Landscape History
Books to explore
Broadland
Author: Tom Williamson , Alison Yardy
Format: Paperback
This authoritative account will be essential reading for all with an interest in the history and ecology of Broadland. But it will also appeal to those who simply want to know more about the forces that have shaped the character of an iconic British landscape.
Princely Ambition
Author: Craig Owen Jones
Format: Paperback
Ideology, castle-building and landscape in Gwynedd, 1194–1283
A Lost Frontier Revealed
Author: Alan Fox
Format: Paperback
Regional separation in the East Midlands.
A Very Dangerous Locality
Author: Robert Liddiard , David Sims
Format: Paperback
This book examines the landscape archaeology of the Second World War on the section of the east coast of England known as the Suffolk Sandlings (the coastal strip from Lowestoft to Felixstowe), an area unusually rich in military archaeology.
Assembling Enclosure
Author: Ronan O'Donnell
Format: Paperback
Transformations in the rural landscape of post-medieval north-east England.
Deserted Villages Revisited
Editor: Christopher Dyer , Richard Jones
Format: Ebook
Ten leading experts come together to revisit deserted villages, and reveal much new evidence and new thinking about these fascinating sites.
Farmers, Consumers, Innovators
Editor: Richard Jones , Christopher Dyer
Format: Paperback
Joan Thirsk was the leading English agrarian historian of the late 20th century. This book is based on a conference held in her honour that was intended not to look back but rather to identify her relevance for historians now, and to present new work influenced and inspired by her.
From the Deer to the Fox
Author: Mandy de Belin
Format: Paperback
“This meticulously researched and much-needed study explores the shift from deer- to fox-hunting from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century and its effects on the landscape of Northamptonshire.” Amanda Richardson, Landscape History
Gardens and Green Spaces in the West Midlands since 1700
Editor: Malcolm Dick , Elaine Mitchell
Format: Paperback
With maps, plans and illustrations, this is a volume of important scholarship that places the West Midlands at the heart of landscape history
Hertfordshire
Author: Anne Rowe , Tom Williamson
Format: Paperback
Lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, this authoritative work will be invaluable reading for all those with an interest in the history, archaeology, and natural history of this fascinating county.
Hertfordshire Garden History - Volume 2
Editor: Deborah Spring
Format: Paperback
“This is thorough, well-illustrated with archive pictures, and of interest to readers way beyond Hertfordshire's boundaries.” Historic Gardens Foundation Newsletter
Histories of People and Landscape
Editor: Richard W. Hoyle
Format: Paperback
Essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey
Humphry Repton in Hertfordshire
Editor: Susan Flood , Tom Williamson
Format: Hardback
Presents complete transcriptions of all the key documents relating to Repton's activities, including the full text of seven Red Books.
Landscapes Decoded
Author: Susan Oosthuizen
The origin and development of Cambridgeshire's medieval fields
Medieval Parks of Hertfordshire
Author: Anne Rowe
Format: Paperback
“There is something in Rowe's book for everyone, from those interested in the history of the county, or of parks generally, to those requiring methodological templates for their own local studies.” Amanda Richardson, Landscape History
Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape
Author: Susan Kilby
Format: Hardback
This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants.
Rethinking Ancient Woodland
Author: Tom Williamson , Gerry Barnes
Format: Ebook
This important volume will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of the English countryside, nature conservation and environmental history.
Saving the People's Forest
Author: Mark Gorman
Format: Paperback
Open spaces, enclosure and popular protest in mid-Victorian London
The Orchards of Eastern England
Author: Tom Williamson , Gerry Barnes
Format: Paperback
Drawing on far-reaching archival research, an extensive survey of surviving orchards and biodiversity surveys, the authors tell the fascinating story of orchards in the east since the late Middle Ages.
The Origins of Hertfordshire
Author: Tom Williamson
Format: Paperback
Greatly expanded and extensively revised, this book examines the history of Hertfordshire from late prehistoric times to the thirteenth century.
The World of the Small Farmer
Author: Patricia Croot
Format: Paperback
This detailed and original study of early-modern agrarian society in the Somerset Levels examines the small landholders in a group of sixteen contiguous parishes in the area known as Brent Marsh.
Trees in England
Author: Tom Williamson , Gerry Barnes , Toby Pillatt
Format: Paperback
The results of an ambitious research project are here shaped into a richly detailed survey of English arboriculture over the last four centuries.
Tudor and Early Stuart Parks of Hertfordshire
Author: Anne Rowe
Format: Paperback
This meticulously researched book opens a window onto Tudor and early Stuart Hertfordshire and illuminates a significant aspect of the county’s landscape history.
Wearmouth and Jarrow
Author: Sam Turner , Sarah Semple , Alex Turner
Format: Paperback
“This is an attractive book which is exceptionally well-illustrated...” Archaeological Journal