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Spas Research Fellowship – Publishing & Bookshop The SRF provides assistance in the preparation and publishing of works related to heritage and modern Spas and Health Resorts. These can either be included in the range of SRF publications or presented as separate volumes. We also review new books. The latest review can be seen on our "Archives/Reviews" page (click menu left). The following books are available for purchase - click the small thumbnails below to get a larger image. Florence Nightingale and the Water Cure Weaver C F, 2010, Cora Weaver, Malvern, 88 pages, 29 illustrations, Size: 15cm x 21cm Florence Nightingale's first visit to Malvern was in 1848 when she came with her mother, and described how she entered the village of Malvern 'through a Triumphal Arch of wet sheets and an avenue of flannels...' During the Crimean War she became extremely ill and came to Malvern a further nine times. Malvern was her hospital and Dr Walter Johnson her chief physician, who almost certainly saved her life. This book contains much previously unpublished information about Florence Nightingale and the Water Cure found in her own letters and those of her family. ISBN: 978-1-873809-87-7 Price: £7.95 Harrogate - The Yorkshire Spa Denbigh K, 2000, SRF Millennium Guides, 78 pages, 26 illustrations, 5 maps, Size: 15cm x 21cm The story of Harrogate's remarkable legacy of springs and wells and the physicians and enterpeneurs who, over the centuries, turned a piece of rural Yorkshire into a famous spa town: also of the efforts now being made to reverse the post-war decline and create a new spa for the 21st century. ISBN: 0 953671 19 4 Price: £9.99 Springs, Spouts, Fountains and Holy Wells of the Malverns Osborne B E. Weaver C F, 2001, Cora Weaver, Malvern, 63 pages, 84 illustrations, 9 maps, Size: 15cm x 21cm A descriptive tour for explorers of the 88 celebrated water sources of The Malvern Hills taking in all the sources where reasonable public access is available and where antiquities survive. This new revised 3rd edition includes maps and many more illustrations. NOW OUT OF PRINT BUT AQUAE MALVERNENSIS CAN BE PURCHASED FOR THE SAME PRICE OF £4.95 AS AN ALTERNATIVE. ISBN: 1 873809 47 6 Price: £4.95 Rediscovering 17th Century Springs and Spas in the footsteps of Celia Fiennes Osborne B E. Weaver C F, 1996, Cora Weaver, Malvern, 288 pages, 41 illustrations, Size: 15 cm x 21cm Following in the footsteps of a 17th century lady traveller, the text explores these early years of British Spas, who discovered them, promoted them and used them for what ailments. Also recorded are the surviving artefacts enabling the reader to appreciate these echos from the past. ISBN: 1 873809 22 0 Price: £16.99 Aquae Malvernensis Weaver C F. Osborne B E, 1994, Cora Weaver, Malvern, 252 pages, 69 illustrations, Size: 15cm x 21cm A history and topography of the Springs, Spouts, Fountains and Wells of the Malverns and the development of the public water supply ISBN: 1 873809 07 7 Price: £12.99 The Healing Baths of Droitwich Spa Weaver C F, 1999, SRF Millennium Guides, 150 pages, 62 illustrations, Size: 15cm x 21cm A very readable account of the history of Droitwich's saline baths from 1836 until the present day. Discover what the baths were like, how they were used and who visited them. ISBN: 0 953671 10 0 Price: £11.99 A Short Guide to Malvern as a Spa Town, 3rd ed Cora Weaver, 2003, Cora Weaver, 16 pages, 20 illustrations, including maps, Size: 15cm x 21cm An entertaining glimpse at the life of 19th century water cure patients and their doctors. A map shows the locations of the main water cure establishments. Designed as a day or weekend guide. ISBN: 1 873809 18 2 Price: £1.95 Charles Darwin & Evelyn Waugh in Malvern Cora Weaver, 2009, Cora Weaver, 19 pages, 21 illustrations, 1 map, Size: 15cm x 21cm Brief guide, with illustrations and map designed for day or weekend visitors to Malvern. Darwin came to Malvern for spa treatment on several occasions and brought his daughter here for similar treatment in 1851. ISBN: 978 1 873809 77 8 Price: £2.50 A Short Guide to Elizabeth Barrett & George Bernard Shaw in