Civil War propaganda pamphlet printed in 1644.

Printed

A full list of books and articles on Newark published before 1998 can be found in

• Michael Brook, A Nottinghamshire Bibliography: publications on Nottinghamshire history before 1998, Thoroton Society Record Series , 42, 2002, pp.281-295.

A selection of key books and articles extracted from the Nottinghamshire Bibliography follows.

Primary

• Hodgkinson, R. F. B.  Newark Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions.  Extracts from the Records of the Petty Sessions and Quarter Sessions for the Borough of Newark, from the Date of the Granting of the First Charter to 1812 ... repr. from the `Newark Herald' ... 1919.  Newark Herald, 1920.
• Hodgkinson, R. F. B., ed.  Rolls of the Manor of Newark: Extracts of Presentments, Surrenders and Admissions ... repr. from the `Newark Herald' in which these Articles Originally Appeared in 1923-1924.  Newark Herald, 1924.  18 p.
• Dickinson, W. The History and Antiquities of the Town of Newark, in the County of Nottingham, (The Sidnacestor of the Rokmans,) Interspersed with Biographical Sketches, and Embellished with Engravings.  Newark, Hage, 1816. 401 p., ill.  Repr., 1819. 
• Shilton, R. P.  The History of the Town of Newark upon Trent, in the County of Nottingham, Comprising an Account of its Antiquities, Edifices, Public Institutions, Charities, Charters, etc.  Newark: Ridge, 1820. 2 vols

Trade directories

Trade directories are an invaluable resource for 19th/early 20th century town history. Leicester University has recently made the full text of a representative selection of trade directories for Nottinghamshire available online:

• www.historicaldirectories.org

Newspapers

The following newspapers are available to view on microfilm at Newark Library:

Newspaper title	Dates available	Index
New ark Advertiser	1855 to present	1855-1970
Newark Herald	1791-1792
Newark Herald	1873-1960
Newark Times & Notts Advertiser	Oct 1839-Sep 1841
South Notts Advertiser & Newark Railway Intelligencer	Mar-Apr 1884

Source: Nottinghamshire Library Service

A fascinating picture of life in Newark in the early 19th century, drawn from newspapers of the time has been compiled by Rolf Vernon:

• Vernon, R.  Newark before Victoria, 1827-1837.  Ten Years of Everyday Life in a Midland Market Town, as Seen in the Nottingham and Newark Mercury.  [Kelham] Newark and Sherwood District Council, Recreation and Tourism Dept., 1984.

Secondary

All periods

• Appleby, R. V.  A History of Newark-on-Trent.  Newark, Stennett, [193-?]
• Blagg, T. M. A Guide to the Antiquities of Newark and the Churches of Holme and Hawton.  2nd ed. Newark, Dawson, 1911. [available online at www.nottshistory.org.uk/blagg1910/contents.htm]
• Brown, C. The Annals of Newark-upon-Trent, Comprising the History, Curiosities, and Antiquities of the Borough.  Sotheran, 1879. [Reprinted by Nottinghamshire County Council, West Bridgford, 2005]
• Brown, C. A History of Newark-on-Trent, Being the Life Story of an AncientTown.  Newark: Whiles, 1904-1907 (2 volumes)  [Reprinted by Nottinghamshire County Council, Leisure Services, West Bridgford, 1995]
• Barley, M.W.  ed.  Documents Relating to the Manor and Soke of Newark-on-Trent, with contributions by W. H. Stevenson and K. Cameron (Thoroton Society Record Series 16, Nottingham, 1956).
• Barley, M.W. Newark in the Sixteenth Century, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 53, 1949
• Rogers, A. The Origins of Newark: The Evidence of Local Boundaries, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 78, 1974
• Warner, T.  Newark: Aspects of the Past.  A Selection of Articles from the Newark Advertiser Local History Column (revised and extended). West Bridgford: Nottinghamshire County Council, Leisure Services, 1994

