A list of John Goodchild’s published works has been compiled by Phil Judkins and can be downloaded as a PDF:
John Goodchild’s published works
Paul L Dawson has compiled a list of his books with relevance to Wakefield which can be downloaded as a PDF:
Paul L Dawson’s books
The list of printed sources below is not comprehensive. Most will be available at Wakefield Local Studies library, and some are available online. Please also refer to the Wakefield Historical Publications page and to the Links page for digital resources and organisations.
In order of publication date, most recent first.
DAWSON Anthony: Discovering Wakefield’s Early Railways: (2025 WHP)
KEIGHLEY Audrey: Memories of Scott’s Yard: Life in Westgate and Lupset, Wakefield, 1926-1949 (2024 WHP)
SIMPSON, Lorraine: Diary of a Wakefield Man: John Edward Bowman 1868-1953 (2024 WHP)
BREARS, Peter: The Buildings of Tudor and Stuart Wakefield (2019 WHP)
HALIDAY, Gaynor:Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield: Women’s Lives and the Fight for Equality (2019)
ROCHFORD, Michael J. Nostell Priory, Tales from the Big House (2018)
THORNBORROW, Peter and GWILLIAM, Paul: Wakefield in 50 Buildings (2018)
LYNCH, Tim: Wakefield in the Great War (2017)
MERCKS, Elaine and RIGBY, Neil: Some Other and Wider Destiny , Wakefield Grammar School Foundation and the Great War (2017)
ROCHFORD Michael J: Wakefield Then & Now (2016)
SCRIMGEOUR, David: Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those who were There (2015)
CHARLESWORTH John: Wakefield Manor Book 1709, original edition 1939, Reprinted by Cambridge University Press 2013
TAYLOR Kate,: The Pious Undertaking Progresses, (2011 WHP )
COX, Helen: The Battle of Wakefield Revisited (2010)
TAYLOR, Kate: The Making of Wakefield 1800-1900 (2008)
TAYLOR Kate: Theatres and Cinemas of the Wakefield District (2007)
PREEDY, Robert: Wakefield and the Five Towns, Living Memories (2004)
TAYLOR, Kate: Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield (2001) and More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield (2003)
HAIGH, Philip A: From Wakefield to Towton, the Wars of the Roses (2002)
GRADY, Kevin: The Georgian Public Buildings of Leeds and the West Riding, Thoresby Society Vol LX11 No 133 (1989)
TAYLOR, Kate (ed) Aspects of Wakefield Volume 1 (1998) and Volume 2 (1999)
JOHNSTONE, Christine, Wakefield in Old Photographs(1993)
GREEN, Edward: Wrenthorpe, A History (1992)
MARLAND Hilary: Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870 (1978)
WRIGHT, Peter: A History of Walton (1985)
CLARKSON Henry: Memories of Merry Wakefield, written 1889, (1985 WHP)
CLAY Joe: Drawings of Wakefield (1984 WHP )
Wakefield Historical Society: Hearth Tax Returns of 1672 and a Wakefield Census of 1723 (1978 WHP)
CLARKE Henry: Drawings of Wakefield, Wakefield Historical Society Journal (1977 WHP)
TAYLOR, Kate: Wakefield District Heritage Volumes 1 and 2, (1976)
SPEAK, Harold and FORRESTER, Jean: Old Wakefield in Photographs (1972)
ASHWORTH, A.L: Stanley Royd Hospital Wakefield, One Hundred and Fifty Years, A History (1968)
WALKER, J.W: Wakefield: its History and People (various editions, first published 1934)
PEACOCK, Matthew Henry: History of the Wakefield Greencoat School (1928)
SENIOR, William: The Old Wakefield Theatre (1894)
PEACOCK, Matthew Henry: Of the Free Grammar School of Queen Elizabeth at Wakefield, Founded A. D. 1591 (1892)
WALKER, J.W: The History of the Old Parish Church of All Saints, Wakefield (1888)
CROWTHER, George H: A Descriptive History of the Wakefield Battles, and a short account of this Ancient and Important Town (1886)
TAYLOR, Thomas: The History of Wakefield, in the county of York. The rectory manor, with biographical and other notices of some of the persons connected therewith (1886)
LUPTON, Rev. J.H: Wakefield Worthies or Biographical Sketches of Men of Note connected by birth or otherwise, with the Town of Wakefield in Yorkshire (1864)
HUNTER, Joseph: Antiquarian Notices of Lupset, the Heath, Sharlston and Ackton in the County of York(1851)
SISSONS, Rev J.L: Historic Sketch of the Parish Church, Wakefield (1824)
Undated
Memories of Wakefield, Photographs from the 1940s, 50s and 60s
ELLIS, Norman, Bygone Wakefield and District, Volumes 1 and 2