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Published 2026
Blackburn Men and The Battle of Trafalgar
The More-Looms Dispute: a Blackburn perspective
William Whaley, the Slave Trader from Blackburn
The Lewis Brothers Textiles Company and Thomas Boys Lewis
Ibn Masood; The Artistic Gentlemen
Ralph Shorrock Mayor of Darwen 1906-1907
Thomas Hart & Co Rope Works and R E Hart's Collections
“Shannon” boiler explosion at Sough Darwen

Published 2025
The Development of Victorian Water Supplies In Blackburn
Thomas Pearce Davies Mayor of Darwen 1905-1906
Fees and Rules for the High School
Police Constable Nikki Nabi
"It was Indeed a Heavy Stroke", the Impact of Bankruptcy on the Maude Family of Blackburn in the Nineteenth Century
The Stock and Ledger books of Blackburn Cotton Merchants Cardwell, Hornby & Birley
Rabia Gulam Ismail, out of Africa
The old Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Briggs Holden Marsden Blackburn Town Clerk 1930-1935
James Tomlinson Mayor of Darwen 1904–1905
The Early History of the Parish Church of St. Silas
Holy Trinity Church
Dorothy Whipple: Beyond The Pages
Jacqueline Slater Mayor of Blackburn with Dawen 2025-2026
Ralph Yates Mayor of Darwen 1903-1904
Robert Shorrock Mayor of Darwen 1902-1903
Memories of Pleckgate High School from 1968
Jamie Holman The man who made Art cool in Blackburn
William Meadowcroft and Son Ltd.
John Jenkinson: Blackburn Cinema Pioneer
Ashok and Jai Chudasama
John Tomlinson Mayor of Darwen 1900-1902 and 1915-1917
John William Gillibrand Mayor of Darwen 1899-1900
History on my Doorstep
Mohammed Khan

Published 2024
The Sudell Stone
Dr. James Todd Ballantyne
The People Who Built Modern Blackburn: Aisha Jaffer
Captain Nolan: His Association with Blackburn
Blackburn Spitfires of WW2
Violence and the Municipal & General Elections in Blackburn 1868
Darwen Tower and the Freeing of the Moors
The People Who Built Modern Blackburn: Mohammed Khaliq Choudhary
Blackburn Bricks and Brickmakers
Frederick Thomas Marwood
Tramping Trade Unions
Thomas Whewell
A Brief Look at Mill Hill
Charles Haworth, Blackburn Artist
John Critchley Prince: His Blackburn Associates Recalled
The Prince of Wales Public House 1 Grimshaw Park
The Street Furniture of Gorse Road
St. Silas's C of E. School

Published 2023
Encounters with alcoholism in a Blackburn family
James Cocker
Blackburn Eagles Cycling Club
The History of the Blackburn Coat of Arms
Moses Duxbury
My Cousin George
Toafiq Wahab
Henrietta Edith Davies 1885-1966