The Cricket History of Calderdale and Kirklees

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Date	Author	Title	Extracts and Reviews
2003	Peter Davies	From Magdalen to Merger: A Short History of Oxford University Cricket Club A short history of the Parks-based university cricket club. Based on primary sources and secondary reading.
2003	Peter Davies	Home Soil: Exploring and Celebrating the Cricket Grounds of Halifax and Calderdale A ground-by-ground guide to the Halifax League – with plenty of history and geography thrown in along the way. PRICE £3
2004	Peter Davies	Home Soil
2004	Peter Davies	From Queen’s to Kings: The Extraordinary Story of an Asian Cricket Club from Halifax An in-depth history of one of Calderdale’s most interesting cricket teams. From the back streets of Halifax to Association silverware – lots of it! PRICE £2
2004	Peter Davies	Pennine Pitch: A Cricketing Journey through Huddersfield and South Kirklees An exploration of the cricket clubs and grounds of the Huddersfield League – with in-depth historical information and insight. PRICE £3
2005	Peter Davies & Rob Light	The Development of Cricket in Kirklees: An Overview A concise guide to some of the main themes in Kirklees’ rich cricketing history. £3	Extract Review
2005	Andrew Hardcastle	Lost: The Former Cricket Clubs and Cricket Grounds of Halifax and Calderdale A brilliantly researched encyclopedia of Calderdale clubs past and present. The book is the product of years of painstaking research.	Extract Launch Review
2006	Pat Neal	George Herbert Hirst: Mirfield Cricket Club 1891 A fascinating account of Yorkshire and England George Herbert Hirst’s one season playing for Mirfield CC. Includes extracts from various local newspaper match reports.	Extract Launch Review Pat Neal Book Book PR Launch Launch Photos Review
2006	Peter Davies & Rob Light	180 Not Out: XXXX 3-Volume photographic history of cricket in Calderdale and Kirklees (Peter Davies & Rob Light) £10 each Three image-based anthologies – the best of the Calderdale and Kirklees Cricket Heritage Project in pictures, photos and other primary-source items.	Launch of '180 Not Out' - Bookthrift, Hebden Bridge (252kb PDF) Launch of '180 Not Out' - Dewsbury Books (478kb PDF) Launch of '180 Not Out' - Toll House, Holmfirth (570kb PDF) Launch of '180 Not Out' - Wades, Halifax (335kb PDF) Launch of '180 Not Out' - Ottakars, Huddersfield (535kb PDF) Review in 2008 Yorkshire CCC Yearbook
2006	Mike Butler	From Batley to Barnsley: A History of the Heavy Woollen Cricket Challenge Cup 1883-2005 A comprehensive, season-by-season history of the oldest knockout competition in the world – still centred on the Batley/Dewsbury Heavy Woollen area. PRICE £3	Extract Launch Review Launch of 'From Batley to Barnsley' by Mike Butler (617kb PDF) Launch of 'George Herbert Hirst: Mirfield CC' by P.Neal (1mb PDF) Launch of 'Lost' by Andrew Hardcastle (369kb PDF) Review of Pat Neal Book in Wombwell CLS Magazine (188kb PDF) Review in ACS Journal (179kb PDF) Letter from Lord's (95kb PDF)
2006	Peter Davies	Intikhab Alam, My Brother’s Broken Leg and Other Stories: A Cricketing Memoir 1966-1976 A memoir of childhood with a large dose of cricket. PRICE £2
2007	Roy Pearce	Gentlemen and Players: Wirksworth Cricketers 1757-1914 An expert investigation into the people, places and events that played a key role in the growth of cricket in Derbyshire from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. Reviewed in The Wisden Cricketer.	Extract
2007	Lee Hughes	Wielding the Willow: An Anthology of Cricket Poems A collection of cricket poetry – interspersed with beautiful line drawings of local grounds.
2007	Mick Bourne, Tony Hutton & Brian Senior	Off The Beaten Track: Three Men and a Cricket Season – Diary 2006 An epic tale of three Leeds-based Professional Cricket Watchers – and their escapades during a season. Reviewed in the Yorkshire CCC Yearbook. PRICE £3	Extract (91kb PDF) Off The Beaten Track at Wombwell Cricket Lovers' Society (419kb PDF) Yorkshire Life Feature on Off The Beaten Track (242kb PDF) Spin Magazine Feature on Off The Beaten Track 1 (367kb PDF) Spin Magazine Feature on Off The Beaten Track 2 (318kb PDF) Review in Huddersfield Examiner (99kb PDF) Review in Yorkshire Evening Post (165kb PDF) Review in Northern Echo (web link) Review on York Vale League Website (web link) Review in 2008 Yorkshire CCC Yearbook Amazon Review
2007	Dennis O’Keefe	Start of Play A scholarly account of the early years of Illingworth St. Mary’s CC. Based on an MA dissertation.	Extract
2008	Pat Neal with James Norbury	Thanks to the Inghams: Stories of Mirfield CC XXXX Fascinating snapshots of the history of Mirfield CC. James Norbury was a Sports Journalism student assigned to MCC – and his work is incorporated in the book.	Extract Review in Batley News Review in Huddersfield Examiner 2008 Book (91kb PDF)
2008	Rob Light	The Other Face of English Cricket: The Origins of League Cricket in the West Riding of Yorkshire A scholarly investigation into the nineteenth-century cricket history of the West Riding. Based on an MA dissertation.	Extract New Book by Rob Light: Origins of League Cricket (537kb PDF)
2008	Martin Bishop	Bats, Balls and Biscuits: A Brief History of Cricket at the Reading Biscuit Factory A thoroughly researched history of cricket in ‘Biscuit Town’ Reading. Reviewed recently in The Wisden Cricketer. PRICE £3
2009	Tony Lister	You Couldn’t Make It Up! The Complete History of Burnley Cricket Club 1834-2008 A thoroughly researched season-by-season history of Burnley CC – one of the most famous clubs in the Lancashire League. Foreword by Burnley old boy James Anderson.
2009	Peter Davies & Rob Light	Caught & Bowled: The Development of Cricket in Calderdale A thematic exploration of the growth of cricket in Halifax and district – from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.
2009	Peter Davies	Heavy Woollen Heritage Peter Davies Heavy Woollen Heritage: The Cricket Clubs of North Kirklees An A-Z history of cricket in North Kirklees: Batley, Dewsbury and the Spen Valley.
2009	Tony Hutton & Peter Davies	Two Men and a Blog: Cricket Diary 2009	Northern Echo, 15 Dec 2009