This is a revised version of a presentation given at the launch of the Devon History Society's "Devon in the 1920s" project on 24 April 2021. It aims to provide participants with a selection of publications from the 1920s which are freely available on-line and can be consulted or read through at home. The order and emphasis of the listing has been changed and items are included for which there is no image, but the link still reaches a full text version of the work listed. The present page is not a replacement for the fuller listings of published resources which have been provided by the Devon bibliography and the Devon Heritage Centre and give locations of a much wider range of publications in libraries and archives in Devon and beyond.
Directories are a major source for local studies. County directories are available for 1923, 1926 and 1930, but none are digitised on-line for the 1920s. Kelly’s contains detailed information for every community in the county. The image below shows the cover of the 1923 directory but the page shown is from the 1919 directory, the latest to be digitised, and with the following page indicates the level of detail for Newton St Cyres, whose population in 1911 was 677. Directories are also available for individual towns in Devon. Details are given in the fuller listings.
Kelly’s Directories. Kelly's directory of Devonshire. - London : Kelly’s Directories, 1923. - 83, xxvi, 1218 pages : folded map ; 27 cm. -
Historical directories, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: 380.1025/DEV/1923 : s380.1025/DEV/1923 : 380.1/B/1923 : D380/KEL . -
Subjects: Devon. Directories. 1923. -
Guidebooks give a picture of the county often slanted to tourists rather than the local community. This presentation illustrates only some of those that have been digitised. Guidebooks can also cover regions or individual communities in Devon. There is a rich collection in the Westcountry Studies Library extending back to the early 19th century. Ward Lock red guides can only be dated by the advertising supplements, which provide valuable detail on the tourist industry of the 1920s.
Ward, Lock and Company, Ltd A pictorial and descriptive guide to Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Bideford, Clovelly and north-west Devon London : Ward, Lock 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. North Devon. Guides. 1920. -
Some publishers specialised in issuing guidebooks. In the 1920s the Homeland Association was able to attract leading historians such as Beatrix Cresswell as authors.
Cresswell, Beatrix F. Dartmoor with its surroundings; a handbook for visitors London : Homeland Association 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Guides. 1920. -
Doe, George M. The parish church of Great Torrington. - 1925. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: p726.5/GRE/DOE : DP900TOR/DOE. -
Subjects: Devon. Great Torrington. Churches.
Presland, John. Torquay : the charm and history of its neighbourhood / by John Presland ; illustrated by F.J.Widgery. - London : Chatto and Windus, 1920. - 190 pages, plates : coloured.illustrations ; 23 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: B/TOR 7/1920/PRE ; BAR: BX:TOR 7/1920/PRE ; TOR. -
Subjects: Devon. Torbay. Description and travel. 1920. -
Wiggin, Kate. Douglas Smith, 1856-1923. Penelope's postscripts; Switzerland: Venice: Wales: Devon: home. - Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Description and travel. 1915. -
Histories of notable Devon families have been digitised and, although they do not always bring the story down to the 1920s, they can shed light on the social structure of local communities.
Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938 The Devon Carys New York : De Vinne Press 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s929.2/CAR : s929.2/CARr : D929.2/CAR. -
Subjects: Devon. Families. Cary family.
The Coffin family were prominent in Alwington. Extracts from the Portledge papers, published in 1928, have been digitised for the period 1682-1697 on the Exeter Working Papers in book history website.
Johnson, Mary Coffin. Charles F.Coffin : a quaker pioneer . - Richmond, Indiana : Nicholson Printing Company, 1923. - 213,xi pages : illustrations ; 22cm. -
Archive.org
Copies: NDA: D929.2/COF. -
Subjects: Devon. Alwington. Families. Coffin family.
The following title provides historical background to the transformation of Dartington by the Elmhirsts from 1925.
Gibbs, Herbert Cokayne, Baron Hunsdon, 1854-1935. History of Gibbs of Fenton in Dartington, County Devon / by Lord Hunsdon of Hunsdon. - London : Saint Catherine Press, 1925. - DUL 00580. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: WSL [not checked]
Subjects: Devon. Dartington. Families. Gibbs Family.
Baring-Gould, Sabine. Devonshire characters and strange events. First series / by S. Baring-Gould, M.A.; with 22 full-page illustrations reproduced from unique paintings. - London : John Lane, [ 1926]. - [4], vii-xiv,[2], 420 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 19 cm. - First published [as 1st part of Devonshire characters and strange events] 1908. Cheap edition 1926. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Fiction, poetry, drama.Local novelists can often provide a feel of the period, especially when their works are set locally. Many of the works of literature in this section are digitised from American editions which are not held in Devon libraries. Agatha Christie’s family home was in Torquay and she only moved to Greenway in 1938. About fifteen of Agatha Christie’s crime novels are set in Devon.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The man in the brown suit / by Agatha Christie. - New York : Dodd, Mead and Co. 1924. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Writers. Christie, Agatha. Works: Fiction.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The Plymouth Express Affair In: Book magazine, 1924. - Pages 136-142. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Writers. Christie, Agatha. Works: Fiction.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Poirot investigates / by Agatha Christie. - London : Bodley Head, [ 1921]. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Writers. Christie, Agatha. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. Humbug: A Study in Education / by E. M. Delafield. - New York : Macmillan Company, 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
E. M. Delafield lived in Kentisbeare and many of her novels are influenced by the rural Devon community. Her best known work The diary of a provincial lady was only published in 1930 but gives a humorous caccount of the later 1920s.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. Messalina of the suburbs London : Hutchinson & Co., [ 1923]. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. The heel of Achilles. - New York : Macmillan Company, 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. The optimist. - London : Hutchinson & Co., 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. Tension. - New York : Macmillan Company, 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
John Galsworthy had a home at Wingstone in Manaton from 1908 to 1923. Although the thirty-volume edition of his works appearing in the 1920s was named the Manaton edition, there is relatively little local reference in his works.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Awakening / by John Galsworthy ; illustrated by R.H.Sauter. - London : Heinemann, [ 1920]. - 63 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/GAL. -
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Beyond / by John Galsworthy. - New York : Charles Scribner's sons 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon.
