Welcome to the Island Publishing Home Page
Last updated 29 July 2025
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The site is partially converted to a new layout to add a blog section.
For continuity this page has the links to the unconverted, archived, sections of the site.
Island Publishing is run by John New, transport historian/researcher, photographer and author with several published non-fiction and fiction stories and articles to his name. In November 2008 he was finally able to exchange the wage-slave rat race to working as a full-time Researcher/ Historian. After retiring from full-time employment he took a BA in Communication and Media at Bournemouth University. As part of this course a journalism blog was added in November 2015.
Island Publishing was created to undertake small scale work in general publishing; pre-press work for catalogues, exhibition guides, menus etc..., plus website pages for small businesses. Subsequently John's interests have evolved and this work is no longer offered. Main current activities at Island-publishing concern research and publication of material relating to the UK's early railways and Elizabethan/Stuart period coal mining. See Waggonway Research Circle pages and SLS_early_railways Several drafts for further children's books and railway related topics are available for publication. John also has a series of lectures/film shows available for showing.
As a Society member John designed and for several years ran, and maintained, the website for the Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) before stepping down to pass the baton on to newer bllod. He runs the site for the York Model Railway Show and the Waggonway Research Circle. Due to increasing work load with the SLS he also passed on the baton with regard to 4 other websites previously designed and run for external clients.
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Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS)
The Waggonway Research Circle site is kept on our web-space server and content is included in the site search facility.
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