Historical Book Shop

In our Shop, we sell a number of books relating to the history of the Royal Gunpowder Mills and explosives.

Books about the Royal Gunpowder Mills

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Military Supertendents of the Royal Gunpowder Mills

by: Peter Blake
pub: Royal Gunpowder Mills
©2011 Royal Gunpowder Mills
isbn: 978-1-907452-02-4
£4.99

 

 

 

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The Explosions at the Royal Gunpowder Mills

by: Richard Thomas
pub: Royal Gunpowder Mills
©2010 Royal Gunpowder Mills
isbn: 978-1-907452-01-7
£4.99

  

 

 

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The Waterways of the Royal Gunpowder Mills

by: Richard Thomas
pub: Royal Gunpowder Mills
©2009 Royal Gunpowder Mills
isbn: 978-1-907452-00-0
£4.99

  

 

 

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Beam Engines at the RGM

by: John Wilson
pub: Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
©2006 Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
£2.00

  

 

 

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The Listed Buildings at the RGM, Waltham Abbey

by: Les Tucker
pub: Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
©2002 Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
£2.00

  

 

 

 

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Trials Tribulations and Pranks

by Norman Paul
© 2007 Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
pub: Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
£2.00

 

 

 

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Woodland Trees of WARGM

by: Norman Paul
pub: Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
©2002 Friends Association of the RGM, Waltham Abbey
£2.00

  

 

 

 

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WARGM: The Old Establishment

by: Brenda J. Buchanan
pub: The Newcomen Society
©1999 The Newcomen Society
£5.00

 

 

 

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Powderbarge - Life of William Constant, Bargemaster, Waltham Abbey

by: David Wood
pub: Society for Sailing Barge Research
©2000 D G Wood
isbn: 0-9500515-4-3
£4.00

 

 

 

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by: J. M. Jenkins
pub: The Moseley Railway Trust
©2009 Industrial Railway Society/The Moseley Railway Trust
isbn: 0-9540878-6-0
£6.95

 

 

 

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Gunpowder Papers 1 - Waltham Abbey Gunpowder People

by: P. J. Huggins
pub: Waltham Abbey Historical Society
©2003 Waltham Abbey Historical Society
£5.99

 

 

 

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Pamphlet on the Manufacture of Gunpowder as carried on at the Government Factory, Waltham Abbey

by Major Fraser Baddley (Reprint of the original 1857 document)
pub: Royal Gunpowder Mills
©2003 Royal Gunpowder Mills
£4.99

 

 

 

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Handbook of Gunpowder and Guncotton

by Major-general W. H. Wardell (Reprint of the original 1888 document)
pub: Royal Gunpowder Mills
©2003 Royal Gunpowder Mills
£5.99

 

 

 

 

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Manufacture and Proof of Gunpowder as Carried On at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey

by: Captain F. M. Smith (Reprint of the original 1870 document)
pub: Royal Gunpowder Mills
©2008 Royal Gunpowder Mills
£7.99

 

 

 

Books About Explosives

gunpowder_history_international_technology.jpgGunpowder: The History of an International Technology

by: Brenda Buchanan, Editor
© 1996 to relevant authors
pub: Bath University Press
isbn: 0861971345
£25.00

  

 

 

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Gunpowder, Explosives and the State

by:Brenda J. Buchanan
©2006 Brenda J. Buchanan
pub: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
isbn: 978-0-7546-5259-5
£55.00

 

 

 

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Dangerous Energy

by: Wayne D Cocroft
©2000 English Heritage
pub: English Heritage
isbn: 1-85074-718-0
£40.00

 

 

coldwar_cover.jpgThe Cold War - Building for Nuclear Confrontation 1946-1989

by: Wayne D Cocroft & Roger C Thomas
©2003 English Heritage
pub: English Heritage
isbn: 1-873592-69-8
£24.99

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