History: useful series of books

There are many series of books that are relevant for history. These include documents published by local historical societies and major series such as the Camden Society publications. These sources are often difficult to find on the Unicorn catalogue because they have very brief records on the online catalogue. To locate these items use the Online Card Catalogue.

Below are some collections of series for history. This list is not comprehensive.

English historical documents 942.008-ENG

A collection of documents on English history, which include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records. Volumes include genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.

Camden Society publication 942.006-CAM

Published by Royal Historical Society, these are valuable primary sources that have hitherto been available only in manuscript form. The focus is early historical and literary materials, both unpublished manuscripts and new editions of rare printed books.

Canterbury and York Society 942.006-CAN

This series consists of medieval bishops' registers and other ecclesiastical records editions of episcopal and archiepiscopal registers: records which are not only basic tools for church historians but also important sources for economic, social and political history.

Oxford Historical Society 942.006-OXF

The Society publishes archives, historical texts, bibliographical tools and studies about Oxford – the City as much as the University, its Halls and Colleges – and the neighbouring villages and towns in pre-1972 Oxfordshire.

The publications of the Surtees Society 942.006-SUR

Publication of unedited manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland, included on the East between the Humber and the Firth of Forth and the West between the Mersey and the Clyde (a region which constituted the ancient Kingdom of Northumbria).

Oxford historical monographs

Items in this series are not classed together - check the  Unicorn catalogue for their location.

A series of published Oxford University D.Phil theses whose focus is historical.  

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