General texts

Alexander, D., Retailing in England during the Industrial Revolution (London, 1970)

Cornfield, P. J. with Kelly, S., ‘Giving directions to the town: the early town directories’, Urban History Yearbook 1984 (Leicester University Press, 1984)

Mills, D. R., Rural Community History From Trade Directories (Local Population Studies: Hertfordshire, 2001)

Norton, J. E. Guide to the national and provincial directories of England and Wales, excluding London, published before 1856 (Royal Historical Society, 1950)

Raven, N.,‘Trade directories and business size: evidence from the small towns of north Essex, 1851’, The Local Historian, 31 (2001), 83-95.

Rimmer, W.G., ‘The industrial profile of Leeds, 1740-1840’, Thoresby Society Pub., 113 (1967), 130-159

Shaw, G. ‘The Content and Reliability of Nineteenth-Century Trade Directories’, Local Historian, vol. 14, Number 4, November 1978

Shaw, G., ‘Directories as sources in urban history: a review of British and Canadian material’, Urban History Yearbook 1984 (Leicester University Press, 1984).

Shaw, G. and Alexander, A., ‘Directories and the Local Historian III: Directories as sources in Local History’, Local History, Number 46, September/October 1994.

Shaw, G. and Tipper, A. British Directories: A Bibliography and Guide to Directories published in England and Wales (1850-1950) and Scotland (1773-1950) (second edition, Mansell Publishing: London, 1997).

Shaw, G., ed. Directing the past: directories and the local historian (British Association for Local History, 2003).

Wild, M.T. and Shaw, G., ‘Locational behaviour of urban retailing during the nineteenth century: the example of Kingston-upon-Hull’, Trans. I.B.G., 61, 101-118