Manuscripts
Barnsley Archives and Local Studies, Barnsley
Marsh, George, ‘A sketch of the life of George Marsh, a Yorkshire collier, 1834–1921’, B920 MAR.
Bradford Central Library (Local Studies collection), Bradford
Harland, John, Diary, 1810–1815, 1831, 920 Har.
Wood, Thomas, ‘Autobiography by Thomas Wood, 1822–1880’, 920 Woo.
Bristol Central Library
Arney, Alfred, ‘Diary, 1851–57’, B20208.
Mitchell, Tommy, ‘Tommys' Book’, TS, B29411.
Bristol Record Office
Bennett, John, ‘Manuscript autobiography of John Bennett of Bristol’, 36907.
Broadstairs Library, Kent
Pointer, Thomas, ‘Memoirs of Thomas James Pointer of St Peters’, 50: Pointer.
Brunel University Library
Lovekin, Emanuel, ‘Some notes of my Life’, 1: 452.
Terry, Joseph, ‘Recollections of my Life’, 1: 693.
Carlisle Library (Local Studies Department), Carlisle
Irving, Thomas, ‘Farming and Country Life in Cumberland 100 Years ago’, B600.
Cumbria Record Office, Carlisle
Sankoffsky, Johan, ‘Diary’, ex-DX 644/1–2.
East Riding Archives and Local Studies, Beverley
Taylor, Hasslewood, ‘Untitled MS’, DDX1077/11.
Essex Record Office, Chelmsford, Essex
Castle, John, ‘The Diary of John Castle’, B/CAS.
Finsbury Library (Islington Local History Centre), London
Price, Henry Edward, ‘My diary’, 1032 S/HEP.
Flintshire Record Office, Hawarden, Flintshire
Nuttall, Samuel, ‘My recollections and life’, D/DM/742/1.
Greenwich Heritage Centre, Woolwich, London
Stradley, John, ‘Memoirs of John Stradley, 1757–1825’, 920 Strad.
Halifax Central Library (Local Studies), Halifax
Dodgson, Joshua, ‘Diary of Joshua Dodgson’, Halifax Weekly Courier and Guardian, 19 and 25 May 1956.
Keighley Library (Local Studies), Keighley
Kitson, John, ‘Diary of John Kitson of Haworth’, 920 HAW KIT.
Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Wigston Magna, Leicester
Goodliffe, Arnold, ‘Memoirs of Arnold Goodliffe’, DE7196.
Lincoln Reference Library (Local Studies Collection), Lincoln
Cook, Richard, ‘The Memoirs of Richard Cook’, LOC L.921.COO.
Newport Central Library (Local Studies Collection) Newport
Hughes, Henry, ‘Autobiography’, M380.920.HUG.
Norfolk Record Office
Hemmingway, John, ‘The Character or Worldly Experience of the Writer from 1791 to 1865’, MC 766/1, 795X5.
Huggins, Samuel, ‘Some short account of the Birth Life Conversation Travels and Christian Experience of Samuel Huggins Primitive Methodist Preacher’, FC 17/148.
Lincoln, John, ‘Memoirs of John Lincoln’, MC 2669/29, 991X9.
Northamptonshire Record Office, Northampton
Clifton, John, ‘Day Books, 1763–1784’, ZA/8732–46.
Mallard, George, ‘Memories’, ZA9908/3, X9908/4–15.
Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich
Short, Obadiah, ‘Recollections, 1861’, NWHCM: 1964.590.2.
Norwich and Norfolk Millennium Library (Norfolk Heritage Centre), Norwich
Zobel, James, ‘Diary, 1827–58’, TS. ed. J. K. Edwards, C ZOB.
Nottinghamshire Archives, Nottingham
[Moss, Joseph], ‘Memoirs of Joseph Burdett, stockinger and sometime apprentice to Mr Kirk of Lambley, Nottinghamshire, 1813–1917’, DD1177/1.
Moss, Joseph, ‘Recollections of Joseph Moss, a journeyman stockinger, 1817’, DD148/1.
Woolley, Joseph, ‘Diary of Joseph Woolley, framework knitter, Clifton, Nottinghamshire, 1801, 1813, 1815’, DD311/1; DD311/5; DD311/6.
Rawtenstall Library (Local Studies Department) Rawtenstall, Rosssendale, Lancashire
Heap, Moses, ‘My life and times’, TS ed. J. Elliott, LG3 HEAP.
