Bradford, Books On
Industrial city in Yorkshire
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1700-1800
J HUSTLER : A Summary View of the Proposed Canal from Leeds to Bradford (1770)
1800-1849
J JOHNSON : Map of the Township of Bradford (1802)
L ATKINSON : Plan of the Town of Bradford (1825)
J WOOD : Plan of Bradford from an Actual Survey (1834)
J JAMES : The History and Topography of Bradford (1841 Longman Brown) (1967 Mountain Press)
(Ed) Thomas WRIGHT : The Autobiography of Joseph Lister, of Bradford (1842)
1850-1875
W ROBERTSHAW : Historical Links Between Bradford & Shipley (1850)
J LUND : Directory & Gazeteer of Bradford (1858)
Keighley Past & Present (1858 Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co & R Aked, Keighley) (1994 Rigg, Leeds)
J LISTER : The Autobiography of Joseph Lister of Bradford 1627-1709 (1860 Holroyd)
T W REID : The Life of the Rt Hon W E Forster (1860 Holroyd)
J BURNLEY : Phases of Bradford Life (1871)
(Ed) Abraham HOLROYD : Collectanea Bradfordiana (1873 Holroyd)
Abraham HOLROYD : Saltaire and Its Founder (1873 A Holroyd)
1875-1885
W CUDWORTH : Round About Bradford (1876 Thomas Brear)
J WOOD : The Autobiography of John Wood (1877 "Chronicle & Mail" Office)
Joseph FIELDHOUSE : Bradford (1878 Bradford Libraries)
R BALGARNIE : Sir Titus Salt (1878 Hodder & Stoughton) (1972 Brenta Publishing)
William CUDWORTH : Historical Notes on the Bradford Corporation (1881 Thomas Brear)
W CLARIDGE : Origin and History of Bradford Grammar School (1882 J Green)
J BURNLEY : Old Streets of Bradford (1883)
W CUDWORTH : Musical Reminiscences of Bradford (1885)
James BURNLEY : Sir Titus Salt & George Moore (1885)
1886-1899
W CUDWORTH : Round About Bradford (1886 Thomas Brear) (1968 Mountain Press)
W CUDWORTH : Rambles Round Horton (1886 Thomas Brear) (1968 Mountain Press)
W CUDWORTH : Worstedopolis - A Sketch History of the Town & Trade of Bradford (1888)
William SCRUTON : Pen and Pencil Sketches of Old Bradford (1889 Brear) (1968 Mountain Press)
J FARRAR : The Autobiography of Joseph Farrar (1889)
Harry FIELDHOUSE : Old Bradford Illustrated (1889 Percy Lund & The Country Press)
W SCRUTON : Bradford Past & Present (1890 J F Rhodes)
W CUDWORTH : History of Bolton & Bowling (1891 Brear)
W CUDWORTH : History of Manningham, Heaton & Bradford (1896 Cudworth)
1900-1925
J PARKER : Historical Sketches of Wibsey, Low Moor, etc (1900)
(Ed) R M WHEELER : Handbook to Bradford and the Neighbourhood (1900 Byles)
H F KILLICK : Leeds-Liverpool Canal (in Bradford Antiquary Vol 3 , 1900)
J Horsfall TURNER : Shipley, Idle & District (1901 Shipley Express)
E NAYLOR : Bradford Building Societies from 1823 (1903)
Bradford Old Bank : Centenary Souvenir (1903)
J PARKER : Illustrated Rambles from Hipperholme to Tong (1904 Lund Humphries)
C FEDERER : The Bradford Mechanics Institute (1906)
Souvenir Record of Progress of Low Moor Ironworks 1791-1906 (1906)
Margaret C D LAW : The Story of Bradford (1912 Isaac Pitman)
Whiteley TURNER : A Spring-Time Saunter : Round & About Bronte Land (1913 Halifax Courier)
S P THOMPSON : Bradford and Its Railways (in "Railway Magazine" Vol 35, 1914)
J H ROWE : The Book of Bradford (1924 Brocklehurst)
1926-1949
