My Publications

My first publication was in Mind entitled ‘On Quine’s so called Paradox’ It had to be co-authored by a professor at Toronto University as I was unknown but it pretty well killed off a philosophical debate that had raged for years.

Since then I have had several technical articles published in a variety of magazine and journals but cannot recall them at all.

After we came to live in Purley in 1972 I began compiling a number of booklets on local and military history and then joined a group which we called The Kitchener Battalions led by Colin Fox of Reading University and we published a series of softbound books on the Kitchener Battalions of the Royal Berkshire Regiment in WW I which were very much a joint effort. They were:

  • Responding to the Call 1995 ISBN 0 7049 0423 3
  • On The Somme 1996 ISBN 0 70491 60 4
  • Arras to Cambrai 1997 ISBN 0 704911 61 2
  • Their Duty Done 1998 ISBN 0 704911 62 0

Then after Colin’s death we published other books authored mainly by one person:-

  • The 1st Battalion by Ian Cull 2003 ISBN 0 9540365-1-4
  • The 2nd Battalion by Ian Cull 2005 ISBN 0-7524-3571-X
  • Friends and Enemies by me 2012 ISBN 978-0-9566341-4-6
  • Maiwand by Richard Stackpole-Ryding 2008 ISBN 978 0 7524 4597 3

I was very much engaged in a Reading Libraries project entitled

  • Berkshire in the First World War edited by John Arcus 2014 ISBN 978-0-9566341-6-0

to which I contributed four chapters:

I then produced three booklets in 2015 for limited circulation:

  • The 2nd/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment at Fromelles July 1916
  • The Battle of Loos (8th Battalion) Sept/Oct 1915
  • The Battle of Fromelles (2nd Battalion) May 1915

My next major work was:

  • The History of St Mary’s Church, Purley 2014 ISBN 978-0-9566341-5-3

And the local history Booklets were:-

  • Sources for the history of Purley on Thames part 1 1986
  • Sources for the history of Purley on Thames part 2 1988
  • Monumental Inscriptions ast St Mary’s Purley 1989
  • Sources for the history of Purley on Thames part 3 1988
  • Index Locurum to the diary of Reading Corporatioj 2005
  • A short history of the parish church of St Mary Purley 1988
  • The place names of Purley on Thames 1990
  • At the Millennium 1999
  • Members of Parliament for Pangbourne and Purley 2010
  • Road transport services in Purley and Pangbourne