Publications

The Record Office produces a number of publications and leaflets which may be of use to you.

To order any of the leaflets listed below please contact us and we will be pleased to discuss payment details and send the information to you in the post.

Archives First - a series of beginners' guides to original sources for aspects of Derbyshire's history. Each priced at 50p (£0.85 by post)

AF2 Personal and family names: their origins and meanings
AF3 The poor and their records: how the other half lived
AF4 Last will and testament: wills and probate documents
AF5 Place names: how to find them and what they mean
AF6 Keeping the peace: law and order in Derbyshire's past
AF7 Understanding Latin words and phrases: help for beginners
AF8 Your house's history: how to find the background to buildings
AF9 Country maps and how to use them: 16th-20th century
AF10 The advancement of learning: origins of Derbyshire educational services from 1870
AF11 Speed, regularity and security: highways, coaches, inns and their history
AF12 A taste of Old England: the early history of English food
AF13 The Victorians in Derbyshire
AF14 How to read early handwriting and Roman numerals
AF15 On Derbyshire's old roads
AF16 Crime and protest
AF17 Marriage and family life
AF18 In sickness and in health: before the National Health Service
AF19 Working men and women: sources for apprenticeship and training
AF20 Helping each other: development of Friendly Societies etc.
AF21 Changes for the better?: growth of public health services
AF22 Derbyshire 'wonders' and their visitors
AF23 Sport, the arts and social life
AF24 Victorian vision: John Smedley and Matlock
AF25 Blot on the landscape?: industry and trade in the county
AF26 England's glory: Derbyshire's historic gardens
AF27 The best days of your life?: archives for Derbyshire schools
AF28 Troubled times: civil war in Derbyshire
AF29 Derbyshire in war and peace 1: 1914-1918
AF30 The Caribbean in history
AF31 'Cooling Juleps': recipes
AF32 Possets and Mulls: recipes
AF33 Women in Derbyshire's history
AF34 History of the Shire counties
AF35 Early Derbyshire historians
AF36 Derbyshire in war and peace 2: 1939-1945
AF37 Kill or cure: remedies and treatments in Derbyshire archives
AF38 The Strutt family: industry and paternalism
AF39 Taxation records in Derbyshire: a brief survey for local and family historians

Derbyshire Record Office Guide to Archives

G15 Parish register guide - includes covering dates of original parish registers and microfilm copies of registers of baptisms, banns, marriages and burials available in Derbyshire Record Office. With brief administrative history of each parish/township, introduction to parish registers and an outline map of Derbyshire parishes. £2.50 or £3.50 by post

G16 Nonconformist register guide - revised and updated with introduction, summary details and covering dates of registers of births/baptisms, marriages and deaths/burials, from chapels of many denominations in Derbyshire.
£2.50 or £3.50 by post

G19 Derbyshire family archives in Derbyshire Record Office - this 25-page booklet is an introductory guide to the records of over 400 Derbyshire families and estates to be found in Derbyshire Record Office. Sale catalogues for major properties are also included. With index by place.
£1.50 or £1.80 by post

G21 Military records for the family historian - sources for the period 1600-1945. Introduction to Regular Army records, information on the Derbyshire militia, volunteer infantry forces, voluntary cavalry forces and other related records in the Derbyshire Record Office.
£2.50 or £3.50 by post

Outline maps - Each priced at 47p (80p by post)

M1 County of Derbyshire (as at 1 April 1997) showing parish and district boundaries
M2 Derbyshire ecclesiastical parishes: about 1800
M3 Derbyshire poor law unions: in 1857