The sources available for studying the history of towns and cities are both extensive and diverse. Stephen Porter here presents a guide to where the relevant primary source materials and secondary works are mostly readily available, how to interpret them once found and how far to accept the evidence they produce. The period covered stretches from the Tudors to the early 20th century, during which time there were significant changes in both the scale of towns and the recording of information. After a general introduction giving advice on the practicalities of research, suceeding chapters deal with; population and society; civic administration; government and the courts; and culture and leisure. The sources covered are wide-ranging, from militaria returns and parliamentary papers to guide books and fire insurance plans, and the origin and provenance of each type of record are described.
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978-0-7134-5137-5 (9780713451375)
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Part 1 The antiquarian and historical background: the evolution of urban history; travellers and writers. Part 2 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". Part 3 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. Part 4 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. Part 5 Population and society from c.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. Part 6 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. Part 7 Government, parliament and the courts: privy council records and the state papers; the records of parliament; parliamentary papers; the courts; charity commissions. Part 8 Culture and leisure: civic records; antiquarians, travellers and diarists; guide books; newspapers and ephemera.