Galsworthy, John. A modern comedy. Volume 1. The white monkey. - New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. - Devon edition ; volume 20. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Directories are a major source for local studies. County directories are available for 1923, 1926 and 1930, but none are digitised on-line for the 1920s. Kelly’s contains detailed information for every community in the county. The image below shows the cover of the 1923 directory but the page shown is from the 1919 directory, the latest to be digitised, and with the following page indicates the level of detail for Newton St Cyres, whose population in 1911 was 677. Directories are also available for individual towns in Devon. Details are given in the fuller listings.
Kelly’s Directories. Kelly's directory of Devonshire. - London : Kelly’s Directories, 1923. - 83, xxvi, 1218 pages : folded map ; 27 cm. -
Historical directories, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: 380.1025/DEV/1923 : s380.1025/DEV/1923 : 380.1/B/1923 : D380/KEL . -
Subjects: Devon. Directories. 1923. -
Guidebooks give a picture of the county often slanted to tourists rather than the local community. This presentation illustrates only some of those that have been digitised. Guidebooks can also cover regions or individual communities in Devon. There is a rich collection in the Westcountry Studies Library extending back to the early 19th century. Ward Lock red guides can only be dated by the advertising supplements, which provide valuable detail on the tourist industry of the 1920s.
Ward, Lock and Company, Ltd A pictorial and descriptive guide to Barnstaple, Ilfracombe, Bideford, Clovelly and north-west Devon London : Ward, Lock 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. North Devon. Guides. 1920. -
Some publishers specialised in issuing guidebooks. In the 1920s the Homeland Association was able to attract leading historians such as Beatrix Cresswell as authors.
Cresswell, Beatrix F. Dartmoor with its surroundings; a handbook for visitors London : Homeland Association 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Guides. 1920. -
Doe, George M. The parish church of Great Torrington. - 1925. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: p726.5/GRE/DOE : DP900TOR/DOE. -
Subjects: Devon. Great Torrington. Churches.
Presland, John. Torquay : the charm and history of its neighbourhood / by John Presland ; illustrated by F.J.Widgery. - London : Chatto and Windus, 1920. - 190 pages, plates : coloured.illustrations ; 23 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: B/TOR 7/1920/PRE ; BAR: BX:TOR 7/1920/PRE ; TOR. -
Subjects: Devon. Torbay. Description and travel. 1920. -
Wiggin, Kate. Douglas Smith, 1856-1923. Penelope's postscripts; Switzerland: Venice: Wales: Devon: home. - Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Description and travel. 1915. -
Histories of notable Devon families have been digitised and, although they do not always bring the story down to the 1920s, they can shed light on the social structure of local communities.
Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938 The Devon Carys New York : De Vinne Press 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s929.2/CAR : s929.2/CARr : D929.2/CAR. -
Subjects: Devon. Families. Cary family.
The Coffin family were prominent in Alwington. Extracts from the Portledge papers, published in 1928, have been digitised for the period 1682-1697 on the Exeter Working Papers in book history website.
Johnson, Mary Coffin. Charles F.Coffin : a quaker pioneer . - Richmond, Indiana : Nicholson Printing Company, 1923. - 213,xi pages : illustrations ; 22cm. -
Archive.org
Copies: NDA: D929.2/COF. -
Subjects: Devon. Alwington. Families. Coffin family.
The following title provides historical background to the transformation of Dartington by the Elmhirsts from 1925.
Gibbs, Herbert Cokayne, Baron Hunsdon, 1854-1935. History of Gibbs of Fenton in Dartington, County Devon / by Lord Hunsdon of Hunsdon. - London : Saint Catherine Press, 1925. - DUL 00580. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: WSL [not checked]
Subjects: Devon. Dartington. Families. Gibbs Family.
Baring-Gould, Sabine. Devonshire characters and strange events. First series / by S. Baring-Gould, M.A.; with 22 full-page illustrations reproduced from unique paintings. - London : John Lane, [ 1926]. - [4], vii-xiv,[2], 420 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 19 cm. - First published [as 1st part of Devonshire characters and strange events] 1908. Cheap edition 1926. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Fiction, poetry, drama.Local novelists can often provide a feel of the period, especially when their works are set locally. Many of the works of literature in this section are digitised from American editions which are not held in Devon libraries. Agatha Christie’s family home was in Torquay and she only moved to Greenway in 1938. About fifteen of Agatha Christie’s crime novels are set in Devon.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The man in the brown suit / by Agatha Christie. - New York : Dodd, Mead and Co. 1924. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Writers. Christie, Agatha. Works: Fiction.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. The Plymouth Express Affair In: Book magazine, 1924. - Pages 136-142. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Writers. Christie, Agatha. Works: Fiction.
Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976. Poirot investigates / by Agatha Christie. - London : Bodley Head, [ 1921]. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Writers. Christie, Agatha. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. Humbug: A Study in Education / by E. M. Delafield. - New York : Macmillan Company, 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
E. M. Delafield lived in Kentisbeare and many of her novels are influenced by the rural Devon community. Her best known work The diary of a provincial lady was only published in 1930 but gives a humorous caccount of the later 1920s.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. Messalina of the suburbs London : Hutchinson & Co., [ 1923]. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. The heel of Achilles. - New York : Macmillan Company, 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. The optimist. - London : Hutchinson & Co., 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
Delafield, E. M., 1890-1943. Tension. - New York : Macmillan Company, 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kentisbeare. Writers. Delafield, E. M. Works: Fiction.
