Windmills Bibliography 🌍

• A Field Guide to American Windmills - T Lindsay Baker, foreword by Donald E Green, University of Oklahoma Press, c1985, ISBN:0806119012
• A Source Book of Windmills and Watermills - Rex Wailes, Ward Lock, London, 1979, ISBN:070635768X
• American Windmills : Harnessers of Energy - Shaaron Cosner, diagrams by Marie and Nils Ostberg, D McKay Co., New York, 1977, ISBN:0679204083
• An Old Essex Windmill -
• Book and Magazine Collector (No 107) - , Feb 93

  article on windmill and watermill books

• British Windmills and Watermills (Number 120 in the Britain in Pictures series) - C P Skilton, Collins, London, 1947
• Catch the Wind : A Book of Windmills and Windpower - Landt Dennis, photos by Lisl Dennis, Four Winds Press, New York, 1976, ISBN:0590074148
• Corn Milling (Shire Album no. 98) - Martin Watts, Shire Publications, ISBN:0 85263 623 7
• De Zwaan - The Story of the Dutch Windmill - , 1965
• Discovering Windmills (Number 13 in the "Discovering" series) - John Vince, Shire Publications, 1968
• Dutch Windmills - Introduction by B. van der Zeen Czn. member of the board of the association De Hollandsche Molen, International Art Publishing Company Groningen
• England of the Windmills - S P B Mais, J M Dent, 1931
• England's Vanishing Windmills - A E P Shillingford, Godfrey Cave Associates Ltd, London, 1979, ISBN:0 906223 15 6
• English Windmills, Vol 1 - Kent, Surrey, Sussex - M I Batten, Architectural Press, 1930
• English Windmills, Vol 2 - Bucks, Essex, Herts, Middlesex and London - Donald Smith, Architectural Press, 1932
• Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights - Kenneth G Farries, Charles Skilton, 198x

  Published in 5 Volumes.

  1. An Historical Review
  2. A Technical Review
  3. A review by Parishes A to E
  4. A review by Parishes F to R
  5. A review by Parishes S to Z

• Essex Windmills, Millers and Millwrights. Volume 1V: A Review by Parishes, F-R - Keith Farries, Charles Skilton, 1985
• Harness the Wind : The Story of Windmills - Joseph E Brown and Anne Ensign Brown, Dodd, Mead, New York, 1977, ISBN:0396074847
• Harvesting the Air : Windmill Pioneers in Twelfth-century England - Edward J Kealey, Boydell Press, 1987, ISBN:0851154913 {US edition - University of California Press, 1987, ISBN 0520056809}
• History of Corn Milling Volume 2 Watermills and Windmills - Richard Bennett and John Elton, London: Simpkin Marshall, 1899
• Homemade Windmills of Nebraska - Erwin Hinckley Barbour, Agric. Experiment Station bulletin, 1899 - (reprinted recently)
• I Bought a Windmill - Elizabeth Adair, Aberdeen University Press, 1978, ISBN:0900015438
• In Praise Of Windmills - Jeremy Hooker, Circle Press Pubns, 1990, ISBN:0901380598
• In Search of English Windmills - R. Thurston Hopkins, Cecil Palmer, London, 1931
• Industrial Archaeology : Windmills and Waterfalls - Christine Vialls, A & C Black Ltd, 1971
• Kinderdike - Leonard Everett Fisher, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994
• Life in a Sussex Windmill - Edward Martin, Allen and Donaldson, 1921 (2nd edition)
• Lincolnshire Windmills - Peter Dolman, Lincolnshire County Council, 1986
• Mills Open - Edited by Jim Woodward-Nutt, Society For the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Mills Section,, Sixth edition 2000, ISBN:1 898856 052

