This is an incomplete list of books I own which may be of use for researching or verifying encyclopaedia articles. If you would like to check a fact or see whether a subject is covered, let me know.
Subscriptions
edit- The Railway Magazine digital archive
- RAIL (from issue 949)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (via my public library membership)
Policing
editMostly focused on use of firearms in the UK with some broader works
- Benn, Melissa; Warpole, Benn (1986). Death in the City. London: Canary Press. ISBN 9780950996745.
- Brain, Timothy (2010). A History of Policing in England and Wales from 1974: A Turbulent Journey. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199218660.
- Crawshaw, Ralph; Holmstr?m, Leif (2006). Essential Cases on Human Rights for the Police. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. ISBN 9789004139787.
- Clare Farmer; Richard Evans, eds. (2023). Policing & Firearms: New Perspectives and Insights. London: Springer. ISBN 9783031130137.
- Fenwick, Helen (2016). Civil Liberties and Human Rights. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781317561958. (fourth and fifth editions)
- Gould, Robert; Waldren, Michael (1986). London's Armed Police. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 9780853688808.
- Hewitt, Steve (2008). The British War on Terror: Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism on the Home Front Since 9/11. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9780826499004.
- Ingleton, Roy (1996). Arming the British Police: The Great Debate. London: Frank Cass & Co. ISBN 9780714642994.
- McKenzie, Ian K.; Gallagher, Patrick (1989). Behind the Uniform: Policing in Britain and America. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf. ISBN 9780745006307.
- Kirby, Dick (2016). The Wrong Man: The shooting of Steven Waldorf and the hunt for David Martin. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 9780750964135.
- Long, Tony (2016). Lethal Force: My Life as the Met's Most Controversial Marksman. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 9781785033957.
- Morrison, James (2009). Public Affairs for Journalists. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199552610.
- Punch, Maurice (2011). Shoot to Kill: Police Accountability, Firearms, and Fatal Force. Bristol: The Policy Press. ISBN 9781847424723.
- Smith, Stephen (2013). Stop! Armed Police! Inside the Met's Firearms Unit. Ramsbury, Wiltshire: The Crowood Press. ISBN 9780719808265.
- Smith, Stephen (2019). London's Armed Police: Up Close and Personal. Barnsley: Pen & Sword History. ISBN 9781526749437.
- Squires, Peter; Kennison, Peter (2010). Shooting to Kill?: Police Firearms and Armed Response. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9780470779279.
- Waddington, P. A. J. (1991). The Strong Arm of the Law: Armed and Public Order Policing. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198273592.
- Waldren, Michael (2007). Armed Police: The Police Use of Firearms Since 1945. Stroud: Sutton. ISBN 9780750946377.
Architecture and sculpture
edit- Brooks, Chris (1989). Mortal Remains: The History and Present State of the Victorian and Edwardian Cemetery. Exeter: Wheaton. ISBN 9780080370989.
- Jenkins, Sir Simon (2000). England's Thousand Best Churches. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140297959.
- Matthews, Peter (2012). London's Statues and Monuments. Oxford: Shire Publications. ISBN 9780747807988.
- Meller, Hugh (1989). Exeter Architecture. Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 9780850336931.
- Orme, Nicholas (2014). The Churches of Medieval Exeter. Exeter: Impress Books. ISBN 9781907605512.
- Brighton Polytechnic School of Architecture and Interior Design (1988). A Guide to the Buildings of Brighton. Macclesfield: McMillan Martin. ISBN 9781869865030.
Pevsner City Guides
edit- Antram, Nicholas; Morrice, Richard (2008). Brighton and Hove. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300126617.
- Foster, Andy (2016). Birmingham. Pevsner City Guides (reprinted ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300107319.
- Harman, Ruth; Minnis, John (2004). Sheffield. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300105858.
- Harwood, Elain (2008). Nottingham. Pevsner City Guides. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300126662.
- Hartwell, Clare (2002). Manchester. Pevsner City Guides. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300096668.
War memorials
edit- Abousnnouga, Gill; Machin, David (2013). The Language of War Monuments. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781623563332.
- Archer, Geoff (2009). The Glorious Dead: Figurative Sculpture of British First World War Memorials. Kirstead: Frontier Publishing. ISBN 9781872914381.
