Bibliography

Quick Reference:

The Peak Speedwell Cave System, Castleton, Derbyshire.  BCRA Cave Science Vol 18, No 1, April 1991. (Covers most things from 924 AD to 1990 - ie prior to JH and Titan entrances)

Cordingley, J.N; The Peak Cavern System - a caver's Guide. ISBN: 0 948152 01 X

Various Technical Speleological Group Journals (exploration)

In Depth:

John Beck and Doug Nash compiled an extensive, annotated, bibliography in 1989, coinciding with a BCRA Symposium on the Peak Speedwell Cave System held in Sheffield. That bibliography has now been computerised and is being updated, together with additional and more recent references, as well as online links to digital sources. This puts much of the historic documentation and imagery at your fingertips rather than in dusty corners of bibligraphic archives... But there are references to special holdings as well [1]

Some ways in are:

1   a tagcloud (follow a subject link)
2   a search on Ford (the search is case insensitive and looks for the string anywhere, so this also brings back eg.Cullingford)
3   look at pictures (items tagged picture may be just references or may include or link to copies)
4   a list of all book authors (caving journals, academic/newspaper articles, etc.)
5   a list of all online links

Once in, it is easiest just to follow the links, and use the browser's back button and find/search in page functions. Full control is via the drop-down menu boxes at the top of the page.

[1] The BSA archives have now been transferred from BCRA custody or Matlock Library to the British Caving Archive held by the British Geological Survey at Keyworth, Notts. The Bagshawe Collection of antiquarian documents has moved from Sheffield Central Library toSheffield Archives. The British Library holds a survey from 1782 and some pictures which used to be in the British Museum.