George Redmonds (1935-2018)
Dr. George Redmonds was a noted historian who specialised in the study of place names and the origin of surnames.
Selected Publications
- English Surnames Series: Yorkshire, West Riding (1973) by George Redmonds
- Surnames Around Huddersfield (1980) by George Redmonds
- Old Huddersfield 1500-1800 (1981) by George Redmonds
- The Heirs of Woodsome and Other Essays in Local History (1982) by George Redmonds
- Almondbury: Places and Place-Names (1983) by George Redmonds
- Photographs of Old Lepton (1983) by George Redmonds
- Changing Huddersfield (1985) by Dr. George Redmonds
- Huddersfield and District Under the Stuarts: Seventy Years of Law and Disorder (1985) by George Redmonds
- Slaithwaite: Place and Place-Names (1988) by George Redmonds
- Yorkshire Surnames: Bradford and District (1990) by George Redmonds
- Yorkshire Surnames: Huddersfield & District (1992) by George Redmonds
- Holmfirth: Place-Names and Settlement (1994) by George Redmonds
- Yorkshire Surnames and the Hearth Tax Returns of 1672-73 (2002) by David Hey & George Redmonds
- Yorkshire Surnames: Halifax and District (2002) by George Redmonds
- The Making of Huddersfield (2003) by George Redmonds
- Christian Names in Local and Family History (2004) by George Redmonds
- Names and History: People, Places and Things (2004) by George Redmonds
- Places of Kirkheaton and District (2005) by George Redmonds
- The Place-Names of Huddersfield (2008) by George Redmonds
- Place-Names of Kirkburton, Shepley and Shelley (2009) by George Redmonds
- A Dictionary of Yorkshire Surnames (2015) by George Redmonds
- The Vocabulary of Coal Mining in Yorkshire 1250-1850 (2016) by George Redmonds
- A Vocabulary of Wood, Wood-Workers and Wood Management in Yorkshire (2017) by George Redmonds
- Honley: People, Places and Place-Names (2019) by George Redmonds
- The Yorkshire Historical Dictionary (2021) by George Redmonds
- Bradford Places: A New Perspective (2021) by George Redmonds
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Obituaries
- George Redmonds in The Guardian (21/Aug/2018)
- George Redmonds, Historian in Yorkshire Post (18/Aug/2018)
- George Redmonds (1935–2018) in Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (2019) by Peter McClure