Arts and Crafts
North Devon Art Pottery
Softback: 60 pages (47 illustrations, mostly in colour), 21 x 15 x 0.4 cm
by Audrey and John Edgeler. This booklet, written by the acknowledged experts, provides a guide to Barnstaple's and Fremington's potters and potteries. It will be indispensible to pottery lovers everywhere.
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Barnstaple Silver and its Makers
Softback: 40 pages, 20 x 21 x 0.4 cm
The importance of Barnstaple as a centre for the manufacture of silver items, particularly spoons, has long been recognised by antiquarians. The story of Barnstaple silver, its makers and their marks, is chronicled here in detail.
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The Stanley E Thomas Pewter Collection
Softback: 40 pages, 21 x 15 x 0.2 cm
Published by The Pewter Society in 1993. This 108 piece collection, on display in the Museum of North Devon, provides a unique reference for Devon and West Country pewter with a strong representation of Barnstaple pewterers' work. 36 photos.
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Shapland & Petter of Barnstaple (celebrating 150 years)
Softback: 24 pages, 19.5 x 21 x 0.2 cm
by Margaret Reed. A short history of this local manufacturer, with emphasis on the national importance of the company's Arts and Crafts output.
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Shapland & Petter Ltd of Barnstaple Arts & Crafts Furniture
Softback: 132 pages, 29 x 24.5 x 1 cm
by Daryl Bennett. A comprehensive study of this influential manufacturer over the last 150 years, the book features hundreds of wonderful photographs. Shapland & Petter was Barnstaple's largest employer in the 20th century and its has played an important role in the dissemination of Arts & Crafts style around the world.
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W R Lethaby, His Life & Legacy
Softback: 36 pages, 19 x 20.5 x 0.2 cm
by Naomi Ayre. William Richard Lethaby, born and raised in Barnstaple, was an inspirational and pioneering architect and educator, who was at the centre of the Arts and Crafts movement at the turn of the 20th century.
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Vivarium
Softback: 36 pages, 23 x 16.5 x 0.2 cm
Taking as his starting point Barnstaple Museum's 19th century collection of pressed seaweeds, the artist Peter Stiles has explored the context in which the collection was assembled. He has traced the threads that multiplied and grew into history... an overture to the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" in 1859.
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Litchdon Street Remembered
Softback: 108 pages, 20 x 21 x 0.6 cm
An oral history of Brannam's Pottery based on interviews with past staff and directors. This book records the words of workers at CH Brannam Ltd, North Devon's last commercial pottery. Throughout the book there are more than a hundred illustrations, many in colour.
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Shapland & Petter of Barnstaple: An Oral History
Softback: 64 pages, 27 x 22 x 0.5 cm
A collection of interviews with past and present staff. This publication presents the story of Shapland & Petter in the words of those who have been connected with the company.
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The North Devon Yeomanry, 1794 to 1924
Softback: 28 pages, 21 x 14.5 x 0.2 cm
by John Rowe. For over a hundred years this regiment was an integral part of North Devon society. This booklet offers a few glimpses of the story of the North Devon Yeomanry, the old Royal North Devon Hussars.
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The Devonshire and Dorset Regiment, 1958 to 2007
Hardback: approx 250 pages, 26 x 19.5 x 2 cm
This book tells the story, largely in photographic form, of the many and varied achievements of all parts of the Regiment during 48 momentous years.
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The Braunton Boys Who Went To War
Softback: 214 pages, 21 x 15 x 1.6 cm
by F R Copper. In remembrance of the men of Braunton who fought and died in the Great War 1914 to 1918. The individual stories of the 71 men who died, plus chapters on the village at the time, the words of the songs they sang, their routes to the fighting, etc.
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