Publications
* = publications supported by (and/or based on research for) English Heritage
- The Cross Bath, Bath History vol. 2 (1988)
- * Lulworth Castle in the seventeenth century (joint author), Architectural History vol. 33 (1990)
- * Lulworth Castle from 1700 (with F. Kelly), Architectural History vol. 34 (1991)
- Bath and the Great Rebuilding, Bath History vol. 4 (1992)
- Henry Savile's map of Bath, Somerset Archaeology and Natural History vol. 136 (for 1992)
- The buildings of Bath Priory, Somerset Archaeology and Natural History vol. 137 for 1993)
- Pulteney Bridge, Architectural History vol. 38 (1995), also published as Pulteney Bridge (Bath 1995), and reprinted in Ted Ruddock (ed.), Masonry Bridges, Viaducts and Aqueducts (2000)
- The Parish of Englishcombe: a history (Englishcombe 1995)
- * Iron Acton: a Saxon nucleated settlement, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society vol. 113 (1995)
- * The history of Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings vol. 54 (1998 for 1996)
- The Spirit of Care:
the eight-hundred-year story of St John's Hospital, Bath (1998)
- Saxon Bath: the legacy of Rome and the Saxon rebirth, Bath History vol. 7 (1998)
- The bishop's close at Bath reassessed, Archaeological Journal vol. 155 (1999)
- The history of Binbury: medieval to modern, in P.Davenport (ed.), Archaeology in Bath: excavations 1984-89, British Archaeological Report vol. 284 (1999)
- * Documentary evidence, in S. Brown, Recent building recording and excavations at Leigh Barton, Churchstow, Devon, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings vol. 56 (2001 for 1998)
- Web-Guided Research in Building History (online 4 Sept 2002)
- * The history of Acton Court in K. Rodwell and R. Bell, Acton Court: The Evolution of an Early Tudor Courtier's House (English Heritage 2004)
- The Hub of the Circus (Bath and North-East Somerset Council 2004)
- The Origins of Bristol (online 26 June 2007)
- Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Thames & Hudson 2013, 2nd edn 2015) - (Amazon-UK, Amazon-US)
- Blood of the Celts (Thames & Hudson 2015) - (Amazon-UK, Amazon-US)
- The Origins of the Anglo-Saxons (Thames & Hudson 2018) - (Amazon-UK, Amazon-US)
Popular publications include
- Georgian Bath, OS Historical Map and Guide: Georgian Bath
- World heritage city, Bath Official Guide (1993-4)
- Articles in Bath City Life 1992-1996, most of which are now online in Bath Past.
- House History Hunting, History.UK (online 15 May 2003)
- House detective, Living History September and October 2003
- The heritage of mercy, Medieval History November 2003
- Articles in The Bristol Magazine 2004-8 (those from past issues are online in Bristol Past.)
- Contributions to UKAttraction.com 2004-6.
- Contribution to Rediscovering Acton Court and the Poyntz Family (2009)
- The Celtic Conundrum, Minerva, vol. 26, no. 5 (September/October 2015), pp. 20-24
- Uncovering the Celts : What ancient DNA can tell us, History Scotland, November/December 2015