E DE LACY-BELLINGARI : The Roll of the House of Lacy (1928 Waverley Press)
A MANSBRIDGE : Margaret McMillan (1932 Dent)
C DRIVER : Tory Radical - The Life of Richard Oastler (1946 OUP)
Centenary Book of Bradford 1847-1947 (1947 Yorkshire Observer)
Harry BANCROFT, Asa BRIGGS, & Eric TREACY : One Humdred Years - Keighley 1848-1948 (1948 John Wadsworth)
1950-1969
John LA PAGE : The Story of Baildon (1951)
J V STEPHEN : Geoology of the Country Between Bradford & Skipton (1953)
Bradford Corporation Waterworks : A Centenary Handbook (1955 Bradford Corporation)
W ROBERTSHAW : Bradford's Banks (1956)
E E Dodd : Bingley - A Yorkshire Town through Nine Centuries (1958 T Harrison, Bingley)
G A N LOWNDES : Margaret McMillan - The Children's Champion (1960 Museum Press)
J C GILL : Parson Bull of Byerley (1963 SPCK)
Horace HIRD : How a City Grows (1966 The Author)
Horace HIRD : Bradford in History (1968 Horace Hird)
E M SIGSWORTH : Black Dyke Mills (1968 Liverpool UP)
1970 - 1979
Education in Bradford Since 1870 (1970 Bradford Corporation)
D H MASON : Ten Thousand Sermons - The People, Parsons and Praise of Lightcliffe Church (1971)
J S KING : Transport of Delight - the Bradford Trollybus 1911-1972 (1972 Nat Trollybus Assoc)
J AYERS : Architecture in Bradford (1972 Watmoughs)
Joseph FIELDHOUSE : Bradford (1972 Longman)
George SMITH : Bradford's Police (1974 City of Bradford Police)
Ian DEWHIRST : A History of Keighley (1974 Keighley Corporation
A H ROBINSON : Bradford's Public Statues (1974 Bradford Art Galleries & Museums)
C RICHARDSON : A Geography of Bradford (1976 Univ of Bradford)
(Ed) R W SUDDARDS : Titus of Salts (1976 Watmoughs, Bradford)
John S ROBERTS : Little Germany (1977 Bradford Art Galleries & Museums)
1980-1989
Maggie NEWBURY : Reminiscences of a Bradford Mill Girl (1980 Bradford Libraries)
D C WRIGHT & J A JOWITT : Victorian Bradford (1982 Bradford Libraries)
Jack Reynolds : The Great Paternalist - Titus Salt & the Growth of 19thC Bradford
(1983 M Temple Smith & Bradford University)
D M COATES : Bradford City Tramways 1882-1950 (1984 Wyvern Publications)
Alan WHITAKER : Bradford's Railways Remembered (1986 Dalesman)
Destination Bradford : A Century of Immigration
(1987 Bradford heritage Recording Unit, Bradford Libraries)
Textile Voices : Mill Life This Century (1989 Bradford Heritage Recording Unit, Bradford Libraries)
1990 Onwards
Edward H JOHNSON : The Bradford Almanack (1990 Bradford Libraries)
David JAMES : Bradford (1990 Ryburn Publishing)
Gary FIRTH : Bradford and the Industrial Revolution - An Economic History 1760-1840 (1990 Ryburn)
George SHEERAN : The Victorian Houses of Bradford (1990 Bradford Libraries)
William SCRUTON : Pen and Pencil Sketches of Old Bradford (1990 reprint Amethyst Press)
Ian BEESLEY & David JAMES : Undercliffe - Bradford's Historic Victorian cemetery
(1991 Ryburn £9.95)
Images of Bradford 1860-1970 (1992 Breedon Books)
Paul JENNINGS : The Public House in Bradford 1770-1970 (Keele UP)
David JAMES : Class & Politics in a Northern Industrial Town - Keighley 1880-1914 (Keele UP)
C RICHARDSON: The Bradford Region - Studies in its Human Geography (2002 Bradford Libraries £9.95)
David William BATEMAN : A Short History of Riddlesden in Yorkshire (2002 Bradford Libraries £9.95)