Buying our publications

Some issues of our journal Richmond History, and some of our older books, are out of print. However, you can browse copies in the Local Studies Collection at the Old Town Hall, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond TW9 1TP.

You can buy our publications that are currently in print:

at the Museum of Richmond and from local bookshops, including The Kew Bookshop near Kew Gardens station, Lloyds of Kew just off Kew Green, The National Archives’ bookshop in Kew and The Open Book in King Street, Richmond. Richmond at War 1939–1945 is also available at the Visitor Information Centre just outside Pembroke Lodge in Richmond Park.
at our monthly talks.
by post from Robert Smith, 3 Chelwood Gardens, Richmond TW9 4JG. Cheques should be made payable to the Richmond Local History Society. Our prices are listed below. (Reduced prices for members are shown in brackets.) For orders by post we also charge for postage and packing. For orders to UK addresses this is £1.50 for the first item; we may need to charge additional postage for orders of more than one item.
online, paying with a credit or debit card via PayPal. Our online prices include postage and packing.

The latest addition to our online bookshop is The Richmond Vicars, by Derek Robinson, published in September 2019 by the Museum of Richmond.

From the time that Richmond was little more than a village, St Mary Magdalene has been central to the life of the community. In his informative and entertaining book, Derek Robinson explores the lives of its ministers from the 17th century onwards. Some have been saintly, some eccentric and, yes, there have been some scandals.

ISBN 978-0-9518549-2-1

106 pages

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The Vicars of Richmond

Our own most recent book, The Streets of Richmond and Kew, published in January 2019, describes how each of Richmond and Kew’s streets was named and their wider significance for our local area’s history.

We are delighted to be able to reintroduce the book to our publications list after a very long gap: the first edition was published in 1989 and the second in 1990. Many Society members, including the late David Blomfield, contributed to this new, comprehensive and up-to-date third edition, which includes a full-colour map.

ISBN 978-1912-31401-0

140 pages

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Our journal, Richmond History, is published annually. Our most recent issue, no. 40, was published in June 2019.

Buy copies of our journal, Richmond History

Richmond at War 1939–1945 by Simon Fowler tells the story of life in the town during the Second World War. A series of raids saw the deaths of 98 civilians and damage to ten thousand buildings. The book also looks at some of the hush-hush activities in Richmond Park. There are stories of heroism, tragedy and good humour based on the memories of the men, women and children who were there. Buy copies of Richmond at War 1939–1945 and our other books on the Second World War: