Catalogue

John Robinson The Attwood Family, with historic notes and pedigree Hills & Co., 1903

S. Backhouse A Memoir of James Backhouse William Sessions: F. Bowyer Kitto, 1870

C.M. Fraser A History of Anthony Bek, Bishop of Durham, 1283 - 1311 Clarendon Press: Oxford University Press, 1957

Iain Bain A Checklist of the Manuscripts of Thomas Bewick 1970

Thomas Bewick, Montague Weekley (ed.) A Memoir of Thomas Bewick written by himself The Cresset Press, 1961

Nick Vine Hall My Name is Blacket N.J. Vine Hall, 1983

F.M. Meadows The Architecture of Ignatius Bonomi, 1810 - 1850 Cambridge University History of Art Faculty B.A. Dissertation, May 1982

J.H. Crosby Ignatius Bonomi of Durham, architect City of Durham Trust, 1987

A.F. Sealey and D. Walters The First Railway Architect [Ignatius Bonomi] Architectural Review, Vol. cxxxv, May 1964

Jesse Foot The Lives of Andrew Robinson Bowes Esq. and the Countess of Strathmore, written from thirty-three years professional attendance, from letters and other well authenticated documents Becket and Porter: Sherwood, Neely and Jones

Ralph Arnold The Unhappy Countess and her Grandson John Bowes Constable, 1957

Charles E. Hardy John Bowes and the Bowes Museum Charles E. Hardy, 1970

Durham County Council Streatlam and Gibside: The Bowes and Strathmore families in County Durham Durham County Council, 1980

Christine E Cobbold Bicentenary of a colliery engineer [John Buddle] Article from Colliery Guardian, Vol. 222, No. 2, February 1974

Christine E Hiskey John Buddle (1773 - 1843), Agent and Entrepreneur in the North-East Coal Trade Thesis submitted for the M.Litt. degree, University of Durham, Department of History, 1978

Durham Chronicle Obituary of Mr. John Burden, J.P Durham Chronicle, 1893

John Candlish Political Life and Speeches of John Candlish, M ember for Sunderland from 1866 - 1874, including a biography of Mr. Candlish from the Newcastle Daily Chronicle, 1874 1886

Thomas Henry Collinson and Francis Collinson (ed.) The Diary of an Organist's Apprentice at Durham Cathedral, 1871 - 1875 Aberdeen University Press, 1982

Arthur Appleton Mary Ann Cotton: Her story and trial Michael Joseph, 1973

Tom Faulkner and Andrew Greg John Dobson: Newcastle architect, 1787 - 1865 Tyne and Wear Museums Service, 1987

P.E.H. Hair (editor) Coals on rails or the reason of my wrighting: The autobiography of Anthony Errington from 1778 to around 1825 Liverpool University Press

George Brown The Fidler Saga [Horace H. Fidler] George Brown

[Rev.] C.S. Collingwood Memoirs of Bernard Gilpin, parson of Houghton-le-Spring and apostle of the North Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1884

(Rev.) George Carleton The Life of Bernard Gilpin, a man most holy and renowned among the Northerne English: Faithfully written by the Right Reverend Father in God George Carleton, Lord Bishop of Chichester, and published for the satisfaction of his countrimen William Jones, 1629 Transferred to Archives D/X 2235/1

C. Gray The Gray Family

Owen Chadwick Hensley Henson: A study in the friction between Church and State Clarendon Press, 1983

Geoffrey Martin Hodgson A Hodgson Family Tyneside Free Press for the author, 1982

Leonard Cooper Radical Jack: The Life of John George Lambton first Earl of Durham Viscount Lambton and Baron Durham, Member of Parliament for Durham County, Lord Privy Seal, Ambassador of the Court of St. Petersburgh, Governor-General and Captain-General of Canada, 1792 - 1840 The Cresset Press, 1959

Stuart J. Reid Life and letters of the first Earl of Durham, 1792 - 1840 Volume 1 Longmans, Green & Co., 1906

