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Back Issues
Back issues (from 76) of the Wandsworth Historian, as listed below, are available from the Editor.
For earlier issues, please contact the Wandsworth Heritage Service at Battersea Library.
We have recently produced a searchable Index of all our published articles from 1955-2015.
We have also made available on DVD all articles from the Wandsworth Historian, 1971-2015. Click here for more details.
These recent issues contain articles on the following subjects:
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| Issue 105 Spring 2018 |
| Growing up in Edwardian Southfields |
| The Anglo-Boer War memorial in Tooting |
| 'Stoney Jack' the antiquarian. |
| Issue 104 Autumn 2017 |
| Henry Samuel Simmonds, pioneer Battersea historian |
| Douglas Jerrold, Henry Mayhew and Putney Common |
| The 1917 air raid on Tooting. |
| Issue 103 Spring 2017 |
| The Australian war graves in Wandsworth Cemetery |
| Wandsworth and the Spanish Civil War |
| Putney Old Burial Ground. |
| Issue 102 Autumn 2016 |
| Battersea whisky: the story of the distillery at Latchmere |
| Battling Irish bureaucracy from Putney |
| The Black family in the Wandsworth area. |
| Issue 101 Spring 2016 |
| Five remarkable lives at the 3rd London General Military Hospital on Wandsworth Common |
| Thomas Atkinson, Battersea's forgotten labour activist |
| Chemist shop changes in Wandsworth |
| Copper smelting in seventeenth-century Putney. |
| Issue 100 Autumn 2015 |
| The Old One Hundredth |
| The Putney Builder, W R Williams |
| The Location of Gibbefeld |
| John Burns's Birthplace. |
| Issue 99 Spring 2015 |
| Suburban Pioneers: Westhorpe Street in Putney, 1900-11 |
| A Battersea School Prize from the 1870s |
| The Wandsworth Historian production story since 1971. |
| Issue 98 Autumn 2014 |
| Walter the Vinedresser and the Wandsworth Manors of Downe and Dunsford |
| The Chelsea Artist on the Wandsworth Salient |
| Angry Victorian Ratepayers. |
| Issue 97 Spring 2014 |
| The Caius Mission Swimming Tragedy of 1912 |
| 1960s Traffic Changes to Central Wandsworth |
| The City Steam Packet Company in Battersea. |
| Issue 96 Autumn 2013 (celebrating our Diamond Jubilee) |
| The Story of Wandsworth's Meritocrats |
| The Watermans Chest of Putney |
| Youthful Times in 1930s Battersea |
| A reproduction of the "The London Argus" from April 30, 1898 containing an article on Wandsworth's history as it was seen in 1898. |
| Issue 95 Spring 2013 |
| George Gissing and Battersea: Fiction and Fact |
| Wandsworth and the First Detectives |
| J G Taylor, Our Man of Batersey. |
| Issue 94 Autumn 2012 |
| The Usk Road V2 Incident, 1945 |
| Fifty Years of Archaeology in Wandsworth |
| Voltairs's Home in Wandsworth. |
| Issue 93 Spring 2012 |
| "The Arab Boy", Henry Scarth & Yusef Sirrie |
| The Livelihood of Henry Smith the Undertaker |
| Spy Fever in Wandsworth, 1914. |
| Issue 92 Autumn 2011 |
| Harold Buchanan Ryley, Emanual School's Gallant Headmaster * |
| Domesday Wandsworth: its Population and Tools |
| Alessandro Biucchi, Battersea Confectioner from Italian Switzerland. |
| * Please click on his name for a longer version of the article on Harold Buchanan Ryley. |
| Issue 91 Spring 2011 |
| A J Dawson, Novelist from Wandsworth |
| Domesday Wandsworth and St Wandrille |
| The Wandsworth Historian at 40 |
| John Burns, Progenitor of Town Planning |
| Memories of the Thames in the Thirties & Forties |
| Nick Fuentes, a Major Player in London's Archaeology. |
| Issue 90 Autumn 2010 |
| Jesse Rust and his Son, Vitreous Mosaic Manufacturers of Battersea * |
| Industrial Wandsworth in the Late Seventeenth Century |
| The Mysterious Smithwood Close Oak Tree |
| The Wonders of Frame Food |
| The Arding & Hobbs Great Fire |
| * Full versions of the Jesse Rust article can be downloaded here: |
| Word (50kb) Pdf (Illustrated - 1.7mb) |
| Issue 89 Spring 2010 |
| The Wandsworth Borough News in Retrospect |
