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Wakefield historical publications

To purchase any of the books below please email: WHPublications@wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk

  The Medieval Monuments of Harewood, by Richard Knowles
  Drawings of Wakefield, by Joe Clay (paperback)
  Drawings of Wakefield, by Joe Clay (hardback)
  Wakefield Canal Trail, by John Goodchild
  Fifty Years of the ABC Regal, by Kate Taylor
  Coals from Sharlston, by John Goodchild
  Mine and Men, by John Goodchild
  Thomas Lloyd of Armley Mills, by Peter Brears
  Landscape Gardens in West Yorkshire, by George Sheeren
  A Newmillerdam Trail, by John Goodchild
  Right Royal, Wakefield Theatre 1776-1994, by C.M.P. Taylor
  The Making of a West Riding Clothing Village, Pudsey to 1780, by Ruth Strong
  Before the National Coalmining Museum, a new history of Caphouse Colliery and Denby Grange Colliery, by John Goodchild
  The Compleat Housekeeper, by Peter Brears
  Watermills and Furnaces of the Dearne Valley and its Tributaries, by Tom Umpleby
  Wakefield's First Railway and its Collieries, by John Goodchild
  Worthies of Wakefield, edited by Kate Taylor
  Attorney at Large, by John Goodchild
  NEW The Pious Undertaking Progresses, the later history of the Chantry Chapel on Wakefield Bridge, by Kate Taylor
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The Wakefield Historical Publications below are out of stock, however they may be available in libraries in the Wakefield District, or through the inter-library loan scheme, or in second-hand bookshops.

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Coal Kings of Yorkshire, by John Goodchild
Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook
Woolley Hall, by Geoffrey Markham
Christopher Saxton. Elizabethan Mapmaker, by Ifor M. Evans and Heather Lawrence
George Gissing and Wakefield, by Clifford Brook (reprinted by the Gissing Trust)
Sandal Castle Excavation Report, by P. Mayes and L. A. S. Butler
The Development of Wakefield in maps, plans and views, described by John Goodchild
Wakefield and Wool, by John Goodchild
Charles Waterton of Walton Hall, by Sir Norman Moore
The Castleford Pottery, by Diane Edwards Roussel
Hemsworth High Hall, by G. Holdsworth
Golden Threads, the Barnsley Linen Industry in the 18th and 19th Centuries, byJohn Goodchild
Caphouse Colliery and the Denby Grange Collieries, by John Goodchild
Walks about Wakefield, by W.S. Banks
The Inventor of the Marine Chronometer, by Eric Whittle
The Gentlewoman's Kitchen, by Peter Brears
Memories of Merry Wakefield, by Henry Clarkson
Coals from Barnsley, by John Goodchild
This Pious Undertaking, the Chantry Chapel on Wakefield Bridge in the 19th and 20th Centuries, by Kate Taylor
The Aire and Calder Navigation, by Peter Smith
Sandal Castle, Wakefield, The history and archaeology of a medieval castle, by Lawrence Butler (now reprinted by Wakefield MDC)
Aspects of Medieval Wakefield, by John Goodchild
The Children were Orderly, the story of Woolley School, by C.M.P. (Kate) Taylor
Woolley Trail, by Geoffrey Markham
Bretton, the Beaumonts and a Bureaucracy, by S.J. Wright
 
 
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