What was new on this site: January-March 2004
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1 March 2004:
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- Internet libraries:
AHDS History Collections
Provides digital resources relating to historical research or teaching. The collections include several
sets of data relating to medieval England. Some are available for free download, and others are supplied on CD or floppy disc.
As the collections are intended primarily for academic use, a charge may be made to non-academics.
- County and local history:
- Anglo-Norman Castles
(Paul Martin Remfry)
An excellent resource, with an emphasis on castles in Wales and the Welsh March.
The author's books on individual castles can be purchased through the site,
and there are also online essays on many of them. See
A
List of Castles operational in Wales
and the Marches, 1042 to 1307, with links to more detailed information,
and the index to Places and Names
found within current Booklets
- Kencot [Oxfordshire]
(VCH Oxfordshire online)
Draft parish history from the Victoria County History
- Harry Gill,
A
short history of Nottingham Castle (1904)
(Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
- Modern biography and prosopography:
E. A. Freeman, William the Conqueror (1913) (Pat Patterson)
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
- Henry de Notingham
and his wife Agnes
(c. 1405):
Holme-next-the-Sea, Norfolk (rubbing and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the month, February 2004)
- Notts monumental brasses
Article by Joseph Bramley, from Transactions of the Thoroton Society, volume 17 (1913),
including rubbings and descriptions of 17 brasses, on the
Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology
website.
Surnames: Babyncton, Ballard, Breton, Clifton (3), Fleming, Meryng, Peckham, Phyllypot, Sheffeld,
Stanhope, Strelley and Willoughby
- Medieval English families on the Internet:
- Braose:
The
Braose Rebellion of 1207 to 1210
(Paul Martin Remfry, Anglo-Norman Castles)
- Heveningham:
Heveningham
Family of Suffolk, Norfolk and Staffordshire (Rosemary St Leger-May)
Includes detailed information on the Heveningham family of Suffolk,
and later of Norfolk (15th century)
and Staffordshire (16th century)
- Mohun:
The Mohuns of Tavistock [Devon]
and The Mohuns of Hall
and Boconnoc in Cornwall (Pat Patterson)
Extracts from Sir H. C. Maxwell Lyte,
A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell, Part II
(1909)
- Royal families:
Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
Scanned images, in PDF format, of a series of papers by G. E. Cokayne and G. W. Watson,
giving four generations of ancestry for each English monarch from Henry II to Victoria,
originally published in The Genealogist, new series.
(Subscription required.)
- St Leger:
Ulcombe
and the St. Legers (Rosemary St Leger-May)
Miscellaneous information on the St Leger family of Kent;
see also The
St. Leger-May Genealogy Page
- Staunton:
Staunton
and the Staunton Family (Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
Two illustrated articles from Transactions of the Thoroton Society (1900 and 1923),
mainly architectural but including some information about the family
- Waterhouse: Two old Sowerby Bridge houses:
Broadgates, alias Underbank
and Waterhouse Wills
(Pat Patterson)
Article from
Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society, volume 9 (1910)
and extracts from wills relating to the Waterhouse family of Halifax, 15th and 16th centuries
- Links:
- Societies and journals:
The Topographer and Genealogist
The main subjects of articles in volume 1 (1846)
are indexed in the Medieval Genealogical Registry
(Foundation for Medieval Genealogy)
- Heraldry:
European
Rolls of Arms of the Thirteenth Century
(Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry)
Charles' Roll, Part 4,
Part 5,
Part 6,
Part 7,
Part 8,
Part 9 and
Part 10
11 January 2004:
New material
In the main section of Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage,
the following item has been added:
ANGUS (Volume 1, page 157)
In the "proposed" section, the following items have been added:
BERKELEY (Volume 2, page 130; Elizabeth, widow of Maurice de Berkeley),
BOTETOURT (Volume 2, page 235),
DARCY (of Darcy or of Temple Hurst),
DERBY (County of),
ERDINGTON,
RICHMOND,
SHREWSBURY (Volume 11, page 701),
SUFFOLK,
WELLES or WELLE (Volume 12, part 2, page 449, note g) and
WESTMORLAND
A correction has been made to this item:
STRANGE or LESTRANGE (of Knokyn) (correction concerning the dioceses)
New links
- Medieval source material on the Internet:
- County and local history:
- Henry A. Harben, A Dictionary of London (1918)
Detailed historical gazetteer of the City of London, giving a skeleton history
