Introduction

I'm often asked about where I find resources for local history, so I am donning my twinset, pearls and horn-rimmed glasses to become the Phantom Librarian of Doom...

Of course, if I had more of a librarian's eye instead of a butterfly mind, I'd put this all up on huge spreadsheets, and make sure it was exhaustive. But I don't and it's not. It will go up as and when I please. I'll post stuff, as far as possible, in some sort of alphabetical order by author, but it's going to take me ages and I may just slip up. Dewey Decimal? Forget it...

Besides - I like being the online equivalent of a particularly haphazard secondhand bookstore. It's more fun to write and it makes you work a bit, though I'll aim to give you some idea of where to find stuff if I can. You can always use the Google Search facility on the main page if you want to check something specific. Just make sure you tick the "search within this site" function. If there's a publication you think I should know about, do by all means let me know.

But onto the books. Ssssssh!