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.
See new and forthcoming titles below or browse our full catalogue here.
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Offa's Dyke: Landscape and Hegemony in Eighth Century Britain [Paperback]
Ian Bapty (Author); Keith Ray (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £20.00
ISBN: 9781905119356
Published by : Windgather Press
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,... .... Learn More -
Norfolk Gardens and Designed Landscapes [Hardback]
Patsy Dallas (Author); Roger Last (Editor); Tom Williamson (Author)
Regular Price: £25.00
Special Price: £20.00
ISBN: 9781905119929
Published by : Windgather Press
Norfolk Gardens is a celebration of the rich history of gardens and parks in the county of Norfolk. Beginning with a detailed exploration of the history of gardening in the county - from the pre-18th century ‘medicinals&rsqu... .... Learn More -
The Historic Landscape of Devon: A Study in Change and Continuity [Paperback]
Lucy Ryder (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £24.00
ISBN: 9781905119387
Published by : Windgather Press
This book discusses the 19th-century historic landscape of Devon though the creation, manipulation and querying of a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) database to examine physical evidence of change and development through field and settl... .... Learn More -
The Romano-British Peasant: Towards a Study of People, Landscapes and Work during the Roman Occupation of Britain [Paperback]
Mike McCarthy (Author)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £24.00
ISBN: 9781905119479
Published by : Windgather Press
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, mine... .... Learn More -
Ecology and Enclosure: The Effect of Enclosure on Society, Farming and the Environment in South Cambridgeshire, 1798-1850 [Paperback]
Shirley Wittering (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781905119448
Published by : Windgather Press
South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive population growth had resulted in an enormous increase in the demand ... .... Learn More -
A Forged Glamour: Landscape, Identity and Material Culture in the Iron Age [Paperback]
Melanie Giles (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781905119462
Published by : Windgather Press
A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between t... .... Learn More -
Landscapes Volume 12.2 [Paperback]
Paul Stamper (Editor); Graham Fairclough (Editor)
£35.00Published by : Windgather Press
Series: Landscapes
The study of past landscapes is one of today's most exciting interdisciplinary subjects. Archaeologists, ecologists, social and cultural historians, literature specialists and artists all contribute to our understanding of cultural landscapes. ... .... Learn More -
Gardens in History: A Political Perspective [Paperback]
Louise Wickham (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781905119431
Published by : Windgather Press
Over the past 50 years, the subject of garden history has been firmly established as an academic discipline. While many have explored what was created in gardens throughout history, the reasons as to why they were created has naturally been mor... .... Learn More -
Landscapes Volume 11.2 [Paperback]
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£15.00Published by : Windgather Press
Series: Landscapes
Volume: 11.2
The study of past landscapes is one of today's most exciting interdisciplinary subjects. Archaeologists, ecologists, social and cultural historians, literature specialists and artists all contribute to our understanding of cultural landscapes. ... .... Learn More -
An Animate Landscape: Rock Art and the Prehistory of Kilmartin, Argyll, Scotland [Paperback]
Andrew Meirion Jones (Author); Andrew Jones (Author); Davina Freedman (Author); Blaze O'Connor (Author); Hugo Lamdin-Whymark (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781905119417
Published by : Windgather Press
The Kilmartin landscape in western Scotland is widely regarded as Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape. It contains a number of barrow cemeteries, stone alignments, stone circles and a henge. With over 250 individual rock art sites, it also... .... Learn More
