{"id":18120,"date":"2025-08-30T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T09:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/?p=18120"},"modified":"2025-09-05T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T16:23:49","slug":"some-new-local-books-recently-added-to-the-internet-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2025\/08\/30\/some-new-local-books-recently-added-to-the-internet-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Some new local books, recently added to the Internet Archive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some links to local books, recently added to the Internet Archive:<\/p>\n

The 5th North Staffords and the North Midland Territorials (The 46th and 59th Divisions) 1914-1919<\/a><\/em> (1920).<\/p>\n

Notes on Staffordshire Placenames<\/a><\/em> (1902).<\/p>\n

Medieval Newcastle-Under-Lyme<\/a><\/em> (1928), by Pape who was the leading local historian of the time.<\/p>\n

Memorials of Old Staffordshire<\/a><\/em> (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. <\/p>\n

The Portland Vase booklet<\/a><\/em> (1936), on the history of the making, and the remaking of the vase by Wedgwood.<\/p>\n

Story of Wedgwood, 1730-1930<\/a><\/em> (1930).<\/p>\n

Artes Etruriae<\/a><\/em> (1920), being an illustrated booklet giving a tour of the Wedgwood factory in Etruria, North Staffordshire.<\/p>\n

Sun Pictures<\/a><\/em> (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.<\/p>\n

Samuel Parsons 1747 map – North Staffordshire section<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Phillip Lea 1689 map of the country of Staffordshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Uttoxeter Treasure Trove At Your Finger Tips<\/a> (2025), being “A List Of Books, Publications, Photo Collections On The History And Heritage Of Uttoxeter”. <\/p>\n

The Gawain Country<\/a><\/em> (1984) by Ralph W.V. Elliott. Plus several essays published after the book appeared. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight<\/em> in the Staffordshire Moorlands.<\/p>\n

The Oxford Book Of Carols<\/a><\/em> (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”.<\/p>\n

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DREWEATTS. Old Master, British & European Art. Catalogue 29 May 2025<\/a>. Auction catalogue with a portrait of the young Thomas Bateman, later maker of Biddulph Grange.<\/p>\n

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Speculations<\/a><\/em> by T.E. Hulme (1924). Collection of the essays of the North Staffordshire philosopher and early modernist poet, killed in the First World War. <\/p>\n

Also of interest, at the National Library of Scotland, Ordnance Survey map of the Staffordshire Potteries & District, O.S. One-Inch 3rd Edition (District)<\/a> (1913).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18160,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18120\/revisions\/18160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}