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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Mycenaean Messenia and the Kingdom of Pylos [Paperback]
Richard Hope Simpson (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781931534925
Published by : INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
Series: Prehistory Monographs
Volume: 45
This study outlines the state of our present knowledge concerning the Mycenaean settlements in Messenia and examines the evidence for reconstructing the political geography of the “Kingdom” of Pylos. The progress of archaeological exploration in M... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Yew [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781785700781
Published by : Windgather Press
The gnarled, immutable yew tree is one of the most evocative sights in the British and Irish language, an evergreen impression of immortality, the tree that provides a living botanical link between our own landscapes and those of ... .... Learn More -
Shades of Green: An Environmental and Cultural History of Sitka Spruce [Paperback]
Ruth Tittensor (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781909686779
Published by : Windgather Press
This book takes a fresh look at the most disliked tree in Britain and Ireland, explaining the reasons it was introduced and why it became ubiquitous in the archipelagos of north-west Europe.
Sitka spruce has contributed to the ... .... Learn More -
Offa's Dyke: Landscape & Hegemony in Eighth-Century Britain [Paperback]
Keith Ray (Author); Ian Bapty (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781905119356
Published by : Windgather Press
The massive ancient linear earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popular contemporary walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century of study, we st... .... Learn More -
The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney [Hardback]
Colin Richards (Editor); Richard Jones (Editor); Stuart Jeffrey (Other)
£35.00ISBN: 9781909686892
Published by : Windgather Press
Considering that Orkney is a group of relatively small islands lying off the northeast coast of the Scottish mainland, its wealth of Neolithic archaeology is truly extraordinary. An assortment of houses, chambered cairns, stone ci... .... Learn More -
Local Places, Global Processes: Histories of Environmental Change in Britain and Beyond [Paperback]
Peter Coates (Editor); David Moon (Editor); Paul Warde (Editor)
£29.95ISBN: 9781909686939
Published by : Windgather Press
We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Yet though our lives are inextricably connected to global processes, and increasingly mobile, we still live in particular places. Our p... .... Learn More -
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth and Archaeology [Paperback]
Linda Farrar (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9781909686854
Published by : Windgather Press
A beautifully illustrated book tracing the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the M... .... Learn More -
Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire [Paperback]
Andrew Macnair (Author); Anne Rowe (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781909686731
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London map-makers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.
For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the ... .... Learn More -
Norfolk Landscapes [Hardback]
Doug Kennedy (Author)
£16.99ISBN: 9781909686816
Published by : Windgather Press
Norfolk is a very distinctive county, the most easterly in the British Isles. With the North Sea and The Wash to the east and north it is relatively close to the Netherlands, but Norwich is only a couple of hours by train from Lon... .... Learn More -
Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape [Hardback]
Allan R. Ruff (Author)
Regular Price: £39.95
Special Price: £9.95
ISBN: 9781909686663
Published by : Windgather Press
This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Ar... .... Learn More
