Boydell Press Book of Orders and Accounts for the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees (Publications of the Surtees Society)

Chronicles the transition from thatched cottages to smart Georgian town; from market town trading grains, lead and butter, to a thriving 18th-century port importing luxury goods and fuelling an urban renaissance; and from manorial administration by the bishops of Durham to governance by a corporation of mayor, aldermen and burgesses. All these aspects will be of considerable interest to historians of urban communities and economies, and of civic institutions, identity and participation.