Malvern Cora Weaver, 1992, Cora Weaver, 15 pages, 12 illustrations, 2 maps, Size: 15cm x 21cm Brief guide with illustrations and map, designed for the day or weekend visitors to Malvern. Find out where they stayed, people and places they visited and what they wrote in or for Malvern. ISBN: 1 873809 03 4 Price: £1.75 A Guide to Edward Elgar in Worcestershire Cora Weaver, 2004, Cora Weaver, 58 pages, 50 illustrations, 2 maps, Size: 15cm x 21cm. A guide with map to places where Elgar lived or visited, his friends and his music. ISBN: 1 873809 23 9 Price: £5.95 The Priory Gatehouse of Great Malvern Cora Weaver, 1993, Cora Weaver, 18 pages, 14 illustrations, Size: 15cm x 21cm A visitors guide to this remarkable building which has survived for more than 500 years and is now the home of Malvern Museum. ISBN: 1 873809 06 9 Price: £2.00 Dr Wilson and his Malvern Hydro Janet Grierson, 1998, Cora Weaver, 142 pages, 24 illustrations, Size: 15cm x 21cm Well reasearched look at the life and work of Dr Wilson, a hydrotherapy pioneer in England; also investigates the work of other hydrotherapy doctors in Malvern in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ISBN: 1 873809 32 8 Price: £8.50 Temperance, Therapy and Trilobites Janet Grierson, 2001, Cora Weaver, 167 pages, 11 illustrations, 1 map, Size: 15cm x 21cm Dr Ralph Grindrod, Victorian Pioneer - Water Cure Doctor of Great Malvern Spa - his life and interests. ISBN: 1 873809 42 5 Price: £5.95 The Great Malvern Water Trail Cora Weaver and Bruce Osborne, 2004, Cora Weaver, A2 folded pages, 40 illustrations, 1 map, Size: folded 15cm x 21cm A guide to historic Malvern Spa's town centre, including street map, informative text and picture scrapbook. Twenty locations are explored with archive and modern day full colour illustrations. Each guide comes in a neat plastic case and is A2 size folded. Ideal for those wishing to discover this fascinating town as well as a good source of historic background to the water features. For those wishing to give as presents or take a party, 5 can be purchased for £9.00. For further details of Malvern go to www.malvernspa.com ISBN: 1 873809 52 2 Price: £1.95 The Illumination of St Werstan the Martyr Cora Weaver & Bruce Osborne, 2006, Cora Weaver, Malvern, 53 pages, 20 illustrations, 2 maps, Size: A4 Now into a second edition (2007), this scholarly work re-examines the legend of the founding of Malvern in the 11th century. It concludes that St Werstan was the original martyr saint who established his hermitage near the present day St Ann's Well. This site is believed to have been once called St Werstan's Well and was an original mediaeval Holy Well dedicated to this local saint. His legend is recorded in the ancient windows of Malvern Priory but has been erroneously dismissed by some historians as a fabrication. This published paper puts his life and work into a proper perspective and as such plays an important role in understanding Malvern's history and St Werstan's relevance to the local Springs and Wells. ISBN: 1-873809-67-0 Price: £9.99 Llandrindod Wells Osborne B E, 1999, SRF Millennium Guides., 185 pages, 44 illustrations, with maps, Size: 15cm x 21cm An historical account of the premier Welsh Spa resort from Roman times to the present day. This book has practical application in the form of an explorer's guide as well as being a definitive work of lasting value to scholars and those interested in spas. NOW OUT OF PRINT - LIMITED AVAILABILITY ISBN: 1 873614 06 3 Price: £20.00 From time to time we will post details of other books on this site and so do check it out now and again. You may be interested in the following book that is available free on-line. It details the history of Epsom Salts and related spa and wells and is by Dr Bruce E Osborne. Go to www.epsomwells.com or click on the logo below' To order, please send cheque or P.O., payable to "Cora Weaver", to the following address, include your name, address and details of the books you would like. Prices given above include UK post and packing. Cora Weaver, SPAS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP BOOKSALES 4 Hall Green, Malvern, Worcestershire. WR14 3QX. United Kingdom