- Ashplant, T. G.; Dawson, Graham; Roper, Michael (2000). The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780415758451.
- Boorman, Derek (1988). At the Going Down of the Sun: British First World War Memorials. York: Sessions of York. ISBN 9781850720416.
- Boorman, Derek (1995). For Your Tomorrow: British Second World War Memorials. York: The Ebor Press. ISBN 9780951365410.
- Boorman, Derek (2005). A Century of Remembrance: One Hundred Outstanding British War Memorials. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 9781844153169.
- Borg, Alan (1991). War Memorials: From Antiquity to the Present. London: Leo Cooper. ISBN 9780850523638.
- Carden-Coyne, Ana (2009). Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199546466.
- Clouting, Laura (2018). A Century of Remembrance. London: Imperial War Museums. ISBN 9781912423026.
- Compton, Ann, ed. (1985). Charles Sargeant Jagger: War & Peace Sculpture. London: Imperial War Museum. ISBN 9780901627315.
- Corke, Jim (2005). War Memorials in Britain. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications. ISBN 9780747806264.
- King, Alex (1998). Memorials of the Great War In Britain: The Symbolism and Politics of Remembrance. Oxford: Berg Publishers. ISBN 9781859739884.
- Quinlan, Mark. (2005) British War Memorials. Hereford: Authors Online ISBN 9780755201860.
- Stamp, Gavin (2007). The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme (paperback ed.). London: Profile Books. ISBN 9781861978967.
- Winter, Jay (2014). Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning: The Great War in European Cultural History (Canto Classics ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107661653.
CWGC
edit- Crane, David (2013). Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision Led to the Creation of WWI's War Graves. London: William Collins. ISBN 9780007456659.
- Geurst, Jeroen (2010). Cemeteries of the Great War by Sir Edwin Lutyens. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers. ISBN 9789064507151.
- Longworth, Philip (2010). The Unending Vigil: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Military. ISBN 9781848844230.
- Summers, Julie (2007). Remembered: The History of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. London: Merrell Publishers. ISBN 9781858943749.
- Summers, Julie (2010). British and Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Oxford: Shire Publications. ISBN 9780747807896.
- Ward, G. Kingsley; Gibson, Edwin (1989). Courage Remembered. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 9780771087868.
Public Sculpture of Britain series
edit- Cavanagh, Terry (1997). Public Sculpture of Liverpool. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853237112.
- Cavanagh, Terry (2007). Public Sculpture of South London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846310751.
- Cavanagh, Terry; Yarrington, Alison (2000). Public Sculpture of Leicestershire and Rutland. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853236559.
- Cross, David A.; Needham, Peter; Needham, Richard (2017). Public Sculpture of Lancashire and Cumbria. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781786940315.
- Lloyd, Fran; Potkin, Helen; Thackara, Davina (2011). Public Sculpture of Outer South and West London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846312250.
- Merritt, Douglas; Greenacre, Francis (2011). Public Sculpture of Bristol. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846316388.
- McKenzie, Ray; Nisbet, Gary (2002). Public Sculpture of Glasgow. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853239277.
- Morris, Edward; Roberts, Emma (2012). Public Sculpture of Cheshire and Merseyside (excluding Liverpool). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846314926.
- Noszlopy, George (1998). Beach, Jeremy (ed.). Public Sculpture of Birmingham: including Sutton Coldfield. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853236825.
- Noszlopy, George T. (2003). Public Sculpture of Warwickshire, Coventry and Solihull. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853238379.
- Noszlopy, George T.; Waterhouse, Fiona (2005). Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853239895.
- Noszlopy, George Thomas; Waterhouse, Fiona (2010). Public Sculpture of Herefordshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846311727.
- Seddon, Jill; Seddon, Peter; McIntosh, Anthony (2014). Public Sculpture of Sussex. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781781381250.
- Underwood, Paul; Beach, Jeremy; Morris, Catherine (2000). Public Sculpture of North-East England. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853236252.
- Ward-Jackson, Philip (2003). Public Sculpture of the City of London. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853239772.
- Ward-Jackson, Philip (2011). Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1. Public Sculpture of Britain. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781846316913.
- White, Darcy; Norman, Elizabeth (2015). Public Sculpture of Sheffield and South Yorkshire. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9781781381687.
- Wyke, Terry; Cocks, Harry (2004). Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. ISBN 9780853235675.
