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    Investigating an Early English Royal Centre and its Contexts

    Explores the rediscovery of Rendlesham, revealing its role in early East Anglian power.Lost for centuries, the site of the East Anglian royal settlement at Rendlesham is now giving up its secrets. Noted by the Venerable Bede as a place of royal baptism in the seventh century CE, its location has been pin-pointed and its archaeology investigated. The settlement flourished from the early fifth ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Ancient Woodland

    The Archaeology and History of Woods in Norfolk

    Series series Studies in Regional and Local History
    Uncover the Hidden History of England's Ancient WoodlandsDelve into the fascinating world of England's ancient woodlands with this groundbreaking study of Norfolk's woods. Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson challenge conventional assumptions about these long-established semi-natural woods, revealing their surprising history and dynamic nature.Discover how human activity, from medieval management ... Read more

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  • Hertfordshire

    A Landscape History

    Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions—the "champion" countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south—this volume explains how, in the course of the middle ages, natural characteristics influenced the development of land use and settlement to create a range of distinctive ... Read more

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  • Trees in England

    Management and Disease since 1600

    There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll taken by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of further epidemics, most worryingly ash chalara – and there are more threats on the horizon. There is also a widely shared belief that our woods have been steadily disappearing over recent decades, either replanted with alien conifers or destroyed entirely in ... Read more

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  • Ancient Trees in the Landscape

    Norfolk's arboreal heritage

    Ancient Trees in the Landscape is the outcome of many years research into the history of trees in Norfolk, and represents the first detailed, published account of the ancient and traditionally managed trees of any English county. Yet it is far more than a regional survey. It is an exploration of how trees can be studied as part of the landscape. It discusses how accurately trees can be dated; ... Read more

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  • The Landscapes of Common Land

    History and Ecology in Norfolk and Beyond

    Explores the history, ecology, and physical features of English commons, focusing on Norfolk’s landscapes.Commons are an important part of the English landscape. Survivors from a once more extensive network otherwise eroded by the inexorable progress of enclosure, they provide a taste of wildness, crucial habitats for wildlife and valued spaces for recreation. To many people they seem to offer a ... Read more

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  • Hedgerow History

    Ecology, History and Landscape Character

    Oxbow says: For many years hedges have been the most common field boundary in rural Britain, providing a stock-proof barrier, a field boundary and a haven for wildlife. Despite this, they are rarely studied in any detail in landscape archaeology. The authors of Hedgerow History rightly argue that hedges, as an essential feature of the landscape, their origins and development, are as worthy of ... Read more

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  • English Orchards

    A Landscape History

    Old orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connection with their local environment. They are also of critical importance for sustaining biodiversity, providing habitats, in particular, for a range of ... Read more

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  • Jake Kelley: Hoosier Point Guard

    As a teenager, were you ever the NEW KID on the block? Even the thought of that situation starts to generate feelings of insecurity and cause anxieties to flood in.Take that circumstance, add a number of other teenage issues and you have the backdrop for Jake Kelley, Hoosier Point Guard the compelling, exciting, heart-warming story of a teenager who finds himself facing a number of "coming-of-age" ... Read more

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  • Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire

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    This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book ... Read more

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  • An Environmental History of Wildlife in England 1650 - 1950

    Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural ... Read more

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  • Humphry Repton

    Landscape Design in an Age of Revolution

    Humphry Repton is one of England’s most interesting and prolific garden and landscape designers. Renowned for his innovative design proposals and distinctive ‘before and after’ images, captured in his famous ‘Red Books’, Repton’s astonishing career represents the link between the simple parklands of his predecessor Capability Brown and the more elaborate, structured and formal landscapes of the ... Read more

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