Bibliography

r to put it another way.... a list of books and guides that I own, which have been both educational and inspirational to me in learning about the history of our city of Coventry.

Book title	Author	Year first published	Comments
Souvenir of Coventry		1920s	From the 'Seal of Artistic British Excellence' Series.
Coventry Through The Ages	(Compiled by) D. J. H. Smith	1969	Some descriptions of the city c.1540 to 1868
True as Coventry Blue	(Edited by) Iain Soden	2000	Papers presented to Margaret Rylatt. (City Archaeologist, 1973-2000)
The Early Records of Medieval Coventry	(Edited by) P. R. Coss	1986
St. Michael's Church Past & Present	A. J. Brookes	c1905	Including a Brief History of Coventry.
Know Your Coventry	Abe Jephcott	1947	One hundred questions and answers concerning Coventry'.
The Third Spire	Alan Munden	1991	A history of Christ Church. Pamphlet No. 17 in the 'Coventry and County Heritage' Series.
The Coventry we have Lost - Volume 2	Albert Smith & David Fry	1993
The Coventry we have Lost	Albert Smith & David Fry	1991
Godiva's Heritage: Coventry's Industry	Albert Smith & David Fry	1997
Memories of Coventry	Alton Douglas	1987
Coventry: A Century of News	Alton Douglas	1991	A Coventry Evening Telegraph publication.
Coventry At War	Alton Douglas	1983
Frank Whittle - Invention of the Jet	Andrew Nahum	2004
Moonlight Sonata	Arrangement by Tim Lewis	1990	Accounts of the Coventry Blitz 14th/15th November 1940.
Phoenix at Coventry - The Building of a Cathedral	Basil Spence	1962
The History of Coventry	Benjamin Poole	1852	Being a concise account of the Ancient Institutions, Customs & Public Buildings of the City, and a Complete Epitome of Modern Changes.'
Coventry: Its History and Antiquities	Benjamin Poole	1869	From Authentic Publications, Ancient Manuscripts and Charters, Corporation Records, Original Contributions, etc.
Engineering the Development of Coventry	Brian Redknap	2004	Pamphlet No. 26 in the 'Coventry and County Heritage' Series.
Coventry - Its Mediaeval Interest	C. J. Ribton-Turner	1930s	First Edition
Veterans' Voices	Caroline Freeman-Cuerden	2005
Finds from the Free Grammar School at the Whitefriars, Coventry, c1545 - c1557/58	Charmian Woodfield	1981
The Story of Whitefriars	City of Coventry Leisure Services
Coventry Local History Bulletins, Issue 2 to 7	City of Coventry Leisure Services	1984/85
Coventry Up-To Date	Commissioned by Hughes & Co. Wine and Spirit Merchants	c1894
The Arts & Windows in Coventry Cathedral	Coventry Cathedral Council	c1962
Far Gosford Street - Historical Notes	Coventry City Council	2000	Text & Layout by Mark Singlehurst.
Coventry between the Wars	Coventry City Council	1988	Photographs by Arnold Stringer, 1893 - 1988
The City we Loved	Coventry Corporation	1942
Coventry: The Tradition of Change and Continuity	Coventry Corporation	1966
Municipal Exhibition 1945	Coventry Corporation	1945	Official Souvenir Handbook for the Exhibition held at the Drill Hall 28th May to 8th June 1945 to celebrate 600 years of Incorporation.
Coventry's Blitz	Coventry Evening Telegraph	1990	Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Blitz.
Lady Godiva	Daniel Donoghue	2003	A Literary History of the Legend.'
Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Coventry	David McGrory	2004
The Wharncliffe Companion to Coventry	David McGrory	2008	An A to Z of local history.
The Illustrated History of Coventry's Suburbs	David McGrory	2003
Coventry - History and Guide	David McGrory	1993
Coventry At War	David McGrory	1997	Part of the 'Britain in Old Photographs' series.
Coventry, A History & Celebration	David McGrory	2004	Part of the Francis Frith Collection.
Swing'em Fair	David McGrory	1999	Coventry's darker side
The City of Coventry - Images from the Past	David McGrory	1996
Britain in Old Photographs - Coventry	David McGrory	1994
Coventry: Then & Now (In Colour)	David McGrory	2011
Coventry Past and Present	David McGrory	2001
Britain in Old Photographs - Around Coventry	David McGrory	1991
A History of Coventry	David McGrory	2003
A Century of Coventry	David McGrory	1999
Haunted Coventry	David McGrory	2005
The Motor Car Industry in Coventry since the 1890's	David Thoms and Tom Donnelly	1985
Coventry in the 1930's & 40's	Deborah Keene	1988	A selection of photographs selected by the author with descriptive comments.
The Sky Blues	Derek Henderson	1968	The Story of Coventry City F. C.
Coventry Old and New	E. B. Newbold	1974
Coventry's First Cathedral	Edited by George Demidowicz	1994	Essays from the 1993 Anniversary Symposium.
Coventry's Town Wall	Eileen Gooder	1971	Coventry & Warwickshire Pamphlet No. 4 - Revised and Enlarged 2nd Edition.
The West Window at Coventry Cathedral	English Counties Periodicals Limited	c1963
Cathedral Reborn	English Counties Periodicals Ltd	1962	A souvenir publication to commemorate the Reconstruction and Consecration of Coventry Cathedral
More Coventry Cameos	Eric B. Bramwell	1978
Coventry Cameos	Eric B. Bramwell	1977	First published 1961.
Old Coventry and Lady Godiva	F. B. Burbidge	1952	Being some flowers of Coventry history gathered and arranged.
Old Coventry	Florence Weston	1916	Containing Twenty-Four Original Sketches by Florence Weston.
Coventry - Six Hundred Years of Municipal Life	Frederick Smith B.A. F.G.S.	1945
Coventry Cathedral Chronicle	Friends of Coventry Cathedral	1956	Issue 10, 1956.
Francis Frith's West Midlands	Frith Book Co.	2000	Photographs from the Francis Frith collection.
King Henry VIII School 1545 - 1945	G. L. Marson & F. H. Metcalf	1945
Coventry Under Fire	G. W. Clitheroe - Vicar of Holy Trinity	1942	2nd Edition, enlargement of 1941 1st edition.
Images of England - Coventry	Geoff Barwick	2005
Wheels Within Wheels	Geoffrey Williamson	1966	The story of the Starleys of Coventry.
A Guide to the Buildings of Coventry	George Demidowicz	2003
A History of the Blue Coat School and the Lych Gate Cottages, Coventry	George Demidowicz	2000
Old Tapestry in St. Mary's Hall at Coventry	George Scharf, Jun.. Esq., F.S.A.	1856
Images of England - The City of Coventry	Graham Kempster	2004
Hill's Street Guide of Coventry - With Map	Hill's	1936
Coventry: The Hidden History	Iain Soden	2005
My Life as a Blue Coat Girl	Ivy Hylands	2007	Includes on page 38 a photograph of Holy Trinity Church taken by our son, Steven.
A Night in Little Park Street	J. B. Shelton	1950	John Bailey Shelton's personal account of the Coventry Blitz.
Coventry Cathedral - After the Flames	Jarrold Publishing	1987
Guide to the Historic City of Coventry	Jarrold Publishing	2000
Mary Dormer Harris - The Life and Works of a Warwickshire Historian	Jean Field	2002
Coventry City, The Elite Era - A Complete Record	Jim Brown	1998
Historic Towns - Coventry	Joan C. Lancaster	1974	Part of the 'Historic Towns' series.
Godiva of Coventry	Joan C. Lancaster	1967
St. Mary's Hall, Coventry	Joan C. Lancaster CBE FSA	1981	Edited version of the 1948 original.
The Character of Coventry	John Ashby	2001
Coventry: Excavations on the Town Wall 1976-78	John Bateman and Mark Redknap	1986
The John Gulson Story	John E. Short	1978
Coventry In Camera	John H. Drew & Andrew J. Mealey	1985	A selection of photos with descriptions mainly from the 1860's
Shakespeare the Player - A Life in the Theatre	John Southworth	2000
Coventry Cathedral	John Thomas	1987	The development and history of Coventry's three cathedrals.
Coventry's Heritage	Levi Fox	1957	Enlargement of earlier 1947 book.
A Harvest of History - The life and work of J. B. Shelton	M. Rylatt & M. Montes	1998	2nd Edition - 1st was 1982.