Sheffield Archives, Sheffield
Lea, William, ‘Autobiography of the Reverend William Lea’, MD1900a.
Skelton, Joseph, ‘Diary of Joseph Skelton, 1826–1830’, MD2064/1–5.
Ward, William, ‘Life and Journal of William Ward, Primitive Methodist Minister’, MD1490.
Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich
‘Autobiography of a Suffolk farm labourer’, cuttings from the Suffolk Mercury.
Tyne and Wear Archives Service, Newcastle upon Tyne
Binns, David, Untitled MS, 1203/4.
University of Warwick, Modern Records Centre
Plastow, William, ‘William Plastow's story’, MSS.172/LP/A/115.
Warwickshire County Record Office, Warwick
Roper, J. N., ‘Journal of some pleasant and comfortable times at Atherstone, Warwickshire, 1848’, Z685sm.
Westminster City Archives
Bryceson, Nathaniel, ‘Diary, 1848’, 0730 (transcription available on the archives' website).
West Sussex Record Office, Chichester
Robinson, Joseph, ‘Joseph Robinson's reminiscences (1820–1917)’, MP 2216.
Arthur E. Jewitt, ‘Passages in the Life of A.E. Jewitt’, EHC172/M964.
Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre, Chippenham, Wiltshire
Small, William, ‘Cherished memories and Associations’, 2713/2.
Worcestershire Record Office, Worcester
Shervington, Jesse, ‘Autobiography of an agricultural labourer’, BA 5518 Ref: 970.5: 645 Parcel 1.
Printed Autobiographies
Adams, W. E., Memoirs of a Social Atom, 2 vols (London, 1903).
Aird, Andrew, Autobiography (Glasgow, 1899).
Aitken, William, ‘Remembrances and struggles of a working man for bread and liberty’, in Robert G. Hall and Stephen Roberts, eds, William Aitken, the Writings of a Nineteenth Century Working Man (Tameside, 1996).
Anderson, Edward, The Sailor; a Poem. Description of his Going to Sea, and through Various Scenes of Life … with Observations on the Town of Liverpool (Newcastle, [1800?]).
Anderson, Isaac, The Life History of Isaac Anderson. A Member of the Peculiar People (n.p., 1896).
Anderson, Robert, ‘Memoir of the author, written by himself’, in The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson (Carlisle, 1820), pp. xiii–xxxiv.
Andrew, Jane, Recorded Mercies: Being the Autobiography of Jane Andrew, Living at St Ives, Liskeard, Cornwall (London, [1890]).
Arch, Joseph, Joseph Arch: the Story of his Life, Told by Himself, ed. with a preface by Frances, the Countess of Warwick (London, 1898).
Ashford, Mary Ann, Life of a Licensed Victualler's Daughter (London, 1844).
Askham, John, Sketches in Prose and Verse (Wellingborough, 1893).
Autobiography of a Scotch Lad: being Reminiscences of Threescore Years and Ten (Glasgow, 1887).
Bain, Alexander, Autobiography, ed. William L. Davidson (London, 1904).
Bamford, Samuel, Early Days (London, 1849).
——, Passages in the Life of a Radical (London, [1859?]).
Bangs, Benjamin, Memoirs of the Life and Convincement of that Worthy Friend: Benjamin Bangs, late of Stockport in Cheshire, Deceased (London, 1798).
Barker, Joseph, Life of Joseph Barker, Written by Himself, ed. John Thomas Barker (London, 1880).
Barker, Robert, Unfortunate Shipwright: or Cruel Captain, being a Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings of Robert Barker (London, 1758).
——, The Second Part of the Unfortunate Shipwright; or the Blind Man's Travels through Many Parts of England, in Pursuit of his Right (London, 1771).
Barlow, Edward, Barlow's Journal of his Life at Sea in King's Ships … from 1659 to 1703, ed. Basil Lubbock (London, 1934).
Barr, David, Climbing the Ladder: the Struggles and Successes of a Village Lad (London, 1910).
Basset, Josiah, Life of a Vagrant: Or the Testimony of an Outcast to the Value and Truth of the Gospel (New York, 1852).
Bates, John, John Bates, the Veteran Reformer: a Sketch of his Life (Queensbury, 1895; facs. repr. London, 1986).
