Popular County Histories

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The Popular County Histories series was a set of English county histories issued by Elliott Stock & Co. from 1885. [1] [2]

YearCountyAuthor
1887BerkshireCharles Cooper King [3]
1897CambridgeshireJohn William Edward Conybeare [4]
1890Cumberland Richard Saul Ferguson [5]
1886DerbyshireJohn Pendleton [6]
1886Devonshire Richard Nicholls Worth [7]
1892County of DurhamJohn Roberts Boyle [8]
1892Hampshire Thomas William Shore [9]
1894LancashireHenry Fishwick [10]
1885Norfolk Walter Rye [11]
1895Northumberland Cadwallader John Bates [12]
1891Nottinghamshire Cornelius Brown [13]
1899Oxfordshire John Meade Falkner [14]
1895Suffolk John James Raven [15] [16]
1900SurreyHenry Elliot Malden [17]
1889Warwickshire Samuel Timmins [18]
1894WestmorlandRichard Saul Ferguson [5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Robin George Collingwood; John Nowell Linton Myres (1 February 1936). Roman Britain and the English Settlements. Biblo & Tannen Publishers. p. 470. ISBN   978-0-8196-1160-4.
  2. ↑ Karl Baedeker (1906). Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers. K. Baedeker. p. xxxiii.
  3. ↑ Arthur Henry Lyell (10 June 2010). A Bibliographical List Descriptive of Romano-British Architectural Remains in Great Britain. Cambridge University Press. p. 1. ISBN   978-1-108-00890-7.
  4. ↑ Edward Conybeare (1897). A History of Cambridgeshire. E. Stock.
  5. 1 2 Winchester, Angus J. L. "Ferguson, Richard Saul". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9324.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ↑ John Pendleton (1886). A History of Derbyshire. E. Stock.
  7. ↑ Maxted, Ian. "Worth, Richard Nicholls". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29989.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  8. ↑ John Roberts Boyle (1892). History of the County of Durham. W. H. Robinson.
  9. ↑ Wikisource-logo.svg  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). "Shore, William Thomas". Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  10. ↑ "Catalog Record: A History of Lancashire, Hathi Trust Digital Library" . Retrieved 27 December 2015.
  11. ↑ Walter Rye (1885). A History of Norfolk. E. Stock.
  12. ↑ Cadwallader John Bates (1895). The History of Northumberland. E. Stock.
  13. ↑ John Beckett (1 April 2007). Writing local history. Manchester University Press. p. 53. ISBN   978-1-84779-513-7.
  14. ↑ Dinah Birch (24 September 2009). The Oxford Companion to English Literature. OUP Oxford. p. 359. ISBN   978-0-19-280687-1.
  15. ↑ John James Raven (1894). Popular County Histories. The History of Suffolk. Elliot Stock.
  16. ↑ Blatchly, J. M. "Raven, John James". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35683.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  17. ↑ Graeme Davis (2007). Dictionary of Surrey English. Peter Lang. p. 185. ISBN   978-3-03911-081-0.
  18. ↑ Roberts, Stephen. "Timmins, Samuel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/104869.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

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