 The first of these was his co-authorship of "Colliery Working and Management" with Harrison Bulman which was acknowledged as a standard text and was reprinted several times.His five volume "Modern Practice in Mining" is a comprehensive account of the coal mining industry of his time and was written from 1908 to 1932.His autobiography "Men, Mines and Memories" was written in 1942 and his account of the war, "The British Coal Mining Industry During the War" was written in 1923.