A History of the County of Essex - 9780197227701

Oxford UP

product title\nUp to 75% off publishers' prices\n-- \n--   The Victoria History of the County of Essex \n\nPublisher: Oxford UP\nAuthor: Ed. WR Powell; Beryl A Board; Shirley Durgan\nISBN: 9780197227701\nFormat: Hardback\nPages:\n\nSir Laurence Gomme\u2019s original idea for a county history was realized by the publisher Herbert Arthur Doubleday, who not only gained Queen Victoria\u2019s consent that the History should bear her name, but secured a special arrangement with the Public Record Office. The first volume (Hampshire I) appeared in 1900 and new volumes continue to be published, now much improved and updated, but remaining comprehensive, factual, reliable and unbiased reference works, based on original research. \n\nA supplement to the Essex Bibliography published in the Victoria History series in 1959, these listings cover general works, subjects arranged alphabetically from agrarian history to witchcraft, biography and family history, and individual places and regions.s