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MoLAS (Museum of London Archaeology Service)
The Museum of London Archaeology Service produces high quality monographs and glossy books on the work of the Archaeology Service in the Greater London area. These often high profile excavations have included discovery of the lost Roman amphitheatre, work in advance of the construction of the Jubilee Line extension, London's most famous river crossing, London Bridge and a Medieval abbey.
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Shakespeare's London theatreland: Archaeology, History and Drama
by Julian Bowsher
This guide to the unique theatrical venues of London, from 1567, when the first playhouse was built, to 1642, when Cromwell closed them down, sets out the rich dramatic history of this period in relation to the latest exciting archaeological evidence. The ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £18.00
Lundenwic: Excavations in Middle Saxon London 1987-2000
by Robert Cowie and Lyn Blackmore with Anne Davis, Jackie Keily and Kevin Rielly
The development of the major settlement of Lundenwic in the late 7th century AD marked the rebirth of London as a town. In the following century the emporium served as a seaport for the landlocked kingdom of Mercia and played a significant role in the maritime trade of north-west Europe. This monograph provides the first detailed overview of the archaeological evidence for the trading port, placing it in its regional, national and international ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £34.00
Becoming Roman: excavation of a Late Iron Age to Romano-British landscape at Monkston Park, Milton Keynes
by Raoul Bull and Simon Davis
Occupation along the east side of the Ouzel valley included a Late Iron Age field system and a cremation cemetery, with Catuvellauni funerary traditions continuing into the Roman post-conquest period. Later 1st-century AD fields, timber structures and a ...
Paperback. Price GB £7.95
Pre-Boudican and later activity on the site of the forum
Dunwoodie, Lesley
Paperback. Price GB £7.95
Toys, Trifles and Trinkets: Base-Metal Minatures From London 1200 to 1800
by Hazel Forsyth and Geoff Egan
A detailed desription of the Museum of London's important collection of pewter toys, mass-produced between 1200 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive study of these toys, which include firearms, furniture and cutlery, All of them were found in London, many of them on the Thames foreshore. 479p b/w and col illus (Museum of London 2005)
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £45.00, Our Price GB £19.95
Mapping Past Landscapes in the Lower Lea Valley: A Geoarchaeological Study of the Quaternary Sequence
by Jane Corcoran, Craig Halsey, Graham Spurr, Emily Burton and David Jamieson
Archaeological evidence is enriched when it is viewed against the backdrop of its natural landscape setting. This setting is not readily apparent in the lower Lea valley, where evidence for the natural topography has been cut away by quarrying and reservoir construction or buried by metres of alluvium and modern made ground. The Lea Valley Mapping Project, funded by the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund, has taken a geoarchaeological approach ...
Hardback. Price GB £21.00
The Royal Ordnance Factory at Hayes: The Story of a World War II Gun and Tank Factory at Hayes in the London Borough of Hillingdon
by Nick Hodder
This is the fascinating story of a World War II tank and gun factory in west London. Using wartime documents, specially commissioned architectural photographs and - most importantly - the recollections of some of the factory's workers, the book aims to tell the little-known story of how ROF Hayes played its part in the war effort. The story of the home front has often been overshadowed by the story of great leaders and dramatic battles in ...
Paperback. Price GB £7.00
'He being dead yet speaketh': Excavations at three post-medieval burial grounds in Tower Hamlets, east London, 2004-10
by Michael Henderson, Adrian Miles and Don Walker with Brian Connell and Robin Wroe Brown
The latest in a series on post-medieval burial produced by MOLA, this volume reports on three non-Church of England burial grounds in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, excavated between 2004 and 2010. It looks at over 1350 burials of Baptists, Roman ...
Hardback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £30.00
Londinium: a new map and guide to Roman London
by Museum of London Archaeology
Londinium was founded by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago, shortly before AD 50. Roman London was built on a "greenfield" site which is now occupied by the City of London and north Southwark. The early frontier town was an immediate success and was occupied for almost four centuries. For much of this time Londinium thrived, despite disasters that included destruction at the hands of Boudica, widespread fires, economic problems and political ...
Paperback. Price GB £6.25
From Ice Age to Essex: A History of the People and Landscape of East London
by Pamela Greenwood, Dominic Perring and Peter Rowsome
This book presents a short history of human habitation in East London, based on archaeological findings at gravel sites between 1963 and 1999. To find the beginning of this story we have to go back half a million years, to the time when advancing ice sheets pushed the Thames southwards to its present course, depositing the river gravels that exist across East London today. Archaeological work on the East London gravels began when finds from ...
Paperback. Price GB £7.95
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