The meaning of the Street Names of Coventry	Magaret Smedley	2000
The Archaeology of the Medieval Cathedral and Priory of St. Mary, Coventry	Margaret Rylatt & Paul Mason	2003
The Excavations at Broadgate East, Coventry 1974-75	Margaret Rylatt and Michael A. Stokes	1996
Life in an Old English Town	Mary Dormer Harris	1898
Dr. Troughton's Sketches of Old Coventry	Mary Dormer Harris	c1908	Sketches by Dr. Nathaniel Troughton, Descriptive notes by M. D. Harris.
Coventry Leet Book Volumes I, II, III & IV	Mary Dormer Harris	1913	1971 Reprint of 1907-1913 Leet Transcriptions covering the years 1420 to 1555
Some Manors, Churches and Villages of Warwickshire	Mary Dormer Harris	1937
The Story of Coventry	Mary Dormer Harris	1911	Part of the 'Mediaeval Towns' series.
The Ancient Records of Coventry	Mary Dormer Harris	1924	Dugdale Society Occasional Papers - No. 1
True as Coventry Blue	Mary Hulton	2000	Pamphlet No. 21 in the 'Coventry and County Heritage' Series.
Coventry - A Geographical Study	Members of the Geographical Association	1964
The Golden Years - The Hippodrome Theatre Coventry	Michael J. Newman	1995
Air Raid	Norman Longmate	1976	The bombing of Coventry, 1940.
Warwickshire	Painted by Fred Whitehead - Described by Clive Holland	1906
Incident Closed	Phil Consadine	1991	An illustrated history of The Fire Service in Coventry.
Ruined and Rebuilt	Provost R. T. Howard	1962
Guide to Coventry Cathedral	Provost R. T. Howard	1954
The Story of the Destruction of Coventry Cathedral	Provost R. T. Howard	c1941	Brief 15 page account of the night of the blitz.
The Early History of Coventry	R. H. C. Davis	1976	Dugdale Society Occasional Papers - No. 24
Most Secret War	R. V. Jones	1978	British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945.
The History of St. Mary's Hall, Coventry	Raymond G. Holl	1989
Coventry and its Story	Rev. Canon J. Howard B. Masterman, M.A.	1914
History of Warwickshire	Sam Timmins	1889	Part of the 'Popular County Histories' series.
The History & Antiquities of Warwickshire	Sir William Dugdale et al.	1825	Being a Concise Topographical Description of the Different Towns and villages in the County of Warwick...
The Crowning of the King and Queen	Stephen King-Hall for Coventry City Council	1937	To the Boys and Girls of Coventry - The Coronation of King George VI, 12th May 1937.
King George V's Silver Jubilee 1910 - 1935	Stephen King-Hall for Coventry City Council	1935	To the Boys and Girls of Coventry.
Anglo Saxon Coventry and its Churches	Steven Bassett	2001	Dugdale Society Occasional Papers - No. 41.
Much Park Street, Coventry: the development of a medieval street	Susan M. Wright	1987	Birmingham and Warwickshire Archaeological Society - Transactions for 1982, Volume 92.
Humorous Reminiscences of Coventry Life	T. W. Whitley	1888	Incorporating 'Coventry Coaching' and other papers.
Coventry: The Ancient City with the Modern Outlook	The Corporation of Coventry	1938	14 page guide book.
The Future Coventry	The Corporation of Coventry	1945	Some proposals and suggestions for the Physical Reconstruction and Planning of the City of Coventry.
Coventry Produces...	The Coventry Chamber of Commerce	1951
Coventry's Civil War 1642 - 1660	Trevor John	1994	Pamphlet No. 20 in the 'Coventry and County Heritage' Series.
Nostalgic Coventry	True North Books Limited	1999
The Victoria History of the County of Warwick	University of London Institute of Historical Research	1969	Volume VIII - Coventry & Warwick.
Medieval Coventry - A City Divided?	University of Warwick Open Studies	1981	Coventry & Warwickshire Pamphlet No. 11.
Coventry as it was	Virginia Gilbert	1973	A collection of photographs.
101 Views of Coventry, Rugby, Leamington, Kenilworth, Warwick and District	W. H. Smith	c1910
History and Antiquities of the City of Coventry	William Reader	1810	From the Earliest Authentic Period to the Present Time: Comprehending, a Description of the Antiquities, Public Buildings, Remarkable Occurrences, &c.