Traditional Trades & Skills

After retiring to Cyprus and looking forward to a life of leisure, a neighbour told me the donkey sanctuary was losing their farrier and was I inte...

Did you know that bees have been around for over 100 million years? Or that the Brehon Laws included judgments about the rightful ownership of swar...

The newest volume of the eclectic biannual anthology from Greenhorns, a grassroots network for recruiting, promoting, and supporting new American f...

L.T.C. Rolt played a crucial role in the revival of Britains inland waterways and pioneered the first preserved narrow-gauge railway. He is still a...

Britain is a country of craftspeople, yet the nation's heritage crafts and traditional skills are dying out, with some close to extinction. From c...

Few decorative crafts can claim to be more ancient than stone carving, with the earliest carved objects being dated well into prehistory. The great...

Traditional crafts have been an essential part of Indian history, culture and life. This handbook looks at craft as both a cultural artefact that r...

An important book, brimming with insight. Nicholas Evans, author of The Horse Whisperer Material is generous, wise, fascinating and fundamentally ...

In this long-awaited reprint - first published in 1967 - the late George Daniels, a master watchmaker of the twentieth century, documents the impor...

Our prehistoric ancestors used flint tools every day; they were of vital importance for cutting and scraping, used for hunting, preparing food, mak...

This collection analyses various European rural locations through a relational lens, attending to key aspects and dimensions of the 'relational rur...

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...

I sat in my interview intending to make decorative iron work after I left school and my future boss said; 'we also do one or two horses are you in...

'A warm, funny, uplifting writer to celebrate!' KATIE FFORDEIf you love Lucy Diamond, Phillipa Ashley, Sue Moorcroft and Holly Martin, you'll LOVE ...