Publications

First among our publications are the Newcomen Society's Transactions The Society is proud of this extensive and unique collection of research papers, dating back to 1920, on the widest range of aspects of historical engineering and technology.

Below are details of availability of our full range of publications which comprise:

• Transactions
• the Society's bulletin
• books published by the Society
• occasional publications

Transactions

Transactions of the Newcomen Society are published twice yearly, and are free to Members paying at the standard subscription rate.

Earlier volumes of Transactions:

• We have a few hardback copies, mainly Volumes 52-68, which can be purchased from the Newcomen Society Office.
  
  
• Softbacks are available for most of the years from Vol 37 (1964) onwards. These can also be purchased from the Newcomen Society Office.

• Index to Volumes 1-32 - out of print, but now available as a PDF file (171 pages, 910K) which you can download free.
  
• Index to Volumes 33-50 (paperback): price £7.50 plus p&p, available from the Newcomen Society Office.
  
• Index to Volumes 33-50 - free PDF download (148 pages, 540K).
  
• Index to Volumes 51-65 (paperback): price £10 plus p&p, available from the Newcomen Society Office
  
• Index to Volumes 51-65 - free PDF download (184 pages, 478K).
  
• Index to Volumes 66-70 (paperback): price £5 plus p&p available from the Newcomen Society Office
  
• Index to Volumes 66-70 - free PDF download (41 pages, 180K).
  

• An online archive of the Society's Transactions is now available. You can search for papers on a subject of interest, browse the results and buy complete copies of papers, which are downloaded on line.

The Newcomen Bulletin

Links, the Bulletin of the Newcomen Society, is produced four times a year and is provided free to all Members.

Download a page from Links ( PDF file), and have a look.

Books

• Tower Bridge to Babylon
• William Mackenzie, International Railway Builder
• Early Railways (I, II and III)
• Water Towers of Britain
• Early Limestone Railways
• Sir Samuel Morland
• Robert Stephenson (published by Ashgate, distributed by the Newcomen Society)

See Newcomen Society Books for full details of these publications.

How to order.

Occasional publications

The following occasional papers can be ordered from the Newcomen Society Office:

• Railways in England, 1826-7
• The History of the History of Engineering
• Perceptions of Great Engineers - proceedings of conferences in Liverpool, 1993 and 1997, Vols I and II
• The History of Thermionic Valves - proceedings of a conference held in London in 1994
• Industrial History and Technological Developments in Europe - an EC Conference, held in London in 1997