This small volume examines Britain's hunter-gatherer past and presents a discussion of the movement to an agrarian society six thousand years ago and the lessons that might be learned from this paradi
Kelmscott Manor is forever linked with the name of William Morris, pioneer conservationist and utopian socialist, designer and father of the Arts and Crafts tradition.
Liddiard (landscape history, U. of East Anglia, UK) presents nine essays on the medieval park, drawing attention to recent research, challenging preconceived notions, and pointing to avenues for furth
For thousands of years people in all parts of the world have carved images on rock panels and stones. Images are found on large, earth bound boulders, on smaller, movable stones or on rock panels in
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others,
Hadrian Cook’s new account of the New Forest in southern England, provides an historical narrative of the occupation and use of a vast area that was, for centuries, important as a Royal Hunting Forest
The trees which line many of the streets in our towns and cities can often be regarded as part of a heritage landscape. Despite the difficult conditions of an urban environment, these trees may live f
They are not swamps or mud flats; neither are they entirely the result of nature. Practitioner Cook, Williamson (landscape history, U. of East Anglia) and their contributors describe the elaborate wor
Gardom's Edge is an area of gritstone upland situated on the Eastern Moors of the Derbyshire Peak District. Like other parts of the Eastern Moors, Gardom's Edge has long been renowned for the wealth o
Prehistoric barrows, stone circles, Romano-British settlements, medieval fields, ancient drove-ways, and 19th-century lead mines are among the features described in Britain's' first National Park. The
Well known for its later gunpowder industry and the famous Sheherd Neame brewery, Faversham’s earlier medieval history also reveals it to have been an important religious and administrative center. Th
We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still li
This is the first book in a generation on medieval agriculture in Wales, presenting evidence which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of En
Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting the pattern for 1000 years to come – but it was more important than that. A rich harvest of arch
