The Aston History Group Book List
We hold an extensive collection of books. These are available for members to borrow.
| Title | Author | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| 1066 Oxfordshire and the Norman Conquest | Julie Ann Godson | AlleyCat Books 2017 – second edition |
| A 1950s Childhood | Gilda O’Neill | The History Press 2009 |
| A Brief History and Development of St Mary the Virgin, Bampton, Oxfordshire | Rev David Lloyd | Bampton Community Archive, 2016 |
| A Century of Women | Sheila Rowbotham | Viking Penguin Inc |
| A Cotswold Quiz Book | ||
| A Guide to the Churches of Oxfordshire | ||
| A Historical Atlas of Oxfordshire | Kate Tiller & Giles Darkes | Oxfordshire Record Society |
| A Kind of Magic | Mollie Harris | Chatto & Windus Ltd 1969 |
| A Pullet on the Midden | Rachel Knappet | Cedric Chivers Ltd 1946 new edition 1973 |
| A World Gone By – Recollections of Ernest Bartlett Taylor | Rosemary Warner & Dr Jane Cavell | Lightmoor Press 2012 |
| Agriculture – Hand tools to Mechanization | L A West | |
| Airfield Focus – no. 49 Witney | ||
| All Mangolds and Muck-Cart | Derek Bumfrey | Robert Boyd Publications 1998 |
| Almshouses | Anna Hallett | Shire Publications Ltd 2004 425 |
| An Oxfordshire Christmas | David Green – compiler | Alan Sutton Publishing Limited – 1998 (First published 1992) |
| An Oxfordshire Quiz Book | Julia Owen; Illustrations by Helen Fenton; Photographs by Edward Gill | S B Publications – 1997 |
| Apprentice – A Historical Novel | Richard E Early | Routledge & Kegan Paul – 1977 |
| Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay | George Ewart Evans | Faber & Faber Limited 1956 reprinted 1977 |
| At Home in the 1930s | Sallie Purkis | Longman Group Ltd 1983 (sixth impression 1992) |
| Bampton – Recapturing the Castle | Matthew Rice | Bampton Community Archive, 2015 |
| Bampton Families | Janet Rouse | Bampton Community Archive, 2018 |
| Bampton Folklore | John Blair | |
| Bampton The Way it Was | ||
| Beam Engines | T E Crowley | Shire Publications Ltd 1976 15 |
| Bishop Fell and Nonconformity | The Oxfordshire Record Society – 1980 Volume 52 | |
| Bricks and Brickmaking | David L Eveleigh | Shire Publications Ltd 1981 75 |
| Brize Norton – Airfield Focus Special | ||
| Burford Past and Present | Mary Sturge-Gretton | |
| Churchill’s Underground Army – A History of the Auxiliary Units in World War II | Frontline Books, London. 2008 | |
| Clay and Cob Buildings | Shirley Toulson | Shire Publications Ltd 1983 105 |
| Common Knowledge – The Irishness of Everyday Things | ||
| Corn Milling | ||
| Cote Baptist Church 1604 – 2001 | ||
| Cote Baptist Church A History and Guide | Dr Kate Tiller | Historic Chapels Trust |
| Cotswold Born N’Bred – ‘My Life at Snowshill’ | Bob Hodge, Illustrated by Peter Hodge | Eaves Hodge1993 |
| Cotswold Privies | ||
| Curiosities of Oxfordshire – A County Guide to the Unusual | by Edward Gill | S B Publications – 1995 |
| Diary of William Tayler, Footman, 1837 | Edited by Dorothy Wise | Westminster City Archives and the St Marylebone Society 1998 |
| Discovering Burford | Sarah E Wise | |
| Discovering Chapels and Meeting Houses | David A Barton | Shire Publications Ltd – 1990 |
| Discovering Cottage Architecture | Christopher Powell | Shire Publications Ltd 1984 275 |
| Discovering Timber Framed Buildings | Shire Publications Ltd 1979 reprinted 1981 242 | |
| Discovering Watermills | John Vince | Shire Publications Ltd – 1987 (First ublished 1970) |
| Domestic Bygones | W A Jackson | Shire Publications Ltd 1977 20 |
| Ducklington School in Years Gone By | Ducklington History Group 1994 | |
| Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards | Marilyn Palmer | Shire Publications Ltd 1988 214 |
| Dust to Dust | Mavis Budd | J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1966 |
| Edwardian Witney 1901 – 1910 | Charles & Joan Gott | |
| England’s Dances | ||
