A reading list compiled with the help of Kent County Council's Arts and Libraries Service:

A Mine of Humour by George Brailsford (www.jerryvyse.com, 2010, £3.99).  A humorous account of life in the former coal mines around Deal.

An Illustrated Deal, Walmer and Sandwich (1895).

Book of Deal and Walmer by Ivan Green.

Book of Deal and Walmer, The (Deal Corporation, 1938). A 64-page guidebook. On line extracts are on the DealWeb website.

Bygone Deal and Walmer by Beryl Foley-Fisher (Phillimore, 1989). Photographs and maps with historical notes.

Deal: All in the Downs by Gregory Holyoake (SB Publications, 2008).

Deal and District at War by David G. Collyer (The History Press, 2009)

Deal and Walmer, A Celebration by Gregory Holyoake.

Deal in Old Photographs by June Broady (1989). Old photographs, many from the Deal Maritime and Local History Museum collections.

Deal Railway Station 1847 to 1995 by A L Minter

Deal: Sad Smuggling Town by Gregory Holyoake (2001).

Deal, Walmer Dover and The Kent Coast by R J W Hammond (1965).

Discovering Deal by Barbara Collins (1969). A 50-page pamphlet.

East Kent at War: in old photographs by David G. Collyer (Sutton Publishing, published 1998).

From Seam to Sea by Deal Writers Group (2011, £4.50). An anthology in prose and verse, celebrating links between the former coalfields and Deal.

Hasted's Kent - Deal, Great Mongeham, Little Mongeham, Ripple, Walmer (Kent Towns & Villages) by Edward Hasted (paperback, 2008).

History of Deal by John Laker (1917). Possibly the first researched history of Deal.

History of Deal and its Neighbourhood, A by Stephen Pritchard (1864).

History of Deal, A by Gertrude Nunns (2006).

Old Deal and Walmer by Gregory Holyoak.

Picture Palaces Remembered by John Roy and Tony Thompson (1987). The cinemas of Dover, Deal and Folkestone in the 20th century.

Records of Walmer by Charles R. S. Elvin (1890). WalmerWeb has an extract here.

Royal Marines Deal - a Pictorial History by Andrew Lane. Over 200 photographs from the Royal Marines Museum.

Sketches of Deal, Walmer and Sandwich by J. L. Roget (1911).

Story of Dola by Henry Chapman.

The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery on Mill Hill, Deal, Kent by Keith Parfitt and Birte Brugmann (paperback, 1997, published by the Society for Medieval Archaeology, ISBN: 978 9 990182 49 1).

The Coldest Place in England by Tony Arnold (1995).

The Invaders Shore by W P D Stebbing (1937). Historical analysis of buildings and activities in Deal.

The Old Pubs of Deal and Walmer by Steve Glover and Michael Rogers (published 2010).

Walmer and Walmer Castle by Charles Elvin.

Walmer Castle and it’s Lords Warden by Marquess Curzon of Keddleston.

Walmer Design Statement (Walmer Parish Council, £4.95). A detailed picture of Walmer at the beginning of the 21st Century.

Wellington at Walmer by Gregory Holyoake (Regency Press (London & New York) Ltd, 1995).