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Title

Publisher & Date

Number

Alliott,G.A.

Linen in Barnsley 1744-1957

Private, 1999

1

Alliott,G.A.

The Markets and Fairs of Barnsley

Barnsley MBC,?

2

Andrews,C.R.

The Story of Wortley Iron Works, 3rd edn.

R.Millward,1975

3

Anonymous

Stainborough and Rockley, Their Historical Associations and Rural Attractions

John Gray Bell, 2nd edn.,1853

3A

Armytage,W.H.G.

South Yorkshire: The Emergent Concept in the System of Education [Some Barnsley references]

In Essays in Economic and Social History of South Yorkshire

4

Ashurst,D.

The History of South Yorkshire Glass

Collis,?

5

Ashurst,D.

Dan Rylands:Tragic Genius of the Barnsley Glass Industry

In Aspects of Barnsley 3

6

Atkinson,A.

Past Forward: Teaching History in Barnsley Primary Schools

Ditto

7

Barnsley Archive Service

Images of England:Barnsley

Tempus,2001

8

Barnsley British Co-operative Society

The Coronation History of the Barnsley British Co-operative Society 1862-1902

Cooperative & Wholesale Society, 1903

9

Barnsley Canal Group

The Barnsley Canal: A Forgotten Waterway,3rd edn.

Barnsley Canal Group,1995

10

Barnsley Family History Society

West Riding Poll Book 1835: Electors Registered to vote in the area around Barnsley

Unpublished 1999

11

Barnsley Sunday School Union

Centenary Souvenir Handbook 1840-1940

The Union,1940

12

Batchelor,A.

My name is Frances [Harrap family of Featherstone]

Highgate, 1998

13

Batty,J.& Bradbury,W.G.

Gawber in Times Past

Countryside 1988

14

Baxter,J.L.

Early Chartism and Labour Class Struggle: South Yorkshire 1837-1840

See under 4

15

Benson,J.

The Establishment of the West Riding Miners’ Permanent Relief Fund

In Studies in Yorkshire Coal Industry

16

Bloy,M.

The Trouble with Servants… Domestic Life at Wentworth Woodhouse in the Eighteenth Century

In Aspects of Rotherham 3

17

Booker,D.

Glancing Back through the Driving Mirror: Early Motoring in Barnsley

In Aspects of Barnsley 2

18

Booth, C.N.

The Oxspring Millennium Walk

Oxspring Parish Council, 2000

19

Broom,J.

Extracts from Royston Secondary School Log Books

In Aspects of Barnsley 7

20

Buckley,R.

A Short life and a Long Death: The Dearne District Light Railways

Ditto

21

Children’s Employment Commission

Children in the Mines: Lancashire Coalfield

Picks,1995

22

Clayton,A.K.

The Newcomen-Type Engine at Elsecar

See under 6

23

Coates,B.E.

The Geography of the Industrialisation and Urbanisation of South Yorkshire, 18th Century to 20th Century

See under 4

24

Cooling,A.

Sweet Remembrance, A Portrait of Arabella [Payne]

Private, 2003

25

Cortonwood & Elsecar Project Group

Elsecar Heritage ’93, Souvenir Programme

The Project Group,1993

26

Crossland,P.

Years of Grace [Bramhall & Spenceley families in Oxspring-Thurgoland area]

Bridge,1985

27

Crossland,P.

Historic Hunshelf

In Aspects of Barnsley 1

28

Crossland,P.

Penistone Market

See under 6

29

Day,G.B.D.

The South Yorkshire Coalfield

See under 16

30

Denton, P.

A Very Remarkable Woman [Angela James,nee Kay-Shuttleworth]

Private, 1994

31

Dillon,C.

The Nailmakers of Hoylandswaine

Hoylandswaine History Group

32

Duckham,B.F,

The Oaks Disaster,Barnsley,1866

See under 16

33

Electoral Registration Officer

Worsbrough Polling District 1945: Polling List for Worsbrough Village and Birdwell

Unpublished,1945

34

Elliot,B & Holderness,M.

