A self-published booklet on the history of Irish lacemaking, centered on the 19th century and the Potato Famine of 1845-47, which spurred lace industries as a form of relief. Much of it draws on Alan Cole's 1886-87 report and 1890 English Illustrated Magazine article, discussing Carrickmacross, Limerick, Youghal, Irish crochet, needlepoint, and tatting, and the role of convents, lace schools, and design reform. It is illustrated with many photographs and engravings of laces, lace-school interiors, and famine scenes, and ends with notes and references.

A 2001 booklet by Alan Brown drawing on John E. White's 1862 Royal Commission investigation into the children and young women employed in Nottingham's machine-lace finishing trades. It covers dressing rooms, warehouses, gauffring (bonnet front making), clipping and scolloping, private houses run by 'second-hand mistresses', and the wages, hours, heat, eyesight damage, illness, opiate use and lack of schooling the workers reported. Illustrated with photographs and engravings of lace machines, workrooms and lace samples; there are no weaving drafts.

A 2000 self-published book by Alan Brown that draws on the evidence collected by Assistant Commissioner John Edward White for the 1862 Children's Employment Commission on child bobbin lacemakers in the Honiton (Devon) and East Midlands lace districts. It quotes interviews with lace girls, lace-school mistresses, manufacturers, dealers, clergy and teachers on the lace trade's supply system, wages, the truck (payment in goods) system, hours, schooling and health conditions in cramped lace schools. A postscript covers the Commissioners' recommendations. It is illustrated with period engravings and photographs of Honiton, Bucks Point and braid-work lace, and has no weaving drafts.