Biographies of architects and sculptors
editLutyens:
- Aslet, Clive (2024). Sir Edwin Lutyens: Britain's Greatest Architect?. London: Triglyph Books. ISBN 9781739731434.
- Barker, Michael (2005). Sir Edwin Lutyens. Oxford: Shire Books. ISBN 9780747805823.
- Brown, Jane (1996). Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and His Clients. London: Viking Press. ISBN 9780670858712.
- Gradidge, Roderick (1981). Edwin Lutyens: Architect Laureate. London: George Allen & Unwin. ISBN 9780047200236.
- Hussey, Christopher (1989). The Life of Sir Edwin Lutyens (Reprinted ed.). Woodbridge: The Antique Collectors' Club (first published 1950 by Country Life). ISBN 9780907462590.
- Lutyens, Mary (1980). Edwin Lutyens. London: John Murray. ISBN 9780719537776.
- Ridley, Jane (2003). Edwin Lutyens: His Life, His Wife, His Work (Pimlico ed.). London: Pimlico. ISBN 9780712668224.
- Skelton, Tim; Gliddon, Gerald (2008). Lutyens and the Great War. London: Frances Lincoln Publishers. ISBN 9780711228788.
Others:
- Massingham, Betty (1973). Miss Jekyll: Portrait of a Great Gardener (David & Charles reprint ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles (first published 1966 by Country Life). ISBN 9780715357576.
Military history and strategy
edit- Ashcroft, Michael (2007). Victoria Cross Heroes. London: Headline Publishing Group. ISBN 9780755316335.
- Barr, James (2011). A Line in the Sand: Britain, France and the Struggle for the Mastery of the Middle East. London: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781847394576.
- Beckett, I. F. W. (2016). A Guide to British Military History: The Subject and the Sources. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 9781473856646.
- Carver, Michael (1999). Britain's Army in the Twentieth Century. London: Pan. ISBN 9780330372008.
- Crowdy, Terry (2013). Deceiving Hitler: Double Cross and Deception in World War II (Paperback ed.). Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 9781782003311.
- David, Saul (2006). Victoria's Wars: The Rise of Empire. London: Viking. ISBN 9780141005553.
- Dorman, Andrew M. (2009). Blair's Successful Sar : British military intervention in Sierra Leone. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754672999.
- Grehan, John; Mace, Martin (2012). Battleground Sussex: a military history of Sussex from the Iron Age to the present day. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military. ISBN 9781848846616.
- Harvey, Trevor (2017). An Army of Brigadiers: British Brigade Commanders at the Battle of Arras 1917. Solihull: Helion & company. ISBN 9781911512004.
- Heathcote, Tony (1999). The British Field Marshals, 1736–1997: A Biographical Dictionary. Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9780850526967.
- Heathcote, Tony (2002). The British Admirals of the Fleet 1734–1995. Pen & Sword. ISBN 9780850528350.
- Hollands, Dean (2020). Sussex's Military Heritage. Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 9781445695174.
- Jackson, W. G. F. (1992). The Chiefs: The Story of the United Kingdom Chiefs of Staff. London: Brassey's. ISBN 9780080403700.
- Le Messurier, Paul (2019). Surrey's Military Heritage (Kindle ed.). Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 9781445689630.
- Mallinson, Allan (2011). The Making of the British Army. London: Bantam. ISBN 9780553815405.
- Newsinger, John (1997). Dangerous Men: The SAS and Popular Culture. London: Pluto Press. ISBN 9780745312064.
- Page, Christopher (1999). Command in the Royal Naval Division: A Military Biography of Brigadier General A.M. Asquith DSO. Staplehurst: Spellmount. ISBN 9781862270480.
- Smith, Charles D. (1992). Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (2nd ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312049041.
- Smith, Rupert (2005). The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 9780713998368.
- Sykes, Christopher Simon (2016). The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement. London: William Collins. ISBN 9780008121907.
Social impact of WWI
edit- Hugh Cecil; Peter Liddle, eds. (1998). At the Eleventh Hour: Reflections, Hopes and Anxieties at the Closing of the Great War, 1918. Barnsley: Leo Cooper. ISBN 978-0-85052-644-8.
- Clouting, Laura (2018). A Century of Remembrance. London: Imperial War Museums. ISBN 978-1-912423-02-6.
