Publications

The Woolfonts and District having rather more than its share of scholars, authors, and composers, there are naturally a number of publications to their credit.

This is a list of the more important of these, by author or composer. The list includes persons associated with the District regardless of residence.

By Her Grace the duchess of Taunton:
Among the more notable and accessible works of Her Grace, Professor the Baroness Lacy suo jure, are:


 * Digging for Victory: The story of British Archæology from 1945: Millicent duchess of Taunton, sub. nomine Professor Millicent Lacy, Pease & McAndrews, 2001
 * Resisting the Reivers: The Evolution of Defensive Structures in the Eastern Border Marches from the Iron Age to the Union of Crowns: Millicent duchess of Taunton, sub. nom. Professor Millicent Lacy, Edinburgh University Press, 1997
 * The Palimpsest of the Spade: The lost archæology of Oxford: Millicent duchess of Taunton, sub. nom. Professor Millicent Lacy, OUP 1994
 * ‘Distant Ophir’: Evidences of Pre-Roman Mediterranean Trade in Cornwall and the West Country: Millicent duchess of Taunton, sub. nom. Professor Millicent Lacy, OUP 1992
 * Acheulean and Soaian Adiala: A survey of work done: contributor: Millicent duchess of Taunton, sub. nom. Professor Millicent Lacy, OUP 1990

By His Grace the duke of Taunton:
Notable works by His Grace, historian and Fellow of All Souls, include:
 * Heart of Wessex: a cardiology patient’s personal memoir: Charles duke of Taunton, Port Meadow Books, 2016
 * Steam in Sacrifice: Operation HERRICK: Charles duke of Taunton, Cardwell Defence Press, 2014
 * A Glass with the Bishop of Norwich: A History of Celebrated Table-Talk at All Souls: contributor and co-editor: Charles duke of Taunton, OUP 2011
 * Rose and Laurel: A History of the Intelligence Corps: Charles duke of Taunton, Cardwell Defence Press, 2009
 * Sir John, God Save You: a life of Betjeman: Charles duke of Taunton, sub nomine Charles [marquess of] Templecombe, OUP 2004
 * Beating the Bounds: the Wiltshire and Dorset Clubmen in 1645 (Wolfson Prize): Charles duke of Taunton, s.n. Charles [marquess of] Templecombe, OUP 2000
 * Archbishop Laud and Honour (Duff Cooper Prize): Charles duke of Taunton, s.n. Charles [marquess of] Templecombe, OUP 1987

By the Master of Dilton:
Works by Rupert, Master of Dilton, nephew and heir presumptive to His Grace, mathematician and campanologist, are, to date:
 * Phantasy for Strings: Fugues, Mirror Symmetry, Modular Form, String Theory Applications in Pure Mathematics, and the Mathematics of Music: (forthcoming): Rupert, Master of Dilton, Bretwalda Press [Pleydell & Hewer] 2018
 * Air on the J-String: (forthcoming, popular version of foregoing): Rupert, Master of Dilton, Bretwalda Press [Pleydell & Hewer] 2018
 * Pythagoras’ Hammer: ‘Affective key characteristics’, harmony, consonance, and the mathematics of Handel’s suites for harpsichord, with special consideration of the ‘Air and Variations’ of Suite 5 in E, HWV 430: Rupert, Master of Dilton, sub nomine Rupert CED Fitzjames-Holles-Clare-Malet, Bretwalda Press [Pleydell & Hewer] 2015
 * Pythagoras, Group Theory, Set Theory, and Algebraic Permutations in Method-Ringing: Rupert, Master of Dilton, s.n. Rupert CED Fitzjames-Holles-Clare-Malet, CCCBR 2014

By Melanie Salmon:
Publications by Melanie (Mrs Lew) Salmon include notably:
 * Sewing, and Reaping: Motifs in Parochets, Challah and Matzoh Covers, and Chuppas: Melanie Salmon, Sequential 2012
 * The Tapestries of the Dutch Golden Age in the Works of the Delft School Painters: Melanie Salmon, Montefiore + Seviers Art 2006
 * Threads and Illuminations: Early Modern Illuminated and Tapestry Ketubot of Amsterdam and London: Melanie Salmon, Sequential 2002

By Sher Mirza MBE:
The Deputy Headmaster, English Master, and Adjunct Music Master of Beechbourne School, Sher Mirza CBE MA (Ebor) MMus (Leeds) ARCO Dip CHD, has published:
 * Mr Kipling’s Adopted Sons: Sher Ali Mirza, Pleydell & Hewer 2013
 * Principles of Fugal Composition: Sher Ali Mirza, Pleydell & Hewer 2012
 * Imperial Echoes: Imperial Patronage of Music and Literature: Mughal, Durrani, the Raj, and British Pakistan: Sher Ali Mirza, Pleydell & Hewer 2011
 * The Shadow of the Raj in Nineteenth Century English Literature: Sher Ali Mirza, Pleydell & Hewer 2009
 * Pale Hands: An Analysis of Amy Woodforde-Finden’s “Kashmiri Song” and How It Took the World By Storm: Sher Ali Mirza, Pleydell & Hewer 2008