Civil War

• Fox, M.  Newark in the Civil War. [Kelham]  Newark & Sherwood District Council, Recreation and Tourism Dept., [1985].  12 p., ill.
• Fox, M.  Newark 1645, The Fall From Grace (Well Almost), in Mastoris, S. N. and Groves, S. M., eds., History in the Making, 1985 (Nottingham Museums, 1986), 5-8.
• Jennings, S. B. 'A miserable, stinking, infected town': pestilence, plague and death in a Civil War garrison, Newark 1640-1649, Midland History, 28 (2003), 51-70
• Jennings, S. B. 'These Uncertaine Tymes' Newark and the civilian experience of the Civil Wars 1640-1660, West Bridgford: Nottinghamshire County Council
• Selby, J.  Stories of Famous Sieges.  Barker, 1967.  `Newark, 1643-5', 19-30, ill.
• Warner, T.  Newark: Civil War & Siegeworks, West Bridgford: Nottinghamshire County Council, Leisure Services, 1992.
• Young, P.  The Royalist Army at the Relief of Newark, Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 30 (1952), 145-148.
• Young, P. and Emberton, W.  Sieges of the Great Civil War, 1642-1646.  Bell & Hyman, 1978.  `Newark', [126]-136, ill.

Eighteenth - Twentieth Century

• Cooper, A.  Newark in 1830, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 74 (1970), [38]-44, ill.
• Cooper, A.  Victorian Newark, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 75 (1971), [103]-114, ill.
• Mallory, R.  Newark in the Second World War.  [West Bridgford], Nottinghamshire County Council and Newark and Sherwood District Council, 1995.
• Ransome & Marles Bearing Co., Ltd.  Civil Defence, 1939-1945.  [Newark, 194-]
• Smith, B. W. and Warner, T.  Homefront Newark: An EnglishHomeTown Fights the War, 1939-1945.  [West Bridgford], Nottinghamshire County Council Leisure Services.  [1995].
• Smith, M. J.  Politics in Newark in the 1790s, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 84 (1980), 59-67.

Economic history

• Barnard, A. The Noted Breweries of Great Britain and Ireland. Causton, [1888-1891]. 4 v. The Breweries, Newark-on-Trent. Proprietors: Richard Warwick & Sons, Limited, v. 3, p. 364-372, ill.; `James Hole & Co., Castle Brewery, Newark', v. 3, p.[346]-363.
• Cook, H. The Clockmakers of Newark-on-Trent, with Notes on Some of their Contemporaries, in Guilford, E. L., ed., Memorials of Old Nottinghamshire (George Allen, 1912).
• Cousins, P. R.  Newark Inns & Public Houses.  2nd ed., rev.  West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire County Council, Leisure Services, 1991.
• Hammond, P. J. The Clay Tobacco-Pipe Making Industry of Newark, Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 89 (1985), 86-107, ill.
• Hodgkinson, R. F. B. The Trades, Traders and Craftsmen of Newark, in the Latter Half of the 16th Century ... Repr. from the `Newark Herald', in which the Article Appeared in Serial Form in 1919. Newark Herald, 1920.
• Menmuir, A. Our Record and Our Ambition: Blagg & Johnson Ltd., Sheet Metal Works, Newark. [Newark, privately published, 194-?].
• Morley, D. S. The Industrial Archaeology of the Town of Newark on Trent, Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology Society Journal, 7, 2 (1982),
• Morley, D. S. An Industrial Tour of Part of Newark upon Trent, Nottinghamshire Industrial Archaeology Society Journal, 8, 1 (1982).
• Radcliffe, H. V. `Entrepreneurial Success: A Local Case Study - W. N. Nicholson & Sons, Agricultural Engineers of Newark on Trent', Nottinghamshire Historian, no. 54 (1995).
• Worthington-Simpson, Ltd. A History of Worthington-Simpson Limited and the Simpson Family. [Newark, 1969?].

Local government and services

• Blagg, T. M., ed. Newark Certificates of Settlement, 1697-1822, in Blagg, T. M., ed., A Miscellany of Notts Records. Transactions of the Thoroton Society. Records (Thoroton Soc., RS, 11, Nottingham, 1945)
• Fox, M. Urban Elite and Town Government: Newark on Trent in the Mid-Seventeenth Century. M.A., Nottingham, 1985. 73 p., ill., bibl.
• Gibson, E. Newark Gilstrap Library: A Centenary History. [West Bridgford], Nottinghamshire County Council, Leisure Services/Libraries, [1983].
• Hodgkinson, R. F. B., ed. Extracts from the Records of the Borough of Newark-upon-Trent ... Repr. from the `Newark Herald', in Which These Articles Originally Appeared in 1920. Newark Herald, 1921. 43 p.
• King, M. Newark on Trent: A History of Its Post to 1908. [Newark], Control Column, 1985., 43 p., ill.
• Parsloe, C. G. `The Growth of a Borough Constitution: Newark-on-Trent, 1549-1688', Trans. of the Royal Historical Soc., 4 ser., 22 (1940), 171-198.
• Vinnicombe, R. `Newark's New Library: A Modern Development in a Long Tradition of Library Service in the Town', NH, no. 42 (1989), 23-24.