Flat Irons,Best Suits and Family Jewels: A Century of Pawnbroking in Barnsley 1840-1940

See under 6

35

Elliott,B.

Barnsley Character: ‘Owd Watter Joe

See under 29

36

Elliott,B.

Marrow: A Biography of a Worsbrough House

See under 6

37

Elliott,B.

Barnsley Races, [18th-19th Centuries]

See under 18

38

Elliott,B.

Darley Cliffe Hall, an Architectural and Family History

See under 18

39

Elliott,B.

Great Houghton Old Hall

See under 6

40

Elliott,B.

When Buffalo Bill Came to Barnsley

See Under 6

41

Elliott,B.

Glimpses of Medieval Barnsley

See under 20

42

Ellis,N.

Postcards from Barnsley

See under 20

43

England,W.G.

The Growth of Local Government in Barnsley

Barnsley County Borough,?

44

Fleming,A.

The Wath General Election Riot of 1865

See under 17

45

Forrest,E.

A Backward Glance: Memories of a Barnsley Childhood

See under 6

46

Fretwell,L.(ed.)

The Journal of Mr John Hobson, [of Dodworth]

Unpublished 1999

47

Fretwell,L.(ed.)

The Diary of James Fretwell, Gentleman, of Maltby

Unpublished 1999

48

Gallop,A.

Children of the Dark [Silkstone Collieries]

Sutton,2003

49

Glister,R.

The Dearne and Dove Canal

See under 6

50

Goodchild,J.

South Yorkshire Collieries

Tempus,2001

51

Goodchild,J.

Barnsley in the Turnpike Era

See under 29

52

Goodchild,J.

The Joseph Mitchell Memorial Hall: A Sad Tale

See under 6

53

Goodchild,J.

E.G.Bayford of Barnsley: A Memoir and Tribute

See under 6

54

Goodchild,J.

The Wath Wood Volunteers: A Chapter in Local Military History

See under 17

55

Goodchild,J.

Edmunds and Swaithe Main Collieries

See under 20

56

Goodchild,J.

Charles Ward, Master at Darton’s Victorian Grammar School

See under 20

57

Graham,R.& Gilyard-Beer,R.

Monk Bretton Priory

Dept of the Environment 1966

58

Hamby,P. & Wyatt,S.

Honest Dodworth 2

Dodworth Publs.?

59

Harley,I.

Barnsley Boys Club 1933-1993

See under 29

60

Harley,I.

The Public Hall Disaster of 1908 [Barnsley]

See under 18

61

Harley,I.

Town End [Barnsley]in 1870

See under 6

62

Harrison,D. & Ritchie,J.

Robert Downing, Yeoman of Silkstone

Unpublished 1991

63

Harrison,K.L.

The Harrisons of Worsbrough Dale

Unpublished 2000

64

Hearne,R.

Barnsley Character: ‘Ebenezer Elliott, Corn Law Rhymer,1781-1849

See under 29

65

Hey,D.

Wentworth Castle, A Short History

English Life,1991

66

Hey,D.

Medieval South Yorkshire

Landmark, 2003

67

Hey,D.

A History of Penistone & District

Wharncliffe 2002

68

Hey,D.

The Changing Pattern of Nonconformity [South Yorkshire]

See under 4

69

Hey,D.

The Making of South Yorkshire

Moorland, 1979

70

Hird, S.

The Wentworth Monuments, 3rd edn

Rotherham MBC,1994

71

Hobson,G.

Wentworth – A Brief History: vol 1,Wentworth Woodhouse

Private, 1996

72

Hopkinson,G.G.

The Development of the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire Coalfield 1500-1775

See under 16

73

Howsam,L.

A Child’s Life in Gawber Road Workhouse [Thomas Fretwell 1911-1994]

Private, 2004

74

Howse,G.

