Bøger i Victoria County History serien

Boydell & Brewer are pleased to announce that as from 1 December 2001 they will be distributing the Victoria County History, which has an international reputation as a work of reference for English local history. Begun in 1899, the publication of about three new volumes each year is gradually creating an encyclopedic history of the counties, ranging from earliest times to the present. For each county there is or is planned a set of volumes, containing general chapters on subjects such as prehistory and ecclesiastical and economic history, and topographical chapters giving a comprehensive, fully referenced account of each city, town and village in the county. Fourteen county sets have been completed; work is in progress on a further thirteen.

The Isle of Ely: Liberty and City of Ely. Ely, North and South Witchford, and Wisbech hundreds.

Contains chapters on Natural History, Early Man and Anglo-Saxon Remains. This book also presents an introduction to the Cambridgeshire Domesday, a translation of the "Text of Cambridgeshire Domesday" and a translation of the "Inquisitio Comitatus Cantabrigiensis".

Social and Economic History. Ecclesiastical History. Religious Houses. Industries. Political History.

This volume contains the history of the City of Cambridge, the University of Cambridge and the Colleges and Halls of the University. Also included are Cambridge University and Borough Hearth Tax Assessments.

This volume completes the survey of Holderness wapentake begun in Volume five of the East Riding series. It examines the predominantly rural area between Hull and the North Sea, the undulating plain which formed the northern and middle parts of the wapentake.

The history of a high part of the Cotswold hills, extending from the steep escarpment above Cheltenham south-eastwards to the small town of Northleach on the Foss Way, is detailed in this volume.

Volume ten of the Essex series explores the area of Lexden Hundred to the north and west of Colchester. Historically dominated by Colchester, the area includes three small towns of noteworthy character: Dedham, Wivenhoe, and Earl's Colne.

Listing books, pamphlets and sale catalogues located in public libraries, local newspapers and periodicals and articles in a range of journals, this volume is a second supplement to the bibliography published in 1959. It is divided into three parts: works on the county of Essex, biography and family history, and individual places and regions.

This text presents the history of the south-east corner of Somerset bordering Wiltshire and Dorset, comprising the outliers of Salisbury Plain on the east and part of a clay vale to the west and including a natural route westwards followed by the two principal London-Exeter roads and the railway.

This history of Middlesex looks from the tidal mills at Stepney along the Thames in the 11th century, to the metropolitan borough in 1900 and right up to the 1990s. Topics covered include local government, religious life and economic development.

This volume contains the histories of five ancient parishes in Oxfordshire, comprising the small town of Bampton and some 13 villages and hamlets. Full treatment is accorded to Bampton, centre of an Anglo-Saxon royal estate, site of a late Anglo-Saxon minster and formerly a market town.

A detailed and fully referenced academic history, based on original research, of the northern part of the Staffordshire moorlands, including Leek and Alstonefield.

This volume spans the history, from early times to the 1980s, of the 27 parishes that formed the extensive ancient borough of Wenlock (corresponding to the estates and liberty of Wenlock Priory) and the adjoining parts of Munslow Hundred.

A detailed and fully referenced academic history, based on original research, of the Forest of Dean, Bledisloe and St Briavels Hundreds.

A detailed and fullly referenced academic history of Colchester, from the Iron Age to the 1900s.

400 articles on the history of East Cambridgeshire, the four hundreds of Cheveley, Flendish, Staine and Staploe.

Covers parts of Middlesex, which lay from 1889 until 1965 within the county of London. This work treats the history of Hackney, and traces the origin of Hackney within the bishop of London's extensive Stepney manor, with medieval settlement round the church and at Dalston by the 13th century, and at Clapton and Homerton by the 14th.

This volume describes the history of the borough of Arundel, with its noted castle, religious houses, and Roman Catholic cathedral, and 11 rural and suburban parishes in the adjoining coastal region of Sussex, including the seaside resorts of Felpham and Middleton.

A detailed and fully referenced academic history of Bridgwater and 25 neighbouring parishes in the valleys of the rivers Parrett and Tone and on the Eastern slopes of the Quantocks. The area is mainly one of scattered settlement, of small-scale mixed farming, and rural industries.

Tells the story of Lichfield and its neighbourhood from Romano-British times to the late 20th century. In the 18th century, Lichfield was a centre for polite society with its races attracting many visitors. In the 19th century, there was industrial development, and in later 20th century, it has seen the growth of light industry.

A volume which includes fascinating information about Beverley, a town which stood high among the provincial towns of medieval England, with the Great Minster church and the College of St John.

This volume is a supplement to the book published in 1970, which described the origins and progress of the Victoria County History and included lists of contents of the 150 volumes which had previously been published, with indexes of the articles and authors included in those lists.

This volume tells the story of agriculture in Shropshire from earliest times to the present day. Besides discussing a fundamental aspect of Shropshire's history, the book provides many new insights into the agricultural and economic evolution of English rural society.

This volume relates to the part of the county lying north-west of Cambridge and includes the histories of 27 parishes forming the hundreds of Chesterton, Northstowe and Papworth. The author discusses the urban and academic expansion of Cambridge into this area in the last century.