English Historical Documents

English Historical Documents
Author: C.H. Williams
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1246
Release: 2024-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1040280358

English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary evidence, each volume presents material with exemplary scholarly accuracy. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected 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 are furnished with lavish extra apparatus including genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.

English historical documents. 4. [Late medieval]. 1327 - 1485

English historical documents. 4. [Late medieval]. 1327 - 1485
Author: A. R. Myers
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 1327
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415604672

English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary evidence, each volume presents material with exemplary scholarly accuracy. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation. Documents collected 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 are furnished with lavish extra apparatus including genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.

Medieval England

Medieval England
Author: Edward Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2014-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317872878

The only survey of the urban, commercial and industrial history of the period between the Norman conquest and the Black Death.

Engaging with Records and Archives

Engaging with Records and Archives
Author: Fiorella Foscarini
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1783301589

This collection provides a multifaceted response to today’s growing fascination with the idea of the archive and showcases the myriad ways in which archival ideas and practices are being engaged and developed by emerging and internationally renowned scholars. Engaging with Records and Archives offers a selection of original, insightful and imaginative papers from the Seventh International Conference on the History of Records and Archives (I-CHORA 7). The contributions in this volume comprise a wide variety of views of records, archives and archival functions, spanning diverse regions, communities, disciplinary perspectives and time periods. From the origins of contemporary grassroots archival activism in Poland to the role of women archivists in early 20th century England; from the management of records in the Dutch East Indies in the 19th century to the relationship between Western and Indigenous cultures in North America and other modern archival conundrums, this collection reveals the richness of archival thinking through compelling examples from past and present that will captivate the reader. Readership: This book will be useful reading for both scholars and practitioners, including archivists, records managers and other media and information professionals. Bridging archival, information, and library science; the digital humanities; art history; social history; culture and media studies; data curation; and communication, students and researchers across the disciplines are sure to find inspiration.

Parliamentary Selection

Parliamentary Selection
Author: Mark A. Kishlansky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1986-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521311168

Parliamentary Selection examines how members of Parliament were chosen from 1558-1702.

The Parliamentary Representation of the English Boroughs

The Parliamentary Representation of the English Boroughs
Author: May McKisack
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2019-10-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429632495

Originally published at 1932, this book, based on long research in municipal and borough records, attempts to correlate some of the evidence bearing on the representation of the towns of Medieval England, and to discover the answers to such basic questions as how the citizens were elected, paid, and taxed, what their function in parliament was, and what type of men they were. It is an essential study for all those concerned with the development of the English Parliamentary System.