Publications

Northamptonshire Record Society offers two series of publications: the General Series and the Victor Hatley Memorial Volumes.

General Series

A long-running series of publications of local records have been produced. All are hard-bound. Recent volumes have included:

  • Vol 42: Ron Greenall, Early Northampton Wills
  • Vol 40: Peter Gordon, The Journals of Lady Knightley
  • Vol 39: Bruce Bailey, Northamptonshire in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Drawings of Peter Tillemans and Others
  • Vol 38: David Hall, Open Fields of Northamptonshire

Victor Hatley Memorial Volumes

This is a series of paperbacks published to commemorate the life and work of the late Victor Hatley, an active local historian and a great encourager of other people. Before his untimely death, for many years he was an active member of the Council of the Northamptonshire Record Society.

Hon. General Editor: D. Hall.

e-Books

The Record Society is making selected volumes available on-line.

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Latest Publication

image of the dust jacket of The Accounts of Godfrey of Crowland, Abbot of Peterborough 1299-1321Rockingham Forest

The Accounts of Godfrey Crowland, Abbot of Peterborough 1299-1321

Edited by Sandra Raban.

This volume prints all the surviving legible accounts belonging to the abbacy of Godfrey of Crowland. The most important of them are three magnificent sets of enrolled accounts for the years 1300-01,1307-08 and 1309-10 covering manors assigned to the abbot's endowment, largely, but not exclusively, in Northamptonshire. These, and the remaining accounts, provide a full picture of estate exploitation at a time when the so-called classical manor, with desmene worked by servile labour, was still in operation. The accounts are extremely detailed, providing a mine of information for scholars. At the same time the vivid incidental information they also contain permits an imaginative insight into life on medieval manors of interest to more general readers.

Volume 45 in the General series / Vol 5 in the Anthony Mellows Memorial Trust series.

The price of £20 is exclusive of postage and packing; these will be charged at the prevailing rates.

Please contact the Secretary before placing your order. Payment from abroad should be made in Sterling whereever possible.

Volumes Still in Print

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Catalogue of all publications

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