Bathgate, Janet, Aunt Janet's Legacy to her Nieces. Recollections of Humble Life in Yarrow in the Beginning of the Century (Selkirk, 1894).
Belcher, Richard Boswell, Autobiography of Richard Boswell Belcher of Banbury and Blockley, ed. A. W. Excell and Norah M. Marshall (Blockley Antiquarian Society, 1976).
Bent, Charles, Autobiography of Charles Bent, a Reclaimed Drunkard (Sheffield, 1866).
Bent, James, ‘Introduction’, Criminal Life: Reminiscences of 42 Years as a Police Officer (Manchester, [1891]), pp. iii–vi.
Bertram, James Glass, Some Memories of Books, Authors and Events (London, 1893).
Bethune, Alexander, Memoirs of Alexander Bethune, embracing Selections from his Correspondence, ed. William M'Combie (Aberdeen, 1845).
Bethune, John, Poems by the Late John Bethune with a Sketch of the Author's Life, By His Brother (London, 1841).
Bewley, George, A Narrative of the Christian Experiences of George Bewley, Late of the City of Corke (Dublin, 1750).
Bezer, John James, ‘The autobiography of one of the Chartist rebels of 1848’, in David Vincent, ed., Testaments of Radicalism. Memoirs of Working-Class Politicians, 1790–1885 (London, 1977), pp. 147–87.
Black, James, ‘Local autobiography: Glasgow in the past century’, Glasgow Herald, 5 May 1851.
Blacket, Joseph, ‘Autobiographical letter’, in Specimens of the Poetry of Joseph Blacket, with an Account of his Life, i, ed. Mr Pratt (London, 1811).
Blow, John, Autobiography of John Blow (Leeds, 1870).
Bodell, James, A Soldier's View of Empire: the Reminiscences of James Bodell, 1831–92 (London, 1982).
Bowcock, William, The Life, Experiences and Correspondence of William Bowcock (London, 1851).
Bowd, James, ‘The life of a farm worker’, The Countryman, 51/2 (1955), pp. 293–300.
Bowes, John, The Autobiography or History of the Life of John Bowes (Glasgow, 1872).
Bownas, Samuel, An Account of the Life, Travels, and Christian Experiences in the Work of the Ministry of Samuel Bownas (Stanford, CA, 1805).
Brierley, Benjamin, Home Memories: the Autobiography of a Handloom Weaver (Manchester, 1886; repr. Bramhall, 2002).
Britton, John, The Autobiography of John Britton, FSA, Honorary Member of Numerous English and Foreign Societies, 2 vols (London, 1850).
Broadhurst, Henry, Henry Broadhurst M.P. The Story of his Life from a Stonemason's Bench to the Treasury Bench (London, 1901).
Brown, John, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe, an Orphan Boy (1832), in James R. Simmons and Janice Carlisle, eds, Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies (Ontario, 2007).
Brown, John, Sixty Years' Gleanings from Life's Harvest: a Genuine Autobiography (Cambridge, 1858).
Brown, William, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of William Brown (York, 1829).
Brunskill, Stephen, The Life of Stephen Brunskill of Orton: Sixty Years a Wesleyan Methodist Local Preacher (London, 1837).
Buckley, John, A Village Politician. The Life-Story of John Buckley, ed. J. C. Buckmaster (London, 1897).
Burgess, John, No Continuing City. The Diary and Letters of John Burgess, a Sussex Craftsman, 1785–1810, ed. Donald F. Burgess (Redhill, Surrey, 1989).
Burgess, Joseph, A Potential Poet? His Autobiography and Verse (Burgess Publications, Ilford, 1927).
Burland, John, John Hugh Burland by Himself (Barnsley, [1902?]).
Burn, James Dawson, The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy, 1855, ed. with an introduction by David Vincent (London, 1978).
Mrs Burrows, ‘A childhood in the fens about 1850–1860’, in Margaret Llewelyn Davis, ed., Life As We Have Known It, by Co-operative Working Women (1931).
Burt, Thomas, Thomas Burt: Pitman & Privy Councillor; an Autobiography (London, 1924).
[Butler, Robert], Narrative of the Life and Travels of Sergeant B——. Written by Himself (Edinburgh, 1823).
Buxton, Richard, ‘A brief memoir of the author’, in his A Botanical Guide to the Flowers and Plants … within Sixteen Miles of Manchester (London, 1849).