John Galsworthy had a home at Wingstone in Manaton from 1908 to 1923. Although the thirty-volume edition of his works appearing in the 1920s was named the Manaton edition, there is relatively little local reference in his works.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Awakening / by John Galsworthy ; illustrated by R.H.Sauter. - London : Heinemann, [ 1920]. - 63 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/GAL. -
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Beyond / by John Galsworthy. - New York : Charles Scribner's sons 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon.
Galsworthy, John. A modern comedy. Volume 1. The white monkey. - New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. - Devon edition ; volume 20. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. The Forsyte saga / by John Galsworthy. - New York : Charles Scribners Sons 1924. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Memories / by John Galsworthy, Illustrated by Maud Earl. - London : W. Heinemann ; New York, C. Scribner's Sons 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works.
Chevrillon, André, 1864-1957 Trois études de littérature anglaise: la poésie de Rudyard Kipling; John Galsworthy; Shakespeare et l'âme anglaise. - Paris : Plon 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Critical studies.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. The burning spear : being the experiences of Mr. John Lavender in time of war New York : Charles Scribner's Sons 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
Caravan is a collection of 56 short stories composed between the years 1900 and 1923. It includes A man of Devon and The apple tree, the manuscript of which is in the Westcountry Studies Library.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Caravan, the assembled tales of John Galsworthy New York : C. Scribner's Sons 1925. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
An earlier writer who had enduring popularity in the 1920s was Bideford's Charles Kingsley, and his most famous novel received frequent reprintings during the decade. Two other them have been digitised for the 1920s, one published in London and the other in New York.
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. Westward ho! or, The voyage and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth / by Charles Kingsley. Pictures by N.C. Wyeth. - New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1920. - viii, 413 pages, colour plates ; 24 cm. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. Westward ho! or, The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh knt. of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth, rendered into modern English / by Charles Kingsley. - London : J. M. Dent & sons Ltd., [ 1929]. - [8],3-633, [1] pages ; 18 cm. - First published in this edition 1906. Reprinted ... 1929. Title within ornamental border. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Oxenham, John. The hidden years New York : David McKay Co. 1925. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Writers. Oxenham, John. Works: Fiction.
Eden Phillpotts, who lived in Torquay and Broadclyst, is probably the most prolific local novelist, and he also wrote locally inspired poetry and plays.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Arachne; a play London : Cecil Palmer, [ 1920]. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Drama.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. As the wind blows. - London : Elkin Matthews 1920. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : s821/PHIg : 821 /PHI : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The bronze Venus. - London : Grant Richards, 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : s823/PHIr : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Cherry-stones. - London : Grant Richards 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : 821 /PHI . -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Curtain raisers. - London : Duckworth and Co., 1920. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s822/PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Drama.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Eudocia : a comedy royal . - London : William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : PHI : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Miser's money / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : William Heinemann, 1920. - viii,367 pages ; 19 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Orphan Dinah /by Eden Phillpotts. - London : William Heinemann, 1920. - 351 pages ; 19cm.-
Archive.org, accessed February 2021(Widecombe edition of Eden Phillpotts' Dartmoor novels ; vol. 13). -
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Told at the "Plume" / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : Hurst and Blackett, 1921. - 278 pages ; 18 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Eden Phillpott’s works were sometimes illustated and the noted artist Arthur Rackham contributed to this volume of his poems.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. A dish Of apples / by Eden Phillpotts ; with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. - London; New York : Hodder & Stoughton, [ 1921]. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : s821/PHIg : 821 /PHI . -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Eden Phillpotts also wrote dramas some, like this one act play, with a Devon rural setting.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The market-money : a play in one act London ; Glasgow : Gowans & Gray ; Boston : LeRoy Phillips 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon.
Not a local work, a piece of fantasy literature by this local writer is set in medieval Yorkshire, but is worth including for its colourful dust jacket.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The lavender dragon. - London : Grant Richards 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Another striking dust jacket for this Phillpotts collection of short stories, a mixture of crime and fantasy.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Black, white and brindled. - London : Grant Richards, 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Phillpotts used the pseudonym Harrington Hext for some of his crime novels. This one is set in Plymouth.
Hext, Harrington. The thing at their heels / by Harrington Hext [i.e. Eden Phillpotts]. - London : Thornton Butterworth, 1923. - 287 pages ; 19 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/HEX. -
Subjects: Devon. Plymouth. Writers. Hext, Harrington. Works: Fiction.
L-PHI-3 Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. A West Country pilgrimage. - London : Leonard Parsons, 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: WES/1920/PHI ; BAR: A/1920/PHI . -
Subjects: Westcountry. Description and travel. 1920. -
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Children of men / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : William Heinemann, 1923. - x,471 pages ; 19 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI ; TOR: D870
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Another Dartmoor novel by Phillpotts, this one featuring an American detective.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The red Redmaynes / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : Hutchinson, [ 1923]. - 287 pages ; 19cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Princetown. Fiction. Texts.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Pixies' plot. - London : Grant Richards 1922. -
Project Gutenberg, accessed April 2021
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : s821/PHIg . -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Story, Walter Scott The young crusader, how Richard of Devon served Richard the Lion-hearted Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Fiction. Texts.
Henry Williamson spent most of his creative life in north Devon and the University of Exeter holds his literary archives.
