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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Farmers, Landlords and Landscapes: Rural Britain, 1720 to 1870 [Paperback]
Susanna Wade Martins (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9780953863099
Published by : Windgather Press
Rather than an economic history of 18th- and 19th-century Britain, Susanna Wade Martins presents a rural history that places the farmer, and the landlord, at the centre of change. Industrial and urban expansion and a rising population brought ... .... Learn More -
Oak: A British History [Paperback]
Esmond Harris (Author)
£26.00ISBN: 9780953863082
Published by : Windgather Press
'The oak tree has long provided people in Britain with a wonderful natural resource. In this book the authors reclaim the disappearing forestry and carpentry skills of our ancestors and show how, in an era of climate change, oak can continue to... .... Learn More -
The English Model Farm: Building the Agricultural Ideal, 1700-1914 [Paperback]
Susanna Wade Martins (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9780953863051
Published by : Windgather Press
During the Agricultural Revolution, the landowners of Britain constructed an enormous range of picturesque or classical buildings on their farms, inspired by Enlightenment ideals. These model farms, a phenomenan unique to Britain, are a signifi... .... Learn More
