Gift Ideas: Books, Films and TV Programmes linked to Hatfield and related subjects

This section is an easy-reference compilation of the various books, films and TV programmes mentioned in this site, many with links to Amazon.com. Copies of many of these works can usually be found in local libraries and archives (but that probably doesn't help if you're looking for a gift!). Also included are books, films and TV on some of the specialist areas featured on this website.

 

Books

Please note: widget links to Amazon.com are included below, and clicking on these links will take you directly to their site. All pricing information and details displayed within a widget link comes directly from Amazon. Where there is no price information it indicates that the item is out of stock (and in some cases out of print).

 

Books on Hatfield

Sadly, many books on Hatfield are now out of print. Occasionally copies become available on Amazon Marketplace (a second hand book service operated by Amazon.com), and reference copies are available in libraries and archives.

Further information on the authors on books on Hatfield can be found in the feature: Historians of Hatfield.

 

An Artist's Impression – Sketches of Old Hatfield by Beresford Johnson by Brian G Lawrence

 

Bishop's Hatfield: Some Memories of its Past by Reverend Jocelyn James Antrobus

 

Hatfield: A Pictorial History by Sue Kirby and Richard J Busby

 

Richard J Busby also wrote: The Book of Welwyn

 

Hatfield and its People produced by the WEA

 

Hatfield and its People – A Short Picture History produced by the WEA

 

Hatfield at War by Brian G Lawrence

 

Hatfield's First New Town: The Story of a Hatfield Suburb 1848-1990 by Sue Kirby

 

Hatfield Voices from the '50s and '60s by Anne Burke and Mary Corbett and 'The Boom Time Group'

 

History of Elizabethan Hatfield 1558-1969 by Doctor Peter Wilfred Kingsford

 

Also wrote:

A Modern History of Brookmans Park 1700-1950

Gobions Estate, North Mymms, Hertfordshire

Mill Green Mill: A Short History and Guide by Sue Kirby

 

The Book of Hatfield by Robert Richardson

Also wrote: Bellringer Street (Crime fiction set in a disguised Old Hatfield). Please see below under Hatfield in Fiction for link.

 

Hatfield-related specialist interest books

 

Aviation

Please click here to for links to Hatfield-related aviation books

 

 

Hatfield House and the Cecil Family

The Cecils of Hatfield House by David Cecil

 

The Cecils by David Loades

 

The Gardens at Hatfield House by Sue Snelling

 

Hatfield Family Histories and Miscellaneous

Family Story: The Drages of Hatfield by Charles Drage

 

Open and Local Justice: A History of Hatfield Petty Sessional Division by Victor J Mills and Elizabeth A Menzies

 

Hatfield Railways

The Hatfield, Luton & Dunstable Railway by G & S Woodward

 

The Hatfield and St Albans Branch of the Great Northern Railway by Roger D Taylor and Brian Anderson

 

Hatfield in Autobiographies

Samuel Pepys Diaires

 

Hatfield in Fiction

Further information on Hatfield in fiction can be found in the Claims to Fame page: Literature.

 

 

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

 

Mrs Lirriper's Lodger by Charles Dickens

(Please see under Mrs Lirriper's Legacy for omnibus edition link)

 

Mrs Lirriper's Legacy by Charles Dickens

 

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

 

Bellringer Street by Robert Richardson (Crime fiction set in a disguised Old Hatfield)

 

Natural History

The Natural History of the Oak Tree by David Streeter

 

British Oaks: A Concise Guide by Michael Tyler

 

Oak Tree (Looking at Lifecycles series) by Victoria Huseby

 

Collins Complete Guide to British Trees: A Photographic Guide to Every Common Species by Paul Sterry

 

Larousse Field Guide to the Trees of Britain and Europe by David Sutton

 

Meetings with Remarkable Trees by Thomas Pakenham

 

Queenswood School

Queenswood: The First Sixty Years by H M Stafford

 

In Hortis Reginae by Nigel Watson

 

 

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