Publications
William Gould has worked mostly as a member of a large editorial team, contributing to multi-volume reference publications such as World Book Encyclopedia and Children's Britannica. You can find his name in the staff and contributors pages of these publications. Here are some other publications on which William has also worked as a writer and editor.
Junior Science Encyclopedia, ed. Valerie Pitt, John Daintith and Alan Isaacs. Hamlyn, 1973. (Astronomy section, pp 8-18.)
Dictionary of Physical Sciences, ed. John Daintith. Macmillan, 1976. (Astronomy entries.)
Lives of the Stuart Age, ed. Edwin Riddell. Osprey, 1976. (Biographical entries on musicians such as Gibbons, Purcell, and John Blow.)
Joy of Knowledge Encyclopedia. Mitchell Beazley, 1977. (Fact-checking the spreads on music and writing astronomy definitions.)
Lives of the Georgian Age, ed. William Gould. Osprey, 1978. (Numerous biographical entries.)
Longman Dictionary of English Idioms, editorial director Thomas Hill Long. Longman, 1979. (Numerous entries, written in simplified English using Longman's special 2,000-word vocabulary.)
Collins English Dictionary. Collins, 1979. First edition. (Numerous pronunciation transcriptions using the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), general definitions and some etymologies.)
Dictionary of British Heritage. Cambridge, 1986 (Entries on Wales.)
Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Harrap, 1989. (Entries on acoustics and biographies including Bartók, Debussy, Maxwell Davies and Miles Davis.)
Kingfisher Children's Science Encyclopedia. Kingfisher, 1990. (Entries on physics and on chemistry.)
Bloomsbury Thesaurus. Bloomsbury, 1993. (the section on Time.)
Philip’s Encyclopedia. George Philip Limited, 1997 [Later editions published by Octopus]. (Editing and updating articles on religion, philosophy and linguistics.)
Hutchinson Almanac 2001 and 2002. Helicon (Astronomy section.)
Collins Internet-linked Dictionary of Astronomy. Collins, 2006 (Co-editor of this publication with Dr John Daintith)
Books written by William Gould
Harrap's English Punctuation and Hyphenation. Harrap Books, 1990. A guide to punctuation history and usage.
Business in Action series for Cherrytree. (Profiles of major corporations written for 14- and 15-year-olds. William has written all the books published in this series since 1996. Volumes include profiles of Ford, Boeing, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Apple, and Kellogg's.
In 2001 I collaborated on the Magic Mouse Dictionary of Computing (a glossary aimed at the 7- to 9-year-old market) and the following year I completed a new book on flags. Both these books were for Cherrytree.
