books and articles

County and other general histories

• A History of the County of Lancaster – William Farrer & J. Brownbill (editors), 1911
• An history of the original parish of Whalley, and honor of Clitheroe : in the counties of Lancaster and York, to which is subjoined, an account of the parish of Cartmell – Thomas D Whitaker, 1818

Town histories 

• Annals of Colne and Neighbourhood – James Carr, 1878
• The History of Colne – Dorothy Harrison (ed), 1988
• Colne – Lancashire Historic Town Project – Lancashire County Council and Egerton Lea Consultancy with the support of English Heritage and Pendle Borough Council, 2005
• Bonnie Colne – Peter Wightman, 1976

Thematic histories

• Industrial Heritage – A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Colne, Trawden and Foulridge – Mike Rothwell, 2015
• Pendle Textile Mills – Simon Taylor, English Heritage, 2000

Photographic histories

• Old Colne – John Bentley, 1986
• A Colne Jubilee, 1952-1977 – Geoff Crambie, 1977
• A Colne Festival, 1926-51 – Geoff Crambie, 1978
• A Colne A-Z – Geoff Crambie, 1982
• Colne – Geoff Crambie, 2000
• Another Look at Colne – Wilfred Spencer, 1972
• Colne As It Was – Wilfred Spencer, 1971

Articles

•  The First Purpose Built Cinema: The Case Against Colne in Picture House 30 – Jon Burrows, 2005
• The Coln Book Society – Wilfred Spencer, in the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, vol 110, 1958
• The Plague of Blue Locusts – R D Storch, in Crime and Society, Readings in History and Theory,  Fitzgerald, McLennan and Pawson (eds), 1981 [Colne riots, 1840]
• Excavation of the hillfort of Castercliff, Nelson, Lancashire, 1970-71 Trans. Lancs. & Ches. Antiq. Soc. 81, 111-30

Other

• History of the Plains of Tabor Preceptory No 110 Colne, 1805-1955 – Allen Exley, [1935]
• Memories of Colne – Mrs Cryer. In 1910, Mrs. Cryer produced a series of articles for the Colne and Nelson Times, recalling her memories of Colne in the 1850s.