Medieval source material on the internet: Modern works: County and local history: L

Modern works:

(2) County and local history: L

N.B. See also the index of places covered by the Victoria County History - some articles are available online.

• Lancashire
  • Victoria County History, Lancashire, Vol.3 (1907) (David Blackwell, United States Internet Genealogical Society)
    TIFF images; in progress
  • The Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster (1844) (Beryl Thompson)
• Cross Fleury [R. E. K. Rigbye.] 'Time-Honoured Lancaster.' Historic notes on the Ancient Borough of Lancaster (1891) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• Some Notes on the Parish of Lapley-cum-Wheaton-Aston In the County of Stafford (Ray Cowley, Wheaton Aston History) [formerly at http://www.ray.cowley.btinternet.co.uk/hartleys_book.htm; not available, 12 June 2005; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from August 2003]
  Online text by George T. Hartley (1912), including a detailed account of the parish in medieval and early modern times
• Lillingstone Lovell, Buckinghamshire (Whittlewood Project; Richard Jones, University of Leicester)
  Historical outline, from a multi-disciplinary (documentary and archaeological) study of 12 parishes in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire
• Lincoln:
  • Richard John King, Handbook to the Cathedrals of England (1862) (Bill Thayer)
    Excerpts, including accounts of the history of the see of Lincoln, and the history of the cathedral
  • A. F. Kendrick, The Cathedral Church of Lincoln (1928 edn) (Bill Thayer)
    Much of the emphasis is architectural, but the text includes notes on the history of the cathedral, material on funeral monuments, and a list of bishops with brief biographical notes
• Lincolnshire:
  • The Occupants of The Ancient office of Sheriff of the County Of Lincoln From Edward 1 to 1827 (Jorge H. Castelli, Tudor Place)
    Source not stated
  • Medieval Earthworks of South Lincolnshire (David Roffe)
• David Roffe, Lissingleys and the Meeting Place of Lindsey [Lincolnshire]
• Ramsay Muir and Edith M. Platt A history of municipal government in Liverpool [Lancashire] from the earliest times to the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 (1906) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Narrative introduction, with a collection of charters, leases, etc, transcribed and translated.
• J. A. Picton Memorials of Liverpool [Lancashire], historical and topographical, including a history of the dock estate (1875) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
  Volume 2 of 2 (topographical).
• Ramsay Muir A History of Liverpool [Lancashire] (1907) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• London:
  • John Stow, A Survey of London [1603] (Tufts Digital Library)
    The text of C. L. Kingsford's 1908 edition of the famous topographical work
  • John Stow, The Survey of London (Furness Collection, Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image)
    Scanned images of Anthony Munday's 1618 edition
  • Henry A. Harben, A Dictionary of London (1918)
    Detailed historical gazetteer of the City of London, giving a skeleton history for each street and place, with references to records in which it appears
    Two online editions, one at British History Online, the other at MOTCO
  • Historical gazetteer of London before the Great Fire (British History Online)
    Text of the work by D. J. Keene and Vanessa Harding (1987) giving a detailed history of each property from the 12th to the late 17th centuries in the parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St. Martin Pomary, St. Mary le Bow, St. Mary Colechurch, and St. Pancras Soper Lane
  • E. T. Cook Highways and Byways in London (1903) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• A. L. Browne Corporation Chronicles being some account of the Ancient Corporations of East Looe and of West Looe in the County of Cornwall (1904) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])
• Thomas Wright The history of Ludlow and its neighbourhood; forming a popular sketch of the history of the Welsh Border (1852) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips])