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Recent Publications

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2026

The Register of Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, 1345-1381

2025

The Diary of W. G. Footitt

2024

Book of Orders and Accounts for the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees

Our Work

The Surtees Society is one of the oldest record publishing societies in the country, founded in 1834.

"To have for its object the Publication of inedited Manuscripts, illustrative of the intellectual, the moral, the religious, and the social condition of those parts of England and Scotland, included on the East between the Humber and the Firth of Forth, and on the West between the Mersey and the Clyde, a region which constituted the Ancient Kingdom of Northumberland."

Although several other similar societies were subsequently founded in the region defined at the Society’s establishment, the area covered by the Society has not been reduced, but most of the volumes so far published have been concerned with County Durham or Northumberland.

Membership

Become a member

We are always interested in working with amateur historians and members of the public along with academics and historians.

Our society is built on the enthusiasm of its members.

Members receive one copy of the main series volume published by the Society;
Members can buy back-volumes at a reduced rate;
Members are entitled to attend and vote at Annual General Meetings and to stand for election to Council;
Out of print volumes sometimes available second-hand to members.