  Previous editions had various authors/titles

  • "Mills Open" - 5th Edition by Jim Woodward-Nutt and Jenny West, 1997. ISBN 1 898856 044;
  • "Windmill and Watermills Open to View", 1986. ISBN 0903090953
  [link]
• Mills and Millwrighting (Shire Album number 33) - John Vince, Shire Publications, ISBN:0852634315
• Mills of Canada - Carol Priamo, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976, ISBN:0070824029
• Model-Making Book 1 - , The Saalfield Publishing Company, Akron, Ohio
• Molens in Drenthe - A Bicker Caarten, Uitgeverij Waanders, Zwolle i.s.m. Koninklijke Uitgeverij en Drukkerij J.A. Boom en Zoon, Meppel [Uitgave onder auspiciën van de Molenstichting Drenthe] , 1976?
• Molens van Nederland -
• Molens: Het Utrechts molenbestand - Besten, ing. J. den // Keunen, ing. G.H., Stichting De Utrechtse Molens, 1988
• More Windmill Land : Being Part II of "Windmill Land" - Clarke, Allen, J. M. Dent, London, 1918
• Norfolk Corn And Other Industrial Windmills - Harry Apling, Norfolk Windmills Trust, 1985, ISBN:0950979309
• Odd Aspects of England: Follies, Windmills, Lock-Ups, Prehistoric, Roman and Medieval Remains, Natural Features, Memorials, Bridges, etc. - Garry Hogg, Arco Publishing Company, New York, 1969
• Old Sydney Windmills - Len Fox, published by the author, Potts Point, N.S.W., 1978, ISBN:0959810463
• Old Watermills and Windmills - R Thurston Hopkins, Philip Allan and Co Ltd, London, 1933
• Old Windmills of Chishill - Phillip Unwin, Ely Resource and Technology Centre, 1977, ISBN:0904463247
• Oxfordshire Mills - Wilfred Foreman, Phillimore, 1983, ISBN:0850334411
• Power Before Steam - John Vince, Juhn Murray (Publishers) Ltd, 1985, ISBN:0-7195-4175-1
• Power from Wind: A History of Windmill Technology - Richard L Hills, Cambridge University Press, 1994, ISBN:0521413982 (paperback 052156686X) {reprinted with corrections 1996}
• Practical Milling - Prof. B.W. Dedrick, originally published by National Miller magazine, Chicago, IL, 1924. Reprinted by the Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, Newton, NC, 1989.
• Research Inspired By the Dutch Windmills; an Account of an Extensive Programme of Research and Development Initiated and Organized By the 'Prinsenmolen' Committee - , 1956
• Research Inspired by The Dutch Windmills - H. Veenman en Zonen, Wageningen, 1952
• Scottish Windmills : A Survey - Graham J Douglas, Miles Oglethorpe, and John R Hume, Scottish Industrial Archaelogy Survey, Dept. of History, University of Strathclyde in association with the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1984
• Somerset Windmills - Martin Watts, Agraphicus, 1976
• Suffolk Windmills - Brian Flint, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1979, ISBN:0851151124
• The American Miller and Millwright's Assistant - William Carter Hughes, Henry Carey Baird (Successor to E. L. Carey), No. 7 Hart's Buildings, Sixth Street, above Chestnut, Philadelphia , 1856 - A New Edition, revised with much additional matter
• The Dutch Windmill - Frederick Stokhuyzen, English translation - Universe Books Inc, New York, 1963 [link]
• The Dutch Windmill - Frederick Stokhuyzen, Bussum: Van Dishoeck, 1962
• The Early Windmills of New Jersey and Nearby States - Harry B Weiss and Grace M Weiss, Trenton, New Jersey Agricultural Society, 1969
• The English Windmill - Rex Wailes, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1954
• The English Windmill - Rex Wailes, Augustus M. Kelley Publishers, 1968