| Wandsworth, Putney and Wimbledon: the Battersea Bounds West of the Wandle |
| A Battersea Childhood |
| The Royal Masonic Institution for Girls: 1852-1934. |
| Issue 88 Autumn 2009 |
| The Case of the Discarded War Memorial |
| Challenging the Perceptions of Putney in Wartime |
| When Wandsworth Said Farewell to its Trams |
| Charles Haddon Spurgeon and 'Helensburgh House'. |
| Issue 87 Spring 2009 |
| The Shrubbery, Lavender Gardens |
| C J Stewart's - Master Butchers of Putney |
| Royal Beasts in Tooting |
| Anglo-Saxon Battersea & Wandsworth - as Viewed from Clapham |
| For Keith Bailey's full paper on 'The Boundaries of Anglo-Saxon Clapham', please select one of the following: |
| Bailey Word (51kb) Bailey Pdf (52kb) |
| Issue 86 Autumn 2008 |
| Clapham Junction Swallows a Street |
| The Cinderella Dance Club Bombing of 1943 - A Survivor's Account |
| Memories of Edward Foster VC |
| Rose Tones - Projectile Factory War Worker. |
| Issue 85 Autumn 2007 |
| Longhedge Farm, Battersea |
| Freemasonry and Other Mutual Organisations in Battersea and Wandsworth |
| The 'Home Farm' of Allfarthing in the 14th Century |
| Dorman Long's Nine Elms Steelworks, 1941-44. |
| Issue 84 Spring 2006 |
| The Nicholas Lane Family Dynasty |
| The Old Battersea RC School for Boys |
| Using Valuation Office Records for House History |
| The Living Story of Corporal Foster's Bravery. |
| Issue 83 Autumn 2006 |
| The Old Battersea RC School for Girls |
| The Wandsworth Novel of May Sinclair |
| Tooting Bec Lido at 100 |
| John Toland and Teakettle Court, Putney. |
| Issue 82 Spring 2006 |
| WWII Air Raid Casualties in Battersea and Wandsworth |
| The Shakespeare Theatre, Battersea |
| 'Southlands' , Battersea High Street - a Myth Interpreted. |
| Issue 81 Autumn 2005 |
| Patrick Loobey 1947-2005 |
| Wandgas Coliers in WWII |
| From Balham to Battlefield 1808-09 |
| An Early Medieval Vineyard in Wandsworth |
| Craig's Gigantic Telescope - a Long Forgotten Description. |
| Issue 80 Spring 2005 |
| The Latchmere Estate - the Story Behind its Street Names |
| 39-41 Wandsworth Common North Side |
| Punch goes riding in Battersea Park |
| Battersea Fields before the Bricks and Mortar. |
| Issue 79 Autumn 2004 |
| Arnold Bennett and Putney |
| Childhood Recollections of Earlsfield |
| The Early History of a House in Southfields |
| The Ratepayer's Burden a Hundred Years Ago. |
| Issue 78 Spring 2004 |
| Local Armed Volunteers Against Napoleon |
| Allfarthing's Missing Manorial Lords |
| The Balham Hoard |
| Winston Churchill - our Part in his Downfall. |
| Issue 77 Autumn 2003 (WHS Golden Jubilee Issue) |
| Before it's too Late - the Foundation of the WHS |
| The Ponton Estate at Nine Elms 1860-1890 |
| Two Houses in Old Wandsworth |
| Patriotic Spirit in Battersea |
| The French Church at Wandsworth. |
| Issue 76 Spring 2003 |
| Glove Making in Battersea |
| Archaeological Discoveries at Putney Wharf |
| The Heyday of Morgan Crucible |
| Evershed - an Old Wandsworth Family. |
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| Issue 75 Autumn 2002 |
| Thomas Cromwell 1485 - 1540: first Lord Cromwell and Earl of Essex |
| Boyhood Memories of Putney Town |
| The Case of the Careless Battersea Gardener |
| Mark Bell and Batterseas's Distillery |
| Morrison's Brickfield and its Successors. |
| Issue 74 Autumn 2001 |
| William Freeman - Hero of Balaclava |
| Thomas Noone Talfourd: Writer, Critic, Politician and Judge |
| Archaeological Excavations at 76-80 Upper Tooting Road, London Borough of Wandsworth |
| The Anglo-Saxon Boundaries of Wandsworth: Some Comments. |
| Issue 73 Spring 2001 |
| Some Names of Wandsworth Medieval Peasants |
| Murder on Battersea Bridge |
| The Battersea Estates of Frederick Haines |
| The Lantern. |
| Issue 72 Autumn 2000 |
| John Temple Leader (1810 - 1903) |
| A Battersea Victorian Railwayman of Repute |
| The Perambulation of Wandsworth Parish Boundaries in 1788 - Part 2. |