Windgather Press imprint: 32 books

by Colin Richards
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013

Of all prehistoric monuments, few are more emotive than the great stone circles that were built throughout Britain and Ireland. From the tall, elegant, pointed monoliths of the Stones of Stenness to the grandeur of Stonehenge and the sarsen blocks at Avebury, circles of stone exert a magnetic fascination...

North Downs Landscapes

Exploring the Glorious English Countryside on London’s Doorstep

by Doug Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015

The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey. They skirt the southern edge of London, so for a long time have offered Londoners beautiful countryside to escape to, or for a home to commute to work from. A hundred...

Offa's Dyke

Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth Century Britain

by Ian Bapty, Keith Ray
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014

The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's...

The Romano-British Peasant

Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain

by Mike McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013

This important and significant volume examines, for the first time, the ordinary people of Roman Britain. This overlooked group – the farmers, shopkeepers, labourers and others – fed the country, made the clothes, mined the ores, built the villas and towns and got their hands dirty in the fields...
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