Medieval source material on the internet: Modern works: Local history: L
Modern works:
(2) Local history: L
N.B. See also the index of places covered by the Victoria County History -
some articles are available online.
- Lancashire: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
- Cross Fleury [R. E. K. Rigbye.] 'Time-Honoured Lancaster.' Historic notes on the Ancient Borough of Lancaster (1891) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Langham [Rutland] Village History Group
Includes a translation of the manorial court rolls for 1486-1546 and a detailed list of historical source material.
- Some Notes on the Parish of
Lapley-cum-Wheaton-Aston In the County of Stafford (Ray Cowley, Wheaton Aston History)
[formerly at http://www.ray.cowley.btinternet.co.uk/hartleys_book.htm; not available, 12 June 2005; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from August 2003]
Online text by George T. Hartley (1912), including a detailed account of the parish in medieval and
early modern times
- Leicestershire: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
- Leicestershire: University of Leicester Special Collections
The University of Leicester Special Collections section contains a number of published sources for Leicestershire history.
- Lillingstone Lovell, Buckinghamshire
(Whittlewood Project;
Richard Jones, University of Leicester)
Historical outline, from a multi-disciplinary (documentary and archaeological)
study of 12 parishes in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire
- Lincoln:
- Richard John King, Handbook to the Cathedrals of England (1862) (Bill Thayer) [not available, 11 December 2015]
Excerpts, including accounts of the history of the see of Lincoln, and the history of the cathedral
- A. F. Kendrick, The Cathedral Church of Lincoln
(1928 edn) (Bill Thayer) [not available, 11 December 2015]
Much of the emphasis is architectural, but the text includes notes on the history of the cathedral,
material on funeral monuments, and a list of bishops with brief biographical notes
- Lincolnshire: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
- Lincolnshire:
- David Roffe,
Lissingleys and the Meeting Place of Lindsey [Lincolnshire]
- Ramsay Muir and Edith M. Platt A history of municipal government in Liverpool [Lancashire] from the earliest times to the Municipal Reform Act of 1835 (1906) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Narrative introduction, with a collection of charters, leases, etc, transcribed and translated.
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- J. A. Picton, Memorials of Liverpool [Lancashire], historical and topographical, including a history of the dock estate (1873) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
Volume 1 of 2 (historical).
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- J. A. Picton Memorials of Liverpool [Lancashire], historical and topographical, including a history of the dock estate (1875) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
Volume 2 of 2 (topographical).
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- Ramsay Muir A History of Liverpool [Lancashire] (1907) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 .]
- London: See Victoria County History and Older County Histories
- London:
- Henry A. Harben, A Dictionary of London (1918) (British History Online)
Detailed historical gazetteer of the City of London, giving a skeleton history
for each street and place, with references to records in which it appears.
- Historical gazetteer
of London before the Great Fire (British History Online)
Text of the work by D. J. Keene and Vanessa Harding (1987)
giving a detailed history of each property from the 12th to the late 17th centuries
in the parishes of All Hallows Honey Lane, St. Martin Pomary, St. Mary le Bow, St. Mary Colechurch, and St. Pancras Soper Lane
- E. T. Cook Highways and Byways in London (1902) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 .]
- Residents of London (Community Trees, FamilySearch.org)
Genealogical database compiled from various sources, including Boyd's Citizens of London.
- A. L. Browne Corporation Chronicles being some account of the Ancient Corporations of East Looe and of West Looe in the County of Cornwall (1904) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive.]
- Loughborough [Leicestershire] Data (David Postles, Leicester University) [not available, 12 December 2023; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
Transcripts and notes from various sources relating to early-modern Loughborough.
- Charter concerning the manor of Loveden, Lincolnshire, 1378 (this site)
- Thomas Wright, The History and Antiquities of the town of Ludlow and its Ancient Castle. (1826) (Internet Archive - Text Archive)
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 .]
- Thomas Wright The history of Ludlow and its neighbourhood; forming a popular sketch of the history of the Welsh Border (1852) (Google Books [Hints and tips])
[Other copies at: Internet Archive - Text Archive: 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; 5 ; 6 .]