A LIST OF PUBLICATIONS ON THE HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE, PUBLISHED 1980–2017 An amalgamation of annual bibliographies compiled by R.J. Chamberlaine-Brothers and published in Warwickshire History since 1980, with additions from readers. Please send details of any corrections or omissions to [email protected] The earlier material in this list was compiled from the holdings of the Warwickshire County Record Office (WCRO). Warwickshire Library and Information Service (WLIS) have supplied us with information about additions to their Local Studies material from 2013. We are very grateful to WLIS for their help, especially Ms. L. Essex and her colleagues. Please visit the WLIS local studies web pages for more detailed information about the variety of sources held: www.warwickshire.gov.uk/localstudies A separate page at the end of this list gives the history of the Library collection, parts of which are over 100 years old. Copies of most of these published works are available at WCRO or through the WLIS. The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust also holds a substantial local history library searchable at http://collections.shakespeare.org.uk/. The unpublished typescripts listed below are available at WCRO. A ABBOTT, Dorothea: Librarian in the Land Army. Privately published by the author, 1984. 70pp. Illus. ABBOTT, John: Exploring Stratford-upon-Avon: Historical Strolls Around the Town. Sigma Leisure, 1997. ACKROYD, Michael J.M.: A Guide and History of the Church of Saint Editha, Amington. Privately published by the author, 2007. 91pp. Illus. ADAMS, A.F.: see RYLATT, M., and A.F. Adams: A Harvest of History. The Life and Work of J.B. Shelton, M.B.E. Coventry: J.B. Shelton Memorial Lecture Sponsoring Committee, 1984. 60pp. Illus. ADAMS, Jane M.: Healing with Water - English Spas and the Water Cure, 1840–1960. Manchester University Press, 2015. 288pp. Illus. [contains much about Leamington Spa] ADAMS, Kathleen: The Chronicles of Barr’s Hill House, 1850–1982. Privately published by the author, 1983. viii, 80pp. Illus. [Barrs Hill House, Radford Road, Coventry was the residence of J.K. Starley, inventor of the safety bicycle. It became a girls’ school in 1905.] ADAMS, Kathleen: A Community of Interest. The Story of the George Eliot Fellowship, 1930–2000. The George Eliot Fellowship, 2000. 56pp. ADAMS, Kathleen: George Eliot. The Pitkin Guide. Norwich: Jarrold Publishing, 2002. 21pp. Illus. ADAMS, Kathleen: Those Of Us Who Loved Her: the Men in George Eliot’s Life. The George Eliot Fellowship, 1980. vii, 187pp. [includes accounts of her father, her brother and Charles Bray of Coventry] ADAMS, S.: ‘The papers of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. I. The Browne-Evelyn collection’, Archives, Vol. XX, No. 87, April 1992, pp.63–85. ADAMS, Simon: ‘ “Because I am of that Countrye & Mynde to Plant Myself there.” Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the West Midlands’, Midland History, Vol. XX, 1995, pp.21–74. AGUTTER, Doreen M.K.: Meriden: Its People and Houses part 1. Alspath Publications, No. 1, 1990. 74pp. Illus. AGUTTER, Doreen M.K.: Meriden: Its People and Houses part 2. Alspath Publications, No. 2, 1992. 72pp. Illus. AGUTTER, Doreen M.K.: Saint Laurence, Meriden. New edn, 1981. 8pp. Illus. AGUTTER, Doreen: St Laurence, Meriden, Church Guide. 1991. 12pp. Illus. AIREY, S. Victoria: Time for Eternity. Influence on the development of gravestone culture in six Warwickshire parishes before and after the breakthrough of industrialisation. Stockholm: Institutet 1 for Folklivsforskning, Stockholms Universitet, 1987. 73pp. [covers Bubbenhall, Ryton-on- Dunsmore, Wolston, Stoneleigh, Baginton and Brinklow] ALCESTER & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY: Around Alcester, 1915–1945 from old photographs. Studley: KAF Brewin Books, 1989. 56pp. Illus. ALCESTER & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY: Index to Publications and Articles [1975– 1997], compiled by C.J. Johnson, 1998. [30]pp. ALCESTER & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY: ‘Local History in Warwickshire: the Alcester and District Local History Society’ [an account of its history and activities], Warwickshire History, Vol. VI, No.1, Summer 1984, pp.26–7. ALCESTER & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY, The Memorial Inscriptions of the Cemeteries of the Lower Arrow Valley. 1980–82. Part 1. Alcester Baptist and Parish Church Graveyards. 10pp. Part 2. Kinwarton and Spernall Parish Church Graveyards. 9pp. Part 3. Great Alne and Haselor Parish Church Graveyards.14pp., with plans Part 4. Arrow and Weethley Parish Churchyards. 12pp., with plans Part 5. The three Cemeteries of Coughton (the Parish Church, Catholic Church and Coughton Lane). 17pp. Part 6. Exhall and Wixford Cemeteries. 9pp., with plans Part 7. Studley Churchyard. 9pp., with plan Part 8. Old Cemetery, Birmingham Road, Alcester. 10pp., with plan Part 9. Old Churchyard, Salford Priors. 16pp., with plan Part 10. Bidford-on-Avon Old Churchyard. 18pp. Part 11. Holy Ascension Church, Mappleborough, Studley Catholic Church, Studley Baptist Chapel, Studley Parish Church (additional). 