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For more than ninety years, the Norfolk Record Society has published expertly edited historical records that illuminate the people, places and stories of Norfolk and Norwich. Since 1930, our annual volumes have presented significant manuscripts and document collections ranging from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries, carefully transcribed, introduced and indexed by leading historians and archivists.
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- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Volume VIII, Addenda and Miscellanea (2026)
- Socialism in King’s Lynn and Suffragism in Great Yarmouth (2024)
- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey Volume VII 1614–1622 (2023)
- The Literary Papers of The Reverend Jermyn Pratt 1723-1791 (2022)
- The Letter Book of Thomas Baret of Norwich, 1672–1677 (2021)
- Humphry Repton and his family: Correspondence, 1805-1816 (2020)
- The Norwich Chamberlains’ Accounts 1539-40 to 1544-45 (2019)
- The Great Blow: Examinations and Informations relating to the Great Blow in Norwich, 1648 (2018)
- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey Volume VI, 1608-1613 (2017)
- The Cartulary of Binham Priory (2016)
- Her Price is Above Pearls: Family and Farming Records of Alice Le Strange, 1617-1656 (2015)
- The First World War Letters of Philip and Ruth Hewetson (2014)
- Health and Hygiene in Early-Modern, Norwich: Account rolls of the Great Hospital, Norwich, 1549-50 and 1570-71. The Norwich River and Street Accounts, 1557-61 and 1570-80 (2013)
- The Whirlpool of Misadventures, Letters of Robert Paston, 1st Earl of Yarmouth, 1663-1679 (2012)
- The World of John Secker 1716-95, Quaker Mariner (2011)
- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Volume V, 1603-1607 (2010)
- The King’s Lynn Port Books 1610-1614 (2009)
- Norwich City Library 1608-1737: The Minutes, Donation Book and Catalogue of Norwich City Library, founded in 1608 (2008)
- Poverty and Wealth: Sheep, Taxation and Charity in Late Medieval Norfolk (2007)
- Country and City: Wymondham, Norwich and Eaton in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2006)
- John Buxton, Norfolk Gentleman and Architect: Letters to his son 1719-1729 (2005)
- The History of The Norfolk Record Society, 1930-2005 (2005)
- Wartime Norfolk: The Diary of Rachel Dhonau 1941-1942 (2004)
- The Great Tour of John Patteson, 1778-1779 (2003)
- William Windham’s Green Book, 1673-1688 (2002)
- Norfolk Hearth Tax Exemption Certificates 1670-1674: Norwich, Great Yarmouth, King’s Lynn and Thetford (2001)
- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Volume IV, 1596-1602 (2000)
- Norwich Landgable Assessment, 1568-1570 (1999)
- Religious Worship for Norfolk: The 1851 Census of Accommodation and Attendance at Worship (1998)
- Farming and Gardening in Late Medieval Norfolk: Norwich Cathedral Priory Gardener’s Accounts, 1329-1530. Skayman’s Book, 1516-1518 (1997)
- The Register of Thetford Priory. Part 2, 1518-1540 (1996)
- The Register of Thetford Priory. Part 1, 1482-1517 (1995)
- The Farming Journal of Randall Burroughes, 1794-1799 (1995)
- The Letters of Philip Stannard, Norwich Textile Manufacturer, 1751-1763 (1994)
- A Miscellany: The Will of Oliver Wyth, 1291. The Will of Hugh Atte Fenne, 1476. The Letters and Will of Thomas Greene (d. 1545), Rector of Poringland. The Letters and Will of Lady Dorothy Bacon, 1597-1629. The Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakley, 1831-1900 (1993)
- The Correspondence of the Reverend Francis Blomefield, 1702-1752 (1992)
- The Notebook of Robert Doughty, 1662-1665 (1991)
- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Volume III, 1586-1595 (1990)
- An index to Norwich City Officers, 1453-1835 (1989)
- The Parliamentary Survey of Dean and Chapter Properties in and around Norwich in 1649 (1988)
- The Survey of the Houghton Hall Estate by Joseph Hill, 1800 (1986)
- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Volume II, 1578-1585 (1983)
- The Records of a Commission of Sewers for Wiggenhall, 1319-1324 and William Asshebourne’s Book (1981)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1819-1857 (1980)
- The Papers of Nathaniel Bacon of Stiffkey, Volume I, 1556-1577 (1979)
- Norfolk Lieutenancy Journal, 1660-1676 (1977)
- Crime in East Anglia in the Fourteenth Century: Norfolk Gaol Delivery Rolls, 1307-1316 (1976)
- The Letter Book of John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich. Compiled during the years 1571-1575 (1975)
- Faden’s Map of Norfolk (1973)
- The Early Communar and Pitancer Rolls of Norwich Cathedral Priory, with an account of the building of the Cloister (1972)
