The Governor – Controlling the power of steam machines

Barnsley & Philadelphia: Pen & Sword 2021

ISBN 978 1 39909 088 9

Transporter Bridges – an illustrated history

Barnsley & Philadelphia: Pen & Sword Transport 2020

ISBN 978 1 52676 038 8

The 1896 Light Railways Act

Stroud: Amberley Books 2019 ISBN 978 1 4456 9344 6

Edwardian Railways in Postcards

Wellington: PiXZ / Halsgrove 2017 ISBN 978 0 85710 115 0

Industries Which Made Britain Triumph

Wellington: PiXZ / Halsgrove 2017 ISBN 978 0 85710 111 2

Wigan Pier – Facts and Fictions of an enduring Music-Hall Joke

Lydney: Lightmoor Press 2016 ISBN 9781911038 13 9

Our Industrial Past – Britain's Industrial Heritage 2

Wellington: PiXZ / Halsgrove 2016 ISBN 978 0 85710 100 6

Britain's Industrial Heritage

Wellington: PiXZ / Halsgrove 2015 ISBN 978 0 85710 093 1

The Victorian Photographs of Dr. Thomas Keith and John Forbes White

Great Cheverell: John Hannavy Publishing 2015 ISBN 978 0 9930535 0 4

The Once-ubiquitous Paddle Steamer

Wellington: PiXZ / Halsgrove 2014 ISBN 978 0 85710 092 4

Edwardian Mining in Old Postcards

Wellington: PiXZ / Halsgrove 2013 ISBN 978 0 85710 074 0

The Way We Were - Victorian and Edwardian Scotland in Colour

Cathness: Whittles Publishing 2012 ISBN 978 1 84995 078 7

Preserved Steam-powered machines

Wellington: PiXZ / Halsgrove 2012 ISBN 978 0 85710 072 6

The Victorians and Edwardians at War

Oxford: Shire Publications 2012 ISBN 978 0 74781 133 6

Scotland's Heritage - a photographic journey

Caithness: Whittles Publishing 2012 ISBN 978 1 84995 065 7

The Victorian and Edwardian Tourist

Oxford: Shire Publications, 2012 ISBN 978 0 74781 153 4

The Victorians and Edwardians on the move 

Oxford: Shire Publications, 2011 ISBN 978 0 7478 0820 6

The Victorians and Edwardians at Work

Oxford: Shire Publications 2009 ISBN 978 0 7478 0719 3

The Victorians and Edwardians at Play

Oxford: Shire Publications 2009 ISBN 978 0 7478 0720 6

Around Scotland's Shores - Victorians and Edwardians in colour

Thatcham: GW Publishing 2009 ISBN 978 0 9561211 1 0

Britain's Working Coast in Victorian and Edwardian Times

Oxford: Shire Publications 2008, 2010 ISBN 978 0 7478 0678 3

Great Photographic Journeys - in the footsteps of pioneer British photographers

Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing 2007 ISBN 978 1 904587 54 5

Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography

(Editor & Contributor)

New York & Abingdon: Routledge 2007 ISBN 0 415 97235 3

Case Histories - the presentation of the Victorian Photographic Portrait 1840-1875

Woodbridge: Antique Collectors Club Books 2005 ISBN 0 85149 481 2

Wigan History & Guide

Stroud: Tempus 2003, The History Press 2008 ISBN 0 7524 3099 8

The English Seaside in Victorian and Edwardian times

Market Risborough: Shire Books 2003, Oxford: Shire Publications 2008 ISBN 0 7478 0571 7

James Date's Exmoor & West Somerset

(with Ben Norman and Hilary Binding)

Tiverton: Halsgrove / Exmoor Books 2002 ISBN 0 86183 471 2

Images of a Century - the Centenary of the British Institute of Professional Photography

Ware: BIPP 2001

Wigan Now & Then

Wigan: Smiths Books 1999 ISBN 0 9510680 8 3

Victorian Photographers at Work

Princes Risborough: Shire Books 1997 ISBN 0 7478 0358 7

Obras maestras de la Royal Photographic Society

(with Michael Gray, Pamela Roberts, Rafael Martinez Cortina and Marie Loup Sougez)

Madrid: Fundacion Natwest 1993 Déposito legal M-14839 1993

Working World: What's the Difference?

Aylesbury: Ginn 1991 ISBN 0 602 23988 5

Complete User's Guide to Canon T60

Tolworth: Hove-Fountain Books 1990 ISBN 0 86343 335 9

Historic Wigan  - two thousand years of history

Preston: Carnegie Press 1990 ISBN 0 748789 58 1

Better Landscape Photography

(with Duncan McEwan)

Tolworth: Hove- Fountain Books 1989 ISBN 0 86343 120 8

Working in Wigan Mills

(with Chris Ryan)

Wigan: Smiths Books 1987 ISBN 0 9510680 2 4

Understanding Visual Communications

Wigan: Comtech/Open Tech 1986 ISBN 0 946629 50 1

Applying Visual Communications

Wigan: Comtech/Open Tech 1986 ISBN 0 96629 51 X

Living & Working in Wigan

(with Chris Ryan)

Wigan: Smiths Books 1986 ISBN 0 9510680 1 6

Wigan Pier - An Illustrated History

(with Jack Winstanley)

Wigan: Smiths Books 1985 ISBN 0 9510680 0 8

Pictures of Wigan 1860-1920 - the first sixty years

Wigan: Wigantech Publications 1985 ISBN 946620 43 9

The Maypole - Diary of a Mining Disaster

(with Roy Lewis)

Wigan: Wigantech Publications 1983 ISBN 0 9500 280 9 6 (hardback) 0 9500 280 8 8 (soft cover)

A Moment in Time - Scottish Contributions to Photography 1840-1920

Glasgow: BBC/Interbook 1983 ISBN 0 906474 29 9

Thomas Keith's Scotland

Edinburgh: Canongate 1981 ISBN 0 903937 73 5 (hardback) 0 86241 006 1 (softback)

The Victorian Professional Photographer

Princes Risborough: Shire Books 1980 ISBN 0 85363 524 9 

Pictures of Wigan

(with Rosalind Holden and Barry Teachen)

Wigan: Wigan College of Technology 1978 

Fox Talbot

Princes Risborough: Shire Books 1976, 1984, 1987, 1997 Oxford: Shire Publications 2010 ISBN 0 7478 0351 X

Masters of Victorian Photography

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, New York: Holmes & Meier, Sydney: Ure Smith 1976 ISBN 0 7153 7032 4

The Camera Goes to War - Photographs from the Crimean War 1854-56

Exhibition Catalogue

(with John Sweetman)

Edinburgh: Scottish Arts Council 1975

Roger Fenton of Crimble Hall

London & Bedford: Gordon Fraser, Boston: David R Godine 1975 ISBN 0 900406 41

Prospect of Scotland

Edinburgh: John Bartholomew & Son 1974 ISBN 0 85152 916 X