User:HJ Mitchell/Library

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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]

Policing[edit]

Mostly 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; Holmström, 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]

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Biographies of architects and sculptors[edit]

Lutyens:

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 war : British military intervention in Sierra Leone. Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754672999.
  • 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.
  • Jackson, W. G. F. (1992). The Chiefs: The Story of the United Kingdom Chiefs of Staff. London: Brassey's. ISBN 9780080403700.
  • 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]

Individual places and units in WWI[edit]

  • Bury
  • Coventry
  • Derby
  • Devon
  • Exeter
  • Hove
  • Leicester
  • Lenton, Nottingham Zaleski, Stephen (2014). Lenton: A Suburb's Sacrifice. Nottingham: Leen Editions. ISBN 9780957063143.
  • Manchester
  • Norfolk
  • Northampton
  • Portsmouth
  • Southend
  • Great Western Railway
  • Midland Railway
  • North Eastern Railway
  • London and North Western Railway
  • Civil Service Rifles
Ireland[edit]
  • Gregory, Adrian; Pašeta, 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.

Architecture and civil engineering[edit]

  • Beckett, Derrick (1984). Stephensons' Britain. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 9780715382691.
  • 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.
  • Blower, Alan (1964). British Railway Tunnels. Shepperton: Ian Allan.
  • Burman, Peter; Stratton, Michael, eds. (1997). Conserving the Railway Heritage. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9780419212805.
  • 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.
  • Morgan, Bryan (1973). Railways: Civil Engineering. London: Arrow. ISBN 9780099081807.
  • Morriss, Richard (2003). The Archaeology of Railways (paperback ed.). Stroud: Tempus. ISBN 9780752428543.
  • Smith, Martin (1994). British Railway Briges & Viaducts. Hersham: Ian Allan. ISBN 9780711022737.
  • Thornton, Robert; Wood, Malcolm (2020). The Architecture and Legacy of British Railway Buildings. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press. ISBN 9781785007118.

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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, J. (2007). Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland: Highlands and Islands. Thomas Telford. ISBN 978-0-7277-3488-4.
  • Rennison, Robert William (1996). Civil Engineering Heritage: Northern England. London: Thomas Telford. ISBN 978-0-7277-2518-9.
  • Smith, Denis (2001). Civil Engineering Heritage: London and the Thames Valley. Thomas Telford. ISBN 978-0-7277-2876-0.

Biographies of engineers[edit]

Miscellaneous[edit]