Article by Blunkett on socialism and local government in Sheffield, in Local Government Policy Making (Vol. 8, No.1 Summer 1981), the Journal of the Institute of Local Government Studies).

Interview with Blunkett in chapter entitled 'Local Socialism: The Way Ahead', in Local Socialism edited by Martin Boddy and Colin Fudge (London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1984)

Article by Blunkett in Local Government Studies (Vol.12, No.1 January/February 1986)

Article by Blunkett on equality for visually impaired people, published in The British Journal of Visual Impairment (1993, Vol. 11, No.1). The article is an edited version of the SRAB Annual Lecture given by Blunkett in November 1992.

Interview with Blunkett in a book of interviews with members of the Shadow Cabinet published by the New Statesman.

Article by Blunkett in Reclaiming Britishness edited by Phoebe Griffith and Mark Leonard (Foreign Policy Centre, 2002)

Article by Blunkett in Views of the City: can city-regions find their place?, a collection of essays published by the New Local Government Network (NLGN).

Article written by Blunkett with David Richards and Helen Mathers in The Political Quarterly (Vol. 79, Issue 4, 2008). 2 copies.

Article by Blunkett in the journal Public Money & Management (Vol.29, No.4, July 2009). 2 copies.

Article by Blunkett in the journal Policy & Politics (Vol.39, No.1, January 2011).

Article by David Blunkett and David Richards published in Political Studies Review (Vol.9, 178-192, 2011). Photocopy.

Article by David Blunkett published in The Politics Quarterly (Vol.83, No.4, October-December 2012).

Published in Remembered Thinking...on Further Education and Leading (Further Education Trust for Leadership, 2015)

Contribution by Blunkett to chapter 'How Independent Should Schools Be?' in World Class: Tackling the Ten Biggest Challenges Facing Schools Today (Routledge: London, 2017)

Chapter written by Blunkett and Hazel Blears 'The Road to Empowerment' in Whose Government is it? The Renewal of State-Citizen Cooperation, Edited by Henry Tan (Bristol University Press, 2019).

Book of conversations between politicians and the historian, Peter Hennessy, from three series of the BBC Radio 4 programme Reflections. Includes interview with Blunkett which was first broadcast on 14 August 2018. (Haus Publishing Ltd, London, 2019).

Chapter entitled 'Ruling from the Heart: the poet and the cabinet minister - a dialogue between David Blunkett and Michael O'Siadhail'in Art, Imagination and Public Service (Haus Publishing, 2021).

Retrospective letter from Blunkett to his mother Doreen.