional newspapers and prosopography. A neglected source for business history
• Advertising in London newspapers, 1650-1750
• 'Content analysis and historical research on newspapers' in M Harris & A Lee (eds), The Press in English Society
• Guide to English commercial statistics, 1696-1782; with a catalogue of materials by Barbara M. Franks
• Guide to English Commercial Statistics, 1696-1782
• Questions of attribution. Registered designs at The National Archives
• 'Long term rural credit in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. The evidence of probate accounts' in T Arkell et al (eds), When Death Do Us Part. Understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England
• Petworth town and trades, 1610-1760, Parts I, II and III
• Compilation and reliability of London directories
• House Journals
• Business failure in Scotland, 1839-1913. A research note
• English bankruptcy records and statistics before 1850
• Business failure in Scotland, 1839-1913
• Sequestrations in the Scottish printing and book trade
• British book trade, 1701 to 1800
• Midlands Canals in 1871. The evidence of census
• Probate inventory of an early seventeenth century Northampton mercer
• Catalogue of Plans of Proposed Canals, Turnpike Roads, Railways and Other Public Works Deposited with the Clerks of the Peace for Northamptonshire, the County Borough of Northampton, and the Soke of Peterborough, 1792-1960, in Northamptonshire Record Office
• Trade cards at the British Museum - charming ephemera or important research resource?
• Trade Cards of Engravers
• Bristol Trade Cards. Remnants of prolific commerce
• Scientific Trade Cards in the Science Museum Collection
• British Gunmakers. Their trade cards, cases and equipment, 1760-1860
• Art of Advertising. Trade cards in eighteenth century consumer cultures
• Engrav'd Cards of Trades-men in the County of Yorkshire
• London Goldsmiths, 1200-1800. A record of the names and addresses of the craftsmen, their shop signs and trade cards
• 'Commerce and the commodity. Graphic display and selling new consumer goods in eighteenth century England' in D Ormrod & M North (eds), Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800
• Evidence from trade cards for the scientific instrument industry
• When Death Do Us Part. Understanding and interpreting the probate records of early modern England
• Victorian Decorative Glass. British designs, 1850-1914
• '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
• Sun Fire Insurance policies from the Country Department policy registers
• English Pressed Glass, 1830-1900