| English Field Names – A Dictionary | John Field | David & Charles – 1972 (Second impression 1982) |
| English Landscapes – How to read the man-made scenery of England | W G Hoskins | BBC 1973 |
| English Village Life – A photographic record (Recollections from the past) | Philippa Lewis – compiler | Parkgate Books Ltd 1997 |
| Explore Your Family’s Past | Reader’s Digest | Reader’s Digest Association Limited 2000 |
| Exploring the Thames Valley – Wallingford, Oxford and The Upper Thames | ||
| Eynsham a Village and its Abbey | ||
| Facts and Incidents of an Unequal Struggle | ||
| Family Names and Family History | David Hey | Hambledon & London 2000 |
| Fields, Hedges and Ditches | ||
| Forgotten Voices of the Great War | Max Arthur | Ted Smart for The Book People, Randon House UK. First published Ebury Press 2002 |
| Forgotten Voices of the Second World War | Max Arthur | The Book People (Ted Smart) 2004 |
| Framework Knitting | Clare Graham | Shire Publications Ltd 1984 119 |
| Francis Frith’s Oxfordshire | ||
| Full Hearts and Empty Bellies – a 1920s childhood from the Forest of Dean to the streets of London | Winifred Foley | BBC 1974 new edition Abacus 2010 |
| Glovemaking in West Oxfordshire | N L Leyland and J E Troughton; Designed and Illustrated by Laurie Clark | Oxford City and County Museum – 1974 |
| Historic Witney | Witney & District Historical & Archaeological Society | |
| Historic Witney Inns | D S Honey | |
| History of The Parish and Town of Bampton – Second Edition – Originally published in 1848 | The Rev J A Giles | The Libraries Department OCC and Bampton Festival Committee 1985 |
| Ice Houses | Richard Harris | Shire Publications Ltd 1992 278 |
| Images of Bampton | Photographs collected by Janet Newman and reproduced by Roy Barrett; Text and captions by John Parrish; Edited by Annabel Jones | Bampton Parish Council – 1996 |
| Kelmscott Manor | The Society of Antiquaries 2022 | |
| King of all Balloons – The Adventurous life of James Salter, the First English Aeronaut | Mark Davies | Amberley Publishing 2015 |
| Know Britain – The Heritage and Institutions of an Offshore Island | Francis K Mason & Martin Windrow | George Philip & Sons Limited (Book Club Associates) 1974 – First published 1972 |
| Labouring Life in the Victorian Countryside | Pamela Horn | Allan Sutton Publishing Limited |
| Lark Rise To Candleford – A Trilogy | by Flora Thompson | Penguin Modern Classics 1973 |
| Lessons from History: 350 Years of Education in a Small Oxfordshire Village | Mary Tame | Christina Stores and Gail Thomas for the Dorchester on Thames Historical Society |
| Living and Lifestyle in Ducklington 1640 – 1740 – A Study of Probate Inventories | Ducklington History Group | |
| Look up in Oxford | ||
| Looking at Churches | ||
| Lord Nuffield – Shire Lifelines 39 | Peter Hull | Thames & Chiterns Tourist Board |
| Lost Trade Routes | John McCann | Shire Publications Ltd 1983 108 |
| Master Weaver | Richard E Early | Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980 |
| Masterless Men – The Vagrancy Problem in England 1560 – 1640 | A L Beier | Methuen & Co Ltd 1987 |
| Memories of Archie Johnson – The Story of an Aston Man | Martin Bowley | Aston History Group 2023 |
| Memories of Change – Volume One – Back to the Land | An Oxfordshire Oral History Project | Village, York |
| Minster Lovell | ||
| My East End – Memories of life in Cockney London | James Birdsall | Viking 1999; Penguin Books 2000 |
| My Homeward Road | Ralph Wightman | Jon Carpenter Publishing, Charlbury – 1999 reprinted 2001 |
| Newes from the Dead | Mary Hooper | Definitions edition 2009 (Bodley Head edition 2008) |
| No Time to Wave Good-Bye – True stories of Britain’s 3,500,000 evacuees | Ben Wicks | Bloomsbury Publishing Limited 1988 – paperback edition 1989 |
| Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting-house – Northamptonshire & Oxfordshire | ||