Bywater, James, The Trio's Pilgrimage: an Autobiography of James Bywater, including Brief Life Sketches of his Wives Maria Thomas, Hanna Maria Jenson, ed. Hyrum W. Valentine ([Salt Lake City, 1947]).
Calladine, George, The Diary of Colour-Serjeant George Calladine, 19th Foot, 1793–1837, ed. Major M.L. Ferrar (London, 1922).
[Cameron, William], Hawkie, the Autobiography of a Gangrel, ed. John Strathesk (Glasgow, 1888).
Campbell, Archibald, The Restless Voyage, Being an Account by Archibald Campbell, Seaman, of his Wanderings in Five Oceans from 1806 to 1812, Written and Published in Edinburgh in 1816 and Supplemented and Re-Edited in 1948 (London, 1949).
Campbell, Charles, Memoirs of Charles Campbell, at Present Prisoner in the Jail of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1828).
Campbell, Duncan, Reminiscences and Reflections of an Octogenarian Highlander (Inverness, 1910).
Cannon, John, The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, 2 vols, ed. John Money (Oxford, 2010).
Carnegie, Andrew, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie (Boston and London, 1920).
Carter, Harry, The Autobiography of a Cornish Smuggler, 1749–1809, ed. with introduction John Britain Cornish (Truro, 1894).
Carter, Thomas, Memoirs of a Working Man, ed. Charles Knight (London, 1845).
Carvosso, William, The Efficacy of Faith in the Atonement of Christ, Exemplified in a Memoir of Mr William Carvosso (London, 1836; repr. New York, 1837).
Castle, John, ‘Memoirs’, in A. F. J. Brown, ed., Essex People 1750–1900, from their Diaries Memoirs and Letters (Essex Record Office Publications, 59), 1972.
Catling, Thomas Thurgood, My Life's Pilgrimage (London, 1911).
Catton, Samuel, A Short Sketch of a Long Life of Samuel Catton once a Suffolk Ploughboy (Ipswich, 1863).
Chadwick, William, Reminiscences of a Chief Constable (Manchester, 1900; facs. repr. Longdendale, Cheshire, 1974).
Chatterton, Daniel, Biography of Dan Chatterton, Atheist and Communist (London, 1891).
Choyce, James, The Log of a Jack Tar; or The Life of James Choyce, Master Mariner (London, 1891; facs repr. 1973).
Chubb, Thomas, ‘The author's account of himself’, in The Posthumous Works of Mr. Thomas Chubb, i (London, [1748]), pp. ii–viii.
Clare, John, ‘The Autobiography, 1793–1824’, in J. W. and Anne Tibble, eds, The Prose of John Clare (London, 1951).
—— ‘Sketches in the life of John Clare, written by himself and addressed to his friend John Taylor, esq.’, in Eric Robinson, ed., John Clare's Autobiographical Writings (Oxford, 1983).
Claxton, Timothy, Hints to Mechanics on Self-Education and Mutual Instruction (London, 1839).
Clifford, John, Dr John Clifford, C. H. Life, Letters and Reminiscences (London, 1924).
Clift, William, Reminiscences of William Clift (Basingstoke, 1908).
‘A coal miner's defence’, Potters' Examiner and Emigrants' Advocate, 11, 18, 25 Jan. 1851.
‘Colin’, The Wanderer Brought Home. The Life and Adventures of Colin. An Autobiography, ed. with reflections by the Rev. B. Richings (London, 1864).
Collyer, Robert, Some Memories (Boston, 1908).
Cooke, Noah, ‘Autobiography’, in his Wild Warblings (Kidderminster, 1876).
Cooper, George, George Cooper, Stockport's Last Town Crier, 1824–1895, Presented by Anne Swift [n. p., 1974].
Cooper, Thomas, The Life of Thomas Cooper, Written by Himself (London, 1872).
Corben, James, A Langton Quarryman's Apprentice: James Corben's Autobiography, ed. R. J. Saville (Langton Matravers Local History and Preservation Society, 1996).
Crocker, Charles, The Vale of Obscurity, The Lavant, and Other Poems (Chichester, 1830), pp. ix–xii.
Croll, James, Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll, with Memoir of his Life and Work (London, 1896).
Crowe, Robert, ‘Reminiscences of Robert Crowe, the octogenarian tailor’, in Dorothy Thompson, ed., Chartists' Biographies and Autobiographies (London, 1986).
