Colonel Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, CB DL JP FSA (11 January 1859 – 21 July 1933) was a British soldier, historian and antiquarian, best known for his multi-volume A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time.

Joseph Bradney was born at Greet, Tenbury Wells, Shropshire, and educated at Harrow[a] and Trinity College, Cambridge.

The books have been described as a "monumental survey, extensively illustrated and containing dozens of pedigrees, [which remains] a basic reference work essential for the serious study of local history or genealogy in Monmouthshire."

The indices were included in their respective Parts and a fifth volume, which covers the last Hundred of Newport, was compiled from Bradney's manuscripts by medieval historian Dr Madeleine Gray.

[26] The re-ordered works were: Volume 5 contains an Introduction by Dr Gray which includes a biography of Bradney, her response to the criticism of his History of Monmouthshire by local historian Canon E.T.