- Edkins, Jenny (2003). Trauma and the Memory of Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-53420-8.
- Fussell, Paul (1977). The Great War and Modern Memory (2013 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-997195-4.
- Gregory, Adrian (1994). The Silence of Memory: Armistice Day, 1919–1946. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1-85973-001-0.
- Gregory, Adrian (2008). The Last Great War: British Society and the First World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-72883-6.
- Harrison, Miranda, ed. (2019). The Centenary of the First World War: How the Nation Remembered. London: DCMS Centenary Publications. ISBN 978-1-5272-2861-0.
- Kavanagh, Gaynor (2014). Museums and the First World War: A Social History. Cambridge: A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-4725-8605-6.
- Koureas, Gabriel (2007). Memory, Masculinity, and National Identity in British Culture, 1914–1930 (paperback ed.). Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-138-25728-3.
- Lloyd, David W. (1998). Battlefield Tourism: Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the Great War in Britain, Australia and Canada, 1919–1939. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1-85973-179-6.
- MacKenzie, Jeanne (1986). The Children of the Souls: A Tragedy of the First World War. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 9780701128470.
- Mosse, George L. (1991). Fallen Soldiers: Reshaping the Memory of the World Wars (paperback ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-507139-9.
- Vandiver, Elizabeth (2010). Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-954274-1.
Individual places and units in WWI
edit- Brighton
- Bury
- Coventry
- Derby
- Devon
- Exeter
- Hove and Portslade
- Leicester
- Lenton, Nottingham: Zaleski, Stephen (2014). Lenton: A Suburb's Sacrifice. Nottingham: Leen Editions. ISBN 9780957063143.
- Manchester
- Norfolk
- Northampton
- Portsmouth
- Southend
- Surrey: Bennet, Kirsty; Middleton, Imogen; Page, Michael; Warren, Juliet (2019). In the Shadow of the Great War: Surrey, 1914-1922 (Kindle ed.). Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 9780750993425.
- West Sussex
- Great Western Railway
- Midland Railway
- North Eastern Railway
- London and North Western Railway
- Civil Service Rifles
- Lancashire Fusiliers
Ireland
edit- Gregory, Adrian; Pa?eta, Senia, eds. (2002). Ireland and the Great War: A War to Unite Us All?. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719059254.
- Jeffery, Keith (2011). Ireland and the Great War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521292634.
- Fitzpatrick, David, ed. (1988). Ireland and the First World War. Mullingar: Lilliput. ISBN 9780946640348.
The Troubles
edit- Adams, James; Morgan, Robin; Bambridge, Anthony (1988). Ambush: The War Between the SAS and IRA. London: Pan Books. ISBN 9780330308939.
- Dewar, Michael (1985). The British Army in Northern Ireland. London: Arms and Armour Press. ISBN 9780853687160.
- McGladdery, Gary (2006). The Provisional IRA in England: The Bombing Campaign, 1973–1997. Dublin: Irish Academic Press. ISBN 9780716533740.
- McKittrick, David (2012). Making Sense of the Troubles: A History of the Northern Ireland Conflict (Revised ed.). London: Penguin. ISBN 9780241962657.
- Murray, Raymond (2004) [1990]. The SAS in Ireland (Revised ed.). Dublin: Mercier Press. ISBN 9781856354370.
- Urban, Mark (1992). Big Boys' Rules: The Secret Struggle Against the IRA. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 9780571168095.
Railways
edit- Chritiansen, Rex (1983). Volume 7: The West Midlands. A Regional History of the Railways of Great Britain (second ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780946537006.
- Henshaw, Alfred (2000). The Great Northern Railway in the East Midlands: the Erewash Valley lines, Pinxton Branch, Awsworth - Ilkeston, Heanor & Stanton branches. Huntingdon: Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN 9780901115881.
- Higginson, Mark (1989). The Friargate Line: Derby and the Great Northern Railway. Derby: Golden Pingle. ISBN 9780951383407.
- Jenkinson, David (1988). The London & Birmingham: A Railway of Consequence. Ashford: Capital Transport Publishing. ISBN 9781854141026.
- Kellett, John R. (1979). Railways and Victorian Cities. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. ISBN 9780710003713.
- Simmons, Jack (1986). The Railway in Town and Country, 1830–1914. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715386996.