| Old Brize Norton Through the eyes of two young girls | Kathy Timms & Clare Hicks | |
| Old Cooking Utensils | Martin Hammond | Shire Publications Ltd 1986 177 |
| Old Cotswold Photographs | ||
| Old Farm Buildings | ||
| Old Farm Tools -Shire Album 4 | John Vince | |
| Old Shifford and its Church (3 copies a,b,c) | ||
| Old Toys | Pauline Flick | Shire Publications Limited 1995 |
| Oral History – Talking about the past | by Robert Perks; Edited by Clive H Knowles | The Historical Association in association with The Oral History Society – 1992 |
| Oxford’s Working Past | ||
| Oxfordshire – A County and its People | John Rhodes – text and design | Oxfordshire Museum Services – 1985 |
| Oxfordshire Airfields in the Second World War | Robin J Brooks | Countryside Books 2004 reprint First published 2001 |
| Oxfordshire Brickmakers | James Bond, Sarah Gosling and John Rhodes | Oxfordshire Museum Services – 1980 |
| Oxfordshire of one hundred years ago | Eleanor Chance | Alan Sutton Publishing Limited – 1993 |
| Oxfordshire Place-Names A Concise Dictionary | David Whittaker | Wavestone Press |
| Oxfordshire Potters – The Clay Industries of Oxfordshire | Nancy Stebbing, John Rhodes and Maureen Mellor | Oxfordshire County Council, Department of Museum Services – 1980 |
| Oxfordshire Railways – Old Railways | ||
| Pride of the Morning – An Oxfordshire Childhood | Phyl Surman | Alan Sutton Publishing 1992 Reprinted 1995 |
| Radcot and its Bridge | E A Pocock | E A Pocock, Windmill Farm, Clanfield – 1966 |
| Research Your Family Tree – Pocket Reference Guide | ||
| Royal Air Force Brize Norton – Gateway to the World | ||
| Sapper Martin – The Sectret Great War Diary of Jack Martin | Richard Van Emden | Hutchinson & Co (publishers) Limited – 1982 |
| Seaside Fashions 1860 – 1939 | Avril Lansdell | Shire Publications Ltd 1990 – History in Camera 10 |
| Sheparding Tools and Customs – Shire Album 23 | Arthur Ingram | |
| Smocks | Maggie Hall | Shire Publications Ltd – 1979 |
| St Bartholomew’s Church Ducklington | Ducklington History Group | |
| Stained Glass | Roger Rosewell | Shire Library – 2012 |
| Stanton Harcourt A Short History | ||
| Stationary Steam Engines | Geoffrey Hayes | Shire Publications Ltd 1979 42 |
| Step-By-Step Guide to Tracing Your Ancestors | ||
| Stories of Oxford Castle | ||
| Straw and Straw Craftsmen | ||
| Tales of Old Oxfordshire | Compiled by Cecilia Millsom; Illustrations by Don Osmond | Countryside Books, Newbury |
| Textile Machines | Sarah Bush | Shire Publications Ltd 1983 103 |
| Thames Bridges | ||
| Thatch and Thatching | Jacqueline Fearn | |
| The Abingdon Turnpike Murder | ||
| The Ancient English Morris Dance | Michael Heaney | Archaeopress, Summertown, Oxford 2023 |
| The Bampton We Have Lost | Joseph Lloyd Hughes-Owens | The Friends of St Mary’s, Bampton 2005 – First published 1976 by Marjorie Pollard Publications Ltd, Bampton |
| The Blanket Makers – 1669-1969 A History of Charles Early & Marriott (Witney) Ltd | Alfred Plummer & Richard E Early | Carningli Books – 1991 revised 2007 |
| The Book of Witney | by Charles and Joan Gott | Mill House Publications, Witney |
| The Book of Witney Revisited | Charles & Joan Gott | Mill House Publications, Witney 1994 |
| The Carterton Story 100 Years | ||
| The Changing faces of Witney Book One | ||
| The Changing faces of Witney Book Two | ||
| The Charm of the English Village | P H Ditchfield, Sydney R Jones | Bracken Books 1985 |
| The Cotswold – Life and Traditions | ||
| The Country House | John Vince – text and illustrations | Sorbus – 1994 |
| The Countryside Remembered | Cameron Books 1991 Reprinted 1993 | |
| The County Maps of Old England | ||
| The Day Before Yesterday | Peter Quennell, Harold Chapman, Thelma Shumsky, Joanna Smith | J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1978 |
| The Evenlode – an exploration of a Cotswold river | Gordon Ottewell | Green Branch Press, Kencot 2004 |
