Land ownership

A Forest in Transition: Bowland, 1500-1650 – John Porter (1974)

Waste Land Reclamation in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: The Case of South-Eastern Bowland, 1550-1630 – John Porter (1977)

Pre-Conquest Settlement in the Forest of Bowland – Mary Higham (1985)

Ecology and environmental history

The recent vegetational history of the Forest of Bowland, Lancashire, UK – Anson Mackay and John Tallis (1994)

Textiles and the slave trade

Lancaster’s Felt-Hat Industry – Christine Workman (2018)

Archaeology

North West Water’s Forest of Bowland Estate – Archaeological Survey Report (1997)

Archive resources

John Weld Archive at Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston

Slaidburn Archive

Soundscape ecology, soundwalks and active listening

What is soundscape ecology? An introduction and overview of an emerging new science – Pijanowski et al (2011)

Earwitness to place – Bernie Krause

Quantum Listening – Pauline Oliveros (2024)

Hildegard Westerkamp on soundwalking

A Sound Map of the Hudson River – Annea Lockwood

Our Sonic World and the Soundscape: The Tuning of the World – R. Murray Schafer (1977)