Resources
This page offers a range of clay pipe related research resources either as files that you can download, or as links. This page will develop and evolve over time, so be sure to check it out at regular intervals.
A Brief Introduction to Clay Tobacco Pipes and Their Study (includes a current list of BAR volumes)
Articles
Makers' Lists
Apprentices
Pipe Bibliographies
Keeping abreast of new research and being able to find earlier publications is essential for anyone wishing to study pipes. In 1989 the Society compiled a bibliography of pipe references for the British Isles, but this is now long out of print. Since then a huge amount of new research has been published. The Society hopes to be able to produce a new and comprehensive bibliography in the future, but this will be a major task that is still some way off.
As an interim measure, the Society has compiled a list of recent publications that will alert members to new research that has just appeared. In addition, the new working bibliography has also been made available. This has not been systematically compiled, nor is it in any way comprehensive; it is merely a collection of sources that provide a starting point for the new bibliography. Finally, a number of other pipe bibliographies have been brought together which provide a useful resource for anyone undertaking research.
The 'Recent Publications' link contains books and papers published over the last two of years. These can also be found in the new working bibliography, while the old 1989 bibliography will provide access to earlier publications. The 1989 bibliography is arranged by country/region and then county and is useful in that the entries also include a brief description of the contents of each article. The SCPR Newsletter Index provides details of every article that has appeared and lists by both author and title are available as Word documents. For those who can use an Excel table, the full database has also been made available in this format. Various categories of additional information have been logged for each article and the Excel sheet can be sorted to bring together articles on a particular topic or region.
Other pipe related references have been extracted from the holdings of the National Pipe Archive and the Medieval Pottery Research Group's bibliography. Finally, there are a number of bibliographies that have been compiled for individual researchers. There will clearly be some overlap of references between these various sources but they provide a number of potential avenues to explore.
If you have any bibliographic references you would like to add to the new SCPR list, then please send them to us at S-C-P-R@hotmail.com. Please make sure that each reference includes the author's initials and surname, the year of publication, the title of the article and the page numbers on which it occurs, the book or journal in which it was published (including the initals and surnames of any editors) and the publisher's name and location.