By the Revd Canon Noel Paddick SSC:
Works by the Rector include:
 * Herbert Thorndike: a reappraisal: (forthcoming): The Revd Noel Paddick SSC, OUP
 * The Beauty of Holiness and the Poetry of Grace: Andrewes, Donne, Ken, and Ferrar: The Revd Noel Paddick SSC, Church House 2014
 * All Evil and Mischief: essays in theodicy, free will, & the problem of evil: The Revd Noel Paddick SSC, Church House 2012
 * The Depth of Love Divine: John Wesley, the Caroline Divines, and the Oxford Movement (var. title, The Depth of Love Divine: John Wesley & the Anglo-Catholic Tradition): The Revd Noel Paddick SSC, OUP 2011

By the Revd Paul Campion SSC:
Fr Campion, when not being a Hearty, is the author of, inter alia:
 * When Dr Watson Played for Blackheath: Cultural depictions of sport in the Canon: The Revd Paul Campion SSC, SHS 2015, noticed in The District Messenger, No. 356, 3 November 2015

By the Revd Gilbert Bohun SSC:
Fr Bohun (late Major Sir Gilber Bohun Bt MC MiD, the Blues and Royals) has published:
 * God of Battles: Just War Theory in Anglican Tradition: The Revd Gilbert Bohun SSC CBS MC MiD, OUP 2015
 * The Mass in the Field: a liturgical guide for military chaplains: The Revd Gilbert Bohun SSC CBS ACS, Church House 2010

By the Revd Professor Henry Gascelyn Levett:
Fr HGL MA (Cantab) MSt (Cantab) PhD (Cantab) FRSA FRHistS RIBA, Fellow of Clare College Cantab, is the author of, amongst other scholarly works:
 * Certain Commonalities in the Wool Churches of East Anglia and of the West Country: Cambridge Studies in Ecclesiastical Architecture: Henry Gascelyn Levett PhD FRSA FRHistS RIBA, Fellow, Clare College, Cantab, CUP 2013
 * Thomas Sumsion and the Gothic Survival: Henry Gascelyn Levett PhD FRSA FRHistS RIBA, Fellow, Clare College, Cantab, CUP 2006
 * Dowbiggin and Ecclesiastical Architecture: Henry Gascelyn Levett PhD FRSA FRHistS RIBA, Fellow, Clare College, Cantab, CUP 1997
 * Clouds of Witness Above the Fray: The Angel Roofs of East Anglia and the Defeat of the Iconoclasts: Henry Gascelyn Levett PhD FRSA FRHistS RIBA, Fellow, Clare College, Cantab, CUP 1989

By Su Allred:
The late Susan Allred MBE, mother to Pip by Edmond Huskisson, was of course the author of the ‘Lostley’ Novels:
 * A Muffled Peal: Susan Allred [MBE], Baldwin & Percy 2015
 * Plough Monday: Susan Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2014
 * A Rose Tree Springing: Susan Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2014
 * All We Like Sheep: Susan Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2013
 * We Plough the Fields and Scatter: Susan Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2013
 * Nunc and Mag.: Susan Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2013
 * All Glorious Above: Susan Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2012
 * Harvest Home: Susan Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2012

By John Treasure Voss:
The independent Carroll scholar John Treasure Voss MA, a Downlands resident, is noted for:
 * “Merely Conventional Signs”: Lewis Carroll’s portraits in the context of Victorian child-photography: John Treasure Voss MA, Thurston, Pugh 2017
 * Impossible Things Before Breakfast: John Treasure Voss MA, The Dodgson Studies Group 2009

By Elizabeth Allred:
Mrs Allred, mother to Su Allred and grandmother to Pip Allred-Huskisson, is a rural essayist and is engaged in a biography of her late daughter:
 * Safely Gathered In: Susan Allred MBE, 1985 – 2016: (forthcoming, biography): Elizabeth Allred, Baldwin & Percy
 * Raise the Song of Harvest Home: More collected rural essays: Elizabeth Allred, Baldwin & Percy 2007
 * Seasons Spent: A Farming Life: Elizabeth Allred, Baldwin & Percy 1999; illustrated edition 2001

By Sher Mirza, Queen’s Medal for Music:

 * Variations on Divers Airs, for Organ: AN FitzOther (pseud.) [Sher Ali Mirza], UYMP 2018
 * Bach in Euanthia: Twelve Canons and Fugues upon the Seikilos Epitaph: Sher Ali Mirza, UYMP 2017 (Bach Prize, The Royal Academy of Music)
 * Twenty Canons and Fugues Upon British Folk-songs: Sher Ali Mirza, UYMP 2014
 * Fantasia for Organ and Orchestra in D: Sher Ali Mirza, UYMP 2013
 * Occasional Music for Henry V (choir and orchestra): Sher Ali Mirza, UYMP 2013
 * Mehrgarh Suite: Sher Ali Mirza, UYMP 2010
 * Song of the High Pamirs: Sher Ali Mirza, UYMP 2008

By Rupert, Master of Dilton:

 * ‘Taunton Surprise Major’, peal, Rupert, Master of Dilton, sub nomine Rupert CED Fitzjames-Holles-Clare-Malet, The Ringing World, 16 December 2016
 * ‘Woolfonts Treble Bob Major’, peal, Rupert, Master of Dilton, s.n. Rupert CED Fitzjames-Holles-Clare-Malet, The Ringing World, 29 August 2014