Earlier Publications

The New Forest (Pb) by Colin Tubbs £20.00

This is the second (revised) edition of the classic New Naturalist book. It was published in 2001 with support from The Cadbury Foundation, Hampshire County Council, Lymington and District Historical Society, New Forest Association and New Forest District Council.

It explains how and why the New Forest has evolved to be an area of international importance - Britain's richest 'nature reserve'. Colin Tubbs provides a detailed insight into how the New Forest landscape was formed and into its distinctive flora and fauna; he traces the fascinating parallel threads of natural and social history.

The Death of Rufus (Pb) by Arthur Lloyd £4.50

This monograph, published to mark the 900th anniversary of the king's death, is the most detailed study yet of the events connected with the death of William Rufus in the New Forest on 2 August 1100. It has brought together for perusal of the student or ordinary reader interested in this notable event a surprisingly large array of sources, often obscure and rarely available elsewhere today. For the first time the evidence of all the medieval chroniclers has been collated into a single volume.

Beatrice of Bolderwood (Hb & Pb) edited by Veronica Walton £9.00 & £4.50

The Diary of a New Forest Girl 1899 is the sub-title of this book, published in 2004, of 18 years old Beatrice Tame. She was the only daughter of Henry and Letitia Tame who farmed at Bolderwood Lodge in the heart of the New Forest. This remarkable diary provides an insight into life in the New Forest in late Victorian and early Edwardian times. The succession of visitors and contacts with the villages of Emery Down, Minstead and Lyndhurst form a vital part of this story.

Briscoe-Eyre's New Forest by G.E. Briscoe-Eyre £9.99

Briscoe-Eyre's New Forest is in two parts, the first published in the Fortnightly Review in 1870 under the title of The New Forest: A Sketch. It was written to provide a catalyst for action to prevent the loss of the New Forest through a sustained and potentially devastating attack by the Office of Woods (fore-runners of the Forestry Commission). They had wished to do away with common rights and devote the New Forest to the production of timber. The second, popularly known as 'Cottage Stock-Keepers' appeared in 1882. As a Verderer and local land owner Briscoe-Eyre here records a way of life that was crucial to the Forest for centuries.