Davenport, Allen, The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport (London, 1845).
Davidson, Margaret, The Extraordinary Life and Christian Experience of Margaret Davidson (as dictated by herself) … To which are added, some of her Letters and Hymns. By the Rev. Edward Smyth (Dublin, 1782).
Davies, Thomas, Short Sketches from the Life of Thomas Davies (Haverfordwest, [1887?]).
Davis, Edward G., Some Passages from My Life (Birmingham, 1898).
Davis, James, Passages in the Life of James Davis, Wandering Musician, Twenty Years on the Road (Bristol, 1865).
Deacon, Abraham, Memoir of Abraham Deacon (London, 1912).
Dodd, William, A Narrative of the Experiences and Sufferings of William Dodd, A Factory Cripple, Written by Himself (1851), in James R. Simmons and Janice Carlisle, eds, Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies (Ontario, 2007).
Donaldson, Joseph, Recollections of an Eventful Life Chiefly Passed in the Army. By a Soldier (Glasgow, 1824).
Dottie, Robert, Autobiographical preface in The Rambles and Recollections of ‘R Dick’ (Robert Dottie) (Manchester, 1898), pp. x–xvi.
Downing, James, A Narrative of the Life of James Downing, (a blind man), Late a Private in his Majesty's 20th Regiment of Foot (New York, 1821).
Duke, Robert Rippon, An Autobiography, 1817–1902 (Buxton, 1902).
Dunhill, Snowden, The Life of Snowden Dunhill, of Spaldington, East Riding (Howden, 1987).
Dunn, James, From Coal Mine Upwards, or Seventy Years of an Eventful Life (London, [1910]).
Dunning, Thomas, ‘Reminiscences of Thomas Dunning’, in David Vincent, ed., Testaments of Radicalism. Memoirs of Working-Class Politicians, 1790–1885 (London, 1977), pp. 115–46.
Edwards, John Passmore, A Few Footprints (London, 1905).
Elliott, Ebenezer, ‘Autobiography’, The Athenaeum, 12 Jan. 1850.
Errington, Anthony, Coals of Rails or the Reason of my Wrighting. The Autobiography of Anthony Errington from 1778 to 1825, ed. P. E. H. Hair (Liverpool, 1988).
Evans, Elizabeth, ‘Memoir of Mrs. Elizabeth Evans’, in Z. Taft, ed., Biographical Sketches of the Lives and Public Ministry of Various Holy Women, i (London, 1825), pp. 45–58.
An Exposition of the Nefarious System of Making and Passing Spurious Coin … Being the Confessions of a Coiner (Preston, n.d.).
Fairburn, William, The Life of Sir William Fairburn (London, 1877; facs. repr. 1970).
Farish, William, The Autobiography of William Farish. The Struggles of a Handloom Weaver. With Some of his Writings, ed. Owen R. Ashton and Stephen Roberts (London, 1996).
Farn, John C. ‘The autobiography of a living publicist’, The Reasoner, 16 Sept.–23 Dec. 1857.
Farningham, M., A Working Woman's Life (London, 1907).
Featherstone, Peter, Reminiscences of a Long Life (London, 1905).
Ferguson, James, ‘A short account of the life of the author’, in E. Henderson, Life of James Ferguson, FRS, in a Brief Autobiographical Account and a Further Extended Memoir (Edinburgh, 1870).
Finney, John, Sixty Years' Recollections of an Etruscan (Stoke-on-Trent, n.d.).
Flockhart, Robert, The Street Preacher, Being the Autobiography of Robert Flockhart, ed. Thomas Guthrie (Edinburgh, 1858).
Freer, Walter, My Life and Memories (Glasgow, 1929).
Frost, Thomas, Forty Years' Recollections. Literary and Political (London, 1880).
G. J., Prisoner Set Free. The Narrative of a Convict in the Preston House of Correction with a few Remarks by the Rev. John Clay (Preston, 1846).
Gabbitass, Peter, ‘The poet's autobiography’, in his Heart Melodies: for Storm and Sunshine. From Cliftonia the Beautiful (Bristol, 1885).
Gammage, R. G., Reminiscences of a Chartist, Robert Gammage, ed. W. H. Maehl ([Barnsley], 1983).
Gibbs, John, The Life and Experience of the Author and some Traces of the Lord's Gracious Dealings towards the Author (Lewes, 1827).
