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CastlesThis page was last updated March 30th, 2024
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Guides & gazetteers
[No author]
The Life and Times of William I: An Illustrated Guide to Places of Interest. (pb) £5.00
[No author]
The Life and Times of Henry VII: An Illustrated Guide to Places of Interest. (pb) £4.00
[No Author].
365 Historic Houses and Castles: Official Tourist Board Guide. (pb, 2008 edn.) £1.00
Michael Busselle
Castles in Spain: A Traveller’s Guide featuring the National Parador Inns. (hb) £8.00
James Forde-Johnston
A Guide to the Castles of England and Wales. (hb) £6.00
Christina Gascoigne
Castles of Britain; intro. Bamber Gascoigne. (hb) £6.00
Muriel Hammond
Castles of Britain, 3: Wales and Northern Ireland. (hb) £4.50
Anthony Kemp
Castles in Colour. (hb) £6.00
Tom McNeill
English Heritage Book of Castles. (hb) £10.00
English Heritage Book of Castles. (pb) £6.00
François Matarasso
The English Castle. (hb) £6.00
Michael Müller-Wille
Mittelalterliche Burghügel (»Motten«) im Nördlichen Rheinland. (hb) £15.00
Julian Munby and Henry Summerson
Stokesay Castle, Shropshire. (pb) £1.50
Sir Charles Peers
Carisbrooke Castle, Isle of Wight. (pb) £5.00
General reference
Stephen Friar
The Sutton Companion to Castles. (hb) £6.00
Individual castles
Russell Chamberlin
Carisbrooke Castle. (pb) £3.50
Jonathan Coad
English Heritage Book of Dover Castle and the Defences of Dover. (pb) £7.00
Julia Dobson
Children of the Tower; illustrated by Jeroo Roy. (pb) £2.50
Richard Fawcett
Stirling Castle. (hb) £9.50
Mark Girouard
Old Wardour Castle. (pb) £1.50
John R. Kenyon
Raglan Castle; rev. edn. (pb) £2.00
Jeremy Knight
Chepstow Castle and Port Wall; Runston Church; Chepstow Bulwarks Camp; revised edn. (pb) £3.00
Sir Philip and Lady Magnus-Allcroft
Stokesay Castle, Shropshire. (pb) £4.50
Catherine Morton
Bodiam Castle, Sussex. (pb) £2.50
R. B. Pugh and A. D. Saunders
Old Wardour Castle, Wiltshire. (pb) £3.00
C. A. Ralegh Radford
Tintagel Castle, Cornwall. (pb) £3.50
John E. Ray
Hastings Castle. (pb) £4.00
D. F. Renn
The Donjon at Pembroke Castle. (pb) £4.00
Framlingham and Orford Castles. (pb) £2.00
J. S. Richardson and Margaret E. Root
Stirling Castle, 2nd edn. (pb) £1.00
Henry Summerson
Dunstanburgh Castle, Northumberland. (pb) £1.50
Chris Tabraham and Fiona Stewart
Urquhart Castle: The Official Souvenir Guide. (pb) £1.50
Arnold Taylor
Beaumaris Castle; 5th edn. (pb) £3.00
David Thackray
Corfe Castle, Dorset. (pb) £3.50
A. W. Twyford and Major Arthur Griffiths
Records of York Castle: Fortress, Court House and Prison. (pb) £9.50
Anne Yarrow
Bodiam Castle. (pb) £5.00
General studies
Leslie Alcock
‘By South Cadbury that is Camelot…’: Excavations at Cadbury Castle 1966-70. (hb) £6.00
Federico Bordejé
Le château espagnol de moyen age. (pb) £8.00
R. Allen Brown
Castles from the Air. (hb) £15.00
English Castles; 3rd edn. (hb) £4.00
Canon E. T. Davies
A Guide to the Castles of Gwent. (pb) £7.00
John Gibson
Anatomy of the Castle. (hb) £15.00
Clive Hardy
Francis Frith’s Scottish Castles: Photographic Memories. (pb) £6.00
Peter Harrison
Castles of God: Fortified Religious Buildings of the World. (hb) £15.00
H. W. and J. E. Kaufmann
Fortifications of the Incas, 1200-1531. (pb) £6.00
Charles Kightly
Strongholds of the Realm: Defences in Britain from prehistory to the 20th century; photos by Peter Chèze-Brown. (hb) £2.50
Roger Miket and David L. Roberts
The Mediaeval Castles of Skye and Lochalsh. (pb) £4.00
Marc Morris
Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain. (hb) £6.00
B. H. St. J. O’Neil
Castles: An Introduction to the Castles of England and Wales. (hb) £4.00
Sheila Sancha
The Castle Story. (pb) £3.00
A. G. Smith
Castles of the World Coloring Book. (pb) £4.00
Arnold Taylor
The Welsh Castles of Edward I. (pb) £6.00
Books & journals containing related material
[Journal].
