The Modernisation of London Concert Life Around 1900 – Simon McVeigh and Cyril Ehrlich (2002) An essay on the important changes in the business of music in London around the turn of the twentieth-century.
The Proms: and the men who made them – Barrie Hall (1981) Illustrated hardback history of the (BBC) Promenade Concerts.
Tainted by Experience: A Life in the Arts – John Drummond (2000) Memoir and critique of the arts in the UK by Sir John Drummond, former Director of the Promenade Concerts and Controller of BBC Radio 3.
The Henry Wood Proms – David Cox (1980) An illustrated history of the story of the Proms, covering the period from 1895 to the end of the 1970s.