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

Modern works:

(2) County and local history: N

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

• Walter Money The history of the ancient town and borough of Newbury, in the county of Berks. (1887) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
• Eneas Mackenzie, A descriptive and historical account of the town and county of Newcastle upon Tyne, including the borough of Gateshead (1827) (British History Online)
• Northampton/Northamptonshire: Extensive collection of books and articles on Northamptonshire history (Northamptonshire by Postcards and Books) [not available, 26 May 2009; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from January 2008]. The texts can be seen by going to the main page, clicking "Books", and then choosing the link indicated on the left-hand side.
  The texts include:
  • K. J. Allison, M. W. Beresford and J. G. Hurst, The Deserted Villages of Northamptonshire (link "Deserted villages of Northants 1966")
    Text of Leicester University, Department of English Local History, no 18 (1966)
  • J. Britton and E. W. Brayley, The Beauties of England and Wales: [County of] Northampton (1818) (link "Beauties of Northants (in progress) 1815")
  • Alice Dryden, ed., Memorials of Old Northamptonshire (link "Memorials of old northampton")
    Includes a detailed account of the monumental effigies of Northamptonshire, and the texts of various 16th-century muster rolls.
  • P. M. Eastman, An Hour Among the Echoes of Northampton Castle (link "Northampton Castle (Eastman)")
    Text of a lecture given at Northampton, 1879.
  • P. J. Harris. and P. W. Hartop, Northamptonshire, its Land and its People [1950] (link "In progress. Northants its land and it people (62 pics)")
  • Arthur Mee, Kings England: Northamptonshire (link "Arthur Mees Tour de Force on Northants (1M)")
  • R. M. Serjeantson, The Castle Of Northampton (link "Northampton Castle (Serjeantson)")
    Text originally published in Northamptonshire Natural History Society & Field Club, vol. 14 (1907).
  • R. M. Serjeantson, The Hospital of St. Thomas, Northampton (link "St. Thomas's Hospital")
    Text of a paper read at the Annual Meeting of the Architectural Excursions Club in 1909
  • R. M. Serjeantson, A History of Delapre Abbey, Northampton (1909) (link "Delapre Abbey again")
    Text originally published in Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society, vol. 16 (1912).
  • R. M. Serjeantson, Some Notes upon the History of Northampton (link "History of Northampton")
    Text of a paper read to the Royal Archaeological Institute at Northampton in 1912.
  • R. M. Serjeantson, The Hospital of St. John, Northampton (link "St. John Full book with pictures")
    Text originally published in Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society, vol. 16 (1912).
  • R. M. Serjeantson, The Leper Hospitals of Northampton (link "The Leper Hospitals of Northampton")
    Detailed account with illustrations, originally published in Northamptonshire Natural History Society & Field Club, vol. 18, no 141 (1915).
  • Joan Wake and W. A. Pantin, Delapre Abbey, its History and Architecture (Northamptonshire Record Society, 1959) (link "Delapre Abbey")
  • A. P. White, The Story of Northampton (1914) (link "The story of northampton")
• Norwich [Norfolk]
  • History of medieval Norwich [Norfolk] (Stephen Alsford, Medieval English Towns)
  • William Creasy Ewing, Notices of the merchants' marks in the city of Norwich (1850) (Making of America, University of Michigan)
    Choice of images, PDF files or text, with a search facility (but beware of sometimes inaccurate text conversion)
  • Richard John King, Handbook to the Cathedrals of England (1862) (Bill Thayer)
    Excerpts, including accounts of the history of the see of Norwich, and the history of the cathedral
• Nottingham:
  • David Roffe, Pre-Conquest Nottingham
    Text of a lecture
  • St Mary's Church, Nottingham - Its Past and Present History (Brian Taylor) [formerly at http://ibis.nott.ac.uk/~plzbt/stmarys/1874logo&lights.htm; not available, 2 November 2003]
    A detailed treatment, including references to many clerics, benefactors and others associated with the church
  • Percy G. Whatnall, ed., Links with Old Nottingham - Historical notes by J. Holland Walker (1928) (Andy Nicholson, Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
  • Harry Gill, A short history of Nottingham Castle (1904) (Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
• Nottinghamshire:
  • Cornelius Brown, A History of Nottinghamshire (1896) (Andy Nicholson, Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
  • Cornelius Brown A History of Nottinghamshire (1891) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
  • Miscellaneous articles on Nottinghamshire history and archaeology (Andy Nicholson, Nottinghamshire History and Archaeology)
    A collection of articles, in progress, mainly from the Transactions of the Thoroton Society and John Throsby's 1790 edition of Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire
  • David Roffe, Nottinghamshire and the North: a Domesday Study (David Roffe)
    Text of David Roffe's thesis examining the Domesday record for Nottinghamshire, and its implications for the county and the Danelaw