Dover: Lock and Key of the Kingdom
Books About Dover
General Histories
GREEN, Ivan
The book of Dover,
Barracuda Books, 1978.
JONES, John Bavington
Annals of Dover,
Dover Express, 1916 (2nd edition, 1938).
JONES, John Bavington
Dover, a perambulation of the town, port and fortress,
Dover Express, 1907.
JONES, John Bavington
Records of Dover,
Dover Express, 1920.
LEACH, Derek and SUTTON, Terry
Our Town, Dover 1945 - 2000,
Riverdale Publications, 2003.
STATHAM, S.P.H.
Dover charters and other documents in the possession of
the Corporation of Dover transcribed and translated,
Dent, 1902.
STATHAM, S.P.H.
The history of the castle, town, and port of Dover,
Longman, Green and Co., 1899.
Illustrated Histories
GREEN, Ivan
Dover, a pictorial history,
Phillimore, 1987.
GREEN, Ivan
Yesterday's town Dover: an illustrated record recalling the
town 1780-1914,
Barracuda Books, 1980.
HOLLINGSBEE, Bob
Dover,
Tempus, 2000.
HOLLINGSBEE, Bob
Dover in old picture postcards,
European Library, 1989.
HOLLINGSBEE, Bob
Dover in old picture postcards volume 2,
European Library, 1996.
SMITH, Mark
Dover in old photographs,
Alan Sutton, 1988.
WELLS, Paul & HOWE,Jeff
Dover Then & Now,
The History Press, 2012.
Roman Dover
PHILP, Brian J
The excavation of the Roman forts of the Classis Britannica
at Dover, 1970-77,
Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, 1981.
PHILP, Brian J
The Roman house with bacchic murals,
Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit, 1989.
First World War
COXON, Stanley W.
Dover during the dark days, John Lane,
The Bodleyhead, 1919.
FIRTH, J.B.
Dover and the Great War,
Alfred Leney and Co., (no date).
HUMPHREYS, Roy
The Dover Patrol, 1914-18,
Alan Sutton, 1998.
PITT, Barrie
Zeebrugge: St George's Day 1918,
Cassell, 1958.
RUDKIN, Mabel S
Inside Dover 1914-1918: a woman's impressions,
Elliot Stock, 1933.
WARNER, Philip
The Zeebrugge raid, William
Kimber, 1978.
Second World War
ARNOLD, B.E.
Conflict across the Strait: a battery commander's story of
Kent's defences 1939-45,
Crabwell Publications/Buckland Publications, 1982.
DEVINE, A.D.
Dunkirk,
Faber 1945.
FOSTER, Reginald
Dover Front,
Secker and Warburg, 1941.
HAYWARD, Peter
Children into Exile,
Buckland Publications, 1997.
HUMPHREYS, Roy
Dover at war, 1939-45,
Alan Sutton, 1993.
PUTTEE, Rex and SMITH, Mark
Britain's front line town Dover,
Buckland Publications, 1990.
Dover Castle and Dover's Defences
BURRIDGE, David
The Dover turret, Admiralty Pier Fort,
North Kent Books, 1987.
COAD, Jonathan
Book of Dover Castle and the defences of Dover,
Batsford/English Heritage, 1995.
COAD, Jonathan
Hellfire Corner. Dover Castle's secret tunnels and the Dunkirk
evacuation,
English Heritage, 1993.
PEVERLEY, John
Dover’s hidden fortress: the history and preservation of the
Western Heights fortifications,
Dover Society, 1996.
WELBY, Douglas E.
The history of Archcliffe Fort, Dover, Kent,
Polar Bear Press, 1991.
WELBY, Janice
Dover’s forgotten fortress: the Western Heights,
Kent County Library, 1983.
The Harbour and Shipping
BUCKNELL, Rixon
Boat trains and Channel packets: the English short sea routes,
Vincent Stuart, 1957.
Disaster at Zeebrugge: the crew's story,
National Union of Seamen, 1987.
GREENWAY, Ambrose
A century of cross-Channel passenger ferries,
Ian Allan, 1981.
HASENSON, Alec
The history of Dover Harbour,
Aurum Press, 1980.
HOMEWOOD, Stephen
Zeebrugge: a hero's story,
Bloomsbury, 1989.
MAXWELL, Henry
The Canterbury remembered,
Spottiswoode, Ballantyne and Co., 1970.
SCOTT, Rivers
The gateway of England,
Dover Harbour Board, 1957 (2nd edition, 1965).
VEALE, E.W.P.
Gateway to the Continent: a history of cross-Channel travel,
Ian Allan, 1955.
Railways
BEHREND, George and BUCHANAN, Gary
Night Ferry: a tribute to Britain's only international through train
1936-1980,
Jersey Artists, 1985.
DARWIN, Bernard
War on the line: the story of the Southern Railway in war-time,
Southern Railway, 1946.
ESAU, Mike and SIVIOUR, Gerald
Kent coast heyday,
Ian Allan, 1993.
GRAY, Adrian
The London, Chatham and Dover Railway,
Meresborough Books, 1984.
HASENSON, A.
The Golden Arrow: a history an contemporary illustrated account,
Howard Baker, 1970.
NOCK, O.S.
The South Eastern and Chatham Railway,
Ian Allan, 1961.
RILEY, Richard C.
Southern Reflections,
Silver Link, 1992.
SEARLE, Muriel V.
Down the line to Dover,
Midas Books, 1983.
THOMAS, David St John and WHITEHOUSE, Patrick
SR 150: a century and a half of the Southern Railway,
David and Charles, 1988.
Dover Trams
BLACKBURN, George
The tramway routes of Dover past and present 1897-1994: a
pictorial history,
Dover Transport Museum Society, 1995.
HARLEY, Robert J.
Dover's tramways,
Middleton Press, 1993.
HORN, J.V.
The story of Dover Corporation Tramways, 1897-1936,
Light Railway Transport League, 1955.
Other Subjects
HARRISON, Shirley
Colourful characters from Dover past,
Word Team, 1991.
MORRIS, Jeff
The Story of the Dover Lifeboats, 3rd Edition, 1998.
MOWLL, John H.
Royal Visitors at Dover,
St George’s Press, 1937.
ROY, John and TOMPSON Tony
Picture palaces remembered: an affectionate look at the cinema
theatres of Dover, Deal and Folkestone,
Glenton, 1987.
SMITH, Barry
By the way, Published by the author, 1978
(a brief history of pubs and hotels in Dover).