for each street and place, with references to records in which it appears
Another online edition at
British History Online
- Victoria County History, Oxfordshire, volume 12 (1990):
Wootton Hundred (southern part) (British History Online):
Begbroke,
Bladon,
Cassington,
Cogges,
Combe,
Eynsham,
Hanborough,
Kidlington,
North Leigh,
South Leigh,
Shipton-on-Cherwell,
Stanton Harcourt,
Wilcote,
Wolvercote,
Woodstock
(including
Old Woodstock
and Blenheim)
and Yarnton
- Church records and religious houses:
John le Neve,
Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300,
volume 6: York (British History Online)
Text of the 1999 edition, compiled by Diana E. Greenway. Lists of senior clergy associated with York Minster,
with biographical details
- Monumental brasses on the Internet:
- Richard Disney
(d. 1578), wives, parents and families:
Norton Disney, Lincolnshire (rubbing and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the month, December 2003)
- Joan de Cobham
(d. bef. 1298):
Cobham, Kent (rubbing and description)
(Monumental Brass Society, Brass of the month, January 2004)
- Links:
- Societies and journals:
- Notes of coverage by the Royal Historical Society's
Bibliography of British and Irish History
added for the following:
Anglo-Norman Studies,
Anglo-Saxon England,
Antiquaries Journal,
Archaeologia Aeliana,
Archaeologia Cantiana,
Berkshire Archaeological Journal,
Cambridge Historical Journal/Historical Journal,
Devonshire Association Report and Transactions,
English Historical Review,
English Place-Name Society Journal,
Genealogists' Magazine,
Haskins Society Journal,
Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research/Historical Research,
Journal of British Studies,
Journal of the British Archaeological Association,
Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society,
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology,
London Journal,
London Topographical Record,
Medieval Prosopography,
Notes and Queries,
Nottingham Medieval Studies,
Oxoniensia,
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society,
Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society,
Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society,
Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History,
Rutland Record,
Somerset Archaeology and Natural History,
Surrey Archaeological Collections,
Sussex Archaeological Collections,
Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society,
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society,
Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society,
Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society,
Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society,
Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society,
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society,
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society,
Transactions of the Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society,
Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire,
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine and
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal
- Berkshire Archaeological Society
- Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological
Society
- Cambridge Antiquarian Society
- Chester Archaeological Society
Includes a list of contents for the Society's journal, new series (1887 to date)
- Devonshire Association
- Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society
Includes a cumulative index to Society's Proceedings, from volume 1 (1876)
- Halifax Antiquarian Society
- Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society
Includes contents of recent volumes of the Society's Proceedings and a list of monographs
- The Society for
Lincolnshire History and Archaeology
- London Topographical Society
- Medieval Prosopography
(Western Michigan University)
Lists of contents arranged by volume (vols 1-22; 1980-2001)
are available
at Magazine Stacks
- Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne
Includes lists of contents for the 5th series of Archaeologia Aeliana,
and a list of the Society's monographs and other publications
- Shropshire
Archaeological and Historical Society (ShropshireOnline.gov.uk)
- Staffordshire
Archaeological and Historical Society
Includes lists of contents and indexes for the Society's Transactions, vols 1-39 (1959-1998)
- Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History
Includes a bibliography of published articles, arranged by author
- Heraldry:
English Rolls of Arms (Brian Timms, Studies in Heraldry):
- Charles' Roll, Part 1,
Part 2 and
Part 3
- St George's Roll,
Part 6,
Part 7 and
Part 8
For older additions, see: