Reading List

Skipton in the snow (Malcolm Stoney Photography)

Books, Articles and Pamphlets

  • Barber, S, Guiseley Terriers, A History of the 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment [Pen and Sword Military, 2018]
  • Brecknell, M, Secret Skipton [Amberley, 2020]
  • Buckley, A (Ed), German Prisoners of the Great War, Life in a Yorkshire Camp [Pen and Sword, 2021]
  • Carter, S & Hatfield, E, Growing up in Old Skipton [Pioneer Press, 2011]
  • Carter, S & Weatherhead, A, Craven College, A History of Further Education in Skipton [1999]
  • Dawson, W.H, History of Skipton [1882]
  • Dawson, W.H, Loose Leaves of Craven History [1907]
  • Ellwood, K, Life in Old Skipton [Dalesman, 1982]
  • Ellwood, K, Skipton, A Pictorial Recollection [Dalesman Books, 1975]
  • Ellwood, K, Skipton – photographs [Dalesman, 1975]
  • Ellwood, K, Skipton Through Time – photographs [Amberley, 2009]
  • Ellwood, K, Skipton and the Dales – photographs [Amberley, 2011]
  • Friends of Craven Museum, Around Skipton-in-Craven in Old Photographs [Alan Sutton]
  • Gibbon, A.M, The Ancient Free Grammar School of Skipton-in-Craven [University Press of Liverpool, 1947]
  • Hanson, M, A Skipton Anthology [2004]
  • Hatfield, E, Skipton – photographs [Smith Settle Ltd, 1991 / revised Hedley Percival 2005]
  • Holmes, M, Proud Northern Lady – Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676 [Phillimore]
  • Howarth, S, A Grammar School at War – the story of Ermysted’s Grammar School in the Great War [2007]
  • Jackson, K.C, A Heritage of Worship [1990]
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘Local disadvantages and the weaver’s wage in the British cotton industry’, Ars Textrina, 10 (1988), pp. 85-98
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The closed shop in the British cotton weaving industry: a postscript’, Ars Textrina, 23 (1995), pp. 57-72
  • Jackson, K.C, Craven Herald & Pioneer, 10, 17, 24, 31 October (1997) [Series of extended articles on the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Leeds & Bradford Railway to Skipton]
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The Sidgwicks of Skipton: the rise and fall of a family firm’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 73 (2001), pp. 133-153
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The Dewhursts of Skipton: a dynasty of cotton masters, 1789 to 1897’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 75 (2003), pp. 181-205
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The room-and-power system in the cotton weaving industry of north-east Lancashire and West Craven’, Textile History, 35, 1 (2004), pp. 58-89
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘Enterprise in some working class communities: cotton manufacturing in north-east Lancashire and West Craven c1880 to 1914’, Textile History, 37, 1 (2006), pp. 52-81
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The determinants of the cotton weaver’s wage in Britain between the wars: principles, criticisms, and case studies’, Textile History, 39, 1 (2008), pp. 45-69
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The house building cycle: a neglected aspect of local history’, The Local Historian, 43, 3 (2013), pp. 193-209
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The architectural provenance of speculative housing: some further evidence’, The Local Historian, 44, 1 (2014), pp. 2-17
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘Skipton-in-Craven: the genesis of the modern town, 1865-1914’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 87 (2015), pp. 145-69
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘Skipton-in-Craven: building the modern town, 1865-1914’, Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 88 (2016), pp. 194-214
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘Beautiful Zion: the transformation of nonconformist identity in a Yorkshire mill town’, The Chapels Society Journal, 2 (2016), pp. 36-57
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘The Earls of Thanet and the industrialisation of the valley of Eller Beck at Skipton, North Yorkshire’, Industrial Archaeology Review, Vol 41, No 2 (2019)
  • Jackson, K.C, ‘Understanding the urban landscape’, The Local Historian, 50, 3 (2020), pp. 196-214
  • K C Jackson and B Pourdeyhimi, ‘Technological Innovation and Industrial Decline: The Case of the Automatic Loom in the British Cotton Industry’, Industrial Archaeology Review, 44, 1 (2022), pp. 48-60
  • Lancaster, M, Looking Back at Skipton – photographs [1990]
  • Lockwood, I, The History of Skipton [Austin Macauley, 2018]
  • Naylor, R.H, Carleton with an ‘E’ – photographs
  • Rowley, The Book of Skipton [Barracudas, 1983]
  • Rowley, R.G, Old Skipton [Dalesman, 1969]
  • Spence, R.T, The Privateering Earl: George Clifford 3rd Earl of Cumberland [Alan Sutton, 1995]
  • Spence, R.T, Skipton Castle and its Builders [Skipton Castle, 2002]
  • Spence, R.T, Skipton Castle in the Great Civil War, 1642-45 [Skipton Castle, 1991]
  • Spence, R.T, The Shepherd Lord of Skipton Castle, Henry Clifford 1454-1523 [Skipton Castle, 1994]
  • Sutton, A, The Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford [History Press, 2003]
  • Ward, Rev J, Skipton Castle [Edmondson & Co, Third Edition 1891]
  • Warren, Parish Church School – 200 years of Education [Warren Associates]
  • Whitaker, T.D, The History and Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven – Vol 1 & 2 [1878; reprinted by Craven Herald]
  • Williams, D, Medieval Skipton [Craven District Council, 1981]
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