List and Index Society
The List and Index Society (L&IS) is a learned society that publishes editions and calendars of historical records and occasional monographs.
The society was founded in 1965 by Sir Geoffrey Elton and others, with the aim of publishing and distributing "photographic copies of unprinted lists and indexes kept in the Public Record Office, London, and of other unprinted guides and aids to the use of public archives in the British Isles", so that historians working at a distance from London could find out what was available in advance of their visits. More recently, photocopied lists and indexes have been replaced by the online catalogue but the society continues to provide a service to historians by publishing augmented lists, calendars and texts of historical manuscripts both in The National Archives and in other repositories, supplementing the online catalogue.[1]
References[]
- ^ "About the List and Index Society". List and Index Society. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
External links[]
- Official website
- "List and Index Society publications" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 9 December 2016.
- Learned societies of the United Kingdom
- Text publication societies
- The National Archives (United Kingdom)
- 1965 establishments in the United Kingdom