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Bibliography of castle history and architecture

  • Abels, Richard Philip and Bernard S. Bachrach. (eds) (2001) The Normans and their Adversaries at War. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell. ISBN 978-0-85115-847-1.
  • Amt, Emilie. (1993) The Accession of Henry II in England: Royal Government Restored, 1149–1159. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-348-3.
  • Andrews, Malcolm. (1989) The Search for the Picturesque. Stanford, US: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1402-0.
  • Armitage, Ella S. (1912) The Early Norman Castles of the British isles. London, UK: J. Murray. OCLC 458514584.
  • Bailey, Elaine. (2003) “Building for growth”, in Fairweather and McConville (eds) (2003).
  • Barry, Terry. (1995) “The Last Frontier: Defence and Settlement in Late Medieval Ireland”, in Barry, Frame and Simms (eds) (1995).
  • Barry, Terry, Robin Frame and Katharine Simms. (eds) (1995) Colony and Frontier in Medieval Ireland: Essays Presented to J.F. Lydon. London: Hambledon Press. ISBN 978-1-85285-122-4.
  • Bartlett, Thomas. (2010) Ireland: A History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-19720-5.
  • Bradbury, Jim. (2009) Stephen and Matilda: the Civil War of 1139–53. Stroud, UK: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7509-3793-1.
  • Brindle, Steven and Kerr, Brian. (1997) Windsor Revealed: New Light on the History of the Castle. London, UK: English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-688-5.
  • Brown, James Baldwin. (1823) Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist. London, UK: T. and G. Underwood. OCLC 60719334.
  • Brown, R. Allen. (1962) English Castles. London, UK: Batsford. OCLC 1392314.
  • Bruce, David M. (2010) “Baedeker – the Perceived ‘Inventor’ of the Formal Guidebook: a Bible for Travellers in the 19th Century”, in Butler and Russell (eds) (2010).
  • Bull, Stephen. (2008) “The Furie of the Ordnance”: Artillery in the English Civil Wars. Woodbridge UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-403-8.
  • Butler, Richard and Rosylyn A. Russell (eds) (2010) Giants of Tourism. Wallingford, UK: CAB. ISBN 978-1-84593-652-5.
  • Butler, Lawrence. (1997) Clifford’s Tower and the Castles of York. London, UK: English Heritage. ISBN 1-85074-673-7.
  • Carpenter, David. (2004) The Struggle for Mastery: The Penguin History of Britain 1066–1284. London, UK: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-014824-4.
  • Clark, Geo. T. (1874) “The Defences of York”, in The Archaeological Journal, XXXI (1874).
  • Clark, Geo. T. (1884) Medieval Military Architecture. London: Wyman & Sons. OCLC 2600376/
  • Cooper, Thomas Parsons. (1911) The History of the Castle of York, from its Foundation to the Current Day with an Account of the Building of Clifford’s Tower. London, UK: Elliot Stock. OCLC 59345650.
  • Cottrell, Peter. (2006) The Anglo-Irish War: The Troubles of 1913–1922. Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-023-9.
  • Coulson, Charles. (1994) “The Castles of the Anarchy”, in King (ed) (1994).
  • Coulson, Charles. (2003) Castles in Medieval Society: Fortresses in England, France, and Ireland in the Central Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-927363-4.
  • Creighton, Oliver Hamilton and Robert Higham. (2003) Medieval Castles. Princes Risborough, UK: Shire Publications. ISBN 978-0-7478-0546-5.
  • Creighton, Oliver Hamilton. (2005) Castles and Landscapes: Power, Community and Fortification in Medieval England. London: Equinox. ISBN 978-1-904768-67-8.
  • Cruickshanks, Eveline. (ed) (2009) The Stuart Courts. Stroud, UK: The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5206-7.
  • Curnow, P.E. and E.A. Johnson. (1985) “St Briavels Castle”, in Chateau Gaillard: études de castellologie médiévale. Caen: Centre de Recherches Archéologiques Médiévales. ISBN 978-2-902685-01-1.
  • Danziger, Danny and John Gillingham. (2003) 1215: The Year of the Magna Carta. London, UK: Coronet Books. ISBN 978-0-7432-5778-7.
  • Delafons, John. (1997) Politics and Preservation: A Policy History of the Built Heritage, 1882–1996. London, UK: Chapman and Hall. ISBN 978-0-419-22390-0.
  • Dobres, Marcia-Anne and John E. Robb. (eds) (2000) Agency in Archaeology. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-20760-7.
  • Duffy, Christopher. (1997) Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World, 1494–1660. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-14649-4.
