Copies of most of these publications are available for purchase at Iffley Village Community Shop on Church Way.
Author(s) | Year | Cover price | ||
0 | Mrs Nowell’s School: Charity Work in Old Iffley This booklet was written before the Society came into existence. The author (who became the Society’s first Research Officer and second Chairman) has continued her generosity to the Society by giving this publication to us. | Sheila Fairfield | 1988 | £2.50 |
1 | Iffley, Brunel & the Great Western Railway A fascinating uncovering of “what might have been” | John Leigh | 1997 | £3.00 |
2 | Iffley Church and Medieval LifeSeveral special features of St Mary’s Iffley, such as the unique font and the pillars in the choir, provide insights into life in medieval times | Ruth Nineham | 1997 | £3.00 |
3 | Iffley Watermill – a HistoryThe watermill at Iffley burned down in 1908, but before then had a long and eventful history going back to the 12th century | John Perrott | 1999 | £3.00 |
4 | Life Around the Time of the First MillenniumThe Iffley ‘Millennium History Lecture’ looking back to life a thousand years before | Dennis Nineham | 2000 | £3.00 |
5 | Who Built Iffley Church? – what can we know about him/her?A Q&A approach to understanding more about our church | Ruth Nineham | 2001 | £3.00 |
6 | Elizabethan Iffley: a first glimpseAn early picture of the village, drawing on the earliest known Iffley Parish Register of 1572 | Elizabeth Wells | 2001 | £3.00 |
7 | The 19th century Threat to Iffley LockThe lock today is an essential feature of Iffley, but in the late 1800s it was under real threat of removal as a proposed solution (happily not carried through) to the problem of flooding upstream | John Perrott/John Leigh | 2001 | £3.00 |
8 | Agricultural Life in Iffley – from Norman times to the Victorian ageUntil well into the 19th century, Iffley was an entirely rural village living an agricultural existence | Susan Bird | 2003 | £3.00 |
9 | From Lofty Minds to Lifted Lofts – a northerly progress through IffleyA pot-pourri of places, events and people in the village through the centuries | various | 2004 | £3.00 |
10 | Grove House and its PeopleThe story of one of Iffley’s most celebrated houses, from the 1830s to the end of the 20th century | Sheila Fairfield/ Elizabeth Wells | 2005 | £3.00 |
11 | Major Allen (1891-1940) – aerial archaeologistAn Iffley resident for much of his life, George Allen was among the foremost pioneers in the development of aerial surveying for archaeological purposes | Dr Arthur MacGregor | 2006 | £3.00 |
12 | A House with Lawns – stories of Hawkwell, The Priory and The ElmsThe stories of three related 19th century villas close to the centre of the village | Sheila Fairfield | 2008 | £3.00 |
13 | Village LivesBrings together thumb-nail pictures of a number of Iffley ‘characters’ through the 19th and 20th centuries | Sheila Fairfield | 2009 | £3.00 |
14 | The Great War: Iffley Remembers26 men of Iffley died in the Great War and many others were fortunate to return home. This book tells some of their stories | Ron + Diana Cosford | 2014 | £5.00 |
15 | The Rat Catcher’s Bride: glimpses of a 19th century lifeThe story of Harriet Faulkner who lived in and around Rose Hill. | Elizabeth Wells | 2015 | £3.50 |
16 | The recluse of Iftele: Annora de Briouze : the life and times of an anchoress in medieval England On 7th July 2018 Living Stones Iffley hosted a celebration in honour of Annora. Dr Hilary Pearson was one of four lecturers that day. She generously allowed the History Society to publish her talk. |
Hilary Pearson | 2019 | £3.00 |
17 | An Iffley Miscellany: Fragments of Village History Chapters on the Churchyard, the Iffley ‘Miasma’,”our” ammonites and milestones, and Iffley’s connection to a piece of WW2 music the Warsaw Concerto. Also an update to pub 14 & the fate of Iffley’s WWI servicemen. | Various | 2019 | £3.00 |