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Antiquaries & Archaists: The Past in the Past, the Past in the Present
edited by Megan Aldrich and Robert J. Wallis
This book explores the ever-changing view of the past, from Saxon times to the present day, from the British Isles to modern-day China - how the Middle Ages populated ancient sites with dragons and elves; how people responded to the historic landscape many centuries ago; how the landscapes and buildings of the past came to be interpreted and codified by the great antiquarians William Stukeley and Thomas Rickman. The modern perception and ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.95
Visions of Antiquity: The Society of Antiquaries of London 1707-2007
edited by Susan Pearce
This fascinating portrait of the Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1707, assesses the impact that individual Fellows and the Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we visualise and understand the past. There are, for example, essays on the Society's pioneering role in recording monuments and antiquities for posterity, in establishing the scientific and empirical basis of archaeological studies, in replacing Biblically based ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00
Flora: The Erbario Miniato and other Drawings
by Fabio Garbari and Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi
Over two hundred of the botanical drawings catalogued in these two volumes are found in the Erbario Miniato, an early seventeenth-century herbal that formed part of the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) and is now in the Royal Library, Windsor Castle. Also catalogued are more than sixty drawings that originally formed a companion volume to the Erbario Miniato, which was broken up in the eighteenth century and ...
Hardback. Price GB £183.00
Making History: Antiquaries in Britain 1707-2007
edited by David Gaimster, Sarah McCarthy and Bernard Nurse
A magnificently designed and illustrated volume which accompanies the 2007 exhibition celebrating 300 years of the Society of Antiquaries. 14 essays shed light on the work, methodology, principles and achievements of the Society over the years and the development more generally of history and archaeology along with the role which members of the Society have played in this. The exhibition showcased some of the splendid artefacts owned by the ...
Hardback. Price GB £40.00
By the Ionian Sea: Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy
by George Gissing
At the close of the 19th century the Victorian novelist George Gissing embarked on a journey, at times perilous, across southern Italy. This volume reprints Gissing's eloquent account of his travels, the people he met along the way, the ancient sites and the dangers and hardships he encountered as he endeavoured to satisify his `Mediterranean passion'. 159p, b/w illus (Signal 2004)
Paperback. Price GB £3.99
Christian Maclagan: Stirling's Formidable Lady Antiquary
by Sheila M Elsdon
Sheila Elsdon describes the subject of her book as `a colourful figure, a feminist, an ardent Scottish patriot and a `character' who is well worth retrieving from oblivion'. Christian Maclagan lived for practically the entirety of the 19th century and was a formidable and pioneering woman of her day, a devout churchwoman and charity worker whose abrasive and confrontational manner frequently brought her into conflict with men and male ...
Paperback. Price GB £8.99
Victorians and the Prehistoric
When one considers the sheer amount of rock and earth that the Victorians excavated as they criss-crossed Britain with railways and canals, it is hardly surprising that they became fascinated by the fossils, bones and man-made treasures that they happened upon. This well-presented and very readable study examines the Victorian fascination with their unfathomable past and the fear and religious insecurity that accompanied their quest to uncover ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
Medicine Man: The Forgotten Museum of Henry Wellcome
edited by Ken Arnold and Danielle Olsen
Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936) is well known as a giant in the world of pharmaceuticals, but most people know very little about his other philanthropic interests. This book brings to our attention the Wellcome museum that he set up, initially a collection of curios for his amusement and to aid students in their medical research. Packed full of photographs, these seven essays approach different aspects of the museum and its collection ...
Paperback. Price GB £19.99
Stukeley's `Stonehenge': An Unpublished Manuscript
by Aubrey Burl
In 1984 an unpublished manuscript by William Stukeley came to light in the Local Studies Department of Cardiff Public Library which comprised some of his earliest field notes made at Stonhenge. These included measurements, drawings, plans, analyses and ...
Hardback. Price GB £35.00
Athens and Attica: Journal of a Residence There
by Christopher Wordsworth
This volume reprints an account by William Wordsworth's nephew, a classical scholar of considerable merit, of his tour of Greece in 1832. Wordsworth's descriptions of the ancient sites are steeped in learning and a deep love of Greek literature and ...
Paperback. Price GB £16.99
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