The Essex Record Office is the repository for records about the county of
Essex
Essex () is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the west, Kent across the estuary of the River Thames to the south, and G ...
in England. The office is run by
Essex County Council
Essex County Council is the county council that governs the non-metropolitan county of Essex in England. It has 75 councillors, elected from 70 divisions, and is currently controlled by the Conservative Party. The council meets at County Hall ...
. A searchable database of the records held at the office is available on a system called Seax.
Using Seax.
Essex County Council. Retrieved 18 October 2015.
Selected publications
*Brown, Arthur Frederick James. (1982) ''Chartism in Essex and Suffolk''.
*Briggs, Nancy R. (1991) ''John Johnson, 1732-1814: Georgian Architect and County Surveyor of Essex'',
* Ward, Jennifer C. (1991) ''The Essex Gentry and the County Community in the Fourteenth Century''. (Studies in Essex History)
*Benham, Hervey. (1993) ''Essex Gold: Fortunes of the Essex Oysterman''.
*Phillips, Andrew. (1998) ''Ten Men and Colchester''.
*Hunter, John. (1999) ''The Essex Landscape: A Study of Its Form and History''.
References
External links
Essex Record Office
Essex Record Office blog
History of Essex
Essex County Council
County record offices in England
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