Fortress: The Castles & Fortifications Quarterly.
no. 12 (Feb. 1992). (pb) £5.00
[Journal].
History Today, vol. 45 (January 1995): National Trust Centenary Issue. (magazine) £2.50
[Journal].
The Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 3rd Series, vol. XXXVIII (1975). (pb) £4.50
[Journal].
Medieval History; vol. 2, no. 1 (1992). (pb) £6.00
[Journal].
Sussex Archaeological Collections, vol. LVII (1915). (hb) £15.00
[No Author].
Arundel: The Gem of Sussex. (pb) £5.00
Gabriel Alington
Borderlands: History & Romance of the Herefordshire Marches; illustrations by Dominic Harbour. (pb) £2.50
Geoffrey Barraclough, ed.
Social Life in Early England: Historical Association Essays. (hb) £8.00
Martin Biddle
(ed.): King Arthur’s Round Table: An Archaeological Investigation. (pb) £6.00
Vivian Bird
Warwickshire. (hb) £6.00
Helen Clarke
The Archaeology of Medieval England. (hb) £15.00
Pierre Daudin
Equestrian Statue of Louis XII in the Castle of Blois. (pb) £6.00
John G. Dunbar
Scottish Royal Palaces: The Architecture of the Royal Residences during the Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Periods. (pb) £10.00
Mark Eccles, ed.
The Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance; Wisdom; Mankind. (hb) £6.00
David Morgan Evans, Peter Salway, David Thackray, eds.
“The Remains of Distant Times”: Archaeology and the National Trust. (hb) £10.00
John Hale, Roger Highfield & Beryl Smalley, eds
Europe in the Late Middle Ages. (pb) £10.00
Paul Hetherington
Byzantine and Medieval Greece: Churches, Castles and Art of the Mainland and Peloponnese. (hb) £10.00
Charles Kightly
Chieftains and Princes: A Power in the Land of Wales. (pb) £2.00
Margaret Wade Labarge
A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century. (hb) £10.00
Mistress, Maids and Men: Baronial Life in the Thirteenth Century. (pb) £6.50
Fiona MacDonald
The Medieval Facts of Life. (hb) £6.00
David Maule
Knights and Castles. (pb book plus audio CD) £8.00
B. M. Morley
Henry VIII and the Development of Coastal Defence. (pb) £4.50
Michael Morris, ed.
Medieval Manchester: A Regional Study. (pb) £8.00
Richard Muir
The National Trust Guide to Dark Age and Medieval Britain 400-1350. (hb) £6.00
Kathleen Norman
The Rise of Christian Europe AD 800 — AD 1100. (hb) £5.00
Sir Charles Oman
The Art of War in the Middle Ages. (hb) £15.00 for 2‑vol. set
Trevor Rowley
The English Heritage Book of Norman England: An Archaeological Perspective on the Norman Conquest. (pb) £5.00
Franz Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein
Fürstenhäuser und Herrensitze: Eine süddeutsche Reise. (hb) £10.00
Christine Sciacca
Building the Medieval World. (hb) £7.00
Alastair Service
The Buildings of Britain: Anglo-Saxon and Norman, A Guide and Gazetteer. (hb) £3.50
The Buildings of Britain: Anglo-Saxon and Norman, A Guide and Gazetteer. (pb) £5.00
W. Douglas Simpson
The Ancient Stones of Scotland; 2nd edn. (hb) £10.00
Frank Stenton
The First Century of English Feudalism 1066-1166; 2nd edn. (hb) £8.00
Charles Thomas
Britain and Ireland in Early Christian Times, AD 400-800. (hb) £2.50
Edward Wagenknecht, ed.
Chaucer: Modern Essays in Criticism. (pb) £6.00
Philip Warner
Sieges of the Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Modern fiction & literature
Richard Platt
Castle Diary: The Medieval Journal of Tobias Burgess; ill. by Chris Riddell. (pb) £5.00
Matt Thorne
Greengrove Castle. (hb) £5.00
Kingmaker’s Castle. (pb) £5.00
The White Castle. (pb) £4.50
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