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Medieval Towns

Life in a Late Medieval City: Chester, 1275-1520
by Jane Laughton
In the late medieval period Chester was the most important place in north-western England, serving as administrative centre of the county palatine and as the regional capital. The city was not large but its status was further enhanced by its role as ecclesiastical capital and garrison town. Chesters location ensured close links with Wales and Ireland. This study of Chester is based on a wide range of sources, written and archaeological, and ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £20.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Medieval Town Plans
by Paul Hindle
Between the mid 12th and the early 14th centuries the towns of Britain grew both in number and in size. Intended as a practical guide, this concise, well-illustrated book considers the archaeological, documentary and cartographic evidence for medieval town-planning and shows how survivng and lost features can be identified in the modern townscape. Sections focus on town layouts, streets, defences, markets, churches, suburbs and property ...
Paperback. Price GB £6.99

Medieval London Houses
by John Schofield
A richly illustrated, extensive study of domestic buildings in London from c. 1200 to the Great Fire of 1666. Schofield describes houses and such related buildings as almshouses, taverns, inns, shops, and livery company halls, drawing on evidence from surviving buildings, archaeological excavations, documents, panoramas, drawn surveys and plans, contemporary descriptions, and later engravings and photographs. He presents a comprehensive overview ...
Paperback. Price GB £22.50

Commune, Country and Commonwealth: The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643
by David Rollison
Commune, Country and Commonwealth suggests that towns like Cirencester are a missing link connecting local and national history, in the immensely formative centuries from Magna Carta to the English Revolution. Focused on a town that made highly significant interventions in national constitutional development, it describes recurring struggles to achieve communal solidarity and independence in a society continuously and prescriptively divided by ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

Coventry: Medieval Art, Architecture and Archaeology in the City and its Vicinity
edited by Linda Monckton and Richard K. Morris
The British Archaeological Association's 2007 conference celebrated the material culture of medieval Coventry, the fourth wealthiest English city of the later middle ages. The nineteen papers collected in this volume set out to remedy the relative neglect in modern scholarship of the city's art, architecture and archaeology, as well as to encompass recent research on monuments in the vicinity. The scene is set by two papers on archaeological ...
Paperback. Price GB £36.00

Digging Deeper: The Origins of Newcastle and Gateshead
by David Heslop and Zoe McAuley
In this lavishly illustrated book David Heslop and Zoe McAuley present some of the major finds from excavations in Newcastle and Gateshead over the last 30 years, and reconstruct the history of settlement in the area from the Neolithic, to its role as a major fort on Hadrian's Wall, and as an important fortified town and regional capital in the Middle Ages. 84p col illus t/out (Newcastle City Council 2011)
Paperback. Price GB £8.50

Late Medieval Ipswich: Trade and Industry
by Nicholas R. Amor
Ipswich in the late middle ages was a flourishing town. A wide range of commodities passed through its port, to and from far-flung markets, bought and sold by merchants from diverse backgrounds, and carried in ships whose design evolved during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Its trading partners, both domestic and overseas, changed in response to developments in the international, national and local economy, as did the occupations of its ...
Hardback. Price GB £50.00

London, 1100-1600: The Archaeology of a Capital City
by John Schofield
An excellent synthesis of the numerous excavations in London by the man most able to write it. John Schofield offers lots of new ideas on London's role and on its importance in Europe. Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have revolutionised our view of the development and European importance of London between 1100 and 1600. There have been ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

The Making of Carlisle: From Romans to Railways
edited by Mark Brennand and Keith J. Stringer
In recent years Carlisle has been the subject of significant archaeological and historical research, not least in the form of the Carlisle Millennium Project. This beautifully illustrated and reasonably priced book aims to make the findings of this work available to a much wider audience. After an overview of archaeology in Carlisle, chapters take a chronological approach to the city's development, examining its structures and daily life, and ...
Paperback. Price GB £15.00

The Making of Grantham: The Medieval Town
edited by David Start and David Stocker
Combining historical, architectural and archaeological studies, this volume describes the early development of Grantham, and its place as a significant later medieval town. It includes a detailed study of the church of St Wulfram, and publishes the only two modern sets of archaeological excavations in Grantham, at the medieval hospital at Spittlegate, and at the friary. Further papers focus on the town's surviving medieval secular buildings, on ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.95