- Simmons, Jack; Biddle, Gordon, eds. (1997). The Oxford Companion to British Railway History. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-211697-0.
- Thompson, Matt (2015). The Picturesque Railway: The Lithography of John Cooke Bourne. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 9780750960946.
Rail Centres series
edit- Brighton
- Crewe
- Derby
- Exeter
- Newcastle
- Nottingham
- Wolverhampton
Architecture, archaeology, and civil engineering
edit- Bonavia, Michael (1987). Historic Railway Sites in Britain. London: Robert Hale. ISBN 9780709031567.
- Biddle, Gordon; Nock, O. S. (1983). The Railway Heritage of Britain: 150 Years of Railway Architecture and Engineering. London: Sheldrake Press. ISBN 9780718123550.
- Biddle, Gordon (2011). Britain's Historic Railway Buildings: A Gazetteer of Structures (second ed.). Hersham: Ian Allan. ISBN 9780711034914.
- Biddle, Gordon (2016). Railways in the Landscape. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Transport. ISBN 9781473862357.
- Billson, Peter (1996). Derby and the Midland Railway. Derby: Breedon Books. ISBN 9781859830215.
- Binney, Marcus; Pearce, David (1979). Railway Architecture. London: Orbis. ISBN 9780856132698.
- Blower, Alan (1964). British Railway Tunnels. Shepperton: Ian Allan.
- Bryan, Tim. Britain's Heritage: Railway Stations. Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 9781445669014.
- Burman, Peter; Stratton, Michael, eds. (1997). Conserving the Railway Heritage. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780419212805.
- Fawcett, Bill (2015). Railway architecture. Oxford: Shire Library. ISBN 9781784420482.
- Jenkins, Simon (2017). Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations. London: Penguin. ISBN 9780241978993.
- Lawrence, David (2018). British Rail Architecture 1948–97. Manchester: Crécy. ISBN 9780860936855.
- Long, David (2011). London Underground: architecture, design and history. Stroud: History Press. ISBN 9780752458120.
- Lloyd, David; Insall, Donald (1967). Railway Station Architecture. Newton Abbot: David & Charles.
- Meeks, Carroll L. V. (1995). The Railroad Station: an architectural history. New York: Dover. ISBN 9780486286273.
- Morgan, Bryan (1969). Railway Relics. London: Ian Allen. ISBN 9780711000926.
- Morgan, Bryan (1973). Railways: Civil Engineering. London: Arrow. ISBN 9780099081807.
- Morris, Richard (2003). The Archaeology of Railways (paperback ed.). Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 9780752428543.
- Nock, O. S. (1981). Railway Archaeology. London: Book Club Associates. ISBN 9780850594515.
- Parissien, Steven (2014). The English Railway Station. Swindon: English Heritage. ISBN 9781848022362.
- Ransom, P. J. G. (1981). The Archaeology of Railways. Kingswood: World's Work. ISBN 9780437144010.
- Smith, Martin (1994). British Railway Briges & Viaducts. Hersham: Ian Allan. ISBN 9780711022737.
- Minnis, John (2016). The Railway Goods Shed and Warehouse in England (First published ed.). Swindon: Historic England. ISBN 9781848023291.
- Thornton, Robert; Wood, Malcolm (2020). The Architecture and Legacy of British Railway Buildings. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press. ISBN 9781785007118.
- Vanns, Michael (2013). Signalboxes (2nd ed.). London: Ian Allen. ISBN 9780711035379.
- Yorke, Trevor (2013). Britain's Railway Architecture & Heritage. London: Countryside Books. ISBN 9781846743092.
- Yorke, Trevor (2015). Victorian Railway Stations. Newbury: Countryside Books. ISBN 9781846743351.
In warfare
edit- Darroch, G. R. S. (1920). Deeds of a Great Railway: A Record of the Enterprise and Achievements of the London and North-Western Railway Company during the Great War (Kindle ed.). London: John Murray. OCLC 70941237.
- Gittins, Sandra (2010). The Great Western Railway in the First World War. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5632-4.
- Higgins, Jeremy (2014). Great War Railwaymen: Britain's Railway Company Workers at War 1914–1918. London: Uniform Press. ISBN 978-1-910500-00-2.
