Publications from Archives and Local Studies
A range of publications are available from Wolverhampton's Archives and Local Studies unit which over a variety of areas.
You can place an order for publications by filling out the form below. To download, click in the PDF icon below and print:
Cheques should be made payable to 'Wolverhampton City Council' in pounds sterling.
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Archives and Local Studies
Wolverhampton City Council
42-50 Snow Hill
Wolverhampton
WV2 4AG
United Kingdom
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Publications
1. Mapping the Past - Wolverhampton 1577 to 1986
Price: £4.50
Reproductions of parts of maps illustrating how the borough of Wolverhampton has grown from the time of the earliest available map of Staffordshire, dated 1577, to the 1980s
Author: Mary Mills, 1993. (46 pages) ISBN 0 905654 14 5
2. Bilston in the 19th century (CDROM)
Price: £6.99
Includes:
- Extracts from trade directories 1818, 1834, 1851,1872 and 1896
- Cholera map 1832
- Six-inch OS map of Bilston and Bradley, 1885,
Minimum system requirements:
- Pentium 133
- 32MB of RAM
- Windows 95/98/NT
- Internet Explorer 4 or Netscape 4.7
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 4 (included on CD)
3. Map of Wolverhampton 1750, surveyed by Isaac Taylor
Price: £2.50
5. Guide to the Contents of Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies
Price: £4.99
A summary guide to the collections available at Wolverhampton Archives.
A4, 132 pages (with index), 1st edition 2003.
6. Town Centre Timeline
Price £6.99
A guide to using the story of Wolverhampton's past as a source for National Curriculum history.
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies, 1997.
7. A Guide to Church of England Parish Registers for the Wolverhampton area
Price: 50p
The guide is also availble from this website for free.
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies 1999, updated to 2000.
8. A Guide to Nonconformist Registers and Roman Catholic Registers for the Wolverhampton Area
Price: 50p
The guide is also availble from this website for free.
Wolverhampton Archives and Local Studies 1999, updated to 2000.
9. Family History Forms Pack
Price: £1.50
A selection of forms you can fill in when searching genealogical records.
10. Family History Fact Sheets
Price: £1.00
Brief guides for beginners: useful fact sheets of records of births, marriages and deaths, census returns, parish registers etc.
11. Tracing Birth Relatives
Price: £1.50
A guide to organisations offering a service to People who have been involved in adoption
15. Wolverhampton in the 1930's and 1940's
This collection of over 50 photographs shows Wolverhampton a generation ago. New housing estates were springing up on the outskirts and new buildings particularly shops, cinemas and pubs transformed the centre. Theatmosphere of the town in the war years is evocatively captured in contemporary photographs.
Elizabeth Rees, 1988, (44 pages) ISBN 0 86067 120 8