  • Dunbar, John G. (1999) Scottish Royal Palaces: the Architecture of the Royal Residences during the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Periods. East Lothian, UK: Tuckwell Press. ISBN 978-1-86232-042-0.
  • Eales, Richard. (2003) “Royal Power and Castles in Norman England”, in Liddiard (ed) (2003a).
  • Eales, Richard. (2006) Peveril Castle. London: English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-85074-982-0.
  • Eltis, David. The Military Revolution in Sixteenth-Century Europe. London: Tauris. ISBN 978-1-86064-352-1.
  • Emery, Anthony. (1996) Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Northern England. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-49723-7.
  • Emery, Anthony. (2006) Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Southern England. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-58132-5.
  • Fairweather, Leslie and Seán McConville. (eds) (2003) Prison Architecture: Policy, Design, and Experience. Oxford: Architectural Press. ISBN 978-0-7506-4212-5.
  • Fielding, Theodore Henry. (1825) British Castles: Or, a Compendious History of the Ancient Military Structures of Great Britain. London, UK: Rowlett and Brimmer. OCLC 6049730.
  • Fox, Lionel. (2001) The English Prison and Borstal Systems: An Account of the Prison and Borstal Systems. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-17738-2.
  • Gerrard, Christopher M. (2003) Medieval Archaeology: Understanding Traditions and Contemporary Approaches. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-23463-4.
  • Glendinning, Miles, Ranald MacInnes and Aonghus MacKechnie. (2002) A History of Scottish Architecture: from the Renaissance to the Present Day. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-0-7486-0849-2.
  • Gilmour, Tony. (2007) Sustaining Heritage: Giving the Past a Future. Sydney, Australia: Sydney University Press. ISBN 978-1-920898-71-7.
  • Gomme, Andor and Alison Maguire. (2008) Design and Plan in the Country House: From Castle Donjons to Palladian Boxes. Yale, US: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12645-7.
  • Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. (2005) Recollections of a Lifetime Or Men and Things I Have Seen in a Series of Familiar Letters to a Friend. Kessinger. ISBN 978-0-548-07479-4.
  • Gravett, Christopher and Adam Hook. (2003) Norman Stone Castles: The British Isles, 1066–1216. Botley, UK: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84176-602-7.
  • Greene, Kevin and Tom Moore. (2010) Archaeology: An Introduction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-49639-1.
  • Grenier, Katherine Haldane. (2005) Tourism and Identity in Scotland, 1770–1914: Creating Caledonia. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-3694-6.
  • Harding, Christopher, Bill Hines, Richard Ireland and Philip Rawlings. (1985) Imprisonment in England and Wales: a Concise History. Beckenham, UK: Croon Helm. ISBN 978-0-7099-1294-1.
  • Harrington, Peter. (2003) English Civil War Fortifications 1642–51. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-604-1.
  • Harrington, Peter. (2007) The Castles of Henry VIII. Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84603-130-4.
  • Harris, John. (2007) Moving Rooms: the Trade in Architectural Salvages. Yale, US: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12420-0.
  • Hassard, John Rose Greene. (1881) A Pickwickian Pilgrimage. Boston: Osgood. OCLC 3217047.
  • Hayton, David. (2004) Ruling Ireland, 1685–1742: Politics, Politicians and Parties. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-058-0.
  • Hearne, Thomas. (1711) The Itinerary of John Leland the Antiquary. Oxford, UK: The Theatre. OCLC 655596199.
  • House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. (2009) Maintaining the Occupied Royal Palaces: Twenty-Fourth Report of Session 2008–09. London. UK: The Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-215-53049-3.
  • Hull, Lise E. (2006) Britain’s Medieval Castles. Westport, US: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-98414-4.
  • Hull, Lise E. and Whitehorne, Stephen. (2008) Great Castles of Britain & Ireland.London: New Holland Publishers. ISBN 978-1-84773-130-2.
  • Hull, Lise E. (2009) Understanding the Castle Ruins of England and Wales: How to Interpret the History and Meaning of Masonry and Earthworks. Jefferson, US: MacFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3457-2.
  • Hulme, Richard. (2008) “Twelfth Century Great Towers – The Case for the Defence,” The Castle Studies Group Journal, No. 21, 2007–8.
  • Huscroft, Richard. (2005) Ruling England, 1042–1217. Harlow, UK: Pearson. ISBN 978-0-582-84882-5.
  • Impey, Edward and Geoffrey Parnell. (2000) The Tower of London: The Official Illustrated History. London, UK: Merrell Publishers. ISBN 1-85894-106-7.
  • Insall, Donald. (2008) Living Buildings: Architectural Conservation: Philosophy, Principles and Practice. Victoria, Australia: Images Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86470-192-0.
