Bristol Record Society Volumes

All volumes that are more than five years old are freely available on The Bristol Record Society Collection of the Internet Archive. More recent copies are available as pdf ebooks to members / subscribers from this website. Members are informed of the links by email or can request them from the Secretary.

To order a printed copy of any of the available titles, contact: Bristol Archives, (Record Society Books), ‘B’ Bond Warehouse, Smeaton Road, Bristol, BS1 6XN. Email: archives@bristol.gov.uk. Please put ‘Record Society Books’ in the heading of your email.

Vol.	Editor	Title	Published
1	N. D. Harding	Bristol Charters, 1155-1373	1930
2	E. W. W. Veale	The Great Red Book of Bristol. Introduction (Part 1): Burgage Tenure in Medieval Bristol	1931
3	E. E. Butcher	Bristol Corporation of the Poor, 1696-1834	1932
4	E. W. W. Veale	The Great Red Book of Bristol. Text (Part I)	1933
5	E. E. Rich	The Staple Court Books of Bristol	1934
6	H. E. Nott	The Deposition Books of Bristol Vol. 1, 1643-1647	1935
7	E. M. Carus-Wilson	The Overseas Trade of Bristol (In the Later Middle Ages)	1937
8	E. W. W. Veale	The Great Red Book of Bristol Text. (Part II)	1938
9	Gwen Beachcroft and Arthur Sabin	Two Compotus Rolls of St. Augustine’s Abbey, Bristol (For 1491-2 and 1511-12) Digital sponsor: Graham Thomas	1938
10	H. E. Matthews	Proceedings, Minutes and Enrolments of the Company of Soapmakers, 1562-1642	1940
11	H. A. Cronne	Bristol Charters 1378-1499	1946
12	R. C. Latham	Bristol Charters 1509-1899. Printed Copy: £5+p&p	1947
13	H. E. Nott and Elizabeth Ralph	The Deposition Books of Bristol, Vol. 2, 1650-1654 Printed copy: £5+p&p	1948
14	D. Hollis	Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book, 1532-1565: Part 1 1532-1542  Printed Copy: £5+p&p	1949
15	Grahame E. Farr	Records of Bristol Ships, 1800-1838 (vessels over 150 tons)	1950
16	E. W .W. Veale	The Great Red Book of Bristol. Text (Part. III)	1950
17	Patrick McGrath	Records Relating to the Society of Merchant Venturers of the City of Bristol in the 17th Century	1952
18	E. W. W. Veale	The Great Red Book of Bristol.Text (Part IV)	1953
19	Patrick McGrath	Merchants and Merchandise in Seventeenth-Century Bristol	1955
20	W. E. Minchinton	The Trade of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century Digital sponsor: Madge Dresser	1957
21	C. D. Ross	Cartulary of St. Marks’ Hospital, Bristol	1959
22	Arthur Sabin	Some Manorial Accounts of St. Augustine’s Abbey, Bristol	1960
23	W. E. Minchinton	Politics and the Port of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century	1963
24	D. M. Livock	City Chamberlains’ Accounts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	1965
25	Elizabeth Ralph and Mary E. Williams	The Inhabitants of Bristol in 1696	1968
26	Russell Mortimer	Minute Book of the Men’s Meeting of the Society of Friends in Bristol, 1667-1686. Digital sponsor: Roger Starr	1971
27	Roger Hayden	The Records of a Church of Christ in Bristol, 1640-1687	1974
28	Jean Vanes	The Ledger of John Smythe, 1538-1550. Digital sponsor: Evan Jones	1975
29	Graham Bush	Bristol and its Municipal Government, 1820-1851	1976
30	Russell Mortimer	Minute Book of the Men’s Meeting of the Society of Friends in Bristol, 1686-1704. Digital sponsor: Peggy Stembridge	1978
31	Jean Vanes	Documents illustrating the Overseas Trade of Bristol in the Sixteenth Century	1979
32	Elizabeth Ralph	The Great White Book of Bristol	1979
33	E Ralph and N Hardwick	Calendar of Bristol Apprentice Book, 1532-1565: Part 2,1542 – 1552  Printed copy: £5+p&p	1980
34	Margaret Sharp	Accounts of the Constables of Bristol Castle in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries	1982
35	J. H. Bettey	Calendar of the Correspondence of the Smyth Family of Ashton Court, 1548-1642	1982
36	David Large	The Port of Bristol, 1848-1884 Printed Copy: £5+p&p	1984
37	Patrick McGrath	A Bristol Miscellany. Digital sponsor: Madge Dresser Printed Copy: £5+p&p	1985
38	David Richardson	Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth Century Slave Trade to America, Vol 1: The Years of Expansion 1698-1729. Digital sponsor: Graham Thomas	1986
39	David Richardson	Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America, Vol 2: The Years of Ascendancy, 1730-1745. Digital sponsor: Graham Thomas. Printed copy: £5+p&p	1987
40	Georges Lamoine	Bristol Gaol Delivery Fiats, 1741-1799	1989
41	Maureen Stanford	The Ordinances of Bristol, 1506-1598. Printed copy: £5+p&p	1990
42	David Richardson	Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth Century Slave Trade to America: Vol 3 The Years of Decline 1746-1769  Printed copy: £5+p&p	1991
43	Elizabeth Ralph	Calendar of the Bristol Apprentice Book, Part 3, 1552-1565.  Printed copy: £5+p&p	1992
44	Shelia Lang and Margaret McGregor	Tudor Wills Proved in Bristol 1546-1603. Printed copy: £5+p&p	1993
45	Jonathan Barry and Kenneth Morgan	Reformation and Revival in Eighteenth Century Bristol	1994
46	Clive Burgess	The Pre-Reformation Records of All Saints’ Bristol: Part 1  Printed copy: £5+p&p	1995