• The Mill - William Fox, Production~Design Bill Brooks, Photography Janice Tyrwhitt , 1976
• The Miller and Milling Engineer - Charles E Oliver, Warsaw, Indiana.
• The Miller in Eighteenth-Century Virginia - , Williamsburg Craft Series. Colonial Williamsburg, 1973
• The Millers Assistant - Oliver Evans, Blanchard and Lea, Philadelphia, 15th edition 1860
• The Mills of Medieval England - Richard Holt, B Blackwell, 1988, ISBN:0631156925
• The Mills of the Isle of Wight - Kenneth Major, Charles Skilton, 1970, ISBN:0284795380
• The Old Hook Mill and other Old English Windmills of East Hampton, Long Island, New York, and Vicinity - Jeannette Edwards Rattray, board of trustees of the Village of East Hampton, 1953
• The Old Windmill of Brisbane Town - Grenfell Heap, Boolarong Publications, Brisbane, 1983, ISBN:0908175612
• The Practical American Millwright & Miller - David Craik, Henry Carey, Philadelphia, 1870
• The Practical American Millwright and Miller: Comprising the Elementary Principles of Mechanics, Mechanism, and Motive Power Hydraulics, and Hydraulic Motors, Mill Dams, Saw, Grist, Oat, Barely Mill, Wool Carding, Cloth fulling and dressing, windmills - Craik, David, Henry Corey Baird, Philadelphia, 1882
• The Reflections and Rhymes of an Old Miller - James Edwin Saunders, Hodder & Stoughton, London
• The Restoration of Windmills and Windpumps in Norfolk - Martin Scott, drawings Mel Harris, Norfolk Windmills Trust, 1977
• The Standing Windmills of East Sussex - Richard and Richard McDermott, Betford Publications, 1978, ISBN:0906396018
• The Standing Windmills of West Sussex - Richard and Richard McDermott, Betford Publications, 1978, ISBN:090639600X
• The Story of Outwood Mill -
• The Story of Sprowston Mill - H C Harrison, Phoenix House, London, 1949
• The Talking Millstones - Camilla Wing, Pillsbury Institute of Flour, 1945
• The Versatile Millstone: Workhorse Of Many Industries - Jon Sass, Society for the Preservation of Old Mills, Newton, NC, 1984, ISBN:0-930497-00-7
• The Way Things Work -- Build Your Own Windmill - Edmund V. Gillon,JR., Perigree, 1981
• The Wind at Work - An Activity Guide to Windmills - Gretchen Woelfle, Chicago Review Press, 1997, ISBN:1 55652 308 4
• The Windmill : Architecture and Energy - Carole Cable, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, Ill., 1983, ISBN:0880663413
• The Windmill and Its Times. A Series of Articles Dealing with the Early Days of the Windmill - Shuttleworth, E. B., William Gooderham, Edward D. Apted, Printer, Toronto, 1924
• The Windmill as a Prime Mover - Alfred E. Wolff, M.E., Consulting Engineer, Associate Editor "American Engineer", Member American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Etc.,, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1885 {2nd edition: Wiley and Sons, New York, 1900}
• The Windmill, Yesterday and Today - Rodney de Little, John Baker, London, 1972, ISBN:0212983970 {Reprinted 1975}
• The Windmills of Anglesey - Barry Guise, Attic Books, 1992
• The Windmills of Crosby (Crosby Historical publications, No. 1) - Frank Tyrer, Borough of Crosby Public Libraries, 1972, ISBN:0950245208
• The Windmills of England - Rodney de Little, Colwood Press, 1997, ISBN:0 9529930 0 7
• The Windmills of Kent - Jenny West, Charles Skilton, 1973, ISBN:0284985341 {2nd revised and enlarged edition, 1979. ISBN 0705000656}
• The Windmills of Leicestershire and Rutland - Nigel Moon, Sycamore Press, Wymondham, 1981, ISBN:0905837096

