| Title | Contributors | Publisher | Year | BatchDescrip | Medium |
| Rise and progress of the British explosives industry | Brayley Hodgetts, E A | Whittaker & Co | 1909 | | Book |
| The Manufacture of Explosives: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise On the History, the Physical and Chemical Properties, and the Manufacture of Explosives; Volume 1 | Guttmann, Oscar | Whittaker & Co | 1895 | | Book |
| Manufacture of Nitro-lignin and sporting powder | Durnford, Earle | Whittaker & Co | 1912 | | Book |
| Royal gunpowder mills Waltham Abbey: an illustrated tour | Galinou, Mireille; Taylor, Robert | Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills Company | 2001 | | Book |
| History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder | Partington, J. R. | W. H. Heffer & Sons. Cambridge | 1960 | | Book |
| History of Greek Fire and Gunpowder | Partington, J. R. | W Heffer & Sons | 1960 | | Book |
| La Fabrique des Poudres et Salpêtres du Ripault 1786-1817 | Guenand, Agathe | Université François Rabelais- Tours | 1998 | | Book |
| Poudrerie d Pont-de-Buis 1688/1988 | Darney, Alain | Trois Siecles d'histoire au bord de la Doufine | 1988 | Decembre | Book |
| Priestley Lecture: The World's First Chemical Explosive-in China and the West | Needham, Joseph | Third BOC Priestley Conference | 1983 | | Article |
| Cornish Explosives | Earl, M.Sc, Bryan | The Trevithick Society | 1978 | | Book |
| How Explosives are Made | Fitzgerald, William G. | The Strand Magazine | 1895 | Vol IX pp 307-318 | Article |
| Modern high explosives for balsting & mining purposes | | The New Explosives Company Ltd | | | Brochure, leaflet or poster |
| Tales from the tower: a collection of histories of Hounslow Gunpowder Works | Hern, Chris | The author | 2015 | | Book |
| Gunpowder mills of Fernilee | Winfield, Joyce | The author | 1996 | | Book |
| Gunpowder to guided missiles: Ireland's war industries | Kelleher, George D | The author | 1993 | | Book |
| Sivertown explosion | Bloch, Howard; Hill, Graham | Tempus Publishing | 2003 | | Book |
| Big bang: a history of explosives | Brown, G I | Sutton Publishing | 1998 | | Book |
| Gunpowder mills: documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | Crocker, Alan; Crocker, Glenys; Fairclough, K R; Wilks, M J | Surrey Record Society | 2000 | | Book |
| Chilworth gunpowder | Crocker, Glenys | Surrey Industrial History Group | 1984 | | Book |
| Damnable inventions: Chilworth gunpowder and the paper mills of the Tillingbourne | Crocker, Alan; Crocker, Glenys | Surrey Industrial History Group | 2000 | | Book |
| Guide to the Chilworth gunpowder mills | Crocker, Glenys; Oliver, Rowena | Surrey Industrial History Group | 2005 | | Book |
| Story of the old gunpowder works at Battle | Blackman, Herbert | Surrey Archaeological Collections | 1923 | vol 64 pp 109-122 | Article |
| Gunpowder mills gazetteer | Crocker, Glenys | SPAB | 1988 | | Book |
| Gupowder in America | | Smithsonian Institution | | | Copied document |
| Gunpowder industry | Crocker, Glenys | Shire | 1986 | | Book |
| Short history of the Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield | Putnam, Tim; Weinbren, Dan | Royal Ordnance plc | 1992 | | Book |
| Observations on Gunpowder | Napier, George | Royal Irish Academy? | 1787 | pp97-117 | Copied document |
| Waterways of the Royal Gunpowder Mills | Thomas, Richard | Royal Gunpowder Mills | 2013 | | Book |
| Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey | Tucker, Les | Royal Gunpowder Mills | | | Book |
| Royal gunpowder factory, Waltham Abbey, Essex: An RCHME survey, 1993 | Everson, Paul | Royal commission on the historical monuments of England | 1994 | | Book |
| Explosives in the service of man: Ardeer and teh Nobel heritage | Dolan, John; Oglethorpe, Miles K | Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland | 1996 | | Book |
| Engines of war | Wilkinson, Henry | Richmond Publishing Co Ltd | 1973 | | Book |
| Lowwood gunpowder works: a short history | Crocker, Glenys | R.E. Harvey | 1988 | | Book |
| Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills: From Closure to Disclosure; The beneficial re-use of one of Europe's most important monuments | | Prince Research Consultants | 1995 | | Brochure, leaflet or poster |
| Explosives | Read, John | Pelican | 1942 | | Book |
| Imperial Chemical Industries, a history. Volume 1 The forerunners 1870-1926 | Reader, W J | Oxford University Press | 1970 | | Book |
| Gunpowder mills of Westmorland and Furness | Wilson, Paul N Lord | Newcomen Society | 1964 | | Article |
| Technology of gunpowder making in the 18th century, evidence from the Bristol region (BJ Buchanan) | Buchanan, Brenda J | Newcomen Society | 1996 | | Article |
| Short history of the new Sedgwick gunpowder mills | Wilson, Paul N Lord | National Trust | | | Book |
| Fernhurst Cylinders and the defeat of Napoleon | Mitchell, Vic | Middleton Press | 2009 | | Book |
| Fernhurst cylinders and the defeat of Napoleon | Mitchell, Vic | Middleton Press | 2009 | | Article |
| Chemical industry | Campbell, W A | Longman | 1971 | | Book |
| History of the EI duPont de Nemours Powder Company | | Lindsay Publications | 1990 | original 1912 | Facsimile or Transcription |
| Pulver, Bomben und Granaten, Die Pulvermacher einst un jetzt | Brunisholz, Albert; Hildebrandt, Carl; Leutwyler, Hans | Lang Druck AG | 1983 | | Book |
| Dartford gunpowder mills | Philp, Brian | Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit | 1984 | | Book |
| Gunpowder Mill at Ballincollig: An Extract from Gunpowder to Guided Missiles, Ireland's War Industries. | Kelleher, George D | John F. Kelleher | 1993 | | Book |
| Memoir on Gunpowder, the principles of its manufacture and proof | Braddock, John | J M Richardson, Cornhill | 1832 | | Copied document |
| Short account of explosives | Marshall, Arthur | J & A Churchill | 1917 | | Book |
| Explosives, their manufacture, properties, tests and history | Marshall, Arthur | J & A Churchill | 1915 | | Book |
| International Committee for the History of Technology: 22nd International Symposium. Abstract of Papers. | Brown, David. K; Buchanan, Brenda J; Buchanan, R A; Diogo, Maria Paula | ICOHTEC. University of Bath | 1994 | | Book |
