And this, a book that I'm looking forward to reading but I have yet to come across, yet I don't want to break down and give Amazon any of my hard-earned money. Not that Jeff Bezos needs it, or I have any:
Link: The First Ghosts - Irving Finkel
Lectures on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFPeOi5H6Zo
And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNNaZ110ee4
He's an erudite and charming lecturer and host. If more professors were like him I'd still be in college.
(*NB I'd have embedded the videos but having upgraded my Joomla! installation I'm already paying the price of broken components. When they've ironed out the bugs I'll go back and fix. For now this is easiest.)