A handbook interpreting the history and evolution of England's rural landscape explores how landscape features are human ideas made manifest - boun

A large and important synthesis of all known archaeological facts relating to the founding and growth of one of the world's leading medieval tradin

Using the known history and archaeological research the founding and growth of Bedford through the centuries is described and illustrated via maps,

Ten monumental brasses of wool merchants dating from the C15th and C16th that remain in situ in the church of St Peter & Paul, Northleach.

In contrast to other historic industrial buildings such as mills and warehouses, breweries have received little attention from architectural histor

Large format photo album of Machu Picchu, its mountain setting, its layout, its ruins, and the complexity of its construction.

A collation of extremely detailed research projects into the late post-glacial environment of Jersey using stratigraphic sampling, pollen analysis,

An attractive full colour guide to the museum's collection of the finest examples of late C19th Japanese craftsmanship in porcelain, lacquer, needl

Conference papers presented at a meeting of the Monumental Brass Society’s Study Day focussing almost exclusively on the Catesby family brasses in

Although not usually associated with historic buildings, the towns and villages in and around Milton Keynes do, in fact, have much to offer the arc

Large elaborate exhibition catalogue that displayed and examined the art and artefacts of the ancient Olmec of the central Mexican highland distric

Colour guide to the life and work of Italy's first great painter of the Renaissance who, despite his death at the age of twenty-six in 1428, produc

This book contains the most intricate examples of actual Chinese paper-cuts, each protected by a glassine overlay and presented opposite photograph

Extensively illustrated guidebook that tells the history of this Benedictine monastery in South-Eastern France founded in the C11th upon the relics

For 30 years, the archaeology-loving divers of Anao on the Côte d’Azur have been salvaging sunken treasures in the bay of Villefranche-sur-Mer.

Traces the seventy-five year history of the Council for the Care of Churches with case studies on the early work of the Council, and specific notes

Large format colour guide to the ruined C5th palace on the huge Sigiriya rock in Sri Lanka as well as the extensive rock frescoes and elaborate wat

A bumper volume whose contents include: Underwater Archaeology in Turkey; Excavations in Philippine Cave Sites; Helge Ingstad on the Newfoundland L

A collation of entries from the notebooks of Count Cozio di Salabue whose observations regarding the secrets of the C16th Cremona workshops preserv

This large book tells the prehistory and history of a formerly rural area on the eastern outskirts of Oxford which underwent rapid urbanisation aft

An early introduction to one of England's finest churches, its architecture, internal furnishings and its wealthy medieval wool merchant benefactor

Discusses the C16th reconstruction and extension of an earlier church with reference to its fabric, internal furnishings and extant documentary evi

Attractive photo album comprising 124 high quality b&w plates depicting Malta's well-known megalithic structures as well as historic forts, pal

Locally published guide providing comprehensive coverage of all prehistoric cultures of Peru from the Archaic period through to the Formative pre-2

Monumental work synthesising the research of archaeologists into land use, the development of agriculture and the cultural evidence derived from fi