Publications
Occasional Papers in Local History
The Centre publishes a Newsletter twice a year and has launched a series of Occasional Papers in Local History. The volumes in this series are:
- 2/04 Christine Housden (November 2004)
Kingston's Military Tribunal 1916-1918 - 1/04 Christopher French & Juliet Warren (March 2004)
Medical Officers of Health and Infant Mortality: The Case of Kingston upon Thames in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries - 2/03 Christopher French (July 2003)
Persistence in a Local Community: Kingston upon Thames 1851-1891 - 1/03 Audrey Giles, MA (March 2003)
"The Failure of a Speculative Builder", The Downfall of Thomas Pooley of Surbiton, 1838-1844 - 1/02 Edmund Harris (September, 2002)
Twickenham Rugby Ground 1906-1910: A Grand Gesture - 2/01 Christopher French (November, 2001)
"Death in Kingston upon Thames": Analysis of the Bonner Hill Cemetery Burial records 1855-1911 - 1/01 David Kennedy & Diana Kennedy (October, 2001)
"A Malodorous Business". Tanners and Shoemakers of Kingston upon Thames, Surbiton and Hampton Wick, 1841-1891
Staff publications
Staff attached to the Centre for Local History Studies have published widely in their respective research areas.
In particular, Dr Christopher French and Juliet Warrenhave used the Centre's Kingston databases for publications illuminating the history of this particular market town near London during a period of rapid socio-economic change, particularly focusing on occupational, social and residential mobility and on social conditions and mortality.
Dr Andrea Tanner has utilised the GOSH database in her ongoing publications covering infant mortality and morbidity and the childhood experience of hospitalisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The continued importance of Greater London in the work of the Centre is also evident in the publications by Dr Stephen Inwood on the general growth of London before 1914; Dr David Kynaston on London's financial history; Dr Nicola Phillips on the capital's female business community; and Dr Gregory Durston on aspects of the underside of London society in the 18th century.
As opposed to this largely urban experience, the publications of Professor Keith Grieves add a rural perspective to the work of the Centre especially through his focus on the commemoration of war and the impact of war on rural Sussex.
