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'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden: A History
by Ann Brooks
The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the opportunity to study botany and horticulture and to create an ambience "not unlike a fashionable resort". Today the Garden is all but forgotten and only the former entrance gates and a street name remain. This book, illustrated with many contemporary engravings and postcards, charts the history of the Garden; its international reputation in horticultural ...
Paperback. Price GB £25.00
Roman Manchester: The University of Manchester's Excavations within the Vicus 2001-5
by Richard A Gregory
As a consequence of extensive urban redevelopment a series of large archaeological excavations were undertaken in the Castlefield area close to Manchester city centre, which uncovered important new evidence relating to Manchester's Roman military settlement. This monograph presents the findings of this significant phase of archaeological work, which unearthed evidence of Roman military, commercial and industrial activity, remains relating to ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £50.00, Our Price GB £10.00
Rediscovering Bradford: Archaeology in the Engine Room of Manchester
by Ian Miller
Historically, Bradford was a rural township that lay beyond the eastern fringe of Manchester. Settlement probably comprised little more than a few cottages scattered around Bradford Old Hall, a moated monor house that was built in the mid-fourteenth century. It was largely an agricultural area, although some coal was being mined from shallow workings by the late sixteenth century. This rich natural resource was the principal reason for the ...
Price GB £5.00
The Archaeology of Death in the Ancient Near East: Proceedings of the Manchester Conference, 16th-20th December 1992
edited by Stuart Campbell and Anthony Green
The conference in Manchester in 1992 which this book came out of was organised to raise the profile of the study of mortuary remains in the Ancient Near East. Thirty papers from the conference are published here, covering a wide variety of regions and periods, from Epipalaeolithic to modern. Many different aspects are examined: physical anthropology, burial goods, social structure, ethoarchaeology, etc. This volume has a wide relevance not only ...
Paperback. Price GB £40.00
The Wetlands of Greater Manchester
by David Hall, Colin Wells and Elizabeth Huckerby
Manchester's mires were particularly susceptible to industrial exploitation from the early modern period onwards. This study offers original research Chat Moss, Carrington Cross, Red Moss, Ashton Moss and Kearsley Moss, as well as a description of smaller and former wetlands in the area. The survey ranges from post-glacial periods to the most recent past. 188p, 66 figs, 20 pl (Lancaster University 1995)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £24.00, Our Price GB £5.00
Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Volume VII: Manchester University Museum
Healey, John F.
An illustrated catalogue of the Gütterbock and Raby collections of Greek coins in the Manchester University Museum. 135p, b/w pls (British Academy/Oxford UP 1986)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £60.00, Our Price GB £19.95
Egypt in Its African Context: Proceedings of the Conference Held at The Manchester Museum,
edited by Karen Exell
This volume forms the proceedings of the conference, Egypt in its African Context, which took place at The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK, on the 3-4 October 2009. The conference at Manchester had a number of ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00
Manufacturers, Mummies and Manchester: Two hundred years of interest in and study of Egyptology in the Greater Manchester area
edited by Hilary Forrest
This book traces interest in Egyptology in Manchester (England) and the surrounding towns from the early nineteenth century, when interest in Egypt first developed, through travel and business links, to the benefactions and ...
Paperback. Price GB £29.00
Manchester: The Warehouse Legacy. An Introduction and Guide
by Simon Taylor, Malcolm Cooper and P S Barnwell
Manchester's historic warehouses still dominate the character of large parts of the city today: a city which is often thought of as a great industrial centre, but which had equal importance as a commercial one. The ...
Paperback. Price GB £7.99
The Past and Present of Leprosy: Archaeological, Historical, Palaeopathological and Clinical Approaches
edited by Charlotte A Roberts, Mary E Lewis and K Manchester
Thirty-seven papers, from a conference held in Bradford in 1999, examine leprosy from all angles: as a historical disease overwhelmed by stigma and as a condition that is still prevalent in much of the world despite new ...
Paperback. Price GB £44.00
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