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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North Downs Landscapes [Hardback]
Doug Kennedy (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686588
Published by : Windgather Press
The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Dover in Kent, to Farnham in Surrey. They skirt the southern edge of London, so for a long time have offered Londoners beautiful countryside to escape t... .... Learn More -
Between the Wind and the Water: World Heritage Orkney [Paperback]
Caroline Wickham-Jones (Author)
£19.99ISBN: 9781909686502
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The Archaeological sites of Orkney give us an unparalleled glimpse into prehistory. Inscribed as the 'Heart of Neolithic Orkney' World Heritage Site in 1999, four great monuments - the village of Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar, the Stones of ... .... Learn More -
Deer and People [Paperback]
Karis Baker (Editor); Ruth Carden (Editor); Richard Madgwick (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
Special Price: £9.95
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ISBN: 9781909686540
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Deer have been central to human cultures throughout time and space: whether as staples to hunter-gatherers, icons of Empire, or the focus of sport. Their social and economic importance has seen some species transported across continents, transform... .... Learn More -
An Author and a Gardener: The Gardens and Friendship of Edith Wharton and Lawrence Johnston [Hardback]
Allan R. Ruff (Author)
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ISBN: 9781909686465
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In August 1937 a small group of Edith Wharton’s intimate friends gathered to pay their last respects at her funeral in France. Among that small group of people was her friend for many years, Lawrence ‘Johnnie’ Johnston, the creator of two famous g... .... Learn More -
The Historic Landscape of Devon: A Study in Change and Continuity [Paperback]
Lucy Ryder (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £7.95
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ISBN: 9781905119387
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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 -
Ecology and Enclosure: The Effect of Enclosure on Society, Farming and the Environment in South Cambridgeshire, 1798-1850 [Paperback]
Shirley Wittering (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119448
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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)
Regular Price: £35.00
Special Price: £12.95
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ISBN: 9781905119462
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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 the 4th and 1st ce... .... Learn More -
Gardens in History: A Political Perspective [Paperback]
Louise Wickham (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119431
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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 -
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)
£38.00ISBN: 9781905119417
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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 -
Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Norfolk's arboreal heritage [Paperback]
Gerry Barnes (Author); Tom Williamson (Author)
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ISBN: 9781905119394
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Ancient Trees in the Landscape is the outcome of many years research into the history of trees in Norfolk, and represents the first detailed, published account of the ancient and traditionally managed trees of any English county. Yet it is far ... .... Learn More
