JOSEPH COWEN
A British Revolution in C19th?
Winlaton and District Local History Society. A History of Blaydon. Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council. 1975.
Allen, Joan. Joseph Cowen and Popular Radicalism on Tyneside 1829-1900 Merlin Press. 2007.
Todd, Nigel. The Militant Democracy: Joseph Cowen and Victorian Radicalism. Bewick Press. 1991.
The Life and Speeches of Joseph Cowen M.P. by E.R.Jones
An Archaeological Survey of Blaydon Burn
Journal of the North East Labour History Society
The History of the Dickie Bird Society A column in Cowen's Illustrated Chronicle in which 'Uncle Toby' encouraged children to be kind.