17pp. Part 12. Morton Bagot churchyard ALCESTER & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY: see also LOCAL PAST ALCOCK, N.W.: 3–5 Butter Street, Alcester, Warwickshire. An Architectural Survey and History. Privately published by the author, 2004. 42pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: 21 High Street, Alcester: History of the House and Architectural Description. Privately published, 2012. 11, 21pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: The Abbey Gatehouse, Polesworth, Warwickshire. Documentary Evidence. Privately published by the author, 2006. 14pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘After the stamp collecting: the context of vernacular architecture’, Transactions of the Ancient Monument Society, Vol. 46, 2002. Illus. [Based partly on Warwickshire sources] ALCOCK, N.W. and Margaret Hughes (eds): Atherstone. A Pleasantly Placed Town. Chichester: Phillimore, 2008. xii, 244pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W. and Robert Meeson: ‘Baddesley Clinton: architectural responses to social circumstances’, The Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 87, 2007, pp.293–345. Illus. ALCOCK, Nat: ‘Bowling Along for 200 Years: The Halford Bowls Club and its Archives’, Warwickshire History Vol. XV1, No. 5, Summer 2016, pp.210–214. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘The building of Clarendon Crescent, Leamington Spa: 1830–1840’, Warwickshire History, Vol. X, No. 6, Winter 1998/9, pp.213–29. ALCOCK, N.W.: The Chestnuts, Water Orton, Warwickshire. An Architectural Survey and History. Privately published by the author, 2008. 25pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: Compton Scorpion Manor, Ilmington, Warwickshire. A History and Architectural Survey. Privately published by the author, 2008. 38pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W. and Jane Hampartumian: ‘A computer-generated place-name index for the probate records of the Lichfield Diocese’, Archives, Vo1. 15, No. 68, October 1982, pp.209–15. ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘Coventry Streets: West Orchard and the Sherborne development and topography, 1600– 1940’, Transactions of the Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society, Vo1. 91, 1986, pp.84–116. ALCOCK, Nat: Dial House, Warwick Road, Knowle, Warwickshire. An Architectural Survey and History. Privately published, 2015. 30pp. Illus. 2 ALCOCK, N.W. and Robert Bearman: ‘Discovering Mary Arden’s House: property and society in Wilmcote, Warwickshire’, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 53, No. 1, 2002, pp.53–82. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: see STOREY, Richard, and N.W. Alcock: Dr William Edwards. Kenilworth History and Archaeology Society, Kenilworth History Leaflet No. 8. 2pp. [Edwards, d.1723, was a surgeon, who founded charity schools at Kenilworth and Hatton.] ALCOCK, N.W.: Documenting the History of Houses. British Records Association. Archives and the User. No. 10, 2003. x, 10pp. Illus. [Uses many Warwickshire examples] ALCOCK, Nat and Dan Miles: ‘The earliest tree-ring dated base-cruck house: 21 High Street, Alcester, Warwickshire’, in Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 44, 2013, pp.74–81. Illus. [a probable construction date of 1264] ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘A four-part indenture of 1388,’ Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 7, No. 4, October 1983, pp.242–4. Illus. [lease of a tenement in Cross Cheaping, Coventry] ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘The Hall of the Knights Templar at Temple Balsall, West Midlands’, Mediaeval Archaeology, Vol. 26, 1982, pp.155–8. ALCOCK, N.W.: The Hathaway Family in Luddington and Shottery. Privately published by the author, 2008. 7pp. ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘Housing the urban poor in 1800: courts in Atherstone and Coventry, Warwickshire’, Vernacular Architecture, Vol. 36, 2005, pp.49–60. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: Image House, Berkswell, Warwickshire. An Architectural Survey and History. Privately published by the author, 2005. 32pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘Innovation and conservatism; the development of Warwickshire houses in the late 17th and 18th centuries’, Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society Transactions for 1996, Vol. 100, pp.133–54. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘In word and deed’, Ancestor, July 2005, pp.46–52. Illus. [title deeds and family relationships, mainly Warwickshire] ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘Love letters to Little Alne’, Warwickshire History, Vol. XI, No. 6, Winter 2001/02, pp.235–46. Illus. [Letters from John Parry to Rebecca Fulwood, 1661-1666] ALCOCK, N.W.: Lower Ford Street, Coventry: Documentary and Historical Background to the 2005–6 Excavation. 2007. 20pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: Luddington Manor, Luddington, Warwickshire. A Short History. Privately published by the author. 2008. 18pp. Illus. ALCOCK, N.W.: ‘Luxury lodging in Leamington Spa’, Warwickshire History, Vol. XIII, No. 5, Summer 2007, pp.197–211. Illus. [furnishing of a house