Reviews of books related to Devon.
Tim Whitten, The Lords of Widecombe and Farmers of Bonehill. Widecombe History Group, 2019. 160pp. ISBN 978-152723408-6. Published by the Widecombe History Group and supported by the Moor Than Meets The Eye landscape project,...
Nigel & Caroline Webb, Mr Sugar Face and his Moll. Legini Press, 2019. 216pp. 29 plates. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-9553311-2-1. This is an entertaining romp through the lives and legacies of George Webb Medley (1826–98),...
John Pentney, Turning Paignton’s Pages 1500–1700. Grandad Publishing, 2018. 42pp. Pamphlet. ISBN 978-1-9995931-0-0. £6 John Pentney, a member of the DA and former Chair of the Paignton Heritage Society, has written a booklet looking...
Nigel Hicks, Beautiful Devon: A Portrait of a County. Aquaterra Publishing, 2018. 80pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-09927970-2-7. £9.99 This book contains a selection of superb, annotated colour photographs by renowned professional photographer and travel/tourism author...
Joanna Mattingly (editor), Stratton Churchwardens’ Accounts 1512–1578. Woodbridge: Devon and Cornwall Record Society/The Boydell Press, 2018. 332pp. 6 colour plates, 8 B&W figures. Joanna Mattingly has added greatly to our understanding of the sixteenth-century...
Rivers Carew, Footprints in the Sand, The Story of the Carews of Devon 1086–1945. DuBois Publishing, 2018. 374pp. ISBN 978-1-9998074-4-3. Rivers Carew was the last of the Carew baronets to live at Haccombe, the...
Stewart Brown, The Medieval Exe Bridge, St Edmund’s Church, and Excavation of Waterfront Houses, Exeter. Devon Archaeological Society Monograph 1, Devon Archaeological Society, 2019. 195pp. 95 figs. ISBN 978-0-9527899-1-8 (softback £15), 978-0-9527899-2-5 (hardback £22)....
Sarah Bunker, The Asian Hornet Handbook. Psocid Press, 2019. 157 pp. ISBN: 978-1-9160871-0-1 (softback £16). British honeybees and beekeepers have had a troublesome few decades with a succession of predators and diseases arriving, attacking...
Ellie Babbedge, The Bidlakes of Bridestowe. Exeter: Short Run Press, 2018. 98 pp. one colour plate and B&W illustrations. The Bidlakes of Bridestowe, as its title suggests, is an account of an ancient Devon...
Peter Beacham (editor), Buckfast Abbey: History, Art and Architecture (Merrell, London. New York, 2017), 272 pages, 275 colour and b&w illustrations. Hardback with jacket. ISBN 978 1 8589 4650 4. £60.00 UK. This beautiful...