Industrial Archaeology

Highly illustrated, the book celebrates renovation of textile mills in the North of England. Case studies from interviews with those responsible fo...

Industrial Archaeology (1972) presents an in-depth investigation of the nature, methods and materials of the archaeology of industry in the UK, fro...

A joint IcelandicUS archaeological project in North Iceland examined the development of the farmstead settlement pattern from the initial Norse set...

The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America offers an in-depth exploration of the archaeological and cultu...

From antique bottles to closely guarded recipes and treasured historic architecture, breweries have a special place in American history. This fasci...

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Co...

We live in an era of major technological developments, post-pandemic social adjustment, and dramatic climate change arising from human activity. Co...

Heritage is almost univocally conceived of as valuable and good, something we care for and preserve for ourselves and future generations. Although ...

This volume brings the history of the environment together with that of work. Faced with the great acceleration of the second half of the twentieth...

Visits to country houses are an important leisure pursuit throughout the British Isles, not just to appreciate their superb architecture, great pai...

This book provides a holistic and longitudinal study of war memorialisation in the UK, France and the USA from 1860 to 2014. Moving beyond the soci...

During the short interwar period of the early 20th century, Athens entered into a process of meteoric urban transformation which gave her a unique ...

The River Forth is one of Scotlands great waterways. It has a majestic history and heritage, part of which is the Forth bridges. Of these, the most...

The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and th...

The Living Inca Town presents a rich case study of tourism in Ollantaytambo, a rapidly developing destination in the southern Peruvian Andes and th...

Constructed in 12971300 for King Edward I, the Coronation Chair ranks amongst the most remarkable and precious treasures to have survived from the ...

In this extensively revised third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader, Somerville and McDonald successfully bring the Vikings and their world to li...

With machines mediating most of our cultural practices, and innovations, obsolescence and revivals constantly transforming our relation with images...

The completion of the transcontinental railroad in May 1869 is usually told as a story of national triumph and a key moment for American Manifest D...

Following its appearance, arguably in Orkney in the 32nd century cal BC, Grooved Ware soon became widespread across Britain and Ireland, seemingly ...

This book is concerned with the origins, uses and subsequent histories of monuments. It emphasises the time scales illustrated by these structures,...

Archaeological work took place on South Quay, Hayle between 2010 and 2014. The development of Hayle started in the mid-18th century and it soon bec...

A fully illustrated archaeological and art historical analysis of one of the most important artworks of Angkor, rewriting the chronology of the roy...

This volume brings together the results of archaeological excavations by Pre-Construct Archaeology in advance of redevelopment, at three sites in M...