Stuart J. Reid Life and letters of the first Earl of Durham, 1792 - 1840 Volume 2 Longmans, Green & Co., 1906

R.L. Storey Thomas Langley and the Bishopric of Durham, 1406 - 1437 S.P.C.K. for the Church Historical Society, 1961

The Langstaffs of Teesdale and Weardale

Jack Lawson A Man's Life Hodder and Stoughton 1933

Edith, (7th) Marchioness of Londonderry Retrospect Frederick Muller Ltd., 1938

Frances Anne, Lady Londonderry [Edited by W.A.L. Seaman and J.R. Sewell] Russian Journal of Lady Londonderry 1836 - 1837 John Murray, 1973

Brian Masters Wynyard Hall and the Londonderry family Marquess of Londonderry, 1973

Alistair, 9th Marquess of Londonderry The Londonderry Album Blond & Briggs Ltd., 1978

Charles William Vane, Marquess of Londonderry Narrative of the Peninsular War, from 1808 - 1813 Henry Colburn, 1828

H. Montgomery Hyde Londonderry House and Its Pictures The Cresset Press, 1937

H. Montgomery Hyde The Londonderrys: A family portrait Hamish Hamilton, 1979

Edith Milner and Edith Benham (editor) Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle George Bell and Sons, 1904

The Larchfield Diary: Extracts from the diary of the late Mr. Mewburn, first railway solicitor Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London and Bailey, Darlington, 1876

George Parkinson True stories of Durham Pit-life Charles H. Kelly, 1912

M.W. Kirby Men of Business and Politics: The rise and fall of the Quaker Pease Dynasty of North-East England, 1700 - 1943 George Allen and Unwin, 1984

Mary H Pease Henry Pease: A short story of his life Headley Brothers, 1897

John Salisbury Me and Jake, The experiences of some Durham miners Charles H. Kelly, 1916

A. White "Tam in cantu quam in gramatica": Richard Sharp, an early Tudor song and grammar master Article from the Durham Research Review , Vol. V., No. 16, September 1965 Durham Research Review, 1965

[Rev.] George Silvertop Memoirs of the Silvertops of Minsteracres, with some account of the families of Maire, Witham and Lawson Rev. George Silvertop, 1930

Edward Smith [T. Robertson, editor] A Pitman's Notebook: hope and success at Houghton, Co. Durham, The diary of Edward Smith, Houghton Colliery Viewer, 1749 - 1751 Frank Graham, 1970

M.C. Reed George Stephenson and W.T. Salvin: the early Railway Capital Market at work Transport History, Vol. 1, March 1968

L.T.C Rolt George and Robert Stephenson: The Railway Revolution Longmans, 1962

Rev. William Hudson The Faithful Local Preacher: A memorial of William Gibson, of the Durham Circuit Wesleyan Conference Office, 1876

Robert F. Wearmouth Pages from a Padre's Diary: A Story of Struggle and Triumph, of Sorrow and Sympathy Robert F. Wearmouth

[Rev.] F.R. Brunskill Life of John Williamson (of Meadowfield, Durham) E. Paxton, 1923

William Brockie Sunderland Notables: Natives, Residents and Visitors Hills and Company, 1894

John W. Broumley The Lords of Raby and Staindrop Part 1: The Nevilles at Raby and Part 2: The Vanes at Raby 1957

G.W. Kitchin Seven Sages of Durham [Bishop Richard D' Aungerville or De Bury; Dean Thomas Wilson; Prebendary Peter Smart; Isaac Basire; Dean Denis Granville; Bishop William Warburton and Bishop Joseph Butler] T. Fisher Unwin, 1911

Leonard Cooper Great Men of Durham Volume 9 [Henry George Liddell of Ravensworth; John Lilburne of Thickley; Robert Smith Surtees of Hamsterley; Thomas Sheraton; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; Major-General Sir Henry Havelock and John Lambton, First Earl of Durham] The Bodley Head 1959

The Sedgefield Country in the Seventies and Eighties, with the reminiscences of a first whipper in [third edition] Wm. Dresser and Sons, 1904