Education and Schools

• 'The Grammar Schools of Newark (Famous Nottinghamshire Schools, 5 & 6)',  Nottingham Observer, 7, 49 (1960), 40-41, ill. Magnus Grammar and Lilley and Stone Girls' High Schools.
• Jackson, N. G. Newark Magnus. The story of a gift, Nottingham: J & H Bell, 1964
• Kemp. R. F. Highfields School: The First Fifty years, 1945-1995. [Newark, privately published, 1995]. 72 p., ill.
• [Magnus School, Newark]. A Brief History of MagnusSchool. [Newark, 198-]. [7] p., ill.

Religion and churches

• Barley, M. W. Recent Discoveries at Newark Parish Church', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 81 (1977), [84].
• Brandwood, G. K. Newark, Church of St Mary Magdalene, in Royal Archaeological Institute, The Nottingham Area (1989), 45-47, ill., bibl.
• Hodgkinson, R. F. B. Newark Churchwardens' Accounts. Extracts from the Account Book of the Churchwardens of Newark, 1626 to 1756, with Notes and Addenda from Other Sources ... repr. from the  `Newark Herald', ... 1921-1922. Newark Herald, 1922. 29 p.
• Pask, B. M. The Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on.-Trent, Nottinghamshire. [District Church Council of the Parish Church], 1995. 18 p., ill.
• [Rouse, E. C.] St. Mary Magdalene, Newark: The Dance of Death Painted Panels on [sic] The Markham Chantry Chapel. [Newark, privately published, 1976]. 6 p.
• Sanderson, H. K. St. J., `Newark, Nottinghamshire', Trans. of the Monumental Brass Soc., 2 (1892-1896), 226-233.
• Willis, S. W. The Reverend Dr. Bernard Wilson, Vicar of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, from 1719 to 1772: Blackguard or Benefactor? M.A., Nottingham, 1995.
• Wood, A. C. `An Eighteenth Century Portrait: The Story of the Reverend Bernard Wilson, D.D., Vicar of Newark, 1719-72', Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 52 (1948), 1-34.

Other Churches

• Albert Street Baptist Church, Newark. 1810-1960: Ter-Jubilee Year [1960 issue of church's yearbook. Newark 1960]. `History of Newark Baptist Church', [5]-[8].
• Albert Street Baptist Church, Newark.  New Life, 100 Years on: Sept 1876-Sept 1976. The Story of AlbertStreetBaptistChurch, Celebrating the Centenary of Its Building. [Newark, 197-]. [12] p., ill.
• [Ashberry, B.] NorthEndMethodistChurch, 1868-1968. [Newark, privately published, 1968]. [1]-[15] p. (odd numbers only).
• [Bardsley, C. B.] A Short History of ChristChurch, Newark-on-Trent. [Newark, 1958]. 66 p., ill.
• `From Rags to Riches - The Restoration of Bede House Chapel', NC (in NT), (Dec 1981), 105, 107-108, ill.
• Heading, B. A Century of Methodism at Barnbygate: BarnbygateMethodistChurch, Newark, 1846-1946. [Newark, privately published, 1946]. [11] p., ill.
• Hindley, R. B. `The Old Chapel at Newark', East Midland Baptist Mag., 9, 3 (1899), 39-41.
• [Hobson, H.] St Leonard's Church, Newark, 1873-1978. [Newark, privately published, 1978]. 36 p., ill.
• Holy Trinity Church, Newark. Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Newark, 1836-1979. [Newark, 1979]. 14 p., ill.
• Newark-on-Trent Congregational Church. A Brief Account of the Congregational Fellowship, 1888-1968. [Newark, 1968]. [12] p., ill. Cover title: Congregational Church, London Road, Newark-on-Trent, in its Eightieth Year: 1888-1908-1958-1968.
• Vanns, S. A. `The Growth of Newark Methodism in the 18th & 19th Century [sic]', Heritage. J. of the East Midlands Branch of the Wesley Historical Soc., 1, 10 (1984), 8-12, ill.

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