| Title | Contributors | Publisher | Year | Medium |
| Short History of the Royal Gunpowder Factory at Waltham Abbey | Simmons, W H | Controllerate of Royal Ordnance Factories | 1964 | Manuscript/Typescript |
| Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio. | Biringuccio, Vannoccio; Gnudi, Martha Teach; Smith, Cyril Stanley | | 1943 | Copied document |
| 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 |
| Trials tribulations and pranks: anthology of recollections by ex-staff of the Waltham Abbey Explosives Research Establishment | Paul, Norman | Friends Association of the Royal Gunpowder Mills | 2007 | Book |
| Bedfont gunpowder mills | Mills, John; Philo, Phil | Bedfont Research Group | 1985 | Book |
| Royal gunpowder mills Waltham Abbey: an illustrated tour | Galinou, Mireille; Taylor, Robert | Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills Company | 2001 | Book |
| Faversham gunpowder factories what survives | Percival, Arthur J | Faversham Society | 1995 | Book |
| Big bang: a history of explosives | Brown, G I | Sutton Publishing | 1998 | Book |
| Gunpowder mills of Cumbria: a history of Cumbria's gunpowder industry, The | Tyler, Ian | Blue Rock | 2002 | Book |
| Royal gunpowder factory, Waltham Abbey, Essex: An RCHME survey, 1993 | Everson, Paul | Royal commission on the historical monuments of England | 1994 | Book |
| Faversham's gunpowder industry: and its development | Percival, Arthur J | Faversham Society | 1986 | Book |
| Kennall gunpowder company, Kennall Vale, Ponsanooth: An archaeological and historical study | Smith, John R | Cornwall trust for nature conservation | 1986 | Book |
| Archaeological survey of the gunpowder factory at Powdermills farm, Postbridge, Devon | Pye, A R; Robinson, R | Exeter City Council | 1990 | Book |
| Great explosion at Faversham: 2 April 1916 | Percival, Arthur J | | | Book |
| Firework book: gunpowder in Medieval Germany | Kramer, Gerhard W; Leibnitz, Klaus | Arms and Armour Society | 2001 | Book |
| Tales from the tower: a collection of histories of Hounslow Gunpowder Works | Hern, Chris | The author | 2015 | Book |
| Waterways of the Royal Gunpowder Mills | Thomas, Richard | Royal Gunpowder Mills | 2013 | Book |
| Beam engines at the Royal Gunpowder Mills | Wilson, John | Friends Association of the Royal Gunpowder Mills | 2006 | Book |
| Lowwood gunpowder works: a short history | Crocker, Glenys | R.E. Harvey | 1988 | Book |
| Gunpowder mills gazetteer | Crocker, Glenys | SPAB | 1988 | Book |
| Old gunpowder factory at Glynneath | Evans, Jack; Johnson, Sydney; Pritchard, Tom | Merthyr Tydfil & District Naturalists' Society | 1985 | Book |
| Chilworth gunpowder | Crocker, Glenys | Surrey Industrial History Group | 1984 | Book |
| Short history of the new Sedgwick gunpowder mills | Wilson, Paul N Lord | National Trust | | 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 |
| Damnable inventions: Chilworth gunpowder and the paper mills of the Tillingbourne | Crocker, Alan; Crocker, Glenys | Surrey Industrial History Group | 2000 | Book |
| Gunpowder industry | Crocker, Glenys | Shire | 1986 | Book |
| Gunpowder, government and war in the mid-eighteenth century | West, Jenny | Boydell Press | 1991 | Book |
| Lost powder mills of Leigh: the history of the gunpowder mills at Leigh, near Tonbridge, Kent | Rowley, Chris | Chistopher Rowley | 2009 | Book |
| Gunpowder: the history of an international technology | Buchanan, Brenda J | Bath UP | 1996 | Book |
| Gunpowder, explosives and the state: a technological history | Buchanan, Brenda J | Ashgate | 2006 | Book |
| Gunpowder: a history of the explosive that changed the world | Kelly, Jack | Atlantic Books | 2004 | Book |
| Oare gunpowder works: Faversham, Kent | Cocroft, Wayne | Faversham Society | 1994 | 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 |
| Guide to the Chilworth gunpowder mills | Crocker, Glenys; Oliver, Rowena | Surrey Industrial History Group | 2005 | Book |
| Listed buildings at the Royal Gunpowder Mills, Waltham Abbey: history and industrial archaeology | Tucker, Les | Friends Association of the Royal Gunpowder Mills | 2004 | Book |
| Dangerous energy: the archaeology of gunpowder and military explosives manufacture | Cocroft, Wayne | English Heritage | 2000 | Book |
| Gunpowder terminology and incorporation: the incorporation process in the manufacture of gunpowder and the history of the associated explosions | Patterson, Edward M | Faversham Society | 1997 | Book |
| Low Wood Gunpowder Company its inception and early growth 1798-1808: an enquiry into the history of an industry in the Furness area of Lancashire | Marshall, J D; Palmer, Alice | Gunpowder Mills Study Group | 1998 | Book |
| Blackpowder manufacture in Cumbria | Patterson, Edward M; Simmons, Jack | Faversham Society | 1995 | Book |
| Dartford gunpowder mills | Philp, Brian | Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit | 1984 | Book |
| Small Arms of the East India Company 1600 - 1856 Boxed set of Volumes 3 and 4 | Harding, Davd Frankland | Foresight Books | 1999 | Book |
| Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey | Tucker, Les | Royal Gunpowder Mills | | Book |
| Guns, Gunpowder and Saltpetre: a short history | Crozier, Ronald D | Faversham Society | 1998 | Book |
| Impressions of Hagley | MacKenzie, Jill | Hagley Museum & Library | 1991 | Book |
| Cornish Explosives | Earl, M.Sc, Bryan | The Trevithick Society | 1978 | Book |
| Pyrotechnics. The History & Art of Firework Making | Brock, A. St. H. | Daniel O'Connor | 1922 | 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 |
