Newly posted local books, free on Archive.org…

* New lifestyles in old age: health, identity and well-being in Berryhill Retirement Village (2004)

* Childhood’s Domain: play and place in child development (1986) (free-range kids, about a third of the book was researched via fieldwork in Stoke-on-Trent)

* Thanks For The Memory: great tales from North Staffordshire’s past (1999)

* AA 50 walks in Staffordshire (field-checked 2009) (offers plenty in North Staffordshire).

* Best Staffordshire Walks (1996)

* Cycling in the Peak District: off-road trails and quiet lanes (2007)

* Voice of the Universe: building the Jodrell Bank telescope (1987) (revised and updated)

* Wedgwood, of Etruria & Barlaston: an exhibition to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Josiah Wedgwood (1980, museum catalogue)

* Mason Porcelain and Ironstone 1796-1853: Miles Mason and the Mason manufactories (1977)

* Master Potters of the Industrial Revolution (1965)

* Keele Hall, a Victorian country house: the rebuilding of Keele Hall in the mid-19th century (1986)

* A History of the County of Stafford: Vol. 7 – Leek and the Moorlands (1996) (The Victoria County History)

* The River Trent (1955) (Has opening chapters on sources, the pottery towns, the upper Trent, the River Dove).

* Limestones and Caves of the Peak District (1977)

* Well-dressing in Derbyshire (2003)

* Man-land relations in Prehistoric Britain: the Dove-Derwent Interfluve, Derbyshire (1979)

* A Medieval Society: The West Midlands At The End Of The Thirteenth Century (1966)

* An Index of Names in Pearl, Purity, Patience, and Gawain (1981)

* Cheshire under the Norman Earls (1973)