| The Fat of the Land | John Seymour; illustrations by Sally Seymour | Routledge & Kegan Paul – 1996 |
| The Forgotten Arts – A practical guide to trafitional skills | John Seymour | Dorling Kindersley Limited – The National Trust 1984 |
| The Green Man | ||
| The Henry Box School – its place in history | Jane Cavell | The Henry Box School, Witney, Oxfordshire 2009 |
| The History of Aston School (copies still available) | Andrew Long | Aston History Group 1996 – Publication No 1 |
| The History of Coate Baptist Church | ||
| The Lost Village – in search of a forgotten rural England | Richard Askwith | Ebury Publishing 2008 |
| The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History | David Hey | Oxford University Press 1996 |
| The Oxfordshire Brewer | James Bond and John Rhodes; designed by John Rhodes | Oxfordshire Museum Services – 1985 |
| The Salt of the Earth – Diary of a poor family in Woodstock, 1900 | Dorothy Calcutt | Cassell & Company Limited – 1950 reprinted 1951 |
| The Second Meadow | Archie Hall | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc – 2009 |
| The Secret Life of Bletchley Park – The WWII codebreaking centre and the men and women who worked there | ||
| The Silk Industry | Anna P Benson | Shire Publications Ltd 1987 194 |
| The Skilled Labourer 1760 – 1832 | J L Hammond and Barbara Hammond | Allan Sutton Publishing Limited |
| The Slate Industry | Merfyn Williams | Shire Publications Ltd 1991 268 |
| The Story of Trade in Bampton | Janet Rouse | Bampton Community Archive, 2013 |
| The Unquiet Bones (fiction) | ||
| The Victoria County History of the County of Oxford – Vol XIII Bampton Hundred (Part 1) | Edited by Alan Crossley | Oxford University Press for the University of London Institute of Historical Research – 1996 |
| The Victorian Chemist and Druggist | Jacqueline Fearn | Shire Publications Ltd 1981 80 |
| The Victorian Farmer | David L Eveleigh | Shire Publications Ltd 1991 262 |
| The Victorian Hospital | Lavinia Mitton | Shire Publications Ltd 2001 356 |
| The Victorian Kitchen | Jennifer Davies | BBC Books 1989 |
| The Victorian Workhouse | Trevor May | Shire Publications Ltd 1997 reprinted 2000 334 |
| The Village Blacksmith | Jocelyn Bailey | Shire Publications Ltd – 1998 |
| The Village in History | Graham Nicholson & Jane Fawcett | Weidenfeld & Nicolson – The National Trust 1988 |
| The Village Labourer 1760 – 1832 A study of the Government of England before the Reform Bill | J L Hammond and Barbara Hammond | Allan Sutton Publishing Limited |
| The Water Gypsy – How a Thames fishergirl became a viscountess | Julie Ann Godson | AlleyCat Books 2016 – first published 2014 |
| The Witney & East Gloucestershire Railway (Fairford Branch) | Stanley C Jenkins | The Oakwood Press (86) – 1985 |
| The Worm Forgives the Plough | John Stewart Collis | Charles Knight 1973 reprinted Penguin Books 1982 |
| Tithe Surveys for Historians | Roger J P Kain & Hugh C Price | Phillimore |
| Tracing the History of Houses | Bill Breckon & Jeffrey Parker | Countryside Books |
| Tracing Your Family Tree | Jean Cole and John Titford | Countryside Books -1997 |
| Turnpike Roads | Clare TaylorTim Buxbaum | Shire Publications Ltd 1992 283 |
| Victorian & Edwardian Cotswolds from old photographs | David Viner | B T Batsford 1983 |
| Victorian Ducklington 1837 – 1901 | Ducklington History Group | |
| Weavers and War A True Story | Richard E Early | Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984 |
| West Oxfordshire Cotsolds Through Time | Stanley Jenkins | |
| Witney A History & Celebration | Charles and Joan Gott | Francis Frith Collection for Ottakars 2004 |
| Witney As It Was | by Tom Worley | Hendon Publishing Company – 1981 |
| Witney History Tour | Stanley C Jenkins | Amberley Publishing 2017 |
| Wychwood & Cornbury | ||
| Yelford and the Church of St Nicholas and St Swithun |
