Printed Sources

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

 

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.

In order of publication date, most recent first.

DAWSON Paul, The Battle against Slavery: The Untold Story of how a Group of Yorkshire Radicals Began the War to End the Slave Trade (2022)

DAWSON Paul, Wakefield at Work: People and Industries Through the Years, (2020)

BREARS, Peter: The Buildings of Tudor and Stuart Wakefield (2019)

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)

SCRIMGEOUR, David: Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those who were There (2015)

DAWSON, Paul: Changing Wakefield (2015)

COX, Helen: The Battle of Wakefield Revisited (2010)

TAYLOR, Kate: The Making of Wakefield 1800-1900 (2008)

PREEDY, Robert: Wakefield and the Five Towns, Living Memories (2004)

DAWSON, Paul: Wakefield Revisited (2003)

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)

GOODCHILD, John, Images of England(1998)

JOHNSTONE, Christine, Wakefield in Old Photographs(1993)

GREEN, Edward: Wrenthorpe, A History(1992)

WRIGHT, Peter: A History of Walton(1985)

TAYLOR, Kate: Wakefield District Heritage Volumes 1 and , (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 

 

 

 

 

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