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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Gardens of Earthly Delight: The History of Deer Parks [Paperback]
John Fletcher (Author)
£29.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119363
Published by : Windgather Press
This is a highly original, profusely illustrated, and well researched account of deer parks. With humility and respect Fletcher touches on errors commonly made by archaeologists and historians, taking issue with long held theories while drawing... .... Learn More -
'A Veritable Eden'. The Manchester Botanic Garden: A History [Paperback]
Ann Brooks (Author)
£26.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119370
Published by : Windgather Press
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... .... Learn More -
Fear of Farming [Paperback]
Caroline Wickham-Jones (Author)
£16.95ISBN: 9781905119325
Published by : Windgather Press
The environmental crisis is one of the most pressing concerns to face the population of the world today. The debate centres on the way in which our current problems are of recent making and how we might fix them. But in reality the issue is f... .... Learn More -
Extinctions and Invasions: A Social History of British Fauna [Paperback]
Terry O'Connor (Editor); Naomi Jane Sykes (Editor)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119318
Published by : Windgather Press
Eight thousand years ago, when the sea cut Britain off from the rest of the Continent, the island's fauna was very different: most of the animals familiar to us today were not present, whilst others, now extinct, were abundant. Over the course ... .... Learn More -
Swaledale: Valley of the Wold River [Paperback]
Andrew Fleming (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9781842173725
Published by : Windgather Press
This is a reprint of the first edition, published in 1998 by Edinburgh University Press. Now with an updated preface and colour illustrations throughout, this beautiful book tells the story of Swaledale, a well-loved part of the North Yorkshire... .... Learn More -
The Archaeology of a Great Estate [Paperback]
Nicola Bannister (Author); John Barnatt (Author)
£28.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119271
Published by : Windgather Press
The Peak District is a historic upland landscape, with a rich palimpsest of features which invoke the many generations of people who have inhabited the area. The great estate of Chatsworth reflects the Peak in microcosm. Its landscapes are div... .... Learn More -
Poisonous Plants: A Cultural and Social History [Paperback]
Robert Bevan-Jones (Author)
£29.95Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119219
Published by : Windgather Press
The botanical history of Britain and North West Europe has a dark and a light side. Plants have been used as weapons to harm people, taken deliberately as addictive drugs and also employed as tools in witchcraft and used as magical amulets. Yet ma... .... Learn More -
'Beacons' in the Landscape [Paperback]
Ian Brown (Author)
£26.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119226
Published by : Windgather Press
Of all Britain's great archaeological monuments the Iron Age hillforts have arguably had the most profound impact on the landscape, if only because there are so many; yet we know very little about them. Were they recognised as being something ... .... Learn More -
Anglesey: Past Landscapes of the Coast [Hardback]
Frances Lynch (Author); Mick Sharp (Author); Jean Williamson (Author)
£24.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781905119295
Published by : Windgather Press
The dramatic and stunning Welsh coastal landscapes of the island of Anglesey are documented in this beautiful pictorial record of the history of Anglesey's coast, from prehistoric times to the present day. The fact that Anglesey is an island ha... .... Learn More -
Môn [Hardback]
Andrew Lynch (Author); Mick Sharp (Author); Jean Williamson (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781905119301
Published by : Windgather Press
The dramatic and stunning Welsh coastal landscapes of the island of Anglesey are documented in this beautiful pictorial record of the history of Anglesey's coast, from prehistoric times to the present day. The fact that Anglesey is an island has b... .... Learn More