Gifford, William, Memoir of William Gifford. Written by Himself (London, 1827).
[Gooch, Richard], Memoirs, Remarkable Vicissitudes, Military Career and Wanderings (Norwich, 1844).
Gough, John Bartholomew, The Autobiography of John B. Gough with a Continuation of his Life up to the Present Time (Glasgow, 1872).
Green, John, Vicissitudes of a Soldier's Life (London, 1827).
[Green, William], The Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack by One of the Fraternity, ed. Charles Hindley (London, 1876).
Gutteridge, Joseph, ‘Autobiography of Joseph Gutteridge’, in V. E. Chancellor, ed., Master and Artisan in Victorian England: The Diary of William Andrews and the Autobiography of Joseph Gutteridge (London, 1969), pp. 75–237.
Gwyer, Joseph, ‘Life and Poems of Joseph Gywer’, in his Sketches of the Life of Joseph Gywer, Potato Salesman, with his Poems (Penge, [1877]), pp. 5–42.
[H., Bill] ‘Autobiography of a Navvy’, Macmillan's Magazine, 5 (1861–2). Extracts repr. in John Burnett, ed., Useful Toil. Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s (London, 1974).
Haggart, David, The Life of David Haggart, alias John Wilson, Written by Himself (Edinburgh, 1821).
Haime, John, ‘The Life of Mr John Haime, written by himself’, in The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers, Chiefly written by Themselves, i, ed. with an introductory essay by Thomas Jackson (London, 1865), pp. 269–311.
Hall, John Vine, The Author of the ‘Sinner's Friend’. An Autobiography, ed. with an introduction by Newman Hall (London, 1865).
Hammond, William, Recollections of William Hammond, A Glasgow Hand-Loom Weaver (Glasgow, [1904]).
Hampton, Richard, Foolish Dick. An Autobiography of Richard Hampton, the Cornish Pilgrim Preacher, ed. S. W. Christophers (London, 1973).
Hanby, George, Autobiography of a Colliery Weighman (Barnsley, 1874).
Hanby, Thomas, ‘The Life of Mr Thomas Hanby, written by himself’, in The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers, Chiefly written by Themselves, ii, ed. with an introductory essay by Thomas Jackson (London, 1866), pp. 131–57.
Hanson, William, The Life of William Hanson, Written by Himself (Halifax, 2nd edn, 1883).
Hardy, Thomas, ‘Memoir of Thomas Hardy, Written by Himself’, in David Vincent, ed., Testaments of Radicalism. Memoirs of Working-Class Politicians, 1790–1885 (London, 1977), pp. 25–102.
Harris, [Benjamin], Recollections of Rifleman Harris, with Anecdotes of his Officers, ed. Henry Curling (London, 1848).
Harris, John, My Autobiography (London, 1882).
Harrold, Edmund, The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester, 1712–15, ed. Craig Horner (Aldershot, 2008).
Hart, William, ‘The autobiography of William Hart, cooper’, ed. Pat Hudson and Lynette Hunter, London Journal, 7/2 (1981), pp. 144–60, and 8/1 (1982), pp. 63–75.
Hawker, James, ‘The life of a poacher’, in Garth Christian, ed., A Victorian Poacher. James Hawker's Journal (Oxford, 1978).
Hayes, Thomas, Recollections of Sixty-Three Years of Methodist Life (London, 1902).
Healey, James, Life and Remarkable Career of George Healey (Birmingham, n.d.).
Heaton, William, ‘A sketch of the author's life’, in The Old Soldier: the Wandering Lover and Other Poems (London, 1857), pp. xv–xxiv.
Henderson, Robert, Incidents in the Life of Robt. Henderson, ed. Rev. J. Martin (Carlisle, 1869).
Herbert, George, ‘Autobiography’, in C. S. Cheney and B. S Trinder, eds, Shoemaker's Window: Recollections of Banbury in Oxfordshire before the Railway Age (Banbury, 1979), pp. 1–38.
Hick, Samuel, The Village Blacksmith, or Piety and Usefulness Exemplified in a Memoir of the Life of Samuel Hick, by James Everett (New York, 2nd edn, 1856).
Hobley, Frederick, ‘From the autobiography of Frederick Hobley, a nineteenth-century schoolteacher’, Alta: The University of Birmingham Review, 6 (1968), pp. 331–7.
Hodgson, Joseph, Memoir of Joseph Hodgson, Glazier, a Native of Whitehaven, Cumberland (Whitehaven, 1850).
Hogg, James, Memoir of the Author's Life; and, Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott, ed. Douglas S. Mack (Edinburgh, 1972).
Holcroft, Thomas, The Life of Thomas Holcroft Written by Himself; Continued to the Time of his Death from his Diary Notes and Other Papers by William Hazlitt (London, 1852).
[Holkinson, Jacob], ‘The Life of Jacob Holkinson, tailor and poet, written by himself’, The Commonwealth, 24 and 31 Jan. 1857.
Hollingsworth, William, An Autobiographical Sketch of the Life of Mr Wm. Hollingsworth (London, n.d.).
Holloway, John William, An Authentic and Faithful History of the Atrocious Murder of Celia Holloway including the Extraordinary Confessions of John William Holloway (Brighton, 1832).
Holroyd, Abraham, ‘Abraham Holroyd’, in Chas. F. Forshaw, ed., The Poets of Keighley, Bingley, Haworth and District, Being Biographies and Poems of Various Authors of the Above Neighbourhood (London, 1893), pp. 115–20.
Holyoake, George Jacob, Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life (London, 6th edn, 1906).
Hopkinson, James, ‘Memoirs’, in Jocelyne Baty Goodman, ed., Victorian Cabinet Maker, the Memoirs of James Hopkinson, 1819–1894 (London, 1968).
Hopper, Christopher, ‘The Life of Mr Christopher Hopper, written by himself’, in The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers, Chiefly written by Themselves, i, ed. with an introductory essay by Thomas Jackson (London, 1865), pp. 179–239.
Hopwood, D. Caroline, An Account of the Life and Religious Experiences of D. Caroline Hopwood of Leeds, Deceased (Leeds, 1801).
Horler, Moses, The Early Recollections of Moses Horler, ed. M. F. Coombs and H. Coombs (Radstock, 1900).
Horne, Catherine, ‘Ramsbottom's oldest lady, lived in six reigns’, Bury Times, 18 Nov. 1911.
Horne, Eric, What the Butler Winked At. Being the Life and Adventures of Eric Horne (London, 1923).
Huffer, Tansley, The Autobiography of Tansley Huffer of Swineshead, 1828–1901, ed. with an introduction by Pamela A. Southworth (Boston, 1998).
Huntington, William, The Celebrated Coalheaver; or Reminiscences of the Rev. William Huntington (London, 1871).
Hutton, William, The Life of William Hutton, F.A.S.S., Including a Particular Account of the Riots at Birmingham in 1791 (London, 1816).
Innes, William, ‘Autobiography of William Innes’, in Memorials of a Faithful Servant, William Innes (Edinburgh, 1876).
Jackson, Thomas, Recollections of My Own Life and Times, ed. Rev. B. Frankand and with an introduction and postscript by G. Osborn (London, 1873).
Jaco, Peter, ‘The Life of Mr Peter Jaco, Written by Himself’, in The Lives of Early Methodist Preachers, Chiefly written by Themselves, i, ed. with an introductory essay by Thomas Jackson (London, 1865) pp. 260–8.
‘Jacques’, ‘Glimpses of a chequered life’, The Commonwealth, 1, 8 and 15 Nov. 1856.
Jewell, Joseph, ‘Autobiographical memoir of Joseph Jewell, 1763–1846’, ed. Arthur Walter Slater, Camden Miscellany, 22 (1964), pp. 113–94.
Johnson, Thomas, ‘The life of the author’, ed. Jacob Simon, Furniture History, 39 (2003), pp. 28–64.
Johnston, David, Autobiographical Reminiscences of David Johnston, an Octogenarian Scotchman (Chicago, 1885).
Johnston, Ellen, ‘Autobiography’, in James R. Simmons and Janice Carlisle, eds, Factory Lives: Four Nineteenth-Century Working-Class Autobiographies (Ontario, 2007).
Johnston, William, The Life and Times of William Johnston (Peterhead, 1859).
Jones, John, ‘John Jones, an old servant: an account of his life written by himself’, in Robert Southey, Lives of the Uneducated Poets to which are added Attempts in Verse by John Jones (London, 1836).
Jones, John, Autobiographical extract in Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry (London, 1884), pp. 364–8.
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