Essex Society for Archaeology and History Library: Recent Book Purchases by the Library Committee

 Book purchases 2013

The Essex Society for Archaeology and History has one of the most important local history and archaeology reference libraries in the country.  We are pleased to have it housed at the Albert Sloman Library at the Colchester campus of the University of Essex.   The Library may be used by any Society member who has a Readers Card.  Books are added constantly about the county of Essex with other publications relating to or having a bearing on the study of the County.  Our Library Committee has recently purchased the following books for accession to add to the several hundred books and periodicals sorted and donated this year.

Two books relating to the Essex Police:

Lockwood, Martyn, 2011.  Murder and Crime. Essex.

Lockwood, Martyn, 2009.  The Essex Police Force: A History

Hewlings, Richard (Editor), 2009.  English Heritage Historical Review. Volume 4.

Includes Hadleigh Castle, Essex, written by Magnus Alexander and Susan Westlake.  The article “highlights some of the findings from recent archaeological field survey and historical research, which have improved understanding of the castle’s chronological development and the extent of its earthworks”.

Crowe, Ken. 2008.  Zeppelins over Southend.

This is subtitled the story of South East Essex in the First World War. Illustrated. Very interesting read.

Powell, Andrew. 2012.  ‘By Rivers, Fields and factories: The making of the Lower Lea Valley’

Subtitled ‘Archaeological and cultural heritage investigations on the site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games’. A  471-page hardback book with index and colour illustrations.

Turbet, Richard, 2006. ‘William Byrd. A Guide to Research. Second edition’.

Musicologists second definitive guide to publications about William Byrd (c1540-1923), composer, who lived at Stondon Massey.  It complements the third edition which was purchased for the Library in 2012.

Gilbert, William (c1544-1603). ‘De Magnete’.

English physician and natural philosopher, who lived in Colchester. The book is about magnetism.

Britannia.  A Journal of Romano-British and Kindred Studies. Volumes 27 (1996) to 30 (1999) inclusive, to complete run in ESAH Library.

Contains many Essex references, hence its importance for Library accession.

Specifically:

Volume XXIX (1998): The Late Iron Age and Roman Settlement at Elms Farm, Heybridge, Essex, excavations 1993-95: an interim report.  By M Atkinson & S J Preston, pp85-110

Volume XXX (1999): The Colchester ‘child’s grave’. By H Eckardt

Essex Review.  Volumes 12 (1903) and 16 (1907), to complete run in ESAH Library.

Described as ‘an illustrated quarterly record of everything of permanent interest in the county’.

Volume XII contains an interesting item on ‘The new Great Eastern Railway Loop Line’, opened 1 May 1903 which ran from Woodford to Ilford.  Now it forms part of the London Transport Central Line running from Woodford to Leytonstone, having been rerouted after the Second World War.