Books from the Museum Shop or by Mail Order
Browse the Museum Shop in person or the Volunteers at the Museum Shop offer a Mail Order service. You identify the book or item that you want, we tell you the total cost including postage. Send us the money and we then post it to you.
How to use Radstock Museum Mail Order.
The Midsomer Norton Company of the 4th Somerset (Frome) battalion of the Home Guard in WW2, by Alan Readhead £12
This is a hugely valuable contribution to our local historical knowledge of WW2 activity in the area and provides profiles of most of the men who were part of the Midsomer Norton Company. Biographical profiles of 88 Company members are to be found here and, although the author acknowledges this list is still incomplete, many local families will find forbears mentioned here.
John Billingsley 1747-1811: Entrepreneur turned Agriculturalist by Lin Thorley £20
John Billingsley was an agricultural pioneer. His story shows what rural life was like in the Mendips of the eighteenth century. He was a man who was involved in many things including canals, mining and brewing as well as being an author.
Bath Between the Wars, 1919 to 1939 by David G. Williamson £18.95
A history of Bath between the wars examining changes in society and technology.
History of the UK Fifty Pence Coin: Everything you need to know about collecting UK Fifty Pence Coins
Phil Ware of Brushwood Coins has recently published this UK Fifty Pence reference book which contains a considerable amount of previously unpublished information collated from a wide variety of places. A reference copy is available for browsing in the museum shop, then if you wish to receive a personalised digital version, for £5 you will be given a special Brushwood Coins card carrying a unique book reference code on the back. Then if you contact Brushwood Coins via brushwoodcoins@mintrasystems.com quoting your special book reference and your contact details along with a photo of the receipt from the Radstock Museum shop then Brushwood Coins will send your personalised e-book directly to you by return as a PDF that can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or smart phone or which can be printed out as you wish.
We would like to thank Phil Ware for making this available to customers of the Radstock Museum shop in order to support the activities of the museum.
Killed in a Coalpit II; Lives of the Somerset Colliers by D.P. Lindegaard. £25.00
This book is a companion study to ‘Killed in a Coalpit – the lives of the Kingswood miners of the Bristol coalfield’. It focuses on the tragic loss of life in the Somerset Coalfields but also uncovers many colourful doings above ground, and includes the lives and roles of women in the coal mining districts who were, as a general rule, even more forgotten than the men.
It will provide a useful tool for researchers and for others and will act as a reminder of times past, both good and bad.
Use these links to continue browsing our Book pages:
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Coalmines, Mining and Local Industries
Local People and Places
Railways and Canals
Somerset
Walks and Maps
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