The Wentworths of Wentworth: The Fitzwilliam (Wentworth) Estates & the Wentworth Monuments

Trustees of Fitzwilliam Wentworth Amenity Trust 2, 2002

75

Jackson,B.

Johnny Weston’s Monk Bretton: A Social Chronicle of a Village in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

See under 20

76

Jones,M.

‘Christians are Handier than Horses’: Children in Coalmines in the Nineteenth Century [Silkstone,

Gawber,Barnsley]

In South Yorkshire Yesterday

77

Jones,M.

Christmas at the Squire’s House: A Family Celebration in the Early Twentieth Century [Smith Family of Ecclesfield]

Ditto

78

Jones,M.

Thorncliffe Riots of 1870

See under 29

79

Jones,M.

A Welsh Diaspora and a Yorkshire Colony: The Establishment of a Welsh Community in Carleton and Smithies

See under 18

80

Jones,M.

Ironstone Mining at Tankersley in the Nineteenth Century for Elsecar and Milton Ironworks

See under 6

81

Jones,M.

Were Your Ancestors Vikings?

See under 78

82

Jones,M.

‘Leasing, Building and Baptising’: The Aristocratic Owners of Wentworth Woodhouse

Ditto

83

Jones,M.

Blacklegs,Bludgeons and Broken Heads: The Thorncliffe Collieries Dispute, 1869-70 [Tankersley]

Ditto

84

Jones,M.

A Remarkable Literary and Artistic Family: The Gattys of Ecclesfield

Ditto

85

Jones,M.

When the Wild Beast Show Came to Town: The Visits of Wombwells Menageries

Ditto

86

Jones,M.

From Tankersley to Nevada: Population Movements in the Victorian Era

Ditto

87

Jones,M.

Making Ends meet: Recollections of a Working Class Village Childhood [Andrews of Grenoside]

Ditto

88

Jones,M.

Model Communities or Squalid Living: Exploring the History of Mining Villages [various, esp. Dodworth, Denaby Main]

Ditto

89

Jones,M.

Whit Walks and Going A-Maying: Some Forgotten Calendar Customs [High Green, Chapeltown, Ecclesfield,

Mapplewell, Wentworth]

Ditto

90

Jones,M.

The Expansion of a Great Landed Estate: The Watson-Wentworth South Yorkshire Estate,1695-1782

See under 17

91

Jones,M.

The Ancient Place Names of Barnsley Metropolitan Borough

See under 20

92

Kaijage,F.J.

Working Class Radicalism in Barnsley 1816-1820

See under 15

93

Macfarlane,J.

Denaby Main: A South Yorkshire Mining Village

See under 16

94

Mann,M,

Canon Sorbie and some Characters of Old Darfield

See under 20

95

Mayhall,J.

Annals of Yorkshire,vols 1&2 [Many Barnsley area references]

Joseph Johnson, 1860

96

Medlicott,I.

Coal Mining on the Wentworth Estate 1740-1840.

See under 17

97

Mee,G

Employer:Employee Relationships in the Industrial Revolution: The Fitzwilliam Collieries

See under 4

98

Milon,R.

A Brief Outline of the Jagger Family Connection to the Old Wire Mill in Thurgoland

Unpublished 2004

99

Neville,R.

In the Wake of Taff Vale: The Denaby and Cadeby Miners’ Strike and Conspiracy Case, 1902-06

See under 16

100

Nicholson,V.

Gunthwaite and the Bosvilles

See under 29

101

Nunn,P.

Aristocratic Estates and Employment in South Yorkshire 1700-1800

See under 4

102

Oldfield,A.

The Oldfields of Tideswell

Unpublished 2004

103

Portman,R.

Memories of my Working Life at Needham and Brown’s of Barnsley

See under 20

104

Potter,P.(nee Hamilton)

Old Mill Childhood [Thurgoland Area]

Private, 2000

105

Prince,Rev

History of Cawthorne

 

106

Raymond,S.A.& M.J (eds.)

