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Our catalogue is a complete record of the society's publications since 1977, including titles that are now out of print but available in libraries or second-hand. All other titles may be ordered direct from us or through any bookseller.


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The Building of Hardwick Hall:
Part 1: The Old Hall 1587–91
Part 2: The New Hall 1591-98

edited by David N. Durant and Philip Riden.


The Butterley Company, 1790–1830

by Philip Riden.


Catalogue of the Library of Titus Wheatcroft of Ashover

edited by Maureen Bell


Chesterfield Parish Register, 1558–1600
Chesterfield Parish Register, 1600–1635

edited by Dorothy M. Nolan, Wilfrid J. Watkinson and Philip Riden.


Chesterfield Wills and Inventories, 1521–1603
Chesterfield Wills and Inventories, 1604–1650

edited by J.M. Bestall and D.V. Fowkes.


A Derbyshire Armory

compiled by Maxwell Craven.


The Derbyshire Church Notes of Sir Stephen Glynne, 1825-1873

edited by Aileen Hopkinson, Vincent Hopkinson and Wendy Bateman.


Derbyshire Directories 1781-1824

edited by Philip Riden.


Derbyshire Feet of Fines, 1323–1546

edited by H.J.H. Garratt and Carole Rawcliffe.


The Derbyshire Gentry in the Fifteenth Century

by Susan M. Wright.


Derbyshire Hearth Tax Assessments, 1662–70

edited by David G. Edwards.


The Derbyshire Lead Industry in the Sixteenth Century

by David Kiernan.


Derbyshire Tithe Files 1836–50

edited by J.V. Beckett and John E. Heath.


The Derbyshire Returns to the 1851 Religious Census

edited by Margery Tranter with David A. Barton and Paul S. Ell.


Derbyshire Wills proved in the Court of Canterbury 1393–1574
Derbyshire Wills proved in the Court of Canterbury 1575-1601

edited by David G. Edwards.


The Diaries of James Clegg of Chapel-en-le-Frith
Part 1: 1708–1736
Part 2: 1737–1747
Part 3: 1748–1755

edited by Vanessa S. Doe.


Essays in Derbyshire History presented to Gladwyn Turbutt

edited by Philip Riden and David G. Edwards.


George Sitwell's Letterbook, 1662–66

edited by Philip Riden.


'The Greatest Brewery in the World'
A History of Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton

by Colin C. Owen.


Eyam Parish Register, 1630–1700

edited by John G. Clifford and Francine Clifford.


Minutes of the Chesterfield Canal Company, 1771–80

edited by Christine Richardson.


Records of The Cromford & High Peak Railway

by David Hodgkins


The Rolls of the 1281 Derbyshire Eyre

edited by Aileen M. Hopkinson with an introduction by David Crook.


A Seventeenth-Century Scarsdale Miscellany:
* The Scarsdale Surveys of 1651 and 1662
* The Autobiography of Leonard Wheatcroft of Ashover
* Lawrence Oxley's Accounts, 1671–81

edited by David Kiernan.


Sion Chapel, Ashbourne. Letters and Papers, 1801–17

edited by Edwin Welch.


Sutton-cum-Duckmanton Parish Register, 1662–1837

edited by Pamela Kettle and Philip Riden.


Visitation Returns from the Archdeaconry of Derby, 1715-1824

edited by John Beckett, Margery Tranter and Wendy Bateman.


William Woolley's History of Derbyshire

edited by Catherine Glover and Philip Riden.


William Senior's Survey of the Estates of the First and Second Earls of Devonshire, c. 1600–28

edited by D.V. Fowkes and G.R. Potter.


OCCASIONAL PAPERS (non-clickable)


Derbyshire Pedigrees
An Index to the holdings of Derby Local Studies Library

edited by Richard Clark

£4.00 / £3.00


The Derbyshire Papist Returns of 1705–6

edited by Richard Clark

£4.00 / £3.00


Derbyshire Pedigrees
An Index to the holdings of Derby Local Studies Library

edited by Richard Clark

£4.00 / £3.00


The Diary of Joseph Jenkinson of Dronfield, 1833–43

edited by Kathleen M. Battye

£5.00 / £3.00


A Glossary of Household, Farming and Trade Terms from Probate Inventories

compiled by Rosemary Milward. 3rd edition

£4.00 / £3.00


How to trace your Ancestors in Derbyshire

by Philip Riden.

Out of print.


An Index to The Reliquary, First Series, Volumes 1–26, 1860–86

compiled by Philip Riden.

Out of print.


The Nottingham & Derby Railway Companion (1839)

Facsimile edition, with an introduction by J.B. Radford.

Out of print.


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