BRS Occasional Publications

In addition to our main series of volumes, we produce an Occasional Series that is purely electronic. This is mostly published on the Bristol Record Society Collection of the Internet Archive, albeit some of it, such as spreadsheets, are on our our own website. The occasional series is for work that may be shorter and less developed, or less thoroughly checked, proof-read and presented than would be expected of our formal volumes. It is still subject to review and copyediting by our General Editors, however, and considered to be of sufficient value and quality to be worth putting in the public domain under our inprint.

In 2024 we decided to start numbering our Occasional Series and issuing each one an ISBN. This includes the retrospective numbering of earlier items, going back to 2018, when we first started experimenting with the publication of additional online material, beyond that found in our regular volumes. Thus far only nos. 8-10 are in their final format, with ISBNs, albeit all the earlier material is still available online, either on the Internet Archive or from our own website.

No.Author / EditorTitlePublished
1Jonathan Barry (ed.)The Bristol Hearth Tax, 1662-1673: additional material
Downloadable WORD text and EXCEL spreadsheet
2018
2Evan Jones (ed.)Bristol Annal: Bristol Archives 09594/1
Downloadable pdf text
2019
3Alex Beard (ed.)Documents Relating to the Great Plague of 1665-1666 in Bristol2021
4Michael Whitfield (ed.)Alexander Morgan’s Surgical Notebook, 1716-17472022
5Margaret M. Condon and Evan T. Jones (eds.)The Maskell Collection: introduction and descriptive list of Bristol Archives, 08153/1 2022
6Peter FlemingTime, Space and Power in Later Medieval Bristol 2023
7Michael Whitfield and Jonathan Barry (eds.)The Case Notes of William Logan, Physician of Bristol, 1713-15 2023
8Jonathan Barry and Peter Elmer (eds.)Biographical Register of Medical Practitioners in Bristol c.1500-17152024
9Jonathan Barry (ed.)Summary Register of Medical Practitioners in Bristol c.1716-18002024
10Jonathan Barry (ed.)The Bristol Oaths of 17232024