Williamson, Henry. Tarka the otter : his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers / by Henry Williamson. - 5th ed. - London : G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1928. - viii,256 pages ; 19 cm. - Archive.orgAccessed April 2021. -
Copies: WSL: s823/WIL. -
Subjects: Devon. North Devon. Writers. Williamson, Henry. Works: Fiction.
Dialect literature. Albert John Coles who wrote under the name of Jan Stewer was a dialect author and performer who lived in Whitestone. He was active in the 1920s but this 1930 example is the earliest dust jacket traceable during lockdown. No on-line texts from the 1920s were traced, but his Demshur buke will give a praper vlaver o’ is spaich.
Stewer, Jan. Jan Stewer's Demshur buke. - [1910?]. - http://stleibowitz.org Accessed April 2021. -
Copies: WSL: s828.99/STE : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon.
Newspapers. A vital source for a day by day account of happenings across Devon, local newspaper files can be difficult to trace. The British Newspaper Archive includes the following Devon titles for the 1920s: Western Times, North Devon Journal, Western Morning News, Western Evening Herald, Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, Hartland and West Country Chronicle.
A subscription is neededed to access the British Newspaper Archive. The larger Devon libraries hold many files, mainly on microfilm
Periodicals. Few Devon periodical titles have been digitised for the 1920s but the Devon bibliography indexes many periodical articles.
Devonshire Association. Report and transactions : Totnes, July, 1930. – Vol. 52. – Plymouth : W. Brendon and Son Ltd, 1920. Only the volumes up to 1920 are currently available on-line but there are good files in all major libraries accessible post-lockdown. Articles have been indexed in the Devon bibliography. Copies: WSL ; BAR ; PLY ; TOR ; DEI ; Archive.org. – Subjects: Devon. Learned societies. Periodicals.
Devon & Cornwall notes & queries. - Volume 11, from January 1920 to October 1921. - Exeter : James G. Commin, 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. History. Periodicals.
The following work was issued with the periodical Devon and Cornwall notes and queries. The periodical, established in 1900 still continues today and there are files for the 1920s in the major libraries in the county, but the title itself is not completely available on-line.
Clarke, Kate Marie. The misericords of Exeter cathedral / by Kate M.Clarke. - Exeter : James G. Commin, 1920. - 57p,plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: sB/EXE/729.93/CLA ; BAR: 729.93/EXE/CLA ; NDA: D900EXE/CLA. -
Subjects: Devon. Exeter. Cathedrals. Saint Peter. Misericords.
The Devonian yearbook. – London : London Devonian Association, 1920-1929. Copies: WSL ; BAR ; PLY ; TOR ; DEI.
archive.org only has this title digitised for 1916-1918. This year book gives a nostalgic image of the county from well-heeled expat Devonians in the metropolis. There are files covering the 1920s in larger libraries in Devon. Subjects: Devon. County associations. London Devonian Association. Yearbooks.
The Devon and Cornwall Record Society have been publishing editions of historical records since the start of the 20th century. In the 1920s they were concentrating on parish registers and their regular publications were made up of sections containing several works in progress, as can be seen by the wrapper reproduced with the Topsham transcript. While the items relate to earlier centuries, they do provide evidence of the intellectual life on Devon in the 1920s.
Colyton. Parish. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the parish of Colyton, Devon, 1538-1837. - Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1928. - Google Books, Accessed April, 2021. -
Hemyock. Parish. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the parish of Hemyock, Devon, 1635-1837, with the Bishop's transcripts for the years, 1602, 1606, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1617, 1625, 1626, 1633, 1636, and a list of the rectors and chaplain priests / transcribed by A. J. P. Skinner. - Exeter : Devon & Cornwall Record Society, 1923. - xxiii, 255 pages ; 23 cm. - The index was compiled by Mary Kelland. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Ottery Saint Mary. Parish. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the parish of Ottery St. Mary, England / transcribed by Harry Tapley-Soper. - Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1929. - Google Books, Accessed April, 2021. -
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Memories / by John Galsworthy, Illustrated by Maud Earl. - London : W. Heinemann ; New York, C. Scribner's Sons 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works.
Chevrillon, André, 1864-1957 Trois études de littérature anglaise: la poésie de Rudyard Kipling; John Galsworthy; Shakespeare et l'âme anglaise. - Paris : Plon 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Critical studies.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. The burning spear : being the experiences of Mr. John Lavender in time of war New York : Charles Scribner's Sons 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
Caravan is a collection of 56 short stories composed between the years 1900 and 1923. It includes A man of Devon and The apple tree, the manuscript of which is in the Westcountry Studies Library.
Galsworthy, John, 1867-1933. Caravan, the assembled tales of John Galsworthy New York : C. Scribner's Sons 1925. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Manaton. Writers. Galsworthy, John. Works: Fiction.
An earlier writer who had enduring popularity in the 1920s was Bideford's Charles Kingsley, and his most famous novel received frequent reprintings during the decade. Two other them have been digitised for the 1920s, one published in London and the other in New York.
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. Westward ho! or, The voyage and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth / by Charles Kingsley. Pictures by N.C. Wyeth. - New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1920. - viii, 413 pages, colour plates ; 24 cm. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Kingsley, Charles, 1819-1875. Westward ho! or, The voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh knt. of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth, rendered into modern English / by Charles Kingsley. - London : J. M. Dent & sons Ltd., [ 1929]. - [8],3-633, [1] pages ; 18 cm. - First published in this edition 1906. Reprinted ... 1929. Title within ornamental border. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Oxenham, John. The hidden years New York : David McKay Co. 1925. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Writers. Oxenham, John. Works: Fiction.
