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.
A biographical fusion of history, geography and archaeology with a focus on landscape and castles studies, examining Edlingham Castle and its first builder, William de Felton.
Presents a summary of the excavations at Bornais and Cille Pheadair, providing an introduction to the Viking colonisation and Norse occupation of the Western Isles/Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
A Short History of a Lowland English River Catchment and Prospects for Future Management
Edited by John Boardman and Ian Foster
Price: £39.95
ISBN: 9781914427275
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-10-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
216 Pages
Looking at the Rother Valley in West Sussex, the authors give a short history of a lowland English river catchment and prospects for its future management.
Reinvestigating an Iconic British Hill Figure (The National Trust Excavations 2020)
Edited by Michael J. Allen
Price: £24.95
ISBN: 9781914427374
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Pub Date: 2024-09-10
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
376 Pages
Recent fieldwork provided new, unexpected Anglo-Saxon, dates for the Cerne Giant which are discussed in the wider context of British hill figures and early medieval iconography.
Highly illustrated picture book organised into a series of local tours, each focused on visiting up to seven medieval bridges, with histories and local stories provided for each.
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in East Anglia, and proposes a new model of place-name formation that incorporates the hypothesis of a substantial migration of Viking settlers from Scandinavia..
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