Main entry:

Porter, S. (Stephen)

Title & Author:

Exploring urban history : sources for local historians / Stephen Porter.

Publication:

London : B.T. Batsford, 1990.

Description:

160 pages ; 23 cm

Series:

Batsford local history series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-153) and index.
The antiquarian and historical background: the evolution of urban history; travellers and writers -- Site and layout: early town plans; county maps, road atlases and coastal charts; estate maps; deposited plans; the Ordnance survey's town plans; fire insurance plans; "The Atlas of Historic Towns" -- Buildings: deeds and leases; surveys and rentals; sale advertisements and prospectuses; building contracts; public buildings; building acts and district surveyor's returns; fire insurance policies; probate inventories; taxation and return; pictorial and archaeological evidence -- Pre-modern population and society: enumerations; ecclesiastical returns; taxation returns; parish registers and bills of mortality; probate inventories and wills; apprentice and freeman registers; poll-books; militia returns -- Population and society from 1800: commercial directories; bankrupts, businesses and factories; the general register office; national censuses; education and religious censuses; social and sanitary investigations; the Boards of Health and the local government board; medical officers of health and sanitary inspectors; poor relief -- Civic administration: charters and improvement acts; minutes of proceedings; the content of the minutes; letters and petitions; civic accounts; the records of the civic courts -- Government, parliament and the courts: privy council records and the state papers; the records of parliament; parliamentary papers; the courts; charity commissions -- Culture and leisure: civic records; antiquarians, travellers and diarists; guide books; newspapers and ephemera.

Summary:

A guide to the relevant primary and secondary sources of urban history and the various ways they can be used by the local historian. It explains how the research material can be interpreted once found and how far to accept the evidence it produces.

ISBN:

0713451378
9780713451375
0713451386 (cover)
9780713451382 (cover)

Subject:

Cities and towns Great Britain History Sources.
Cities and towns England History Sources.
Villes Angleterre Histoire Sources.
Villes Grande-Bretagne Histoire Sources.
Cities and towns
England History, Local Sources.
Angleterre Histoire locale Sources.
England
Great Britain
England History Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Great Britain, history. Historical sources: Documents

Form/genre:

Local history
History
Sources

Added entries:

Batsford local history series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 56903
Call No.: ID:90-B5197
Status: Available