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Books about Wivenhoe

Many books have been published specifically about Wivenhoe or which have reference to Wivenhoe. They have all been catalogued in this section.

  • “Some Aspects of the History of Wivenhoe 1700 – 1900”

    “Some Aspects of the History of Wivenhoe 1700 – 1900”

    Written and researched by Roger Bacon, 1952
  • A Prospect of Wivenhoe. Snapshots of an English Town

    A Prospect of Wivenhoe. Snapshots of an English Town

    By Martin Newell, Wivenbooks, 2008, 106pp (Essex County Libraries E.WIV)
  • About Wivenhoe in 1961 (Pop. 2,600)

    About Wivenhoe in 1961 (Pop. 2,600)

    The Official Guide published by the Wivenhoe Urban District Council (WUDC) in 1961
  • Bird on a Wire. The Life and Art of Guy Taplin

    Bird on a Wire. The Life and Art of Guy Taplin

    By Ian Collins, Studio Publications, 2007, ISBN 978 1 905883 10 3, 223pp (Essex County Libraries E.WIV 730.92)
  • Elizabethan Life

    Elizabethan Life

    A series of books compiled from a wide range of documentary evidence by F. G. Emmison, the former county archivist of Essex Record Office, which contain many references to life in Elizabethan Wivenhoe:
  • Ernie Turner. Wivenhoe Artist

    Ernie Turner. Wivenhoe Artist

    Nottage Maritime Institute, Jardine Press, 2006, ISBN 0 9552035 2 X, 58pp (Essex County Libraries E.WIV 759.2)
  • Essex At Work 1700-1815

    Essex At Work 1700-1815

    By A. F. J. Brown, Essex Record Office Publications No 49, The Tindal Press, Chelmsford, 1969, 171pp
  • Essex People 1750-1900

    Essex People 1750-1900

    By A. F. J. Brown, Essex Record Office Publications No. 59, Essex County Council,1972, SBN 900360 14 3, 206pp
  • Forrestt Shipyard, Wivenhoe

    Forrestt Shipyard, Wivenhoe

    Anon, 64pp photocopy (Essex County Libraries E.WIV 623.83)
  • History in Deed: Medieval Society & The Law in England, 1100-1600

    History in Deed: Medieval Society & The Law in England, 1100-1600

    An Exhibition by the Harvard Law Library (Special Collections)
  • John Martin-Harvey. The Biography of an Actor-Manager

    John Martin-Harvey. The Biography of an Actor-Manager

    By Nicholas Butler, Nicholas Butler, 1997, ISBN 0 95707376 1 5, 224pp, (E.WIV.920 HAR)
  • Reflections on life at the Wivenhoe Girls and Infants School

    Reflections on life at the Wivenhoe Girls and Infants School

    Written by Topsy Jennings to celebrate the Centenary of this School in 1991
  • River Colne Shipbuilders. A Portrait of Shipbuilding 1786-1988

    River Colne Shipbuilders. A Portrait of Shipbuilding 1786-1988

    By John Collins and Richard Dodds, Jardine Press, 2009, 314pp (Essex County Libraries E.623.83)
  • Saltwater Village

    Saltwater Village

    By Margaret Leather, T. Dalton, 1977, 139pp (Essex County Libraries E.DON)
  • Sea Gates to the Saxon Shore

    Sea Gates to the Saxon Shore

    By Kenneth Wenham Strugnell, Terence Dalton Ltd, 1973, 263 pp (Essex County Libraries E.387.1)
  • Sea-Change: Wivenhoe Remembered

    Sea-Change: Wivenhoe Remembered

    By Paul Thompson, Tempus, 2006, ISBN 0 7524 3967 7, 160pp
  • Smuggling and Wivenhoe

    Smuggling and Wivenhoe

    By Workers Educational Association, no date, 4pp (Essex County Libraries E.WIV)
  • Smuggling In East Anglia 1700-1840

    Smuggling In East Anglia 1700-1840

    By Stan Jarvis, Countryside Books, 1987, 175pp (Essex County Libraries E.336.268)
  • Strange News from the Deep

    Strange News from the Deep

    Being a full account of a large prodigious whale lately taken on the river Wivner, within six miles of Colchester, London 1677, 8pp
  • Strike Breaking in Essex : the Policing of Wivenhoe and the Essex Ports during the 1984 miners strike

    Strike Breaking in Essex : the Policing of Wivenhoe and the Essex Ports during the 1984 miners strike

    By Moira Abdel-Rahim, Canary Press with the assistance of Colchester Miners Support Group and Colchester Trades Council, [1985?], 121pp, (Essex County Libraries E.331.892822)
  • The Brightlingsea Branch

    The Brightlingsea Branch

    by Peter Paye, John Masters, 1977, ISBN 1-901190-01-3, 166pp
  • The Buildings of England: Essex

    The Buildings of England: Essex

    By James Bettley and Nicholas Pevsner, Yale University Press, 2007, ISBN 978 0 300 11614 4
  • The Day Before Yesterday: a Glimpse into Wivenhoe's Past

    The Day Before Yesterday: a Glimpse into Wivenhoe's Past

    By Olive Whaley, 1980 (Essex County Libraries E.WIV)
  • The Fighting Branch: A History of the Wivenhoe to Brightlingsea Railway from 1866-1964

    The Fighting Branch: A History of the Wivenhoe to Brightlingsea Railway from 1866-1964

    By Paul Brown, Scribe Publishing, Brightlingsea, 1975, 68pp (Essex County Libraries E385)
  • Nick Butler Interviews

    Nick Butler Interviews (53)

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