W. Percy Hedley and C. Roy Hudleston Cookson of Penrith, Cumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne T. Wilson, c .1963

M.J. Huggins Kings of the Moor: North Yorkshire Racehorse trainers, 1760 - 1900 Teeside Polytechnic Paper in North Eastern History, No. 1 1991

Antony Christopher Middleton A Middleton Family, its history and branches, 1585 - 1900 1991

Joseph Foster (editor) Wills and administrations of the various Backhouse Families registered in the Archdeaconry Court of Richmond, deposited at Somerset House and at Lancaster, together with others from Somerset House, York and Carlisle Chiswick Press, 1894

Anne de Courcy Circe: The life and death of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry Sinclair-Stephenson, 1992

(Rev.) John Tate Autobiography of the Rev. John Tate

Cuthbert Headlam (Stuart Ball, editor) Parliament and Politics in the Age of Baldwin and MacDonald The Historians' Press, 1992

Jim Fox How durst he do that: The life of Benjamin Flounders, Esquire The History of Education Project, 2007

Alfred R. Tucker, Bishop of Uganda Eighteen years in Uganda and East Africa [Reverend Tucker was formerly Curate of St. Nicholas, Durham City] Edward Arnold, 1911 E 67

John P. Tavener The Taverners Volume 1 John P. Tavener, 1994

Hilary W. Jackson A County Durham Man at Trafalgar: Cumby of the Bellerophon Durham County Local History Society

Charles Vane (editor) Memoirs and correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquis of Londonderry Volume 1: The Irish rebellion Henry Colburn, 1848

Charles Vane (editor) Memoirs and correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquis of Londonderry Volume 2: Arrangements for a union Henry Colburn, 1848

Charles Vane (editor) Memoirs and correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquis of Londonderry Volume 3: Completion of the legislative union Henry Colburn, 1849

Charles William Vane (editor) Correspondence, despatches and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquis of Londonderry Second series: Military and miscellaneous, volume 5 Henry Colburn, 1851

Charles William Vane (editor) Correspondence, despatches and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquis of Londonderry Second series: Military and miscellaneous, volume 6 Henry Colburn, 1851

Charles William Vane (editor) Correspondence, despatches and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquis of Londonderry Second series: Military and miscellaneous, volume 7 Henry Colburn, 1851

Charles William Vane (editor) Correspondence, despatches and other papers of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquis of Londonderry Second series: Military and miscellaneous, volume 8 Henry Colburn, 1851

Thomas Jackson (editor) The Lives of the Early Methodist Preachers chiefly written by themselves: John Nelson, Christopher Hopper, Thomas Mitchell, Peter Jaco and John Haime Volume 1 (fourth edition) Wesleyan Conference Office, 1871

Aubrey Penman From County Durham, England to America, 1681 - 1998 [the Judson - Penman history and genealogical lineage] Aubrey Penman, U.S.A., 1998

Frank Atkinson The man who made Beamish: an autobiography Northern Books, 1999

Robert Young Timothy Hackworth and the Locomotive Shildon Stockton and Darlington Railway Jubilee Committee, 1975

Stuart Ball (editor) Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: The Headlam Diaries, 1935-1951 C.U.P., 1999

