The Society has decided to make selected publications available electronically and freely downloadable from the Internet. However, they will normally have been available exclusively to Members or Subscribers in paper form for several years before they are made available free of charge on the Internet.

Click on the links below to go straight to the main publications or continue here to learn the background to the project.

Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
General Index         Search List of Contents        Browse List of Contents

An Historical Gazetteer of Cheltenham
A fully searchable computerised gazetteer

Gloucestershire lay subsidies 1581-1595 (southwest division)
A fully searchable transcript in PDF form

Gloucester Cathedral Archaeological Reports
Nine fully illustrated and fully searchable reports dating from 1997. (in PDF form)

The major project will make available the complete text and illustrations of more than 2100 articles published in the Transactions of the Society between 1876 and the present. Moreover, a fully searchable General Index to the Transactions is already available on-line. The index covers the years 1876 to 2002 as it is based on the published cumulative index volumes which at present only cover those years. The next 10 year cumulative index volume is expected to be published in 2015.

Readers may also search or browse the complete List of Contents for the Transactions from 1876 to the present. The on-line index contains more than 145,000 entries and is linked to the List of Contents. This invaluable feature allows the reader to see immediately the title and length of the article relating the selected entry in the index and can therefore judge the likely relevance of the entry to his particular interests. Where the actual article is available the reader can immediately download it in PDF format, free of charge. All the articles in Volumes 1 - 113 (1876 - 1995) are now available on-line.

The other main project makes the (updated) content of Volume 9 in the Gloucestershire Record Series entitled An Historical Gazetteer of Cheltenham available on the Internet. Although only published in 1997 this volume has been out of print for some time and as the cost of reprinting was considered prohibitive it was decided to make the content available to a much wider audience on the Internet. Users are not able to browse the text as they would with a book but they can submit street names and other keywords and read all the gazetteer entries containing those street names or keyword.

The Society has taken the bold step of putting some of its publications on-line to further one of its main aims, that is "to seek to stimulate and educate the public in archaeological matters". However, it will only be able to continue to make these available on-line if it is satisfied it provides a significant benefit for the public without detriment to the Society. Therefore your comments on the project overall and the present arrangements will be invaluable when it comes to deciding future policy. Please try out the above links and do please send your comments to the Society via the site developer Ray Wilson.