Books published by London Record Society

Prepared by the Commission for Building Fifty New Churches in London and Westminster.

"Guildhall Library manuscript 197 consists of the minutes of a Whig political club operating within the City of London" -- Introd.

The purpose of this work is to make available sources for the study of the church in London during the last quarter of the fourteenth century. It contains three distinct groups of material. The first consists of six documents concerned with the clerical taxes of the years 1379-81. The second is an assessment of ecclesiastical property in the city of London in 1392. The third consists of the acta of William Courtenay, bishop of London 1375-81, collected from the registers of contemporary bishops, the cartularies of religious houses in the diocese and certain classes of Public Records.

Accounts of ceremonial dinners given by the Drapers' Company shed extraordinary light on the menus served, the numbers of guests, and the employees.

Diaries from the 1930s and 1940s reveal the reality of living in London during wartime.

Intimate insights into the life of a woman in 1930s London, both private and public.