  • Janssens, G. A. M. and Flor Aarts. (eds) (1984) Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, History, and Bibliography. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-6203-736-0.
  • Johnson, Matthew. (2000) “Self-made Men and the Staging of Agency”, in Dobres and Robb (eds) 2000.
  • Johnson, Matthew. (2002) Behind the Castle Gate: From Medieval to Renaissance. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-25887-6.
  • Jones, Nigel R. (2005) Architecture of England, Scotland, and Wales. Westport, US: Greenwood Publishing. ISBN 978-0-313-31850-4.
  • King, D. J. Cathcart. (1991) The Castle in England and Wales: An Interpretative History. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-00350-4.
  • King, Edmund. (ed) (1994) The Anarchy of King Stephen’s Reign. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-820364-0.
  • Lenihan, Pádraig. (2001) “Conclusion: Ireland’s Military Revolution(s)”, in Lenihan (ed) (2001).
  • Lenihan, Pádraig. (ed) (2001) Conquest and Resistance: War in Seventeenth-Century Ireland. Leiden, Netherlands: BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-11743-3.
  • Liddiard, Robert. (ed) (2003a) Anglo-Norman Castles. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-904-1.
  • Liddiard, Robert (2003b) “Introduction”, in Liddiard (ed) (2003a).
  • Liddiard, Robert. (2005) Castles in Context: Power, Symbolism and Landscape, 1066 to 1500. Macclesfield, UK: Windgather Press. ISBN 0-9545575-2-2.
  • Lowenthal, David. (1985) The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-29480-5.
  • Lowenthal, David. (1996) Possessed by the Past: The Heritage Industry and the Spoils of History. New York, US: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-684-82798-8.
  • Lowry, Bernard. Discovering Fortifications: From the Tudors to the Cold War. Risborough, UK: Shire Publications. ISBN 978-0-7478-0651-6.
  • Mackenzie, James D. (1896) The Castles of England: Their Story and Structure, Vol II. New York, US: Macmillan. OCLC 504892038.
  • Mackworth-Young, Robin. (1992) The History and Treasures of Windsor Castle. Andover, UK: Pitkin. ISBN 0-85372-338-9.
  • Mallgrave, Harry Francis. (2005) Modern Architectural Theory: a Historical Survey, 1673–1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-79306-3.
  • McConville, Seán. (1995) English Local Prisons, 1860–1900: Next Only to Death. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-03295-7.
  • McNeill, Tom. (2000) Castles in Ireland: Feudal Power in a Gaelic World. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-22853-4.
  • Morris, Richard K. (1998) “The Architecture of Arthurian Enthusiasm: Castle Symbolism in the Reigns of Edward I and his Successors”, in Strickland (ed) (1998).
  • Morris, Richard K. (2010) Kenilworth Castle. London: English Heritage. ISBN 978-1-84802-075-7.
  • Musty, A. E. S. (2007) Roaring Meg: Test Firing a Copy of Colonel Birch’s Civil War Mortar. Hereford, UK: Archaeological and Archival, with Mainmast Conservation. ISBN 978-0-9556333-0-0.
  • Mynors, Charles. (2006) Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments. London, UK: Sweet and Maxwell. ISBN 978-0-421-75830-8.
  • Nicolson, Adam. (1997) Restoration: The Rebuilding of Windsor Castle. London, UK: Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-4192-X.
  • O’Dwyer, Frederick. (1997) The Architecture of Deane and Woodward. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. ISBN 978-0-902561-85-4.
  • Omar, Paul J. (ed) (2008) International Insolvency Law: Themes and Perspectives. London, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-2427-1.
  • Parker, John Henry. (1882) Some Account of Domestic Architecture in England from Edward I to Richard II. Oxford, UK: J. H. Parker. OCLC 11791317.
  • Pettifer, Adrian. (2000) Welsh Castles: A Guide by Counties. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-778-8.
  • Pettifer, Adrian. (2002) English Castles: A Guide by Counties. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-782-5.
  • Prestwich, Michael. (2001) “The Garrisoning of English Medieval Castles”, in Abels and Bachrach (eds) (2001).
  • Pounds, Norman John Greville. (1994) The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: A Social and Political History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-45828-3.
  • Purton, Peter. (2009) A History of the Early Medieval Siege, c.450–1200. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1-84383-448-9.
  • Prestwich, Michael. (1988) Edward I. Berkeley, uS and Los Angeles, US: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06266-5.
  • Rakoczy, Lila. (2007) Archaeology of Destruction: A Reinterpretation of Castle Slightings in the English Civil War. York, UK: University of York (PhD thesis).
  • Rajak, Harry. (2008) “The Culture of Bankruptcy”, in Omar (ed) (2008).