The Yorkshire West Riding Poll Book, 1835

The Editors

107

Rayner.D.K.E. (Roggins Local History Group)

Life at Woolley Manor and Blacker Green about the Time of the First World War

Unpublished 1989

108

Roberts,R.A.

Of Masters and Men: The Clarkes of Silkstone and their Colliers

Barnsley WEA,1981

109

Schmoller,T.

Paper Mills of the Barnsley Area

See under 29

110

Sharp,P.C.

Old Mapplewell & Darton… Kexborough & Wolley Colliery

ACCS Enter-prises, 2002

110A

Storey,A.

A Kingstone Childhood Remembered

See Under 29

111

Storey,A.

Barnsley in the Rock’n’Roll Era

See under 6

112

Stringer,M.

Stringer’s Taxis: A Small Family Business in Barnsley during the 1950s and early 1960s

See under 20

113

Sykes,S.

The Patchwork Quilt: Finding Dodworth’s Medieval Landscape

See under 29

114

Sykes,S.

Law and Order in Seventeenth Century Stainbrough

See under 18

115

Sykes,S.

Pigotts – An Entrepreneurial Estate in Dodworth

See under 6

116

Taylor,C.

Born in Barnsley, Raised in Smithies

See Under 20

118

Taylor,F.J.

Biographical List of Books, Pamphlets & Articles Connected with Barnsley and the Immediate District

Barnsley Public Library, 1916

119

Taylor,H.

Nails,Mules, Music and Miners: Village Life in Mapplewell and Staincross through the Nineteenth Century

See Under 18

117

Taylor,H.

Bleachworks of Barnsley & their Industrial Archaeology

See under 29

120

Taylor,H.

The Day the Ballon Went Up – Leisure Activities at Oakwell in the Nineteenth Century

See under 18

121

Taylor,H.

Taylor Row and the Handloom Weavers of Barnsley

See under 6

122

Thornes,V.

A Pottery Centre in South Yorkshire: Rockingham Investigated (Local Historian, vol 24(1))

British Association of local History, 1994

123

Turner,A.

The Story of Elizabeth Shaw (Old West Riding, vol 7(1))

Old West Riding,1987

124

Turner,B.

St George’s Church & Schools, Barnsley: Retrospect 1821-1912

R.E. Griffiths, 1914

125

Umpleby,T.

Water-power Sites in the Dearne Catchment: Two Barnsley Area Corn Mill Examples

See under 6

126

Unknown Compiler

Penistone Harriers [A collection of 19th century newspaper articles]

Unpublished

127

Unknown Compiler

Various Industries in Barnsley – coal,glass,iron, linen, canals [A collection of 19th century newspaper articles]

Unpublished

128

Walker,Dr J.

Quackery, Fiddling and Bloodsucking: Pills, Potions and Pork Pies

See under 18

129

Walker,Dr J.

Cures and Curiosities:Tall tales of Old Barnsley

See under 6

130

Walker,J.W.

Historical and Architectural Description of the Priory of St Mary Magdalene of Monk Bretton

Yorkshire Archaeological Society 1926

131

Ward,A.& Alister,I.

Barnsley: A Study in Football, 1953-59

Crowberry, 1981

132

Ward,J.T.

West Riding Landowners and Mining in the Nineteenth Century

See Under 16

133

Weller,R.

A Fortune Lost: The Joseph Weller Family in New South Wales & New Zealand 1824-1890

Unpublished 2003

134

White,W.

History, Gazetteer & Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire, vol 1

R. Leader, 1837

135

Whitehouse A.

Rails through Barnsley

Barnsley Chronicle, 1988

136

Wilkinson,J.F.

Farmstead of the Britons [West Bretton]

Bridge, 1989

138

Wilkinson,R.

Barnsley’s Publishing Fathers: Newspaper Publishing during the Nineteenth Century

See under 18

137

Wood,J.

The Huskar Pit Disaster

Unpublished 1988?

139

Young,R.

The Big House and the Little Village

Wentworth Garden Centre,2000

140

 

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