G.R. Batho (editor) Durham Biographies, Volume 1: Includes: David Sturrock Reid, Adult Educationalist (1906 - 1998) pp.5-8; William George Armstrong, industrialist (1810 - 1900) pp.9-11; The Backhouse Family, bankers and horticulturists pp.11-17; Florence Evelyn Eleonore Bell (nee Ollife), author (1851 - 1930) pp.17-20; John Hyslop Bell, newspaper Founder and Coroner ( c .1833 - 1920) pp.21-22; John Butterfield, J.P., Hospital Administrator (1865 - 1939) pp.22-25; Augusta Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace, mathematician (1815 - 1852) pp.25-27; John Alan Chalmers, physicist and Durham scout leader (1904 - 1967) pp.28-31; Frederick Maddick Dawson O.B.E., local government (1912-1988) pp.31-33; Charles Dickens, novelist (1812-1870) pp34-36; Charles Duncan, M.P. and trade unionist (1865 - 1933) pp.36-38; William Falla II, nurseryman (1761 - 1830) pp.38-39; William George Footitt, architectural draughtsman (1865 - 1936) pp.39-43; Samuel Galbraith J.P.,O.B.E., union official and M.P. (1853 - 1936), pp.43-46; William Stephen Gilly, Canon of Durham and Vicar of Norham (1789 - 1855), pp.46-51; Frank William Goodyear, Alderman and Mayor of Durham and Builder (1873 - 1950) pp.51-54; Thomas Michael Greenhow M.D., F.R.C.S., surgeon (1791 - 1881) pp.55-59; Cassy M. Harker SRN, Hospital Matron (1912 - 1966) pp.59-63; Thomas Heaviside, photographic artist, (1828 - 1886) pp.63-66; Henry Heavisides, printer, poet and polemicist (1791 - 1870) pp.67-68; Arthur Henderson, Labour Party leader (1863 - 1935) pp.68-73; William Hogarth, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle (1786 - 1866) pp.73-75; George Gordon Hoskins, J.P, FRIBA, architec t (1837 - 1911) pp.75-77; Ralph Ward Jackson, M.P., founder of modern Hartlepool (1806 - 1880) pp.77-82; James Finlay Weir Johnston, chemist and educational benefactor (1796 - 1855) pp.83-86; John Kane, Trade Unionist (1819 - 1876) pp.86-88; Peter Lee, Miner and Trade Unionist (1864 - 1935) pp.88-91; James Maw, Chartist and temperance worker (1807 - 1875) pp. 92-94; William Andrew Nestfield, Soldier, Painter, Landscape Gardener (1794 - 1881) pp. 94-96; Charles Mark Palmer, Merchant (1822 - 1907) pp.97-99; James Pigott Pritchett, FRIBA, Architcet (1830 - 1911) pp.99-104; Albert Edward Prowse , Ministry representative at Elisabethville and Surveyor (1880 - 1955) pp.104-105; Thomas Ramsey, Miners' Union Pioneer (1812 - 1873) pp.105-107; Sir Robert Ropner, Industrialist (1838 - 1924) pp. 108-109; Hannah Harrison Rushford (1887 - 1965) pp.110-111; William Scaife, Durham Coal Miner and US Miners' leader (1853 - 1913) pp.112-113; Sir Walter Scott, poet and novelist (1771 - 1832) pp.114-116; Sir Charles Walter Starmer, Businessman and politician (1870 - 1933) pp.116-117; William Thomas Stead, Journalist and moral campaigner (1849 - 1912) pp.117-119; Norman Sunderland BA, Historian (1909 - 1982) pp.119-121; Sir Henry Taylor, Senior Civil Servant, Author, Poet and Dramatist (1800 - 1886) pp.121-123; Christopher Tennant, Entrepreneur ( c .1780 - 1839) pp.123-128; John Todd, Sea Captain (1840 - 1899) pp.128-132; The Revd. Canon Henry Baker Tristram, Naturalist, Freemason and Churchman (1822 - 1906) pp.132-135; John Walker, The invention of the friction light (1781 - 1859) pp.136-138; Alfred Waterhouse RFIBA, RA, LL.D., Architect (1830 - 1905) pp.139-141; Arthur Watts, Clergyman, Educationalist, Geologist (1838 - 1933) pp.141-145; John Wilson, M.P., Miners' Leader (1837 - 1915) pp.145-149; John Havelock Wilson, Seaman and trade unionist (1858 - 1929) pp.149-153 Durham County Local History Society, 2000

John Wickstead C. Hodgson Fowler, Durham Architect, and his churches Durham County Local History Society, 2001

Thomas Faulkner and Andrew Greg John Dobson: Architect of the North Tyne Bridge Publishing, 2001

John H. March William March, 1878 - 1960: A biography John H. March, 2002

Jo Anne Van Tilburg Among Stone Giants: The life of Katherine Routledge and her remarkable expedition to Easter Island Scribner, 2003

