Historical Books
Introduction

Welcome to New Forest Gateway's Online Books
     
THE LIBRARY:

This library contains seminal publications about Southern England in general and the New Forest in particular. Social History, Natural History, Fiction and Non-Fiction dating back to 1697.
These books are complete and as originally published. Where possible, the books have been processed for word recognition, allowing comprehensive searches within the text.

THE FORMAT:
The books are presented as PDF and are a copies of the original publications. These files are quite large, generally between 10 and 30 megabytes per book, these can be opened directly and downloaded to your computer.      Get Adobe Acrobat Reader
   
THE OPTIONS:
Below, you can search/browse by [Author], [Title] or [More Information].
Once the book is open you can read it, or save it to your computer and read it later.
Books that have word recognition can be searched using the PDF (Acrobat) controls.
You must be registered with NFG and logged in to read and/or download the books.

 

The Book Library
Browse records in that    Search     
ThumbnailAuthorSorted By Author In Ascending OrderTitlePublishedCategoryMore Information
ThumbnailAndrews, WilliamBygone Hampshire1899Social HistoryHampshire history 495AD to 1899ADOpen
ThumbnailAnonCorporation of Southampton, Historical Manuscripts1887Social HistoryRecovered historical carters, patents, deeds, and loose memoranda belonging to the corporation of SouthamptonOpen
ThumbnailBrayley and BrittonThe Beauties of England and Wales - Vol 61805Social HistoryHampshireOpen
ThumbnailEnglefield, H CWalk Through Southampton1805Social HistoryAn account of Southampton's antiquitiesOpen
ThumbnailHarper, Charles GBeautiful Britain - Wessex1911Social HistoryDescribed as a gossipy and ellusive sketch of the Middle WestOpen
ThumbnailHeath, SidneyBournemouth, Poole and Christchurch1915Social/Natural HistoryThe author looks at the artificial and natural landscape of the areaOpen
ThumbnailHudson, W HAfoot In England1900Social/Natural HistoryA personal reflection on the people and places of the timeOpen
ThumbnailLevett, A ElizabethThe Black Death on the Estates of the See of Winchester1916Social HistoryThe impact of the Black Death 1348 to 1350Open
ThumbnailMoody, HenryAntiquarian and Topographical Sketches of Hampshire1846Social HistoryA description of familiar places and objects of the timeOpen
ThumbnailSelby, Prideaux JohnA History of British Forest-Trees1842Natural HistoryAll the main tree species described and illustratedOpen
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