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- Oakham adverts 1932
- All Saints Oakham Flower Festival 1996
- The floor memorials in the Lady Chapel of All Saints Oakham
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 5. Woodside Iron works
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 4. National people and events
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 3. Local people and events
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 2. The family entries
- The diaries of William Baker 1907 to 1919 – Part 1. Introduction
- John Louis Petit – then and now
- A Choral Evensong to celebrate the work of John Louis Petit as a clergyman and theologian
- An exhibition of John Louis Petit’s East Midlands paintings
- An ancient solar alignment in Oakham?
- A cross country experience
- St Michael’s Lichfield blogs – a compilation
- All Saints Oakham blogs and presentations – a compilation
- Oakham and Rutland blogs – a compilation
- Railway blogs – a compilation
- Lichfield history blogs – a compilation
- Pensnett history blogs and presentations – a compilation
- The Morris memorials in All Saints Church in Oakham
- Stephen Glynne’s church notes – Lichfield St. Michael
- The memorials of All Saints Oakham
- Traws Cymru – a trip around North Wales
- Kinetic Water Power
- Stephen Glynne’s church notes – Oakham All Saints
- From Oakham to Mandalay
- The Harrington bequest – Part 2. The Oakham Parish Library
- The Harrington bequest – Part 1, The Charity
- The Oakham Parish Chest
- Rail through Porthmadog from the 1960s to the present day
- The Brettells of Kingswinford
- Jonathan Stokes and Wordsley
- The Cross City Line – 1962 to 2024
- Saddlebacks and serendipity
- The street topography of early Oakham
- The windows of St. Edmund’s church, Hunstanton
- Relics and hermits
- Public Transport in Oakham from the 1960s to the present
- The Black County environment of the mid-20th century through the poetry of Jim William Jones
- The chancel and chapels of All Saints church Oakham – Gilbert Scott’s legacy
- A time to mourn, and a time to dance – the All Saints season through the ages
- The lighter side
- The 1858 Restoration of All Saints church in Oakham – Part 3
- The 1858 Restoration of All Saints church in Oakham – Part 2
- The 1858 Restoration of All Saints church in Oakham – Part 1
- Dudley and its railways 1868
- The simulation of local tornado wind conditions
- A Black Country poet – Jim William Jones
- Tansey Green Anglican Mission Room.
- The first Mercian Lands
- Lichfield – a pre-conversion pagan cultic centre?
- Oakham roofs
- St. Michael’s Churchyard, Lichfield through the year
- Ghost signs
- A walk around Oakham
- A possible Anglo-Saxon church group at Oakham in Rutland
- The timeline of the Crooked House Affair (from January 2024)
- The Black Country – from the Stone Age to Domesday
- Commemorating the 1000th Anniversary of the birth of Queen Edith
- The good, the bad and the grotesque – the decorated capitals of All Saints church in Oakham
- Rutland – an enigmatic history
- Rutland and the Hwicce
- The Anglican Lectionary at Christmas – A seasonal rant
- The origin of Rutland
- The Oak Farm (Crooked House) Mill and its watercourses
- The timeline of the Crooked House Affair (March to December 2023)
- The early history of the Crooked House
- The fields that survived
- A memory of Dudley Sports Centre
- An election manifesto for Transport
- The 292 bus route from Kidderminster to Ludlow – an important transport link?
- The final sermon
- Migration to the western Black Country, 1800 to 1850
- Yet more on cross winds effects on trains
- Fall, incarnation and atonement
- Transcendence and Imminence
- Plot and purpose
- The beloved disciple – the missing years.
- A little more on a Nurse’s Grave
- More on Cross Wind Characteristics
- Reflections on “The whole world a Black Country” by Matt Stallard
- The Fowler maps of Kingswinford parish of 1822 and 1840
- The Changing Face of Death
- 100th Anniversary of the dedication of the choir vestry at St Michael’s church in Lichfield.
- A nurse’s grave
- Ten of the best – a personal choice of Train Aerodynamics papers from 2022
- Cross Wind Characteristics – a mathematical curiosity
- The Churchyard at St. Michael’s, Lichfield – registers and records
- The Pensnett Canal and the Pensnett Railway
- A view from St. Michael’s church in Lichfield in 1840
- Lichfield’s first railway station?
- Measurements of Carbon Dioxide concentrations in a church
- Train services on the Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways
- The Petits of Ettingshall and Lichfield.
- Football leagues – development sides and lower divisions
- The World Test Championship
- The memorial inscriptions in St. Michael’ churchyard in Lichfield
- A new rail connection for Blaenau Ffestiniog?
Engineering, history and ecclesiology 