Books
S Andrews (ed.), Bygone Lincolnshire 2 vols, A Brown, 1891
Elizabeth Armstrong (ed.), An Industrial Island: A History of Scunthorpe, Scunthorpe Borough Museum and Art Gallery, 1981
A A Clarke, The Groaning Gallows, Arton Books, 1994
R and K Cooke, Scunthorpe, Stroud, 1997
Rupert Creed and Averil Coult, Steeltown, Hutton Press, 1990
B J Davey, Rural Crime in the Eighteenth Century: North Lincolnshire 1740–1780, University of Hull Press, 1994
John J Eddleston, The Encyclopaedia of Executions, John Blake, 2002
Colin Ella, Myths and Legends of the Isle of Axholme, Chronicle Pubs, 2003
Bert Fryer, Recollections of a Country Copper 1936–1966, The author, 1996
Adrian Gray, Crime and criminals in Victorian Lincolnshire, Paul Watkins, 1993
Nick Lyons, Scunthorpe: A Photographic History of Your Town, Black Horse Books, 2002
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Susan Hood, Pack of Thieves? 52 Port Arthur Lives, Port Arthur Authority, 2001
Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Pilgrimage of Grace, Phoenix, 2003
David Newton and Martin Smith, Stamford Mercury: Three
Centuries of Newspaper Publishing, Shaun Tyas, 1999 N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Penguin 1964 edition
Sian Rees, The Floating Brothel, Review, 2001
Tony Satchell, For Better or Worse. Convict Lives shaped by Transportation, Craftsman Press, 2003
Judith Spelman, Lincolnshire Bedside Book, Dovecote Press, 2003
Geoff Tibballs, The Murder Guide to Great Britain, Box Tree, 1994
Periodicals and Newspapers
Lincolnshire Echo, special supplements
Lincolnshire Gazette
Lincolnshire Life
Lincolnshire Poacher
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
The Epworth Bells
Booklets and Monographs
Convicts of Lincolnshire, compiled by C L Anderson, Lincolnshire County Council, 1988
Mike Cliff, A History of Brigg Fairs, The author, 2001
A J Kerswill, A History of North Kelsey, The author, 1992