The following journal articles provide the background and context of the StratFire project. These downloadable documents are made available with the permission of the publishers, for educational and research purposes only.

Alcock, Nathaniel (2001, revised 2024) Harvard House: The documentary evidence. 23pp, Report for the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.
Alcock, Nathaniel (2017) The scientific dating of standing buildings. Science Progress, 100(4), 374–399.
Bearman, Robert (2000) Stratford's Fires of 1594 and 1595 Revisited. Midland History, 25(1), 180-190.
Bearman, Robert (2007) Stratford-upon-Avon: A History of its Streets and Buildings. 84pp, Stratford Society.
Bearman, Robert (2016) Stratford-upon-Avon's Fire of 1614. Warwickshire History, XVI, No. 6, Winter 2016/17, 254-268.
Fox, Levi (1952) Some New Sidelights on Stratford-upon-Avon's Medieval Guild Buildings. Trans. Birmingham Archaeological Soc., LXX, 48-59.
Lloyd, Terence (1961) Some Aspects of the Building Industry in Medieval Stratford-upon-Avon. Dugdale Soc. Occasional Paper, No. 14, 25pp.
Miles, Daniel (1997) The Interpretation, Presentation and Use of Tree-Ring Dates. Vernacular Architecture, 28:1, 40-56.
Morgan, John (2016) The representation and experience of English urban fire disasters. Historical Research, LXXXIX, 268-293.
Porter, Stephen (1976) Fires in Stratford-upon-Avon in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Warwickshire History, 3(3), 97-105.