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From Memory to Written Record: England 1066–1307 M. T. Clanchy London, Edward Arnold, 1979 xiv+300 pp., 19 plates. £14.95 The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis, Vol. vi (Books xi, xii and xiii) Edited and translated by Marjorie Chibnall Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1978 xxvii + 611 pp. £20 Wiltshire Gaol Delivery and Trailbaston Trials, 1275–1306 Edited by Ralph B. Pugh Wiltshire Record Society, Vol. XXXIII, for the year 1977, Devizes, 1978 x + 273 pp. £7 to non‐members The Cartulary of the Treasurer of York Minster and related documents Edited by Janet E. Burton Borthwick Texts and Calendars: Records of the Northern Province 5, 1978 £2.50 plus 30p postage and packing (available from the Borthwick Institute, St Anthony's Hall, York, Yoi 2PW#CP The Cardinal's Court J. A. Guy Hassocks, Harvester Press, 1977 x +191 pp. £8.50 Doctors’ Commons: A History of the College of Advocates and Doctors of Law G. D. Squibb Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1977 xvi+244pp. £10 The Manuscripts of the House of Lords, vol. XII (new series), 1714–18 Edited by David J. Johnson London, H.M.S.O., 1977 1+617 pp. £15 paperback, £19.50 hardback The Prime Ministers’ Papers Series: W. E. Gladstone: III: Autobiographical Memoranda, 1845–1866 Edited by John Brooke and Mary Sorensen Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, London, H.M.S.O., 1978 xvii+292 pp. £15 Office‐holders in Modern Britain, VIL Navy Board Officials 1660–1832 Compiled by J. M. Collinge London, University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 1978 xii + 153 pp.£8 The Diary of Beatrice Webb Manuscript original on 130 microfiches Typed transcript on 110 microfiches With printed index volume compiled by Archive Arrangement Routledge Assoc. 120pp. £25 Cambridge, Chadwyck‐Healey Ltd., 1978 £295 the complete set, including index Heralds and Ancestors Sir Anthony Wagner London, British Museum Publications Ltd (Colonnade Books), 1978 87pp., 16 colour plates, 31 black and white illus. £6.95 cased, £3.95 paper Catalogue of Seals in the Public Record Office. Personal Seals. Volume 1 Compiled by Roger H. Ellis London, H.M.S.O., 1978 vii+82 pp., 24 plates. £8 An Archive Approach to Oral History David Lance The Imperial War Museum in association with the International Association of Sound Archives, 1978 viii +64 pp. £1.50 (from the Publications Department, Imperial War Museum) Business Archives: an introduction Edie Hedlin Chicago, Society of American Archivists, 1978 28 pp. (2 pp. blank) plus microfiche Historical Records of the Government of Canada: Public Records Division, Public Archives of Canada Terry Cook and Glenn T. Wright Ottawa, Public Archives of Canada, 1978 xii + 120 pp. Available gratis from the Information Services of the Public Archives. A Bibliography of Design in Britain 1851‐ 1970 Anthony J. Coulson London, Design Council, 1979 291 pp. £12.50 Gloucestershire Waterways Signal Teaching Aid, Gloucestershire Record Office, 1977. £1.25 Eighteenth‐century prospect Compiled by S. Bird and C. Shrimpington University of Newcastle upon Tyne (Archive Teaching Unit No. 12), 1977 £5