- Hooper, Colette; Portillo, Michael (2014). Railways of the Great War with Michael Portillo. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 978-0-593-07412-1.
- Lambert, Anthony (2018). Britain's Railways in Wartime: The Nation's Lifeline. Swindon: Historic England. ISBN 978-1-84802-482-3.
- Murray, Alexander J. (2014). Blighty's Railways: Britain's Railways in the First World War. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Amberley. ISBN 978-1-4456-3857-7.
Bridges and civil engineering
edit- Brown, Stewart (2019). The Medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund's Church, and Excavation of Waterfront Houses, Exeter. Exeter: Devon Archaeological Society. ISBN 978-0-9527899-2-5.
- Cook, Martin (1998). Medieval Bridges. Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire: Shire Books. ISBN 978-0-7478-0384-3.
- Cossons, Neil; Trinder, Barrie (2002). The Iron Bridge: Symbol of the Industrial Revolution (Second ed.). Chichester: Phillimore. ISBN 9781860772306.
- Harrison, David (2007). The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400–1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-922685-6.
- Hayman, Richard (2020). Bridges (paperback ed.). Oxford: Shire Books. ISBN 9781784423872.
- Hincgliffe, Ernest (1994). A Guide to the Packhorse Bridges of England. Milnthrope: Cicerone Press. ISBN 9781852841430.
- Jervoise, E (1930). The Ancient Bridges of the South of England. London: The Architectural Press.
- Jervoise, E (1932). The Ancient Bridges of Mid and Eastern England. London: The Architectural Press.
- Johnson, William Branch (1970). The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715347751.
- McFetrich, David (2019). An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges (Revised and extended ed.). Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books. ISBN 9781526752956.
- McFetrich, David (2022). An Encyclopaedia of World Bridges. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Transport. ISBN 9781526794468.
- Morris, Richard K. (2005). Roads: Archaeology and Architecture. Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 9780752428871.
- Owens, Victoria (2019). Aqueducts and Viaducts of Britain. Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 9781445683805.
- Richards, J. M. (1984). The National Trust Book of Bridges. London: Jonathan Cape. ISBN 9780224021067.
- Ruddock, Ted (1979). Arch Bridges and Their Builders: 1735 - 1835. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521218160.
- Yee, Ronald (2021). The Architecture of British Bridges. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press. ISBN 9781785007941.
Civil Engineering Heritage series
edit- Cox, Ronald C. (1998). Civil Engineering Heritage: Ireland. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727726278.
- Cragg, Roger (1997). Civil Engineering Heritage: Wales and West Central England (second ed.). London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727725769.
- Cragg, Roger (2010). Civil Engineering Heritage: West Midlands. Andover: Phillimore. ISBN 9781860775727.
- Thomas, Keith (2010). Civil Engineering Heritage: Wales. Andover: Phillimore. ISBN 9781860776380.
- Labrum, EA (1994). Civil Engineering Heritage: Eastern and Central England. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727719706.
- Barton, Barry (2016). Civil Engineering Heritage: East Midlands. Lincoln: Ruddock's. ISBN 9780904327243.
- Otter, R. A. (1994). Civil Engineering Heritage: Southern England. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727719713.
- Paxton, Roland (2007). Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland: Lowlands and Borders. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727734877.
- Paxton, Roland; Shipway, Jim (2007). Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland: Highlands and Islands. Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727734884.
- Barbey, M. F. (1981). Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727700988.
- Smith, Denis (2001). Civil Engineering Heritage: London and the Thames Valley. Thomas Telford. ISBN 9780727728760.
Biographies of engineers
edit- Glover, Julian (2017). Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain (paperback ed.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781408837481.
- Rolt, L. T. C. (2011) [1958]. Thomas Telford (new ed.). Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 9780750945769.
- Rolt, L. T. C. (2016) [2009]. George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution (print ed.). Stroud: Amberley. ISBN 9781445655215.
- Beckett, Derrick (1984). Stephensons' Britain. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715382691.
- Beckett, Derrick (1985). Brunel's Britain. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715379738.
- Beckett, Derrick (1987). Telford's Britain. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715385883.
Miscellaneous
edit- Broadbridge, S. R. (1974). The Birmingham Canal Navigations Volume 1: 1768–1846. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715363812. No second volume was ever published.
- Hadfield, Charles (1985). Canals of the West Midlands (third ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715386446.
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