Eden Phillpotts, who lived in Torquay and Broadclyst, is probably the most prolific local novelist, and he also wrote locally inspired poetry and plays.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Arachne; a play London : Cecil Palmer, [ 1920]. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Drama.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. As the wind blows. - London : Elkin Matthews 1920. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : s821/PHIg : 821 /PHI : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The bronze Venus. - London : Grant Richards, 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : s823/PHIr : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Cherry-stones. - London : Grant Richards 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : 821 /PHI . -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Curtain raisers. - London : Duckworth and Co., 1920. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s822/PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Drama.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Eudocia : a comedy royal . - London : William Heinemann, Ltd. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : PHI : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Miser's money / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : William Heinemann, 1920. - viii,367 pages ; 19 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Orphan Dinah /by Eden Phillpotts. - London : William Heinemann, 1920. - 351 pages ; 19cm.-
Archive.org, accessed February 2021(Widecombe edition of Eden Phillpotts' Dartmoor novels ; vol. 13). -
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Told at the "Plume" / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : Hurst and Blackett, 1921. - 278 pages ; 18 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Eden Phillpott’s works were sometimes illustated and the noted artist Arthur Rackham contributed to this volume of his poems.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. A dish Of apples / by Eden Phillpotts ; with illustrations by Arthur Rackham. - London; New York : Hodder & Stoughton, [ 1921]. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : s821/PHIg : 821 /PHI . -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Eden Phillpotts also wrote dramas some, like this one act play, with a Devon rural setting.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The market-money : a play in one act London ; Glasgow : Gowans & Gray ; Boston : LeRoy Phillips 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon.
Not a local work, a piece of fantasy literature by this local writer is set in medieval Yorkshire, but is worth including for its colourful dust jacket.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The lavender dragon. - London : Grant Richards 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Another striking dust jacket for this Phillpotts collection of short stories, a mixture of crime and fantasy.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Black, white and brindled. - London : Grant Richards, 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI : PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Fiction.
Phillpotts used the pseudonym Harrington Hext for some of his crime novels. This one is set in Plymouth.
Hext, Harrington. The thing at their heels / by Harrington Hext [i.e. Eden Phillpotts]. - London : Thornton Butterworth, 1923. - 287 pages ; 19 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/HEX. -
Subjects: Devon. Plymouth. Writers. Hext, Harrington. Works: Fiction.
L-PHI-3 Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. A West Country pilgrimage. - London : Leonard Parsons, 1920. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: WES/1920/PHI ; BAR: A/1920/PHI . -
Subjects: Westcountry. Description and travel. 1920. -
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Children of men / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : William Heinemann, 1923. - x,471 pages ; 19 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI ; TOR: D870
Subjects: Devon. Dartmoor. Fiction. Texts.
Another Dartmoor novel by Phillpotts, this one featuring an American detective.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. The red Redmaynes / by Eden Phillpotts. - London : Hutchinson, [ 1923]. - 287 pages ; 19cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s823/PHI. -
Subjects: Devon. Princetown. Fiction. Texts.
Phillpotts, Eden, 1862-1960. Pixies' plot. - London : Grant Richards 1922. -
Copies: WSL: s821/PHI : s821/PHIg . -
Subjects: Devon. Broadclyst. Writers. Phillpotts, Eden. Works: Poetry.
Story, Walter Scott The young crusader, how Richard of Devon served Richard the Lion-hearted Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Fiction. Texts.
Henry Williamson spent most of his creative life in north Devon and the University of Exeter holds his literary archives.
Williamson, Henry. Tarka the otter : his joyful water-life and death in the country of the two rivers / by Henry Williamson. - 5th ed. - London : G.P.Putnam's Sons, 1928. - viii,256 pages ; 19 cm. - Archive.orgAccessed April 2021. -
Copies: WSL: s823/WIL. -
Subjects: Devon. North Devon. Writers. Williamson, Henry. Works: Fiction.
Dialect literature. Albert John Coles who wrote under the name of Jan Stewer was a dialect author and performer who lived in Whitestone. He was active in the 1920s but this 1930 example is the earliest dust jacket traceable during lockdown. No on-line texts from the 1920s were traced, but his Demshur buke will give a praper vlaver o’ is spaich.
Stewer, Jan. Jan Stewer's Demshur buke. - [1910?]. - http://stleibowitz.org Accessed April 2021. -
Copies: WSL: s828.99/STE : I/S. -
Subjects: Devon.
Newspapers. A vital source for a day by day account of happenings across Devon, local newspaper files can be difficult to trace. The British Newspaper Archive includes the following Devon titles for the 1920s: Western Times, North Devon Journal, Western Morning News, Western Evening Herald, Exeter and Plymouth Gazette, Hartland and West Country Chronicle.
A subscription is neededed to access the British Newspaper Archive. The larger Devon libraries hold many files, mainly on microfilm
Periodicals. Few Devon periodical titles have been digitised for the 1920s but the Devon bibliography indexes many periodical articles.
Devonshire Association. Report and transactions : Totnes, July, 1930. – Vol. 52. – Plymouth : W. Brendon and Son Ltd, 1920. Only the volumes up to 1920 are currently available on-line but there are good files in all major libraries accessible post-lockdown. Articles have been indexed in the Devon bibliography. Copies: WSL ; BAR ; PLY ; TOR ; DEI ; Archive.org. – Subjects: Devon. Learned societies. Periodicals.
Devon & Cornwall notes & queries. - Volume 11, from January 1920 to October 1921. - Exeter : James G. Commin, 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. History. Periodicals.
The following work was issued with the periodical Devon and Cornwall notes and queries. The periodical, established in 1900 still continues today and there are files for the 1920s in the major libraries in the county, but the title itself is not completely available on-line.
