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  • The Landscape of Industry

    Patterns of Change in the Ironbridge Gorge

    The Landscape of Industry is an integrated study which establishes a method for the analysis of complex industrial landscapes. Based on a study of the Ironbridge Gorge, the authors consider a range of material evidence, combining archaeological appraisal of the landscape with analysis of its characteristic settlement patterns and built forms. The authors consider the shifting relationship between ... Leer más

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  • The Industrial Heritage

    Managing Resources and Uses

    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    The Industrial Heritage is the first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management of the complex heritage of industrial cultures. It breaks new ground, as the authors (both active workers in the field) suggest that concepts of heritage defined to deal with pre-industrial cultures must be modified to deal with the very different demands presented by ... Leer más

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  • The Making of the British Landscape

    How We Have Transformed the Land, from Prehistory to Today

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    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 Great Stink of London

    Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

    'An extraordinary history' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' - Hermione Hobhouse'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . . (he) writes with the relish of one who savours his subject and has deeply researched it. . . splendidly illustrated' - Ruth Rendell... ... Leer más

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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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  • England's Villages

    An Extraordinary Journey Through Time

    England's villages have survived, developed, and thrived over hundreds of years. But what makes a village and how has that changed over time?Take a charming and unexpected journey through the quirks of England's villages throughout the ages in the excellent company of Dr Ben Robinson, expert archaeologist. Join him in visiting villages from prehistoric, to Roman, to medieval times, all the way ... Leer más

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  • Liverpool: A Landscape History

    The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey and Dee; the Sefton coast provided a perfect place for the earliest humans to hunt and gather food; and the Pool and the Mersey, and England's position on the coast gave King John the perfect base from which to launch his Irish campaigns. This book explores the ... Leer más

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  • The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of Southern Britain AD 450-650

    Beneath the Tribal Hidage

    The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic and social realities of the communities documented. Sue Harrington ... Leer más

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  • Canals: The Making of a Nation

    de Liz McIvor ...
    Canals hold a unique place in British culture, with associations of lazy summer afternoons, journeying through lush green countryside. But as Liz McIvor explains in the book to accompany her BBC series, the story of our canals is also the story of how modern Britain was born. It was the canals that helped open up the trade of the Industrial Revolution, furthered the new science of geology, and ... Leer más

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  • The Fight for Beauty

    Our Path to a Better Future

    We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can’t be given a monetary value. We’re stuck on a treadmill where only the material things in life gain traction and it’s getting harder to find space for the things that really matter but money can’t buy, including our future.Fiona Reynolds proposes a solution that is at once radical and simple – to inspire us ... Leer más

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  • The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

    de Matthew Kelly ...
    A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable womenIn Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and guarantees public access to green spaces. But this was not always so. Over the last 150 years, activists have campaigned tirelessly for the right to roam through the countryside and the vital ... Leer más

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  • Interpreting the Landscape

    Landscape Archaeology and Local History

    de Michael Aston ...
    Most places in Britain have had a local history written about them. Up until this century these histories have addressed more parochial issues, such as the life of the manor, rather than explaining the features and changes in the landscape in a factual manner. Much of what is visible today in Britain's landscape is the result of a chain of social and natural processes, and can be interpreted ... Leer más

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