‘The past lies in fragments… one might just as well try to reconstruct the idea of a tree from its leaves, or…
This Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology Monograph derives from a conference held in 2008 at Leicester University with the aim of stopping what…
Robin Birley set out to excavate the entirety of the Vindolanda fort and associated civilian settlement on Hadrian’s Wall in 1970, calculating…
While planning a book on the castles of Herefordshire, Terry Wardle came across references in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to a castle built…
The manor house, six labourer’s cottages and a church are all that now survive above ground of one of Hertfordshire’s smallest parishes,…
Parts of English Heritage could be likened to a private university in that some lucky members of staff (and their advisors and…
Paul Wilkinson’s beginner’s guide to practical archaeology comes with a solid endorsement from Mick Aston (‘I wish this book had been available…
Whoever coined the term ‘the Dark Ages’ must have been an archaeologist, because the literary record for the post-Roman period is far…
The editors state in their introduction that ‘we have encouraged the contributors [to this book] to develop their own points of view…
This collection of essays reprinted from Merry Meet magazine (‘an independent quarterly journal of folklore and paganism’) begins with a disarming introduction…
The author of this guide to the prehistoric and Roman sites in the boulder-clay lands of Essex and south Suffolk wants us…