We present our almost definitive guide to books about Soho, arranged by their published dates.
- 1898.
St Anne's, Clergy of: Two Centuries of Soho, its Firms Institutions and Amusements
Truslove & Hanson (*Highly recommended, the best social history of Soho's first 200 years) - 1899.
Cardwell, the Rev J H: The Story of a Charity School, (Education in Soho 1699 - 1899).
Truslove & Hanson - 1903.
Cardwell (and others), the Rev J H: Men & Women of Soho. Vol 1; Vol 2 - 1910.
Truslove & Hanson. - 1904.
D'Arblay, Madame (Fanny Burney): Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay. Edited by Charlotte Barrett.
Macmillan. - 1911.
Cardwell, the Rev J H: Twenty Years in Soho 1891 - 1911
Truslove & Hanson
Smith, Edward: 'The Life of Sir Joseph Banks'. John Lane,
The Bodley Head. - 1923.
Sayers. Dorothy L: 'Whose Body?'
Coronet.
First of 38 books from former Churchwarden of St. Anne's: a complete bibliography of detective novels, poems and plays is available from The Dorothy L Sayers Society. - 1925.
Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge: 'The Early History of Piccadilly, Leicester Square and Soho.'
Cambridge Univ. Press - 1932.
Casanova: 'My Life and Adventures.' Translated by Arthur Machen.
Joiner and Steele.
Hamnett, Nina: 'Laughing Torso'.
Constable & Co - 1936.
Snow MD., John: 'Snow on Cholera.'
Oxford Univ.Press - 1947.
Goldsmith, Margaret: 'Soho Square.'
Sampson Low, Marston & Co - 1950.
Francis, Basil: 'Fanny Kelly of Drury Lane.'
Rockliffe. - 1952. Dewes, Simon:
'Soho'. Rich and Cowan. - 1954. Hartup, Adeline:
'Angelica (Kauffman): Portrait of an Eighteenth Century Artist.'
Heinemann. - 1958. Wildeblood, Peter: ‘West End People’
Weidenfeld & Nicolson - 1959. MacInnes, Colin: 'Absolute Beginners'.
Macgibbon and Kee. - 1961.
Wilson, Colin: ‘Adrift in Soho’.
Victor Gollancz - 1965.
Melly, George: 'Owning Up'.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. - 1966.
Cox, Cynthia: 'The Enigma of the Age: The Strange Story of the Chevalier d'Eon'.
Longman.
Norman, Frank: 'Soho Night and Day'. Secker and Warburg. - 1967.
Van Damm, Sheila: 'We Never Closed: The Windmill Story'.
Robert Hale. - 1968.
Mander and Mitchenson: 'The Lost Theatres of London'.
Rupert Hart-Davies. - 1973.
McLellan, David: 'Karl Marx: His life and thought'.
MacMillan.
The Soho Clarion: 1973 -2001. Available for viewing in Society's offices, by prior arrangement.
[Contact us] or call the Society's office. - 1974.
Thornton, Michael; 'Jessie Matthews'. Hart-Davis,
MacGibbon. - 1978.
Gaunt, William: 'The World of William Hogarth'.
Jonathan Cape. - 1979.
Scott, Ronnie; 'Some of my Best Friends are Blues'.
W.H.Allen. - 1980.
Gillman, Peter and Leni: 'Collar the Lot!: How Britain Interned and Expelled its Wartime Refugees'.
Quartet. - 1982.
Tomkinson, Martin: 'The Pornbrokers: The Rise and Fall of the Soho Sex Barons'.
Virgin.
Briggs, Asa: 'Karl Marx in London: An illustrated guide'.
BBC. - 1983.
Gould, Tony: 'Inside Outsider'.
Chatto & Windus. - 1986.
Hooker, Denise: 'Nina Hamett, Queen of Bohemia'.
Constable. - 1987.
Farson, Daniel: 'Soho in the Fifties'.
Michael Joseph. - 1988.
Edmonds, Mark: 'Inside Soho'.
Robert Nicholson. - 1989.
Summers, Judith: 'Soho - A history of London's most colourful Neighbourhood'.
Bloomsbury. - 1991.
Spalding, Frances: 'Dance till the Stars Come Down'.
Hodder & Stoughton. - 1993.
Fryer, Jonathan: 'Dylan (Thomas)'.
Kylie Cathie. - 1994.
Tames. Richard: 'Soho Past'.
Historical Publications.
Moraes, Henrietta: 'Henrietta'.
Hamish Hamilton. - 1996.
Muir, Robin: John Deakin 'Photographs'.
Shirmer/Mosel.
Peppiatt, Michael: Francis Bacon.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. - 1997.
Farson, Daniel: 'Never a Normal Man.'
Harper Collins. - 2000.
Grayling, A.C: 'The Quarrel of the Age: The Life and Times of William Hazlitt.
Weidenfeld & Nicolson. - 2001.
Clarke, Norma: 'Dr.Johnson's Women'.
Hambledon and London.
Waterhouse,Keith: 'Soho'.
Hodder & Stoughton
Arnott, Jake: 'He Kills Coppers'.
Sceptre
Picard, Liza: Dr.Johnson's London.
Phoenix Press.