  • Reid, Stuart. (2006) Castles and Tower Houses of the Scottish Clans, 1450–1650. Botley, UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-84176-962-2.
  • Robinson, John Martin. (2010) Windsor Castle: the Official Illustrated History. London, UK: Royal Collection Publications. ISBN 978-1-902163-21-5.
  • Rowse, Alfred Leslie. (1974) Windsor Castle in the History of the Nation. London, UK: Book Club Associates. ISBN 978-1-902163-21-5.
  • Rudge, Thomas. (1803) The History of the County of Gloucester Brought Down to the Year 1803. Gloucester, UK: Harris. OCLC 260199931.
  • Ryan, Chris. (2003) Recreational Tourism: Demand and Impacts. Clevedon, UK: Channel View Publications. ISBN 978-1-873150-56-6.
  • Scott-Garrett, C. “Littledean Camp,” in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1958, Vol. 77.
  • Shawcross, William. (2009) Queen Elizabeth: The Queen Mother, the Official Biography. London, UK: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-4050-4859-0.
  • Simpson, Grant G. and Bruce Webster. (2003) “Charter Evidence and the Distribution of Mottes in Scotland”, in Liddiard (ed) (2003a).
  • Stell, Geoffrey. (2000) “War-damaged Castles: The Evidence from Medieval Scotland”, in Chateau Gaillard: Actes du colloque international de Graz (Autriche), 22–29 août 1998. Caen, France: Publications du CRAHM. ISBN 978-2-902685-09-7.
  • Strickland, Matthew. (ed) (1998) Armies, Chivalry and Warfare in Medieval England and France. Stamford, UK: Paul Watkins. ISBN 978-1-871615-89-0.
  • Stokstad, Marilyn. (2005) Medieval Castles. Westport, US: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-32525-0.
  • Tabraham, Chris J. (2004) Edinburgh Castle: Prisons of War. Edinburgh, UK: Historic Scotland. ISBN 1-903570-99-9.
  • Tabraham, Chris J. (2005) Scotland’s Castles. London, UK: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-8943-9.
  • Tabraham, Chris J. and Doreen Grove. (2001) Fortress Scotland and the Jacobites. London, UK: Batsford. ISBN 978-0-7134-7484-8.
  • Taylor, Arnold. (1989) Caernarfon Castle. Cardiff, UK: Cadw. ISBN 0-948329-42-4.
  • Thompson, Alexander. (1912) Military Architecture in England during the Middle Ages. London, UK: H. Frowde. OCLC 458292198.
  • Thompson, M. W. (1991) The Rise of the Castle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-08853-4.
  • Thurley, Simon. (2009) “A Country Seat Fit For a King: Charles II, Greenwich and Winchester”, in Cruickshanks (ed) 2009.
  • Timbs, John and Alexander Gunn. (2008) Abbeys, Castles and Ancient Halls of England and Wales: Their Legendary Lore and Popular History, Volume 3. Alcester, UK: Read Books. ISBN 978-1-4437-8400-9.
  • Tite, Catherine. (2010) Portraiture, Dynasty and Power: Art Patronage in Hanoverian Britain, 1714–1759. Amherst, US: Cambria Press. ISBN 978-1-60497-678-6.
  • Toy, Sidney. (1933) “The round castles of Cornwall”, in Archaeologia 83 (1933).
  • Toy, Sidney. (1985) Castles: Their Construction and History. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-24898-1.
  • Turner, Ralph V. (2009) King John: England’s Evil King? Stroud, UK: History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-4850-3.
  • Turner, Rick. (2006) Chepstow Castle. Cardiff, UK: Cadw. ISBN 978-1-85760-229-6.
  • Walker, David. (1991) “Gloucestershire Castles,” in Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1991, Vol. 109.
  • West, T. W. (1985) Discovering Scottish Architecture. Aylesbury, UK: Shire Publications. ISBN 978-0-85263-748-7.
  • Whyte, Ian D. and Kathleen A. Whyte. (1991) The Changing Scottish Landscape, 1500–1800. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-02992-6.
  • Wiener, Martin J. (1994) Reconstructing the Criminal: Culture, Law, and Policy in England, 1830–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-47882-3.
  • Williams, J. Anthony. (1984) “No-Popery Violence in 1688- Revolt in the provinces”, in Janssens and Aarts (eds) (1984).
  • Williams, William H. A. (2008) Tourism, Landscape, and the Irish character: British Travel Writers in Pre-Famine Ireland. Wisconsin: Wisconsin University Press. ISBN 978-0-299-22520-9.
  • Zuelow, Eric. (2009) Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War. New York: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 978-0-8156-3225-2.