| Title | Contributors | Publisher | Year | BatchDescrip | Medium |
| Quarry Bank Mill & Styal: a souvenir guidebook | Guy, John; Hobbs, David | Addax Retail | 1995 | | Book |
| Slater mill | Leavitt, Sarah | Arcadia | 1997 | | Book |
| Arkwright and the mills at Cromford | | Arkwright Society | 1973 | | Book |
| Richard Arkwright: master spinner | | Arkwright Society | 1971 | | Book |
| Derwent Valley Textile Mills | Calladine, Anthony; Falconer, Keith A; Menuge, Adam | Belper North Mill Trust | 2001 | | Book |
| Wheel and spindle: aspects of Irish industrial history | McCutcheon, Alan | Blackstaff Press | 1977 | | Book |
| Cotton mills of Bolton 1780-1985: a historical directory | Longworth, James H | Bolton Museum & Art Gallery | 1986 | | Book |
| Cotton mills in Greater Manchester | Farnie, D A; Williams, Mike | Carnegie Publishing | 1992 | | Book |
| Yorkshire cotton: the Yorkshire cotton industry, 1780-1835 | Ingle, George | Carnegie Publishing | 1997 | | Book |
| Stott and Sons: architects of the Lancashire cotton mill | Holden, Roger N | Carnegie Publishing | 1998 | | Book |
| Cotton mills of Preston: the power behind the thread | Dickinson, T C | Carnegie Publishing | 2002 | | Book |
| Early factory masters: the transition to the factory system in the Midlands textile industry | Chapman, Stanley D | David & Charles | 1967 | | Book |
| Spinning mule | Catling, Harold | David & Charles | 1970 | | Book |
| Textile mill engine: volume 2 | Watkins, George | David & Charles | 1971 | | Book |
| Textile mill engine: volume 1 | Watkins, George | David & Charles | 1970 | | Book |
| Run of the mill: a pictorial narrative of the expansion, dominion, decline and enduring impact of the New England textile industry | Dunwell, Steve | David R Godine | 1978 | | Book |
| Derwent Valley mills and their communities | | Derwent Valley Mills Partnership | 2001 | | Book |
| Compendious history of the cotton manufacture: with a disproval of the claim of Sir Richard Arkwright | Guest, Richard | Frank Cass | 1968 | | Facsimile reprint |
| Home tour through the manufacturing districts of England: in the summer of 1835 | Head, George | Frank Cass | 1968 | | Book |
| Water-Spinners | Aspin, Chris | Grimshore Local History Society | 2003 | | Book |
| David Dale of New Lanark: a bright luminary to Scotland | McLaren, David J | Heatherbank press | 1983 | | Book |
| Water-spinners: a new look at the early cotton trade | Aspin, Chris | Helmshore Local History Group | 2003 | | Book |
| Lappet and other Victorian works: the story of Calder Vale and Oakenclough | Wilcock, Jack | Jack Wilcock | 1998 | | Book |
| Four centuries of Lancashire cotton | Timmins, Geoffrey | Lancashire County Books | 1996 | | Book |
| Brock Bottoms: a history of the mill and the community | Parker, S | Lancashire County Books | 1992 | | Book |
| Lancashire cotton industry: a history since 1700 | Rose, Mary B | Lancashire County Books | 1996 | | Book |
| Lancashire under steam: The era of the steam-driven cotton mill | Dickinson, T C | Lancashire County Council | 1984 | | Book |
| Industrial archaeology of the Preston cotton industry | Dickinson, T C | Lancashire Education Committee | 1981 | | Book |
| Textile mills of Pendle and their steam engines | Shackleton, Geoff | Landmark | 2006 | | Book |
| Cotton in Ashton | Haynes, Ian | Libraries and art committee | 1987 | | Book |
| Rise and fall of the Scottish cotton industry 1778-1914: the secret spring | Cooke, Anthony | Manchester University Press | 2010 | | Book |
| Power in the industrial revolution | Hills, Richard L | Manchester University Press | 1970 | | Book |
| Arkwright's Masson Mill: 1771-1946 | | Masson Mill | | | Book |
| Vanished dwellings: early industrial housing in a Lancashire cotton town, Preston | Morgan, Nigel | Mullion Books | 1990 | | Book |
| Visitors guide to Styal Quarry Bank mill | Rose, Mary | National Trust | 1978 | | Brochure, leaflet or poster |
| Quarry Bank mill: a visitor's guide | Rose, Mary | National Trust | | | Brochure, leaflet or poster |
| Wellbrook: County Tyrone | Green, E R R | National Trust for Northern Ireland | 1975 | | Book |
| Dukinfield cotton mills | Haynes, Ian | Neil Richardson | 1993 | | Book |
| Stalybridge cotton mills | Haynes, Ian | Neil Richardson | 1990 | | Book |
| Waterwheel grandfather clock | Hills, Richard L | North Western Museum of Science & Industry | | | Book |
| Cotton mills of Oldham | Gurr, Duncan; Hunt, Julian | Oldham Education & Leisure Services | 1998 | | Book |
| Cotton mills of Oldham | Gurr, Duncan; Hunt, Julian | Oldham Education & Leisure Services | 1985 | | Book |
| Cotton mills of Oldham | | Oldham Education & Leisure Services | 1979 | | Book |
| Great human exploit: historic industries of the north-west | Smith, J H | Phillimore | 1973 | | Book |
| Mill life at Styal | | Quarry Bank Mill Trust | 1986 | | Book |
| In the wake of King cotton | Davies, John; Powell, Rob | Rochdale Art Gallery | 1986 | | Book |
| Satanic mills: Industrial architecture in the Pennines | Binney, Marcus; Fitzgerald, Ron; Langenbach, Randolph; Powell, Ken | SAVE Britain's Heritage | | | Book |
| Pennine mill trail | Powell, Ken | SAVE Britain's Heritage | | | Book |
| Material culture of the wooden age | Hindle, Brooke; Kulik, Gary | Sleepy Hollow Restorations | 1981 | | Book |
| Building in focus: The East Mill, Dundee | Illsley, Roger | SPAB | 2022 | Blog 28 April | Digital |
