My Books

This is a collection of books I've written about the history of Dulwich, in south London, drawn from over fifty years of research into the original documents held principally at the Wodehouse Library at Dulwich College, with additional material from the Minet Library, the National Archives at Kew, and other repositories.

Two of the books - Dulwich Data Links and Dulwich Landholders - are reference works, between them tracing every known documentary mention of Dulwich and its inhabitants from AD 967 through to 1725. The remaining books are narrative histories: Hall Place tells the six-hundred-year story of one of Dulwich's most important mansions; The Houses In-Between tells of the row of properties between Gallery Road and College Road; Ties of Blood and Friendship is a biography of Francis Lynn (1671–1731), sometime Secretary of the Royal African Company, whose life was inextricably linked to Hall Place. Dulwich Place Names is a separate reference work cataloguing the fields, roads, and houses of the manor.

All the books are freely available to read here. If anything in them prompts a question, correction, or a piece of additional information, do please let me know at MDH@hitherwood.co.uk.