Bridgwater Historian 1865-1949
Biography – by Katherine Dilks
Bibliography
Bridgwater Borough Archives vols I to IV
Also published as Somerset Record Society
1200-1377 Vol 48 1933 Introduction
1377-1400 Vol 53 1938 Introduction
1400-1445 Vol 58 1943 Introduction
1445-1468 Vol 60 1945 Introduction
1468-1485 Vol 70 1971 (posthumously) Introduction
Presentation Certificate, Review and Volume I from Bridgwater Borough Council 7 June 1934
Tony Woolrich, Notes on the Publication of Bridgwater Borough Archives vol.5 and what happened to the materials for Volume 6.
Bridgwater Booklet Series
No. 1 – Pilgrims in Old Bridgwater by T Bruce Dilks
No. 2 – Bridgwater in Brief by T Bruce Dilks
No. 3 – The Siege of Bridgwater by C Trenchard
No. 4 – The Battle of Sedgemoor by M Page
No. 5 – Robert Blake, General-at-Sea by Rev. J R Powell
No. 6 – Charles James Fox and the Borough of Bridgwater
Other Books
T B Dilks, The Bridgwater Charter Day Song: London: J B Cramer & Co., 1926
T B Dilks, The Story of Bridgwater Parish Church, 1940
H Eardley Field and T Bruce Dilks,The parish of S. John Baptist, Bridgwater, 1846-1946, with some notes on the ancient hospital., 1946
Articles
T B Dilks, Some Documentary Oddments Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries, Vol. 15 (123), 1918, pp 100-103; Vol 16 (124), 1919, pp 141-2 and Vol 24, 1946, pp 22-25
T B Dilks, The Burgesses of Bridgwater in the Thirteenth Century, Proc. SANHS 63, 1917
Also see a commentary here.
T B Dilks, Bridgwater wills, Proc. SANHS 66(2), 1922
T B Dilks, Medieval Bridgwater, The History Teachers’ Miscellany, vol.III, 1925
T B Dilks, Bridgwater Insurrection of 1381, Proc. SANHS 73, 1927
T B Dilks, A lottery in Jacobean Bridgwater, Proc. SANHS 79, 1932
T B Dilks, The Bridgwater Carol, Western Gazette, 25 December, 1936
T B Dilks, Bridgwater Castle and Demesne towards the end of the Fourteenth Century, Proc. SANHS 87, 1940
Unpublished
Dilks’ mss Transcription of the Briwere Charters
T B Dilks, Burgesses of medieval Bridgwater to 1300, typecript, in Somerset Studies Library
Poetry Collections published by the East Gate Press
The Adamantine Island, 1902
A Village Muse, 1905
The Collected Verse of T Bruce Dilks, 1932
Twelve Sonnets, 1938
Music
The Bridgwater Charter Day Song.
Biographical Resoeuces gathered by Dr Peter Cattermole and Katherine Dilks, 5 June 2014. Bibliography gathered by Tony Woolrich 2019.