47	David Richardson	Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade to America: Vol 4, The Final Years 1770-1807	1996
48	Roger H. Leech	The Topography of Medieval and Early Modern Bristol: Part One	1997
49	P. K. Stembridge	The Goldney family: A Bristol Merchant Dynasty. Printed copy: £5+p&p	1998
50	David Large	The Municipal Government of Bristol 1851-1901. Printed copy: £5+p&p	1999
51	Frances Neale	William Worcestre: The Topography of Medieval Bristol	2000
52	Roger H. Leech	The St Michael’s Hill Precinct of the University of Bristol: The Topography of Medieval and Early Modern Bristol: Part 2	2000
53	Clive Burgess	The Pre-Reformation Records of All Saints’ Church Bristol Part II: The Churchwardens’ Accounts Printed copy: £5+p&p	2000
54	Edwin and Stella George	Bristol Probate Inventories Part 1: 1542-1650  Printed copy: £5+p&p	2002
55	Madge Dresser	The Diary of Sarah Fox  Printed copy: £5+p&p	2003
56	Clive Burgess	The Pre-Refomation Records of All Saints’ Church, Bristol, Part 3: Wills, The Halleway Chantry, Records and Deeds. Printed copy: £5+p&p	2004
57	Edwin and Stella George	Bristol Probate Inventories Part 2: 1657-1689. Printed copy: £5+p&p	2005
58	Stuart Jenks	Robert Sturmy’s Commercial Expedition to the Mediterranean (1457/8)  Printed Copy: £5+p&p	2006
59	J Bettey	Records of Bristol Cathedral	2007
60	Edwin and Stella George	Bristol Probate Inventories Part 3: 1690-1804  Printed copy: £5+p&p	2008
61	Susan Flavin and Evan T. Jones	Bristol’s Trade with Ireland and the Continent, 1503-1601: The Evidence of the Exchequer Customs Accounts Printed copy: £5+p&p. Excel transcriptions of the accounts are available to download	2009
62	Nicholas Orme & Jon Cannon	Westbury-on-Trym: Monastery, Minster, and College	2010
63	Jonathan Harlow	The Ledger of Thomas Speed, 1681-1690 Printed copy: £5+p&p.	2011
64	Jonathan Barry	The Diary of William Dyer: Bristol in 1762 Printed copy: £5+p&p.	2012
65	C. S. Knighton	Clifton College: Foundation to Evacuation Printed copy: £5+p&p.	2013
66	Nicholas Rogers	Manning the Royal Navy in Bristol: Liberty, Impressment & the State, 1739-1815 Printed copy: £15+p&p.	2014
67	Peter Fleming	The Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar Printed copy: £15+p&p.	2015
68	Kathleen Hapgood	East of Bristol in the Sixteenth Century: Documents from the Manors of Barton Regis and Ridgeway Printed copy: £15 + p&p.	2016
69	Jonathan Harlow	Religious Ministry in Bristol 1603-1689: Uniformity to Dissent	2017
70	Roger Leech, Jonathan Barry, Alison Brown, Catherine Ferguson & Elizabeth Parkinson	Bristol Hearth Tax, 1662-1673  Printed copy: £22.50+p&p. The texts (with topographical notes) of all the surviving hearth tax material for Bristol not published in the printed volume, as provided on the accompanying CD, and the raw data in Excel format are available for download.	2018
71	C. S. Knighton	Bristol University: Conception to Foundation Printed copy: £25+p&p.	2019
72	John Stevens	The Bristol Poll Book for 1852 Printed copy: £25+p&p.	2020
73	Susan Scott	Orphans, Widows and Guardians in Medieval and Early Modern Bristol: The Register of Recognizances, 1333-1594 Printed copy: £25+p&p.	2020
74	Alison Brown & Jonathan Harlow	Atlantic Venture Accounts of Eighteenth Century Bristol	2021
75	Max Skjönsberg and Mark Towsey	The Minute Book of the Bristol Library Society, 1772-1801 Printed copy: £25 includes postage and packing within UK	2022
76	Richard Coates	Shirehampton Church-Yard Book Printed copy: £15 includes postage and packing within UK	2023
77	Mary Miles	The Letterbook of Graffin Prankard Printed copy: £15 includes postage and packing within UK	2024

Digitisation information

From 2015 the Bristol Record Society (BRS) began making its past volumes available electronically. This initially took the form of home-scanned pdfs, which we placed on our own website. From 2020 we began producing professionally scanned versions of the volumes, which are now hosted in the ‘Bristol Record Society collection‘ on The Internet Archive (archive.org). We shifted to this electronic repository because the files are more secure and they are made available automatically in multiple formats.

The BRS decided to make its past volumes accessible in digital format to enable us to fulfil better our core function, which is to make the records of Bristol’s history available to as wide an audience as possible. None of our editors has ever received any royalty or fee for publishing with us – all having agreed to have their volumes published on a pro bono basis. Continuing in this spirit, our early volumes are distributed for free.

More information about the BRS’s ongoing Digitisation Initiative, can be found on our News Page. If you wish sponsor the digitisation of an individual past volume or volumes, please contact Dr Evan Jones, our General Editor (Digitisation). Sponsorship is typically £30 for our own volumes and is recorded on this website.

Our volumes are typically made available online to the public five years after the initial publication.

Last updated: 10 March 2024