I know this is a long list but studying and need to get my hands on the following: or anything else about the History of Photography will be gratefully appreciated ...
Robin Lenman ed, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
Liz Wells ed, The Photography Reader
Mark Durder ed, Fifty Key Writers on Photography
Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
Steve Edwards, Photography: A Very Short Introduction
The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography, Bolton ed.
Steve Edwards, The Making of English Photography
Gisele Freund, Photography & Society
Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography
Helmut and Alison Gernsheim, The History of Photography
A Concise History of Photography
The Rise of Photography 1850-1960: The Age of Collodion
Naomi Rosemblum, A History of Women Photographers
Naomi Rosemblum, A World History of Photography
Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History
Jean-Claude Lemagny and André Rouillé eds, A History Of Photography
Michael Frizot ed., A New History of Photography
Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography at The Dock
Alan Thomas, The Expanding Eye: Photography and the Nineteenth-Century Mind
John Falconer and Louise Hide, Points of View: Capturing the Nineteenth-Century in Photographs
Liz Eron and Val Williams, eds, Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present
Richard Bolton ed.The Contest of Meaning.
Mark Haworth - Booth, Photography: An Independent Art
Graham Clarke, The Photograph.