Windgather Press Imprint
Windgather Press specialises in publishing accessible and attractive books on landscape history, landscape archaeology, and the history of Britain’s countryside and further afield, including garden history. The publications are designed not only for those professionally engaged in the subject, but also those with a serious amateur interest in landscape research.
The name comes from Windgather Rocks, a prominent gritstone edge on the Cheshire/Derbyshire Border, close to where the press was originally founded in Bollington. Well-known amongst climbers and walkers, the edge overlooks a landscape of seventeenth and eighteen century field-walls and scattered farms typical of the western Pennine edge.
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The Lincolnshire Wolds [Paperback]
David Robinson (Author)
Regular Price: $40.00
Special Price: $15.98
ISBN: 9781905119264
Published by : Windgather Press
The Lincolnshire Wolds are a range of hills in the county of Lincolnshire. They are a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), and the highest area of land in eastern England between Yorkshire and Kent. This book is a collection of... .... Learn More -
Extinctions and Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna [eBook (PDF)]
Terry O'Connor (Editor); Naomi Jane Sykes (Editor)
Regular Price: $28.00
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ISBN: 9781905119790
Published by : Windgather Press
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, while others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course o... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of a Great Estate: Chatsworth and Beyond [Paperback]
John Barnatt (Author); Nicola Bannister (Author)
Regular Price: $40.00
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ISBN: 9781905119271
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The Peak District is a historic upland landscape, with a rich palimpsest of features which invoke the many generations of people who have inhabited the area. The great estate of Chatsworth reflects the Peak in microcosm. Its landscapes are div... .... Learn More -
Poisonous Plants: A Cultural and Social History [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119219
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The botanical history of Britain and North West Europe has a dark and a light side. Plants have been used as weapons to harm people, taken deliberately as addictive drugs and also employed as tools in witchcraft and used as magical amulets. Yet... .... Learn More -
'Beacons' in the Landscape: The Hillforts of England and Wales [Paperback]
Ian Brown (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119226
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Of all Britain's great archaeological monuments the Iron Age hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very little about them. Were they recognised as being something ... .... Learn More -
Anglesey: Past Landscapes of the Coast [Hardback]
Frances Lynch (Author); Mick Sharp (Author); Jean Williamson (Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781905119295
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The dramatic and stunning Welsh coastal landscapes of the island of Anglesey are documented in this beautiful pictorial record of the history of Anglesey's coast, from prehistoric times to the present day. The fact that Anglesey is an island ha... .... Learn More -
Inhabiting the Landscape: Place, Custom and Memory, 1500-1800 [Paperback]
Nicola Whyte (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119240
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The discipline of landscape history has recently taken a new turn: away from the analysis of past land use and environments towards an understanding of landscape as a social construct. This book is a significant step along this exciting new roa... .... Learn More -
Sutton Hoo and its Landscape: The Context of Monuments [Paperback]
Tom Williamson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119257
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The location of the Anglo-Saxon burial ground at Sutton Hoo, on a ridge overlooking the estuary of the river Deben, has always appeared strange and challenging. This is not so much because the site is today an isolated and lonely one, but rathe... .... Learn More -
Life in a Late Medieval City: Chester, 1275-1520 [Paperback]
Jane Laughton (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119233
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This account of late medieval Chester - shire town, regional and ecclesiastical capital, major port, place of craft manufacture and market with an extensive hinterland - is the result of years of detailed research. The medieval historian Dr Ja... .... Learn More -
The Dartmoor Reaves: Investigating Prehistoric Land Divisions, Second Edition [Paperback]
Andrew Fleming (Author)
Regular Price: $39.95
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ISBN: 9781905119158
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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... .... Learn More
