Books about Staffordshire 

Monastic Staffordshire is an account of the origins, nature and development of the monastic houses of Staffordshire, an assessment of the contribution they made to the development of the economy of the district, the events surrounding their closure, and the traces which their activities have left behind. In addition to the houses of medieval Staffordshire, Monastic Staffordshire also deals with those in Cheshire, Derbyshire and Shropshire which lie near to the Staffordshire border.
Tomkinson also writes about the sources from which the history of the medieval religious houses is obtained. A glossary, a bibliography and brief guide for the convenience of those who may wish to visit the sites is provided.

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A History of Hulton Abbey is a detailed account of this Staffordshire medieval Cistercian house, based upon the author's research at Keele University.
In addition to relating the history of the abbey, from its foundation in 1217 to the Dissolution, in 1538, there are chapters on the relations between the abbey and its patrons, the economy of the abbey, the size, composition and discipline of the community. Further chapters deal directly with the evidence of the community, including two intriguing cases of forgery. 

While researching the history of Hulton Abbey at Keele University, the author came across two cases of forgery in the documentary sources.
The first concerns an alleged cartulary of the abbey, seen and partly copied by a member of the Sneyd family in the last decade of the nineteenth century, which was a crude forgery, made in the interests of the genealogical ambitions of the Sneyds of that time. 
In addition, the author was the first person to have realized that the document, now lost but previously copied by several sources, purporting to be the foundation charter of the abbey, was a late monastic forgery.