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Published 2026
The More-Looms Dispute: a Blackburn perspective
William Whaley, the Slave Trader from Blackburn
The Lewis Brothers Textiles Company and Thomas Boys Lewis
The More-Looms Dispute: a Blackburn perspective
William Whaley, the Slave Trader from Blackburn
The Lewis Brothers Textiles Company and Thomas Boys Lewis
Published 2025
The Early History of the Parish Church of St. Silas
Holy Trinity Church
Dorothy Whipple: Beyond The Pages
Holy Trinity Church
Dorothy Whipple: Beyond The Pages
Published 2024
The People Who Built Modern Blackburn: Mohammed Khaliq Choudhary
Blackburn Bricks and Brickmakers
Frederick Thomas Marwood
James Cocker
Blackburn Eagles Cycling Club
The History of the Blackburn Coat of Arms
Moses Duxbury
My Cousin George
Blackburn Eagles Cycling Club
The History of the Blackburn Coat of Arms
Moses Duxbury
My Cousin George
Published 2022 and before
Griffin C of E School
Fifty Years of Paper Making at Samlesbury Paper Mill
Thomas Grime and The Knott Mill (Darwen) Paper Company Limited
Darwen's Adopted Warships
Finding Malcolm Saville
Alderman Arthur Townsend Way
Potters of Darwen: The Development and Commercialisation of Wallpaper Manufacture:1832 to 1875
James Dixon
James Dixon
The Blackburn to Chorley Railway (via Feniscowles)
Blackburn's adopted Warships (Updated)
The Autobiography of Michael Walmsley: Dutton's Blackburn Brewery
Alderman Arthur Townsend
Bob Crompton. The Greatest Rover of Them All
Lizzie Sutcliffe Letters
A Tale of Two Artists
Joseph Fielding
Elijah Holt
Henry Newbolt: Darwen Connections
Collecting Dickens
Holding The Vision
Joseph Fielding
Elijah Holt
Henry Newbolt: Darwen Connections
Collecting Dickens
Holding The Vision
Higher Audley, Blackburn 1945-1965
The Foundations of the Roddlesworth Paper Mills, Star Paper Mill, Feniscowles Paper Mill and Sun Paper Companies Ltd.
James "Toffy" Boyle 1804-1873
James Boyle 1849-1921
The Foundations of the Roddlesworth Paper Mills, Star Paper Mill, Feniscowles Paper Mill and Sun Paper Companies Ltd.
James "Toffy" Boyle 1804-1873
James Boyle 1849-1921
Paper Mill Mania around Darwen and Blackburn in the 1870s
The Darwen Paper Company Limited
The Freedom of Darwen Moors
Some Local Place Names
Mrs. Elma Amy Yerburgh
Blackburn's Waterfall Flood 1964
Elizabeth Ann Lewis; The Drunkard's Friend
Ethel Carnie and William Hall Burnett
William H. Grimbaldeston V.C.
Blackburn and the Women's Movement