Harrogate Great Chronicle, 1332-1841

Writing local history is often a labour of love—and it is hard to conceive of another project where this is more evident. Harrogate Great Chronicle is divided into two parts. The first provides an extensive ‘narrative history’ from 1332, the date of the first documentary record of Harrogate, to 1841; the second takes the form of a CD ROM, inserted in the rear flap, containing ‘a comprehensive collection of documentary source materials pertinent to the history’ of the town between these years. The latter is divided into twenty-four files lettered A–X (A = General Material, B = Duchy of Lancaster Archives, etc.), each containing a mass of records, some in the form of an abstract, others as a direct transcription. The content of each of these files is summarised in a further file on the CD ROM. The narrative text is primarily notated by reference (e.g. A.266) to the files

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