Chris Foote Wood T Dan Smith 'Voice of the North' - Downfall of a Visionary Northern Writers, 2010

Ray Tilly Tommy Armstrong: The Pitman Poet Summerhill Books, 2010

Jack Richardson Jack in the Pulpit: Memories of a country parson Bridge Studios, 1987

Pete Wood The Elliotts of Birtley David Herron Publishing, Yorkshire, 2008

Brian E. Torode John Middleton: Victorian, Provincial Artist Accent, Zagreb, Croatia, 2008

Richard Hanmer A Day's March Nearer Home: A memoir of the life and career of Brigadier John Michael Hanmer Richard Hanmer, 2009

Alistair Cooke Tory Heroine: Dorothy Brant and the Rise of Conservative Women Sumfield & Day Ltd, 2008

Sir Archibald Alison Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, Volume I William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1851

Sir Archibald Alison Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, Volume II William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1851

Sir Archibald Alison Lives of Lord Castlereagh and Sir Charles Stewart, Volume III William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, 1851

Alastair Grieve (ed.) Victor Pasmore: Writings and Interviews Tate Publishing, 2010

Caroline Chapman John and Josephine: The Creation of the Bowes Museum The Bowes Museum, 2010

Philip Nixon St Cuthbert of Durham Amberley Publishing, 2012

Steve Race The Two Worlds of Joseph Race Souvenir Press, 1988

Joan Foster and Caroline Brannigan From Land Girl to Landlady: The Life and Times of Joan Foster Caroline Brannigan, 2012

Anthony Murphy Banks of Green Willow: The Life and Times of George Butterworth Capella Archive, 2012

Jonathan Peacock Jeremiah Dixon: Scientist, Surveyor and Stargazer The Bowes Museum, 2013

E W Parker Into Battle: A seventeen-year-old joins Kitchener's Army Pen & Sword Military, 2012

Roger Redfearn (with Caroline Brannigan) Ah Cu Fra Tittra Bune War Ther's Neether Sun Ner Mune: The story of the Redfearns of Upper Teesdale Caroline Brannigan, 2013

Kenneth Alfred Dunn A West Hartlepool Soldier, No Known Grave: The story of teenage soldier Alfred Dunn 2014

Kelso McEwan Yuill John Simpson Kirkpatrick: Digger or Geordie? The untold story of his family Relativity, 2015

Peter Ford Mason James Shannon: The journey of an Irish family (AD 812-1886) from slavery and serfdom to socialism Scotforth Books, 2015

Ellen Graham Findon Cottage and the Master [John Graham, Coroner for Chester Ward] Country Life Ltd, 1916

Thelma Gutsche The Bishop's Lady [Sophy Gray (nee Sophia Wharton Myddleton)] Howard Timmins, 1970

P. J. McPartland Pit Boy: Memories of a life in Murton during the 1930s and '40s The People's History Ltd, 2005

William Thomas Pike (editor) A Dictionary of Edwardian Biography: Durham (a reprint of the biographical part of Durham at the Opening of the Twentieth Century, 1906) 1985

Alan Adamthwaite Never Again: The story of Bob Hardisty England's greatest amateur footballer The Jacqal Press, 2010

Brian Joslin 'There's a War on Pet' Boyhood Memories of County Durham B. Joslin Publications, 1993

Lloyd Oliver From Crook to Chaplain [Rev. John W. Oliver] 1986

I Remember... The North East: Recollections of Yesteryear The Pentland Press Ltd, 1993

Olive Brown and Chris Foote Wood Tales from the Council Chamber Northern Writers, 2009

Dorothy A. Rand A Durham Miner and his Wife: Jack and Bella Lawson Dorothy A. Rand, 2015

Tom Moffat 75 First Class Years with Nancy CP Print, 2020

Dorothy A. Rand and Kevan Jones Lord Lawson of Beamish: Champion of the Working Man Dorothy A. Rand and RT. HON. Kevan Jones, MP, 2019

Harold Hislop Out of the Old Earth Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 1994