Some links to local books, recently added to the Internet Archive:
The 5th North Staffords and the North Midland Territorials (The 46th and 59th Divisions) 1914-1919 (1920).
Notes on Staffordshire Placenames (1902).
Medieval Newcastle-Under-Lyme (1928), by Pape who was the leading local historian of the time.
Memorials of Old Staffordshire (1909), being a book collection of antiquarian essays on various local historical topics, including “Staffordshire Forests”, “Some Local Fairies”, “Old Towers and Spires”, “In Charles Cotton’s Country”, and more.
The Portland Vase booklet (1936), on the history of the making, and the remaking of the vase by Wedgwood.
Story of Wedgwood, 1730-1930 (1930).
Artes Etruriae (1920), being an illustrated booklet giving a tour of the Wedgwood factory in Etruria, North Staffordshire.
Sun Pictures (1859) by Mary Howitt. Being a vivid and lively account of a long summer trek through the Staffordshire Moorlands of England in the late 1850s. 22,000-word travel writing serial, with parts collected into a PDF.
Samuel Parsons 1747 map – North Staffordshire section.
Phillip Lea 1689 map of the country of Staffordshire.
A Uttoxeter Treasure Trove At Your Finger Tips (2025), being “A List Of Books, Publications, Photo Collections On The History And Heritage Of Uttoxeter”.
The Gawain Country (1984) by Ralph W.V. Elliott. Plus several essays published after the book appeared. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in the Staffordshire Moorlands.
The Oxford Book Of Carols (1928). Has the dream-fantasy hymn/carol “All Bells in Paradise” (with tune) … “this version was recovered in the middle of the nineteenth-century in North Staffordshire”.
DREWEATTS. Old Master, British & European Art. Catalogue 29 May 2025. Auction catalogue with a portrait of the young Thomas Bateman, later maker of Biddulph Grange.
Speculations by T.E. Hulme (1924). Collection of the essays of the North Staffordshire philosopher and early modernist poet, killed in the First World War.
Also of interest, at the National Library of Scotland, Ordnance Survey map of the Staffordshire Potteries & District, O.S. One-Inch 3rd Edition (District) (1913).