Clarke, Kate Marie. The misericords of Exeter cathedral / by Kate M.Clarke. - Exeter : James G. Commin, 1920. - 57p,plates : illustrations ; 23 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: sB/EXE/729.93/CLA ; BAR: 729.93/EXE/CLA ; NDA: D900EXE/CLA. -
Subjects: Devon. Exeter. Cathedrals. Saint Peter. Misericords.
The Devonian yearbook. – London : London Devonian Association, 1920-1929. Copies: WSL ; BAR ; PLY ; TOR ; DEI.
archive.org only has this title digitised for 1916-1918. This year book gives a nostalgic image of the county from well-heeled expat Devonians in the metropolis. There are files covering the 1920s in larger libraries in Devon. Subjects: Devon. County associations. London Devonian Association. Yearbooks.
The Devon and Cornwall Record Society have been publishing editions of historical records since the start of the 20th century. In the 1920s they were concentrating on parish registers and their regular publications were made up of sections containing several works in progress, as can be seen by the wrapper reproduced with the Topsham transcript. While the items relate to earlier centuries, they do provide evidence of the intellectual life on Devon in the 1920s.
Colyton. Parish. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the parish of Colyton, Devon, 1538-1837. - Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1928. - Google Books, Accessed April, 2021. -
Hemyock. Parish. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the parish of Hemyock, Devon, 1635-1837, with the Bishop's transcripts for the years, 1602, 1606, 1609, 1610, 1611, 1617, 1625, 1626, 1633, 1636, and a list of the rectors and chaplain priests / transcribed by A. J. P. Skinner. - Exeter : Devon & Cornwall Record Society, 1923. - xxiii, 255 pages ; 23 cm. - The index was compiled by Mary Kelland. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Ottery Saint Mary. Parish. The register of baptisms, marriages & burials of the parish of Ottery St. Mary, England / transcribed by Harry Tapley-Soper. - Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1929. - Google Books, Accessed April, 2021. -
Topsham. Parish. Parish of Topsham, co. Devon. Marriages, baptisms & burials, A.D. 1600 to 1837. From the parochial register, the register of the independent meeting, the register of the Presbyterians, the register of the Quakers, together with copies of memorial inscriptions / transcribed and edited by H. Tapley-Soper - Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 1923-[1938]. - 817 pages ; 22 cm. - Issued in parts. Paged continuously. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Brixham. Parish. Transcript of the parish register of Brixham, Devon 1556-1646 / transcribed by Dr. Charles E. Banks. - [Chicago, Ill.] : [Typescript], 1942. - 142 leaves ; 29 cm. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Official publications, which include census reports, are an important source. The Wellcome Library have digitised many such items in their collections.
Hancock, George Charles; Report on an outbreak of dysentery in the urban district of Lynton, Devon London : HMSO, 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Lynton. Dysentery. Reports. 1923. -
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the Palk manuscripts in the possession of Mrs. Bannatyne, of Haldon, Devon. - London : H.M.S.O, 1922. - 492 pages ; 25 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s954.030924/DEV/HIS. -
Subjects: Devon. Kenn. Indian army officers. Palk, Robert. Sir. Manuscripts. -1786. -
Medical officer of health reports contain much demographic information and sometimes even meteorological observations. Thanks to the Wellcome Library many Devon local authorities are represented online for the 1920s.
Barnstaple Borough Council. Report of the medical officer of health [...] for 1921. - Barnstaple : Barnstaple Borough Council. 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Barnstaple. Public health. Annual reports.
Also available on-line for 1922
Bovey Tracey and District Hospital. Report [for] 1926. - 15th. - Bovey Tracey : Bovey Tracey and District Hospital. 1927. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Bovey Tracey. Hospitals. Bovey Tracey and District Hospital. Annual reports.
Dartmouth Borough Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health [for] 1920. - . - Dartmouth : Dartmouth Borough Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Dartmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available on-line for 1923. 1925
Dartmouth and Totnes Port Sanitary Authority. Annual report of the medical officer of health [for] 1923. - . - Dartmouth : Dartmouth and Totnes Port Sanitary Authority. 1924. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Dartmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1923. -
Also available on-line for 1925.
Devon County Council. Annual report of the county medical officer of health for the year 1920. - Exeter : Devon County Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available on-line for 1923, 1925.
Exmouth Urban District Council. Annual report for 1923 of the vital statistics, sanitary work, &c. - Exmouth : Exmouth Urban District Council. 1924. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Exmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1923. -
Also available on-line for 1925.
Honiton Rural District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for […] 1920. - Honiton: Honiton Rural District Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Honiton. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available on-line for 1925
Honiton Town Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for 1925. - Honiton: Honiton Town Council. 1926. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Honiton. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Kingsbridge Urban District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for the year 1925. - Kingsbridge : Kingsbridge Urban District Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kingsbridge. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. Annual report] 1926-7. - Kingsbridge : Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. 1927. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kingsbridge. Hospitals. Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. Annual reports.
Q-KIN Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. [ Annual report] 1927-8. - Kingsbridge : Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. 1928. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kingsbridge. Hospitals. Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. Annual reports.
Northam Urban District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health [for] 1925. - . - Northam : Northam Urban District Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Northam. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Seaton Urban Council. Report of the medical officer of health, 1925. - Seaton : Seaton Urban Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Seaton. Public health. Annual reports.
Sidmouth Urban District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for the year 1925. - Sidmouth : Sidmouth Urban District Council. 1926. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Sidmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Tiverton Borough Council. Report of the medical officer of health for the year ended 31st December 1925. - Tiverton : Tiverton Borough Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Tiverton. Public health. Annual reports.
Tiverton Rural District Council. Report of the medical officer of health for the year ending 31st December 1925. - Tiverton : Tiverton Rural District Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Tiverton. Public health. Annual reports.
