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  • The Williamson Collection

    Key Papers by Archaeologist and Historian Tom Williamson on the History and Development of the English Rural Landscape

    Series Libro 5 - Oxbow Reflections
    Highlights Tom Williamson’s influential research on the development of England’s landscapes from the Iron Age onward.Tom Williamson is a landscape historian and archaeologist whose wide-ranging interests have long placed him at the forefront of research into many aspects of the English countryside from the Iron Age to the post-medieval period. His interests include the origins and development of ... Leer más

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    Discovering England's Ancient Depths

    de Francis Pryor ...
    A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week.'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON.'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN.Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine ... Leer más

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  • The Making of the British Landscape

    How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today

    de Francis Pryor ...
    This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's ... Leer más

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  • The History of the Countryside

    From its earliest origins to the present day, this award-winning, beautifully written book describes the endlessly changing character of Britain's countryside.'A classic' Richard MabeyExploring the natural and man-made features of the land - fields, highways, hedgerows, fens, marshes, rivers, heaths, coasts, woods and wood pastures - he shows conclusively and unforgettably how they have developed ... Leer más

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  • Imperial Mud

    The Fight for the Fens

    de James Boyce ...
    ****WINNER OF THE HISTORY AND TRADITION CATEGORY, EAST ANGLIAN BOOK AWARDS 2020****LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2021****'A real page-turner ... a warning about what happens when the rich and powerful dress up their avarice as "progress" - a lesson we could do with learning today.' Dixe Wills, BBC Countryfile magazineFROM A MULTI-AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN, AN ARRESTING NEW HISTORY OF THE ... Leer más

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  • Forgotten Forests

    Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands

    Ancient trees, some over a thousand years old, are dotted around the British Isles, the last survivors of a lost world. Now, new scientific studies of these trees and of fossilised forests and of our oldest wooden artifacts can help us to understand the many woodlands that have disappeared from our landscapes.Locked in ice for more than twenty thousand years, the lands that now make up Britain and ... Leer más

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  • Woodlands

    ‘Trees are wildlife just as deer or primroses are wildlife. Each species has its own agenda and its own interactions with human activities …’Written by one of Britain’s best-known naturalists, Woodlands offers a fascinating new insight into the trees of the British landscape that have filled us with awe and inspiration throughout the centuries.Looking at such diverse evidence as the woods used in ... Leer más

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  • The Great Stink of London

    Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

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  • The Birth of Modern Britain

    A Journey into Britain’s Archaeological Past: 1550 to the Present

    de Francis Pryor ...
    From the author of ‘Britain BC’, ‘Britain AD’ and ‘Britain in the Middle Ages’ comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past.The relevance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world is indisputable. But, when exploring our recent past, does it have any role to play? In ‘The Birth of Modern Britain’ Francis Pryor highlights archaeology’s continued ... Leer más

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  • The Handbook of British Archaeology

    For over 25 years The Handbook of British Archaeology has been the foremost guide to archaeological methods, artefacts and monuments, providing clear explanations of all specialist terms used by archaeologists.This completely revised and updated edition is packed with the latest information and now includes the most recent developments in archaeological science. Meticulously researched, every ... Leer más

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  • Deserted Villages Revisited

    Edición de Christopher Dyer, Richard Jones ...
    Series Libro 3 - Explorations in Local and Regional History
    Assembling leading experts on the subject, this account explores the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of thousands of villages and smaller settlements in England and Wales between 1340 and 1750. By revisiting the deserted villages, this breakthrough study addresses questions that have plagued archaeologists, geographers, and historians since the 1940s—including why they were deserted, ... Leer más

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  • The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

    Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and ... Leer más

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