Book List & Order Form

AvonLocal History & Archaeology

Book List & Order Form

ALHA books are A5 size, about 40 pages long and fully illustrated. They can be bought at Bristol Archives, Bristol Central Library, and some local bookshops.

Print runs are short. Stocks of Nos. 5, 21, 23, 25 and 26 are low, and are likely to go out of print shortly. If you would like to buy copies, please order soon.

Books can be orderedusing this order form. You can print the form and send it with a cheque to the address below, or you can transfer the money electronically to ALHA and e-mail the form. To pay by credit or debit card, please go to GENfair at

Books cost £3.50, except for nos. 10 and 20, which contain an A3 map and cost £3.95. Postage costs 65p per copy.

No. / Author / Title / ISBN / Price / Copies
1 / Joseph Bettey / The Medieval Friaries, Hospitals & Chapelries of Bristol, / 978 1 911592 01 3 / £3.50
2 / Mary Wright / The Blue Maids Orphanage / 978 1 911592 02 0 / £3.50
3 / William Evans / Alternative Annals of Avon History, presents many hitherto unknown episodes of Avon history, with glimpses into its future. Illustrated by Simon Gurr / 978 1 911592 03 7 / £3.50
5 / Peter Malpass / The Bristol Dock Company, 1803-1848 / 978 1 911592 05 1 / £3.50
6 / Elizabeth White / ‘For the Benefit of the Children’: the Battle for a BoardSchool in Keynsham 1870-1893 / 978 1 911592 06 8 / £3.50
7 / Kathleen Hapgood / The Friends to Literature: Bristol Library Society 1772-1894 / 978 1 911592 07 5 / £3.50
8 / Joseph Bettey / Morning Stars of the Reformation: early religious reformers in the Bristol region / 978 1 911592 08 2 / £3.50
10 / Peter Malpass / Redland: the making of a Victorian suburb(incl. map) / 978 1 911592 10 5 / £3.95
11 / Joseph Bettey / From Catholic Devotion to Puritan Piety: responses to the Reformation in the Avon area 1530-1603 / 978 1 911592 11 2 / £3.50
12 / Mick Aston / Shapwick & Winscombe: contrasting communities in the Somerset landscape / 978 1 911592 12 9 / £3.50
15 / Michael Whitfield / Homoeopathy in Bristol, 1840-1925 / 978 1 911592 15 0 / £3.50
16 / Joseph Bettey / St James’s Fair, 1137-1837 / 978 1 911592 16 7 / £3.50
18 / Brian Vincent & Raymond Holland / Chemistry in Bristol into the early twentieth century / 978 1 911592 18 1 / £3.50
20 / Murray Stewart / Village in transition; Abbots Leigh 1911-1921 (incl. map) / 978 1 911592 20 4 / £3.95
21 / Brian Vincent / The Herapaths of Bristol: a Medical and Scientific Dynasty / 978 1 911592 21 1 / £3.50
22 / Kathleen Hapgood / Change and Continuity East of Tudor Bristol / 978 1 911592 22 8 / £3.50
23 / Nicholas Orme / The Kalendars: Bristol’s Oldest Guild and Earliest Public Library / 978 1 911592 23 5 / £3.50
24 / Richard Coates / Wilkins of Westbury & Redland: the life and writings of Rev Dr Henry John Wilkins (1865-1941) / 978 1 911592 24 2 / £3.50
25 / William Evans / The Victorian model farm in south Gloucestershire and north Somerset / 978 1 911592 25 9 / £3.50
26 / Michael Whitfield / Richard Smith: Bristol surgeon and medical collector 1772-1843 / 978 1 911592 26 6 / £3.50
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