Southampton Records Series

A joint enterprise of the City and University of Southampton

The Southampton Records Series (from 1951) and its predecessor the Southampton Record Society (1905-1940) have published limited-edition volumes of historical records relating to Southampton and its environs for over a century. The output amounts to nearly 100 volumes. This is an exceptional achievement in urban history in both national and international terms.

The aims of the Series are to bring a volume into print each year, to make records from the rich Southampton archives available widely throughout the world, and to print materials relating to the city which are located beyond Southampton in regional and national archives. The Series includes records from every period of the city’s history from the medieval and early modern periods through each subsequent century, including some 20th century material. There is also much of wider interest including administrative, legal, economic and social records, such as the unique ‘brokage’ or overland trade records dating to the 15th and 16th centuries. There are studies of the Italian and French-speaking communities in the medieval and early modern periods. Detailed local studies include a history of the city from 1700-1914, a source-list from local and national archives for Southampton from 1086-1900 and volumes of property histories of the city, and much else, all of which contain much information on local people.

New

• Volume 43.
  Cheryl Butler The Book of Fines: The annual accounts of the Mayors of Southampton, Volume II 
• New. Volume 42.
  Winifred A. Harwood The Southampton Brokage Book 1447-48