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.
Resistance and Resilience: The 1926 General Strike and the Miners’ lockout in the Somerset Coalfield by Dave Chapple £15.00
Dave Chapple is a life-long trades unionist; an oral historian and author of ten books of west country working class history, biography and autobiography. His latest book, ‘Resistance and Resilience’ is his tribute to the Somerset Miners Association.
Somerset Industrial Heritage by Henry Buckton £15.99
‘Somerset Industrial Heritage’ is an immersive and highly informative insight into Somerset’s remarkable industrial history.
Henry Buckton is a social historian, and has published a large number of books on various historical subjects. He lives in Meare, Somerset.
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.
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
Wartime
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