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Published 2024
Dr. James Todd Ballantyne
The People Who Built Modern Blackburn: Aisha Jaffer

William Turner, MP for Blackburn 1832-1841
Captain Nolan: His Association with Blackburn

Blackburn Spitfires of WW2
Violence and the Municipal & General Elections in Blackburn 1868

Darwen Tower and the Freeing of the Moors
Blackburn Tramway Memories

A Brief History of the Empire Cinema Blackburn

Nancy Derbyshire Trust Almshouses
The People Who Built Modern Blackburn: Mohammed Khaliq Choudhary
Blackburn Bricks and Brickmakers
Frederick Thomas Marwood

Tramping Trade Unions

Thomas Whewell
A Brief Look at Mill Hill
Charles Haworth, Blackburn Artist

John Critchley Prince: His Blackburn Associates Recalled

The Prince of Wales Public House 1 Grimshaw Park
The Street Furniture of Gorse Road
The People Who Built Modern Blackburn: Mr Iftikhar Ahmed

Blackburn Rovers Players from 1880’s to 1990’s
The History of Telephones in Blackburn
Great Uncle Jim
Oueens Park
St. Silas's C of E. School
Old Darwen Memories

Published 2023

Foster Yates and Thom
Encounters with alcoholism in a Blackburn family

Robert Beard Biography
History of Shear Brow

James Cocker
The Wedding of Albert H Walsh and Hannah Smethurst
Blackburn Eagles Cycling Club
The History of the Blackburn Coat of Arms
The Wensley Fold Area of Blackburn
Moses Duxbury
My Cousin George
Rubbish Disposal in Nineteenth Century Blackburn
Memories of Sunday School League Cricket
Blackburn Billiard Hall & James Edward Shorrock

Henrietta Edith Davies 1885-1966

Published 2022 and before

Places of Worship
Griffin C of E School
Fifty Years of Paper Making at Samlesbury Paper Mill
Thomas Grime and The Knott Mill (Darwen) Paper Company Limited
Nothing Like It Before In The Town: Blackburn's First Asian Wedding
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 Pilkington Blackburn MP 1847-1865
My Father: A story of a textile worker in Blackburn
Wilfed Worden
Mary Agnes Hamilton: Blackburn's First Female M.P.
The Blackburn to Chorley Railway (via Feniscowles)
Blackburn's adopted Warships (Updated)
The Autobiography of Michael Walmsley: Dutton's Blackburn Brewery
Alderman Arthur Townsend
Betty Blackburn
Madge Hindle
Maud Wensley
Bob Crompton. The Greatest Rover of Them All
Lizzie Sutcliffe Letters

The Wild West Comes to Blackburn
A Local Waterloo Hero Recalled to Mind

Private William Rothwell
Blackburn under six Monarchs; George III George V

The Holden Family: Cotton Manufacturers Blackburn
Tommy Ball
The Historical Development of Ewood and Fernhurst Areas
Robert Rigby at the Charge of the Light Brigade (New Evidence)

The Revidge Tank
Alice (Daisy) and Sarah Garstang
Kathleen Chavassut

Lucy Mellodey
Church Street; Blackburn's Premier Street

Cephos Powders; invented in Blackburn

Thwaites Arcade
The Two faces of Henry Ainsworth Hebrew Scholar and Biblical Commentator
Blackburn - a Hell Hole!
Ephemera Collection in Blackburn Central Library
Michael Brothers, J.P. and M.P.

A Tale of Two Artists
History of Thomas Hart's Rope Works Blackburn
Joseph Fielding
Elijah Holt
Henry Newbolt: Darwen Connections
J.G. Ballard: Blackburn Roots
Collecting Dickens
Holding The Vision
The Dunn Collection
Acid House

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

Signaller John E Moody, M.M.
Private 27386 Albert Goulding

Blackburn’s First Engine Driver

Remembrance, The Story of my Granddad - An Involuntary Hero
James "Toffy" Boyle

Frank Brooks: A Darwen Man at War
Paper Mill Mania around Darwen and Blackburn in the 1870s
The Darwen Paper Company Limited
Women at Peterloo
Darwen Street and Shops of Yesteryear
1882 Tram Accident at Ewood Bridge
The Freedom of Darwen Moors
Some Local Place Names
Darwen’s Last Hand-Loom Weaver
Mrs. Elma Amy Yerburgh
Blackburn's Waterfall Flood 1964
Darwen, The Town in Other Days
Audley Refuse Destructor
A Vanished Community
Elizabeth Ann Lewis; The Drunkard's Friend
Ethel Carnie and William Hall Burnett
Peronne and Maricourt
William H. Grimbaldeston V.C.
Blackburn and the Women's Movement

World War 2 Blackburn Roll of Honour

Blackburn Roll of Honour 1914-1921

The Blackburn Roll of Honour WW1 1929
Darwen Roll of Honour

A Selection of Great War Tales of Proud Darreners