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Windgather Press - since December 2007 a wholly owned imprint of Oxbow Books Ltd - publishes accessible and attractive books and journals on the theme of landscape. Prehistoric and medieval archaeology, designed landscapes, World Heritage, rural history, historical ecology, the Landscapes of Britain series and the journal Landscapes all feature in a list that won an award for Best Scholarly Publication at the 2004 British Archaeological Awards.

'This series of Windgather Press publications is rapidly becoming the kind of stimulus to landscape studies that the 'Making of the English Landscape' series offered an earlier generation. They are humbling in they way they demonstrate how much there is still to discover.' The Local Historian

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Subscribe to Landscapes Vol 9 (2008)

Landscapes Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 2008) includes: Mike Pitts on Bill Brandt's images of Stonehenge, Hadrian Cook on water meadow morphology, Mohamed Ben Jeddou on the colonial landscapes of northern Tunisia and John Belcher on historic landscape characterisation and enclosure. David Hey contributes to the What Landscape Means to Me slot, and Dan Hicks writes on twentieth century landscape in the light of Trevor Rowley's recent major book. The issue also carries the usual range of book reviews. This issue will also be available on-line on publication.

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Latest Releases

A major new three-book series reviews the range of currently research in landscape history and archaeology and celebrates the legacy of the discipline’s founding father.

Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes

Edited by Andrew Fleming and Richard Hingley

As the essays in this book demonstrate, Prehistoric and Romano-British landscape studies have come a long way since Hoskins, whose work reflected the old view that the prehistoric and Roman periods did not have much lasting impact on the landscape. The contributors present a stimulating survey of the subject as it is in the early twenty-first century, where new ideas about identity and the 'other' are explored, and new research techniques are transforming our understanding.

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Medieval Landscapes

Edited by Mark Gardiner and Stephen Rippon

The medieval period was at the centre of W. G. Hoskins concerns: the period when his ‘palimpsest’ of the English landscape was, if not quite wiped clean, very thoroughly overwritten. The essays here demonstrate how researchers have moved beyond issues of describing and ‘reading’ the landscape to address the social and ideological - as well as economic - functions of landscapes, and to seek explanations for regional difference.

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Post-Medieval Landscapes

by P.S. Barnwell and Marilyn Palmer

The formation of the landscape archaeological record …is primarily a product of the post-medieval period’ (Tom Williamson). This book reflects some of the most recent work in landscape studies of the period since 1500. It builds upon ideas and techniques pioneered by Hoskins, in fields such as Anglo-Saxon topography and vernacular architecture, and demonstrates how scholars are developing the subject conceptually, to examine landscapes as cultural artefacts, perceived differently by different groups within society.

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Landscape History after Hoskins

3-volume set

Series editor Christopher Dyer

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The Dartmoor Reaves

Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions

by Andrew Fleming

First published in 1988, The Dartmoor Reaves is a classic story of archaeological fieldwork and discovery, and a winner of the Archaeological Book Award. This major new edition adds both colour illustrations and two substantial new chapters to the original groundbreaking text, which revolutionised our understanding of Britain’s prehistoric landscapes.

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