- A52, A23, A90 -

Like any craftsman the historian needs raw materials. Wiltshire Record Society The documentary record reporting who did what when and why is often cumbersome hard to read and understand and immensely timeconsuming to search. And so for at least two centuries scholars have been transcribing summarising and indexing and then publishing the most important sources needed for the historians toolbox. Long series of national records are available but many sources are essentially local relating to a town a neighbourhood or a county.