Landscape History

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