Torquay Borough Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for the year 1920 […] together with summary of reports of the sanitary inspectors and meteorological observer. - Torquay : Torquay Borough Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available online for: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927. -
Torquay Borough Council. Annual report on the medical inspection and treatment of elementary school children [for] 1926. - 19th. - Torquay : Torquay Borough Council. 1927. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Public health. Annual reports. 1926. -
Also available on-line for 1927. -
Grey literature. This term covers official publications, but also the semi-published reports and surveys of official, academic or finacial institutions. Beolw is an example of a publication by one of the research bodies operating within the county in the days before universities had been established. Many papers produced through these bodies are also to be found in journals issued by national and some local organisations. Publications by a local scientist are also listed as examples of research by Devon academics.
Lockyer, William J.S. Handbook to the Norman Lockyer Observatory / compiled by Major William S.Lockyer. - Salcombe Regis : The Observaty, 1921. - 35p.2 leaves,18 plates:ill; 18c.. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: 522.1/SID/LOC ; BAR: 522.6/BX:SAL 7/LOC. -
Subjects: Devon. Salcombe Regis. Astronomical observatories.
Newth, George Samuel. Chemical lecture experiments; non-metallic elements London : Longmans, Green 1922. - Author born in Plymouth. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Plymouth. Newth, George Samuel. Works: Chemistry.
Newth, George Samuel. A manual of chemical analysis, qualitative and quantitative London : Longmans Green and Co., 1921. - Author born in Plymouth. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Plymouth. Scientists. Newth, George Samuel. Works: Chemistry.
This is a final example of the wide range of topics covered by the regional literature of the 1920s. The item combines botany and linguistics and is also an example of a publication by a local newspaper press.
Macmillan, Alexander Stuart Popular names of flowers, fruits, &c., as used in the county of Somerset and the adjacent parts of Devon, Dorset and Wilts. - Yeovil : Western Gazette 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s581.014/WES/MAC : 581.014/E/MAC. -
Subjects: Westcountry. Plants. Names.
Maps. Most of Devon has been surveyed at a scale of 25 inches to a mile (1:2,500) but the Ordnance Survey was undertaking little large-scale mapping in Devon during the 1920s, the bulk of the county having been covered by the survey of 1906. Know Your Place: Devon is the county’s main mapping system today and it includes many of the early maps digitised by the National Library of Scotland. This is also the source of the map shown here, published by the Scottish firm of John Bartholomew and Son. Bartholomew, John & Son. Half inch to a mile. 36: South Devon. - Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1923. Copies: WSL ; National Library of Scotland. Subjects: Devon. Exeter. Maps. 1923. -
And finally …
Illustrations. A picture is worth a thousand words. The Devon Heritage Centre and other community archives hold rich resources. The Devon bibliography provides on-line access to some 1,200 Devon images for the 1920s, chiefly watermarked images from the Francis Frith Collection at the web page Devon photographs from the 1920s.
Frith, Francis, and Co. Barnstaple : Fashionable ladies. - Reigate : Francis Frith & Co., [1929]. - Photograph. - FF 82262x. Frith Archive Accessed February 2021. –
Subjects: Devon. Barnstaple. Costume. 1929. -
The Devon bibliography contains more than 100,000 records for published documents, printed, digital, and manuscript, recording two millennia of the county’s literary heritage. Most of these items can be found in the main libraries in Devon:
Westcountry Studies Library
Devon and Exeter Institution
University of Exeter
Exeter Cathedral Library
Barnstaple Library
Plymouth Library
Torquay Library
In addition there are important local collections with museums, community archives, and local studies groups across the county. Please help the old bibliofool to make the bibliography as complete as possible by recording publications, old and new, which may have been missed.
This page last updated 8 May 2021
Brixham. Parish. Transcript of the parish register of Brixham, Devon 1556-1646 / transcribed by Dr. Charles E. Banks. - [Chicago, Ill.] : [Typescript], 1942. - 142 leaves ; 29 cm. - Haithi Trust, Accessed April, 2021. -
Official publications, which include census reports, are an important source. The Wellcome Library have digitised many such items in their collections.
Hancock, George Charles; Report on an outbreak of dysentery in the urban district of Lynton, Devon London : HMSO, 1923. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Lynton. Dysentery. Reports. 1923. -
Historical Manuscripts Commission. Report on the Palk manuscripts in the possession of Mrs. Bannatyne, of Haldon, Devon. - London : H.M.S.O, 1922. - 492 pages ; 25 cm. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s954.030924/DEV/HIS. -
Subjects: Devon. Kenn. Indian army officers. Palk, Robert. Sir. Manuscripts. -1786. -
Medical officer of health reports contain much demographic information and sometimes even meteorological observations. Thanks to the Wellcome Library many Devon local authorities are represented online for the 1920s.
Barnstaple Borough Council. Report of the medical officer of health [...] for 1921. - Barnstaple : Barnstaple Borough Council. 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Barnstaple. Public health. Annual reports.
Also available on-line for 1922
Bovey Tracey and District Hospital. Report [for] 1926. - 15th. - Bovey Tracey : Bovey Tracey and District Hospital. 1927. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Bovey Tracey. Hospitals. Bovey Tracey and District Hospital. Annual reports.
Dartmouth Borough Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health [for] 1920. - . - Dartmouth : Dartmouth Borough Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Dartmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available on-line for 1923. 1925
Dartmouth and Totnes Port Sanitary Authority. Annual report of the medical officer of health [for] 1923. - . - Dartmouth : Dartmouth and Totnes Port Sanitary Authority. 1924. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Dartmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1923. -
Also available on-line for 1925.