- The Norwich Census of the Poor, 1570 (1971)
- Great Yarmouth Assembly minutes 1538-1545; The Norwich accounts for the customs on strangers’ goods and merchandise 1582-1610 (1970)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1751-1818 (1969)
- Mary Hardy’s Diary (1968)
- Minutes of the Norwich Court of Mayoralty, 1632-1635 (1967)
- A Cartulary of Creake Abbey (1966)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1687-1750 (1965)
- The Registrum Vagum of Anthony Harison. Part II (1964)
- The Registrum Vagum of Anthony Harison. Part I (1963)
- The Ames Correspondence: Letters to Mary – A selection from letters written by members of the Ames family of Lakenham, Norwich, 1837-1847 (1962)
- Norfolk Lieutenancy Journal, 1676-1701 (1961)
- An Index of the Indentures of Norwich Apprentices enrolled with the Norwich Assembly, Henry VII – George II (1959)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1604-1686 (1958)
- A Miscellany: The Correspondence of Thomas Corie, Town Clerk of Norwich, 1664-1687, with his annotations to Edward Browne’s travels and other memoranda and Observations and Comments on the Visitation of Norfolk, 1664 (1956)
- Norfolk Quarter Sessions Order Book, 1650-1657 (1955)
- Transcript of Three Registers of Passengers from Great Yarmouth to Holland and New England, 1637-1639 (1954)
- Extracts from the Two Earliest Minute Books of the Dean and Chapter of Norwich Cathedral, 1566-1649 (1953)
- The Freemen of Norwich, 1714-1752: A transcript of the third register (1952)
- A Miscellany: Comprising Baptisms recorded in Church Book of the Old Meeting House, Norwich, 1657-1681. Baptisms and Deaths recorded in the Church Book of the Great Yarmouth Independent Church, 1643-1705. The Account Book of ‘Baptised’ Church in City of Norwich, 1726-1745. Some notes on the Blomefield MSS, in The Bodleian Library. Progress Notes of Warden Woodward relating to the Norfolk property of New College, Oxford, 1659-1675 (1951)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1550-1603 (1950)
- The Knyvett Letters, 1620-1644 (1949)
- Archdeaconry of Norwich: Inventory of Church Goods temp. Edward III, Part II (1948)
- Archdeaconry of Norwich: Inventory of Church Goods temp. Edward III, Part I (1947)
- Diocese of Norwich. Bishop Redman’s Visitation. 1597. Presentations in the Archdeaconries of Norwich, Norfolk, and Suffolk (1946)
- A Miscellany, comprising Post Reformation Royal Arms in Norfolk Churches. Cellarer’s Roll, Bromholm Priory, 1415-1416. Lay Subsidy, 1581: Assessor’s Certificates for certain Norfolk Hundreds of Depwade, South Greenhoe, Henstead, Mitford and Shropham (1944)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1370-1550, and Wills among the Norwich Enrolled Deeds, 1298-1508. Part III (1945)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1370-1550, and Wills among the Norwich Enrolled Deeds, 1298-1508. Part II (1944)
- Index of Wills Proved in the Consistory Court of Norwich, 1370-1550, and Wills among the Norwich Enrolled Deeds, 1298-1508. Part I (1943)
- Minutes of the Norwich Court of Mayoralty, 1630-1631 (1942)
- The Correspondence of Lady Katherine Paston, 1603-1627 (1941)
- East Anglian Pedigrees (1940)
- The Norfolk Portion of the Chartulary of the Priory of St Pancras of Lewes (1939)
- The First Register of Norwich Cathedral Priory (1939)
- Norwich Consistory Court Depositions, 1499-1512 and 1518-1530 (1938)
- Records of the Gild of St. George in Norwich, 1389-1547 (1937)
- A Norfolk Sessions Roll, 1394-1397; The Maritime Trade of the Port of Blakeney, Norfolk, 1587-1590; A Norfolk Poll List, 1702 (1936)
- The Musters Returns for divers Hundreds in the County of Norfolk, 1569, 1572, 1574, and 1577 (Part II) (1934)
- The Musters Returns for divers Hundreds in the County of Norfolk, 1569, 1572, 1574, and 1577 (Part I) (1934)
- The Visitation of Norfolk, Anno Domini 1664 made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knt. Clarenceux King of Arms. Volume II (1934)
- The Visitation of Norfolk, Anno Domini 1664 made by Sir Edward Bysshe, Knt. Clarenceux King of Arms. Volume I (1934)
- St. Benet of Holme, 1020-1210. Introductory essay on the Eleventh and Twelfth century sections of Cott. MS Galba E. ii. The Register of the Abbey of St. Benet of Holme. Part II (1932)
- St. Benet of Holme, 1020-1210. The Eleventh and Twelfth century sections of Cott. MS Galba E. ii. The Register of the Abbey of St. Benet of Holme. Part I (1931)
- A Miscellany: Calendar of Frere MSS: Hundred of Holt. Muster Roll, Hundred of North Greenhoe, circa 1523. Norwich Subscriptions to the Voluntary Gift of 1662 (1930)