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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Medieval Devon and Cornwall: Shaping an Ancient Countryside [eBook (epub)]
Sam Turner(Editor)
£17.50ISBN: 9781911188278
Published by : Windgather Press
The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the ... .... Learn More -
Medieval Devon and Cornwall: Shaping an Ancient Countryside [eBook (PDF)]
Sam Turner(Editor)
£17.50ISBN: 9781911188292
Published by : Windgather Press
The countryside of Devon and Cornwall preserves an unusually rich legacy from its medieval past. This book explores the different elements which go to make up this historic landscape - the chapels, crosses, castles and mines; the ... .... Learn More -
The Ancient Yew: A HISTORY OF TAXUS BACCATA [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
Sitka spruce has contributed to the Pacific Coast landscapes of North America for over ten millennia. For the Tlingit First Nationit is the most important tree in terms of spiritual relationships, art, and products in daily use such a... .... 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)
Regular Price: £29.95
Special Price: £12.95
ISBN: 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 -
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth and Archaeology [eBook (epub)]
Linda Farrar(Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9781909686861
Published by : Windgather Press
From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the... .... Learn More -
Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World: History, Myth and Archaeology [eBook (PDF)]
Linda Farrar(Author)
£12.50ISBN: 9781909686885
Published by : Windgather Press
From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Gardens and Gardeners of the Ancient World traces the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the... .... Learn More
