Bibliography
For more information about the history of Luton's hat industry try the following books and articles, all of which are available at Luton Central Library:
AUSTIN, Thomas George
The straw plaiting and straw hat and bonnet trade.
Patrick O'Docherty, 1871
AUSTIN, William
Notes on two trades [straw plaiting and brickmaking]
In Miscellanea
edited by C. Gore Chambers and G. Herbert Fowler
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, volume 1, 1913
BUNKER, Stephen
Strawopolis: Luton transformed 1840-1876
Bedfordshire Historical Record Society, 1999
COBBETT, William
Cobbett's cottage economy, no.8: English straw plait.
J. M. Cobbett, 1823
CURRAN, Joan
Straw hats and bonnets.
Old trades of Dunstable 5.
The Book Castle, 2003
DAVIS, Jean
Straw plait.
Shire Album 78
Shire Publications, 1981
DONY, John G.
The Hat Industry
In Silverman, H. A. (ed.). Studies in industrial organisation, p.157ff
Methuen, 1946
DONY, John G.
Hats and headgear
In Chambers encyclopaedia, volume 6
Chambers, 1966
FREEMAN, Charles
Luton and the hat industry.
Luton Museum and Art Gallery, 1964
GOODMAN, F.
How the railways deal with special classes of goods: 1. Luton straw hats.
The Railway Magazine, November 1898
GRÓF,László
Children of straw: the story of a vanished craft in Bucks, Herts, Beds and Essex.
Barracuda, 1988
The HAT maker's manual containing a full description of hat making in all its branches.
Cowie and Strange, 1829
HORN, Pamela L. R.
Child workers in the pillow lace and straw plait trades of Victorian Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire
The Historical Journal, vol. XVII, no.4, 1974
INWARDS, Harry
Straw hats: their history and manufacture.
Pitman, 1922
LAW, C. M.
Luton and the Hat Industry.
The East Midland Geographer, vol.4, part 6, no. 30
The LITTLE Straw Hat Book.
Luton Museum and Art Gallery, [no date]
LUTON and the Straw Plait Industry.
Illustrated London News, 7 December 1878
LUTON MUSEUM
The romance of the Straw Hat: Being a history of the industry and a guide to the collections.
Luton Museum, 1933
LUTON MUSEUM EDUCATION SERVICE
Luton: hat industry 1750 to 2000.
Luton Museum Education Service, 2003
LUTON MUSEUM EDUCATION SERVICE
Luton: straw hat boom town 1850 to 1910.
Luton Museum Education Service, 2002
LYE AND SONS LTD
One hundred colourful years: a brief history of Lye and Sons Ltd.
Lye and Sons Ltd, 1957
PINDER, D. A.
MILLINERY: Luton's most fashionable heritage: a guide presented by the British Hat Guild in association with Luton Borough Council, [no date]
The Luton Hat Industry: aspects of the development of a localised trade.
D. A. Pinder, 1970
PINDER D. A.
The organization of the Luton Hat Industry.
University of Reading, Dept of Geography, 1967
PINDER D. A.
The Spatial Development of the Luton Hat Industry in the Early Twentieth Century.
Southampton Research Series in Geography no.6, June 1971
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, Dept of, Luton Borough Council
Luton Hat Trail 1: The Bute Street area.
Luton Borough Council, 1988
Click here to view Luton Hat Trail
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, Dept of, Luton Borough Council
Luton Hat Trail 2: High Town - Old Bedford Road.
Luton Borough Council, 1988
Click here to view Luton Hat Trail 2
POOLE, Lorna N
The Olney Hat
The Gazette of the John Lewis Partnership, vol.59 no 50, 21 January 1978
SMITH, Terence Paul
House types connected with the Luton hat industry: a preliminary survey
Industrial Archaeology, no.9, February 1972
TODD, R
The straw Hat and Bonnet Dealers' Guide.
R. Todd, 1853
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Bedfordshire.
3 volumes plus index
The University of London Institute for Historical Research, 1972
(First published by Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, 1904)
VYSE SONS AND CO. LTD
200 years of Millinery
Vyse Sons and Co. Ltd, 1965
WEINSTEIN, Rosemary
The history of the Worshipful Company of Feltmakers, 1604 - 2004.
Phillimore, 2004
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