Library

The KBKA has a large physical library of books for use by KBKA members and is available at the monthly club meetings. New/recycled books are always welcome. You may find the below books in our library:

For Beginners

Complete & Easy Guide to Beekeeping

K. Flotum

Keeping Bees & Making Honey

A.Benjamin & B. Mccallum

The Healthy Hive

BBKA

First Lessons in Beekeeping

Keith Delaplane

Bee (Haynes) manual

Claire & Adrian Waring
2 copies available

Beekeeping – a Practical Guide

Roger Patterson
2 copies available

Bad Beekeepers Club

Bill Turnbull
2 copies available

Bees & Beekeeping Explained

Gerard Baker

Beekeeping for Dummies

Howland Blackiston

A Hive of Industry . . . The Story of Honey Bees and Beekeeping

Devon Apicultural Research Group

For All BeeKeepers

How to Succeed with Bees

E.W. & K. Atkins
1924

The Buzz About Bees

J. Tautz

Beekeeping Study Notes: Modules 5,6,7,8

Yates

Making Up & Using Nuclei

Donald Sims
Beekeeping in a Nutshell series

Honey Bee Democracy

Thomas D. Seeley

The HoneyBee Out & About

Celia F. Davis

The Wisdom of the Hive

T.D. Seeley
1995

Treating Oil-seed Rape with Simplicity

Jack Berry
Beekeeping in a Nutshell series

Oilseed Rape and Bees

Allan Calder

The Bee-friendly Beekeeper – A sustainable approach

David Heaf

Advanced or Specific Topics

General Husbandry

BBKA News Special Issue

How to Make a Solar Extractor

C. Richmond

How to Make a Warming Cabinet

R. Chapman

Keeping Healthy Honey Bees

David Aston & Sally Bucknall

Natural Beekeeping

Ross Conrad

Keeping Bees

Compiled by J.B. Free

Swarming its control & Prevention

L.E. Snelgrove
2 copies – 1941 & 1943

Anatomy & Physiology of the Honeybee

R.E. Snodgrass
1925

Field Notes on Queen Rearing

Oliver Field

Producing, Preparing, Exhibiting and Judging Bee Produce

W. Herrod-Hempsall
Producing, preparing, exhibiting and judging. 1948

Related Interests and Gardening

The Beekeeper’s Garden

Ted Hooper & Mike Taylor
1988

A Sting in the Tale

Dave Goulson
2013

Plants and Honeybees. . .Their relationships

David Aston & Sally Bucknall

The Bee Friendly Garden

Ted Hooper & Mike Taylor

Plants and Beekeeping

F. N. Howes

Bee Quest

Dave Goulson

Ministry of Agriculture

Beekeeping

Ministry of Agriculture
MAFF 1972

Diseases of Bees

Ministry of Agriculture
MAFF 1976

Swarming of Bees

Ministry of Agriculture
MAFF 1975

Also Available

  • A selection of British Beekeepers Association Advisory Leaflets.
  • Past copies of various Newsletters and Journals.

Book Stockists

Popular books related to bees are stocked by the likes of Amazon, but there are also specialist book retailers: