Pearsons advert from the 1890s (image courtesy of The Nottinghamshire Historian)
Printed
- Clark, N., 'Pearson's department store, Long Row, Nottingham', The Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 70, Spring/Summer 2003, 6-7
- Henstock, V., 'Gone for a Burton', The Nottinghamshire Historian, No. 64, Spring/Summer 2000, 6-8
- [No author stated], 'Seventy-Two Years Young: Pearson Bros.', Nottingham Observer, 8(64), 1961, [50]-[51]
Peak District magazine, February 2001 - Burton, Joseph & Sons, This Year of Grace, 1858-1958. A Centenary Tale: Burton's of Smithy Row, Nottingham, [Nottingham], [1958], [32] p
- [No author stated], 'The Story of Joseph Burton & Sons, Ltd', Industrial Nottingham, 38(11), 1958, 7-10
- Bygones 151, Nottingham Evening Post Special Publication, May 2001 (features all three stores)
- [Hopewell, B.], A Short History of Hopewells Furnishers, Nottingham. 6th edition, [Nottingham: privately published], 1992, [26] p.
- Amerland, D., Retail Evolution: 200 Years of History from the perspective of John Lewis Nottingham, Nottingham: John Lewis, 2004, 183 p.