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The  latest issue of our journal (Richmond History 44, published in November 2023), is available from our online bookshop, Kew Bookshop, The Open Book in Richmond, The National Archives’ shop, the Museum of Richmond, and Richmond Local Studies.

This 92-page issue (which includes 37 pages in colour) has articles by Rachel Hirschler, Max Lankester, Ron McEwen, John McM Moore, John Moses and Robert Wood on Richmond Park, Kew Gardens and Ham House.

Steven Woodbridge writes about local attitudes to Germany’s new Nazi regime in 1933, and there are articles by three of our recent speakers – Sandra Pullen on Sudbury Park, Nic Madge on Death in the Thames and Simon Targett on George Vancouver.

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Richmond History 44 (2024)


An expanded edition of our popular book The Streets of Richmond and Kew, published in 2022, describes how each of Richmond and Kew’s streets was named and their wider significance for our local area’s history. This fourth edition, with a street map in full colour and ten pages of colour illustrations, includes – for the first time – the roads in Richmond Park.

Copies are also available at The Open Book in Richmond, Kew Bookshop, The National Archives’ shop, the Museum of Richmond, Richmond Local Studies and (on the first Sunday of the month) on the Kew Village Market committee’s stall.

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The Streets of Richmond and Kew



We are currently working on new editions of these publications which are currently out of print:

  • John Cloake. Richmond Palace: its history and its plan
  • David Blomfield and Christopher May. Kew at War 1939-1945
  • Evelyn Pritchard. Ham House and its Owners Through Five Centuries
  • Leonard Chave and J M Lee. Ham and Petersham in Wartime
  • John Cloake. The Growth of Richmond

The following publications are also now out of print:

    • Leonard Chave (ed.) Evelyn Pritchard’s Guide to the Street Names of Ham and Petersham
    • John Cloake. Richmond’s Great Monastery: The Charterhouse of Jesus of Bethlehem of Shene
    • Margaret Evans. Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press in Richmond
    • John Moses. The Richmond House Historian

You can buy any of our publications that are currently in print from:

      • your local bookshop, anywhere in the UK. We can supply, on standard bookshop sales terms, any UK bookshop that wishes to order from us. Our books are currently stocked by Sheen Bookshop in East Sheen, Kew Bookshop (near Kew Gardens station), the shop at The National Archives in Kew, The Open Book at King Street Richmond, The Museum of Richmond, Richmond Local Studies Library and Archive, and Parades End Books on Richmond Road, Ham Parade, in Ham.
      • 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 £2.40 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.

These are now available from our online bookshop postage-free in the UK:

          • the 2023, 2021/22, 2020 and 2019 issues of our journal, Richmond History
          • Old Palace Lane: Medieval to Modern Richmond
          • Poverty and Philanthropy in Victorian Richmond
          • The Richmond Vicars
          • The Streets of Richmond and Kew

Richmond History 43 (2023) has 98 pages, more than 30 of them in colour.


Richmond History 43 (2023)



Richmond History 42 (2021/22) has 94 pages, 30 of them in colour.

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Richmond History 42 (2021/22)



Richmond History 41 (2020) has 98 pages, 20 of them in colour.
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Richmond History 41 (2020)



Richmond History 40 (2019) has 82 pages and the price is £5 (£4 members).

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Richmond History 40 (2019)



Buy copies of previous issues of our journal, Richmond History

Old Palace Lane: Medieval to Modern Richmond by Derek Robinson and Simon Fowler

Old Palace Lane is arguably Richmond’s most historic street. Many of the changes and developments that have made the town what it is today are reflected in this quiet little lane, the former tradesman’s entrance to Richmond Palace.

tells the story of the Lane, the people who have lived there, and its buildings. A second edition was published in March 2020.

Originally published jointly by the Society and by the Museum of Richmond as a booklet to accompany the Museum’s 2017 exhibition on the lane’s history, this new edition has 48 pages, four of them with historic maps of Richmond, and colour throughout.

The book is is priced at £7, and is available direct from us, postage-free in the UK, using the link below:
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Old Palace Lane


Poverty and Philanthropy in Victorian Richmond    Simon Fowler

2017; reprinted  November 2023

ISBN 978-1-912314-00-3

82 pages. Includes bibliography and index.

£6 (£5 for members)
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Poverty and Philanthropy in Victorian Richmond



The Richmond Vicars
Derek Robinson

2019 (published 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 Richmond Vicars




RWW2 front coverRichmond at War 19391945 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:

  • Petersham: radar and operational research 1940-1946
  • Richmond Shop Boy’s War

Ham House rlhs book phone 22 feb 038Buy copies of our books on Ham and Petersham:

  • Ham and Petersham at 2000
  • Petersham: radar and operational research 1940-1946

Kew at War 1939-1945 coverBuy copies of our books on Kew:

  • The Aitons: Gardeners to their Majesties
  • At the Heart of the Community: Victoria House, Kew 1980-2020
  • The Story of Kew

Other publications still available

Richmond Boy, Memories of Richmond 1914-1933
Fred Windsor

42 pages
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Fred Windsor: Richmond Boy



Richmond’s Links with North America   John Cloake

1989         ISBN 0 90508198 4 040 pages£2.00Our prices for buying online via PayPal include postage and packing.

Richmond’s Links with North America



tradingTrading in Human Lives: the Richmond Connection
Valerie Boyes

28 pages. Published by the Museum of Richmond.

£2.00

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Trading in Human Lives