Stoneleigh History Society

Books


The following books on local subjects are available:
A Vanished World - The Reminiscences of Mary Cordelia Emily Leigh, edited and introduced by Sheila Woolf ISBN 978-1-3999-5475-4 stoneleighhistorysociety.org.uk image The Eagle and the Phoenix - Coventry Stories for Young People, by Sheila Woolf ISBN 978-908837-17-2 A Strange Time, the Diary and Scrapbooks of Cordelia Leigh 1914-1919, edited by Sheila Woolf and Chris Holland ISBN 978 0 9574216 0 8 AStrangeTime_V5_print Back to School, A History of Stoneleigh School 1740-1976, by Sheila Woolf Local Aspects of the Great War - Coventry and Warwickshire, Volume 2, edited by Chris Holland (with a chapter by Sheila Woolf on the contribution of the Leigh family.) ISBN 978-0-9574216-3-9 book001 Another Country, the Story of Stoneleigh Men in the Great War, by Sheila Woolf ISBN‎ 978-0955112423
People at Home - Living in a Warwickshire Village 1500-1800, by N. W. Alcock
ISBN 978-0850338638 Stoneleigh Houses, by N. W. Alcock
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Stoneleigh Villagers 1597 - 1650, by N. W. Alcock
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Dame Alice Leigh's Almshouses, The Residents 1841-1911, by Philip Gill
The Stoneleigh Estate - A Brief Agricultural History, by David Brooksstoneleighhistorysociety.org.uk image
Walking Around Stoneleigh in Arden - A Village, by Audrey W. Gilbertstoneleighhistorysociety.org.uk image
Several small booklets have so far been published by the society and these are available to buy from our displays in the Leigh Chapel of St Mary the Virgin Church, Stoneleigh, e.g. Blacksmiths of Stoneleigh Edward Langley Fardon Here Come the Girls - a story of Warwickshire's American Wives, by Sheila Woolf The History of the Village Club The Story of the Stoneleigh Stitchers Recollections of Life in Stoneleigh, by Harry Edmunds Sir Henry Parkes The Swan Inn Wentworth House Other booklets are available on the Booklet Publications page (all written on behalf of the Stoneleigh History Society)

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