  Published as a limited edition of 500 copies

• The Windmills of Sussex - Martin Brunnarius, Phillimore, 1979, ISBN:0850333458
• Upminster Mill - Anthony D. Butler, Peter Davis, Hornchurch, 1968
• Vanad Eesti pukktuulikud (Old Estonian windmills) - V.Fuchs, 1971
• Victorian and Edwardian Windmills and Watermills from Old Photographs - J Kenneth Major and Martin Watts, Fitzhouse Books, London, 1977 {Reprinted 1983, and 1992. ISBN 0 7134 0621 6}
• WIND, WATER, WORK: ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MILLING TECHNOLOGY - Lucas, Adam, Brill Academic Publishers, 2006, ISBN:9004146490
• Water and Wind Mills in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight - edited by Monica Ellis, Southampton University Industrial Archaeology Group, 1978, ISBN:0905280016
• Water and Wind Power - Martin Watts, Shire Publications, 2000, ISBN:0-7478-0418-4
• Water-mills, Windmills and Horse-mills of South Africa - James Walton, C Struik, Cape Town, 1974, ISBN:0869770403
• Watermills and Windmills (A National Trust Pocketbook) - J Kenneth Major, 1986, ISBN:0-7117-0176-8
• Watermills and Windmills of Middlesex - Guy Blythman, Baron Birch, 1996, ISBN:0860235386
• Watermills and Windmills. A Historical Survey of their Rise, Decline and Fall as Portrayed by those of Kent - William Coles Finch, The C W Daniel Company, 1933 {Reprinted Arthur J Cassell Ltd, 1976. ISBN 0 903253 02 X}
• Wiltshire Windmills - Martin Watts, 1980
• Wind Catchers: American Windmills of Yesterday & Tomorrow - Volta Torrey, The Stephen Greene Press, 1976
• Wind Molens in Nederland -
• Wind-catchers : American Windmills of Yesterday and Tomorrow - Volta Torrey, Stephen Greene Press, Brattleboro, Vt, 1976, ISBN:0828902925
• Windmill - Giant Model Books - , Bancroft & Co., London, England, 1950s
• Windmill Gazetteer for England - AA Bryan, The Mills Research Group, 1998, ISBN:0 9530049 0 2
• Windmill Land - Allen Clarke, J.M. Dent, London, 1916 { George Kelsall Smith Settle 1986 Facsimile 1986 edition reproduced from the First Edition of 1916. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Illustrated by photographs. }
• Windmills - Alan John Clegg, Horseshoe Publications, 1995, ISBN:1899310266
• Windmills - Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston, John Lane, London; Dodd, Mead and company, New York, 1923 {reprinted Gale Research Co, Detroit, 1975. ISBN 0810340771}
• Windmills - Frank Brangwyn and Hayter Preston, London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company , 1923
• Windmills - Laura Brooks, Metro Books, 1999
• Windmills - Sally Taylor, Todtri, 1999
• Windmills - Suzanne Beedell, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975
• Windmills - Suzanne Beedell, foreword by Henry Longhurst, David and Charles, Newton Abbot, 1975, ISBN:0715368117 {US edition published Scribner, New York, 1975. ISBN 0684144875} {Second Impression 1979, hardback ISBN 0 7153 6811 7, paperback ISBN 0 7153 7879 1}
• Windmills - Thurston Hopkins, Charles Clarke Ltd - Haywards Heath - Sussex, There is no publishing date but almost certainly the 1930's.
• Windmills - An old-new energy source - Lucile McDonald, Nelson Books, 1981
• Windmills : A Bibliographical Guide - Christopher Francis Lindsey, Published by the author, London, 1974, ISBN:095030011X
• Windmills : An Old-new Energy Source - Lucile McDonald, drawings by Helen Hawkes Battey, Elsevier/Nelson Books, New York, c1981, ISBN:0525667083
• Windmills and Millwrighting - Stanley Freese, Cambridge University Press, 1957 {Reprinted David and Charles, 1971. ISBN 0715353659}
• Windmills and Water Mills of Long Island - Anne Frances, Sister Pulling, Gerald A. Leeds, Arcadia, 1999, ISBN:073850288X
• Windmills and Watermills (From the series 'Excursions into architecture') - John Reynolds, H Evelyn, 1970, ISBN:0238789438 {reprinted with corrections 1974} {US Edition published Praeger, New York, 1970. ISBN 0275496902}
• Windmills and Watermills open to view - , SPAB Mills Section, 1986
• Windmills and Wind Power : A Bibliography - Mary Vance, Vance Bibliographies, Monticello, Ill., 1981
• Windmills in East Sussex - J B Paddon, Oxonian Press, 1925
• Windmills in England - A Study of Their Origin, Development, and Future - Rex Wailes, The Architectural Press, 1948 {Reprinted Charles Skilton, 1983, ISBN 0284400076}
• Windmills in Holland - K Boonenburg, Netherlands Govt. Information Service, The Hague, 1952
• Windmills in Holland - K. Boonenburg, Netherlands Government Information Office The Hague, 1951
• Windmills in Lambeth: An Historical Survey - Michael Short, London Borough of Lambeth, 1971, ISBN:0950189308
• Windmills in Sussex - G M Fowell, Walkers Galleries, 1930
• Windmills in Sussex - Rev. Peter Hemming, The C W Daniel Company, 1936
• Windmills in West Sussex - J B Paddon, Oxonian Press, 1926
• Windmills of Birmingham and the Black Country - Joseph McKenna, K A F Brewin Books, Studley, Warwickshire, 1986, ISBN:0947731105
• Windmills of Devon (Exeter papers in industrial archaeology, number 7) - Walter Minchinton, Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, 1977, ISBN:0950177865
• Windmills of England - R J Brown, Robert Hale Ltd, 1975, ISBN:0 7091 5641 3
• Windmills of England - R.J. Brown, 1989
• Windmills of Long Island - Robert J Hefner, Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, W W Norton and Company, New York, 1983, ISBN:softback 0 393 30141 9, hardback 039301780X
• Windmills of Long Island - Robert J. Hefner, W.W. Norton & Co, 1984
• Windmills of New England: Their Genius, Madness, History and Future - Daniel Lombardo, On Cape Publications, 2003, ISBN:0971954771
• Windmills of Northamptonshire And The Soke Of Peterborough - Trevor Leonard Stainwright, W D Wharton, 1991, ISBN:0951855700
• Windmills of Somerset And The Men Who Worked Them - Alfred J Coulthard and Martin Watts, Research Pub Co, 1978, ISBN:0705000605
• Windmills of Suffolk - Dean Regan
• Windmills of Surrey and Inner London - Kenneth G Farries and M T Mason, Charles Skilton, 1966
• Windmills on Cape Cod & the Islands - Fredrika A. Burrows, William S. Sullwold Publishing, Inc, 1978
• Windmills, Bridges and Old Machines : Discovering Our Industrial Past - David Weitzman, Scribner, New York, c1982, ISBN:0684174561

Videos

• Seven Centuries of the English Windmill David Bent, narrated by Janet Suzman, 1996, ISBN 0 85236 358 3

Other resources

• Bookstore run by The Society for the Preservation of Old Mills - an American mill association.