Devon County Council. Annual report of the county medical officer of health for the year 1920. - Exeter : Devon County Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available on-line for 1923, 1925.
Exmouth Urban District Council. Annual report for 1923 of the vital statistics, sanitary work, &c. - Exmouth : Exmouth Urban District Council. 1924. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Exmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1923. -
Also available on-line for 1925.
Honiton Rural District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for […] 1920. - Honiton: Honiton Rural District Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Honiton. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available on-line for 1925
Honiton Town Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for 1925. - Honiton: Honiton Town Council. 1926. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Honiton. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Kingsbridge Urban District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for the year 1925. - Kingsbridge : Kingsbridge Urban District Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kingsbridge. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. Annual report] 1926-7. - Kingsbridge : Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. 1927. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kingsbridge. Hospitals. Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. Annual reports.
Q-KIN Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. [ Annual report] 1927-8. - Kingsbridge : Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. 1928. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Kingsbridge. Hospitals. Kingsbridge and District Cottage Hospital. Annual reports.
Northam Urban District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health [for] 1925. - . - Northam : Northam Urban District Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Northam. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Seaton Urban Council. Report of the medical officer of health, 1925. - Seaton : Seaton Urban Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Seaton. Public health. Annual reports.
Sidmouth Urban District Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for the year 1925. - Sidmouth : Sidmouth Urban District Council. 1926. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Sidmouth. Public health. Annual reports. 1925. -
Tiverton Borough Council. Report of the medical officer of health for the year ended 31st December 1925. - Tiverton : Tiverton Borough Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Tiverton. Public health. Annual reports.
Tiverton Rural District Council. Report of the medical officer of health for the year ending 31st December 1925. - Tiverton : Tiverton Rural District Council. 1926. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Tiverton. Public health. Annual reports.
Torquay Borough Council. Annual report of the medical officer of health for the year 1920 […] together with summary of reports of the sanitary inspectors and meteorological observer. - Torquay : Torquay Borough Council. 1921. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Public health. Annual reports. 1920. -
Also available online for: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1926 and 1927. -
Torquay Borough Council. Annual report on the medical inspection and treatment of elementary school children [for] 1926. - 19th. - Torquay : Torquay Borough Council. 1927. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Torquay. Public health. Annual reports. 1926. -
Also available on-line for 1927. -
Grey literature. This term covers official publications, but also the semi-published reports and surveys of official, academic or finacial institutions. Beolw is an example of a publication by one of the research bodies operating within the county in the days before universities had been established. Many papers produced through these bodies are also to be found in journals issued by national and some local organisations. Publications by a local scientist are also listed as examples of research by Devon academics.
Lockyer, William J.S. Handbook to the Norman Lockyer Observatory / compiled by Major William S.Lockyer. - Salcombe Regis : The Observaty, 1921. - 35p.2 leaves,18 plates:ill; 18c.. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: 522.1/SID/LOC ; BAR: 522.6/BX:SAL 7/LOC. -
Subjects: Devon. Salcombe Regis. Astronomical observatories.
Newth, George Samuel. Chemical lecture experiments; non-metallic elements London : Longmans, Green 1922. - Author born in Plymouth. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Plymouth. Newth, George Samuel. Works: Chemistry.
Newth, George Samuel. A manual of chemical analysis, qualitative and quantitative London : Longmans Green and Co., 1921. - Author born in Plymouth. - Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Subjects: Devon. Plymouth. Scientists. Newth, George Samuel. Works: Chemistry.
This is a final example of the wide range of topics covered by the regional literature of the 1920s. The item combines botany and linguistics and is also an example of a publication by a local newspaper press.
Macmillan, Alexander Stuart Popular names of flowers, fruits, &c., as used in the county of Somerset and the adjacent parts of Devon, Dorset and Wilts. - Yeovil : Western Gazette 1922. -
Archive.org, accessed February 2021
Copies: WSL: s581.014/WES/MAC : 581.014/E/MAC. -
Subjects: Westcountry. Plants. Names.
Maps. Most of Devon has been surveyed at a scale of 25 inches to a mile (1:2,500) but the Ordnance Survey was undertaking little large-scale mapping in Devon during the 1920s, the bulk of the county having been covered by the survey of 1906. Know Your Place: Devon is the county’s main mapping system today and it includes many of the early maps digitised by the National Library of Scotland. This is also the source of the map shown here, published by the Scottish firm of John Bartholomew and Son. Bartholomew, John & Son. Half inch to a mile. 36: South Devon. - Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1923. Copies: WSL ; National Library of Scotland. Subjects: Devon. Exeter. Maps. 1923. -
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Illustrations. A picture is worth a thousand words. The Devon Heritage Centre and other community archives hold rich resources. The Devon bibliography provides on-line access to some 1,200 Devon images for the 1920s, chiefly watermarked images from the Francis Frith Collection at the web page Devon photographs from the 1920s.
Frith, Francis, and Co. Barnstaple : Fashionable ladies. - Reigate : Francis Frith & Co., [1929]. - Photograph. - FF 82262x. Frith Archive Accessed February 2021. –
Subjects: Devon. Barnstaple. Costume. 1929. -
The Devon bibliography contains more than 100,000 records for published documents, printed, digital, and manuscript, recording two millennia of the county’s literary heritage. Most of these items can be found in the main libraries in Devon:
Westcountry Studies Library
Devon and Exeter Institution
University of Exeter
Exeter Cathedral Library
Barnstaple Library
Plymouth Library
Torquay Library
In addition there are important local collections with museums, community archives, and local studies groups across the county. Please help the old bibliofool to make the bibliography as complete as possible by recording publications, old and new, which may have been missed.
This page last updated 8 May 2021
