Village, Hamlet and Field

New research into the development of rural settlements. These studies focus on the period 850-1200 when the basic patterns were established. Incorporates a great deal of new research, mostly based on detailed regional surveys in the east Midland. Essential reading for landscape archaeologists and medieval historians.

History

Dyer, Christopher

Lewis, Carenza

Mitchell-Fox, Patrick

Europe

Windgather Press

<p>The parks and gardens of the 17th century through to the Victorian era were objects of status and pride as well as being functional areas of the tamed landscape which could be used for leisure and for growing food. Tom Williamson discusses garden and park design and location, management and organisation, as well as those who commissioned, designed, built and managed them. He considers the impact of influences from the Continent, changes in fashions and the role of particular individuals such as Capability Brown. Accompanied by lots of wonderful contemporary illustrations and more recently taken photographs, some in colour.</p>

Suffolk's Gardens and Parks: Designed Landscapes from the Tudors to the Victorians

Williamson, Tom

`A story of rising poverty, enclosure, accusations of rape, and the brutal confrontation of the landed and the dispossessed'. What began as a dispute over grazing rights in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk in April 1644, led to the death of a man and the subsequent hanging of three others. The events of this month are pieced together through primary source material and the events are used as a medium for discussing life in the seventeenth century community. A great story and a great book.

Bloody Marsh. A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis

WARNER, Peter

New research into the development of rural settlements. These  studies focus on the period 850-1200 when the basic  patterns were established. Incorporates a great deal of new  research, mostly based on detailed regional surveys in the  east Midland. Essential reading for landscape archaeologists and medieval historians.

The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish landscape, an evergreen impression of immortality. For hundreds of years it has marked holy places for travelers. In this book Robert Bevan-Jones paints a many-sided portrait of this extraordinary tree and the role it has played in history and culture. He begins by examining the yew's fascinating, poisonous biology, the origins of its name, and its distribution. He reviews the various attempts to date ancient yew trees, and concludes that many of them are certainly over a thousand years old; some of the oldest specimens many even be linked to the cells of early Celtic saints. Ancient yews survive today most typically in churchyards. They are also associated with abbeys, sprints and pre-Reformation wells, and serve as ancient markers in the wider landscape at hillfort and castle sites. Yew has an important place in woodland history, and provides the formal gardens of many great houses with hedges and topiary. Yew trees feature frequently in folklore tales, especially from Ireland, and are often invested with dark or magical associations. The prehistoric archaeological record is also rich in yew finds. With photographs and etchings of famous old yews, and a gazetteer of the oldest and largest yew trees in Britain, The Ancient Yew is a cultural flora or a single species: a tree which provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of the distant past. Second edition is revised and updated.

The Ancient Yew

Bevan-Jones, Robert

<p>During the Agricultural Revolution, the landowners of Britain constructed an enormous range of picturesque or classical buildings on their farms, inspired by Enlightenment ideals. These model farms, a phenomenon unique to Britain, are a significant yet largely undiscovered aspect of our heritage. This book is richly illustrated with interior and exterior photographs, most of them specially commissioned, as well as plans, paintings and historic photographs. It examines the architecture and landscape context of the farmsteads themselves and considers the motives of the people who built them, drawing on the first comprehensive national survey of model farms, recently completed by English Heritage.</p>

The English Model Farm: Building the Agricultural Ideal, 1700-1914

Wade-Martins, Susanna

To explain the rich, complex patterns in the English landscape today, we have to understand how the land was farmed in the medieval period. Some regions had large villages with extensive open fields; others had scattered hamlets and less communal forms of agriculture. These differences are still with us - in the shape of fields, the form of settlement, and the character of hedges and woods. Archaeologists, historians and geographers have long argued about when, why and how these variations developed. In this radical and important book Tom Williamson overhauls many of the ideas about how they came about. Some scholars have argued that geographical differences in customs and culture, in the strength of lordship, and in population pressure were involved. Williamson in contrast argues that the overriding determinant was the practicality of working the land. Using a wealth of evidence from the Thames to the Wash, he shows how subtle differences in soils and climate shaped not only the layout of fields and farms, but the very structure of the societies that farmed them. This is a book which puts the environment back where it belongs - at the centre of the historical stage. It will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of the English landscape, social and economic history, and the way life was lived in the medieval countryside. 2nd edition with new cover and corrections.

Shaping Medieval Landscapes (None)

Over the last few years, collaboration between the archaeological and metal-detectorist communities has transformed our understanding of early medieval economies. The great coastal emporia or wics like Hamwic, Dorestadt and Quentovic have in the past been the centre of scholarly attention. However, the identification of 'productive' sites, mostly through the detection and archaeological analysis of coins, has increasingly shown how economic and cultural exchange also went on at a myriad of other places, many of them inland. This book is the first to survey the evidence for inland markets and trading sites, in Anglo-Saxon England and across Scandinavian and Frankish Europe. Historians, archaeologists and numismatists review the latest evidence for these sites, and for trading relations across Europe and Scandinavia. Markets, fairs and other high-status settlements were all centres of exchange, and many of them are examined here for the first time. This interdisciplinary volume represents a milestone in understanding the complexities of economics and settlement in early medieval England and Europe. By moving the debate away from analysis of the most important sites, it offers new insights into the overall patterns of trade and exchange, and sheds new light on the economic dimension of people's lives.

Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and Productive Sites, 650-850 (None)

Oak has always held pride of place amongst trees in Britain has long provided the British people with a wonderful natural resource. In this book the authors reclaim the disappearing forestry and carpentry skills of our ancestors and show how oak can continue to enrich our future as a key element in an ecologically rich countryside. They explore how people managed and exploited oakwoods since Neolithic times, and the skills required in the use of timbers for ship-building, furniture and constructing houses. They also explore the myths, symbols and cultural associations that have connected people in Britain with the oak tree over hundreds of years. An appendix lists over 700 particularly significant oak trees, with notes on their location, present condition and historical connections.

Oak: A British History

Harris, Esmond

Rather than an economic history of 18th- and 19th-century Britain, Susanna Wade Martins presents a rural history that places the farmer, and the landlord, at the centre of change. Industrial and urban expansion and a rising population brought pressure to bear on the countryside, something that was shouldered largely by the farmer and it is with this in mind that Martins examines the transformations that were taking place in rural areas of Britain. Full of examples and case studies, she looks at the philosophies and technologies that drove change, the obligations and motives of landlords who provided the infrastructure, and his relationship with his tenants. Enclosure, the advent of new farming practices, intensification, reclamation, drainage, new reaping and threshing machines, the construction of new farmsteads and so on, all had a major impact on rural life with machines taking over from horsepower and science taking over from farming tradition.

Farmers, Landlords and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870

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Village, Hamlet and Field

Suffolk's Gardens and Parks: Designed Landscapes from the Tudors to the Victorians

Bloody Marsh. A Seventeenth-Century Village in Crisis

Village, Hamlet and Field

The Ancient Yew

The English Model Farm: Building the Agricultural Ideal, 1700-1914

Shaping Medieval Landscapes (None)

Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and Productive Sites, 650-850 (None)

Oak: A British History

Farmers, Landlords and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870