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The London Restaurant, 1840-1914 by Brenda Assael
RRP: £26.99£24.25This is the first scholarly treatment of the history of public eating in London in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. The quotidian nature of eating out during the working day or evening should not be allowed to obscure the significance of the... -
Tracing Early Agriculture in the Highlands of New Guinea: Plot, Mound and Ditch by Tim Denham 9780815361817
RRP: £135.00£118.28In this book, historical narratives chart how people created forms of agriculture in the highlands of New Guinea and how these practices were transformed through time. The intention is twofold: to clearly establish New Guinea as a region of early... -
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China by John Man
RRP: £9.99£7.11'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' - GuardianThe people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated... -
Textile Conservator's Manual by Sheila Landi
RRP: £120.00£104.01This second edition of 'Textile Conservator's Manual', now revised and available in paperback, provides an in-depth review of the current practice, ethics and materials used in textile conservation. Concentrating on decorative art objects from the major... -
Looting or Missioning: Insular and Continental Sacred Objects in Viking Age Contexts in Norway by Egil Mikkelsen 9781789253184
RRP: £48.00£40.13Until now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles and the Continent. The raiding Vikings brought these... -
Gods and Worshippers in the Viking and Germanic World by Thor Ewing
RRP: £17.99£13.33What was paganism really like? Who were the gods and how were they worshipped? These are the questions Thor Ewing addresses in this fresh perspective on the pagan beliefs and rituals of the Viking and the Germanic world, a world which encompasses not... -
An Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary by Christopher Tilley 9781911307440
RRP: £22.99£20.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911307440Author Professor Christopher TilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 680g -
Edge of Empire: Rome'S Frontier on the Lower Rhine by Jona Lendering 9789490258054
RRP: £25.00£16.24Every ancient author writing about the Low Countries, was preoccupied with the complete contrast between the civilized people of the Roman Empire and the tribes of noble savages or barbarians living outside it. Julius Caesar exploited this preconception... -
Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming by Debby Banham
RRP: £38.49£35.51Anglo-Saxon farming made England so wealthy by the eleventh century that it attracted two full-scale invasions. In Anglo-Saxon Farms and Farming, Debby Banham and Rosamond Faith explore how Anglo-Saxon farmers produced the food and other crops and animal... -
An Anatomy of a Priory Church: The Archaeology, History and Conservation of St Mary's Priory Church, Abergavenny by George Nash 9781784911089
RRP: £29.00£23.79Based on documentary evidence, the Priory Church of St Marys in Abergavenny has been a place of worship since the late 11th century; archaeological evidence though suggests that the site has a much earlier period of use. Over the past 1000 years the... -
Medieval Royal Mistresses: Mischievous Women who Slept with Kings and Princes by Julia A Hickey
RRP: £25.00£17.62Marriage for Medieval kings was about politics, power and the provision of legitimate heirs. Mistresses were about love, lust and possession. It was a world that included kidnap, poison, murder, violation, public shaming and accusations of witchcraft... -
Preserved in the Peat: An Extraordinary Bronze Age Burial on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor, and its Wider Context by Andy M. Jones
RRP: £34.95£28.78Excavation of a Scheduled burial mound on Whitehorse Hill, Dartmoor revealed an unexpected, intact burial deposit of Early Bronze Age date associated with an unparalleled range of artefacts. The cremated remains of a young person had been placed within a... -
The Ancient Art of Emulation: Studies in Artistic Originality and Tradition from the Present to Classical Antiquity by Elaine K. Gazda 9780472111893
RRP: £90.00£32.26All too often, museums throughout the world label their Roman sculpture and wall paintings as "Roman copy after a Greek original." In this book, Elaine K. Gazda and the contributors question the often too simplistic, deeply ingrained thinking that... -
Archaeology from Space: How the Future Shapes Our Past by Sarah Parcak 9781250231345
RRP: £18.99£13.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250231345Author Sarah ParcakFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougal -
The Mildenhall Treasure by Richard Hobbs
RRP: £6.00£4.40In 1942, while ploughing a field near Mildenhall in Suffolk, eastern England, Gordon Butcher stumbled upon a hoard of 34 silver objects that he turned over to his boss and owner of the land, Sydney Ford. Dating back to Roman Britain, fourth century AD,... -
Pagan Ireland by John Waddell 9781913934927
£25.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934927Author John WaddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad: Scandal in the Raj by Benjamin B. Cohen
RRP: £25.95£20.22The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.In April... -
Studies in Crime: An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology by Carol Heron
RRP: £47.99£41.81The study of forensic evidence using archaeology is a new discipline which has rapidly gained importance, not only in archaeological studies but also in the investigation of real crimes. Archaeological evidence is increasingly presented in criminal cases... -
The Open Fields of England by David Hall
RRP: £38.49£35.51The Open Fields of England describes the open-field system of agriculture that operated in Medieval England before the establishment of present-day farms surrounded by hedges or walls. The volume encompasses a wide range of primary data not previously... -
The March of Ewyas: The Story of Longtown Castle and the de Lacy Dynasty by Martin Cook 9781910839478
RRP: £12.95£11.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839478Author Martin CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books LtdWeight(grams) 171g -
Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland 4th Edition by John Waddell 9781913934781
RRP: £50.00£35.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913934781Author John WaddellFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint WordwellPublisher Wordwell -
Stanton Drew: and Its Ancient Stone Circles by Gordon Strong 9781904263739
RRP: £5.99£4.11In the sleepy Avon village of Stanton Drew stand the forgotten remains of the third major neolithic temple complex of Southern Britain after Stonehenge and Avebury. In this guidebook to the site, packed with rare images, Stanton Drew boffin Gordon Strong... -
House of the Surgeon, Pompeii: Excavations in the Casa del Chirurgo (VI 1, 9-10.23) by Michael Anderson 9781785707285
RRP: £70.00£56.57The House of the Surgeon represents the first major publication of an important series of excavations undertaken by the Anglo-American Project in Pompeii (1994-2006) at the ancient city of Pompeii in a city block known as Insula VI 1. This is one of the... -
Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany: Understanding Ancient Lifeways through the Study of Phytoliths, Starch, Macroremains, and Pollen by Deborah M. Pearsall 9781611322965
RRP: £36.99£32.93Case Studies in Paleoethnobotany focuses on interpretation in paleoethnobotany. In it the reader is guided through the process of analyzing archaeobotanical data and of using that data to address research questions. Part I introduces archaeobotanical... -
Comics and Archaeology by Leen Van Broeck
£36.67This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways. The volume comes at these questions... -
Industrial Archaeology: A Handbook by Michael Nevell 9781902771922
RRP: £20.00£16.83This Handbook provides an informative and accessible guide to the industrial remains of the UK. It is essential reading for anyone with an interest in our industrial heritage, giving concise summaries of the history of different industries, together with... -
Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind by Clive Gamble 9780500293829
RRP: £9.99£6.80When and how did the brains of our hominin ancestors become human minds? When and why did our capacity for language or art, music and dance evolve? It is the contention of this pathbreaking and provocative book that it was the need for early humans to... -
Knives and Scabbards by J. Cowgill 9781843833536
RRP: £24.99£20.90Catalogue of knives and scabbards found in London excavations, with discussion of date, technology, decoration and function. Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the domestic to the wider social context: Anglo-Saxon... -
Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World: The Compelling Story of Alexander Thom and British Archaeoastronomy by Euan W. MacKie
RRP: £30.00£24.57Professor Challenger and his Lost Neolithic World combines the two great passions of the author's life: reconstructing the Neolithic mind and constructively challenging consensus in his professional domain. The book is semi-autobiographical, charting the... -
The Beau Street Hoard by Eleanor Ghey
£4.99In 2007 during an archaeological excavation in advance of a hotel development situated 150 metres from the Roman Baths in Bath, a Roman silver coin hoard was unearthed. This hoard was an exceptional find, not only because of its size - 17,500 coins in... -
Nightmare at Scapa Flow: The Truth About the Sinking of HMS "Royal Oak" by H.J. Weaver
RRP: £7.99£5.69"The place where the German U-boat sank the British battleship Royal Oak was none other than the middle of Scapa Flow, Britain's greatest naval base! It sounds incredible..." - William L Shirer, journalist, 18 October 1939 Sinking the battleship HMS... -
In Search of the Phoenicians by Josephine Quinn 9780691175270
RRP: £30.00£23.22Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist? The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really... -
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City by Andrew Lawler 9780593311769
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593311769Author Andrew LawlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Rethinking Roundhouses: Later Prehistoric Settlement in Britain and Beyond by D. W. Harding 9780192893802
RRP: £90.00£81.58Excavated plans of roundhouses may compound multiple episodes of activity, design, construction, occupation, repair, and closure, reflecting successive stages of a building's biography. What does not survive archaeologically, through use of materials or... -
London: A View from the Streets by Anna Maude
RRP: £9.99£6.80Mesmerizing, exhilarating and awe-inspiring, London has provided a rich subject for the many artists, satirists, map-makers and engravers who have tried to make a lasting record of their impressions of the city. Representations of London are... -
Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World: 'Death Shall Have No Dominion' by Colin Renfrew
RRP: £26.99£23.85Modern archaeology has amassed considerable evidence for the disposal of the dead through burials, cemeteries and other monuments. Drawing on this body of evidence, this book offers fresh insight into how early human societies conceived of death and the... -
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies by Dan Hicks 9780198822554
£39.74The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies. Drawing together approaches from archaeology, anthropology, geography, and Science and Technology Studies,... -
Mycenae: Agamemnon's Capital by Elizabeth French 9780752419510
RRP: £27.50£19.86Famous from ancient Greek literature as King Agamemnon's capital, Mycenae was the site of almost unbroken excavation during the 20th century, and this continues today. In presenting a full up-to-date account of the site and placing it in its geographical... -
Prehistoric Forteviot: Excavations of a Ceremonial Complex in Eastern Scotland (Serf Vol 1) by Kenneth Brophy 9781909990043
RRP: £38.00£31.20A detailed report on the excavation of prehistoric features at Forteviot in eastern Scotland by the University of Glasgow's Strathearn Environs and Royal Forteviot (SERF) Project. Details include an extensive prehistoric landscape including a Neolithic... -
Palimpsests: Literature in the Second Degree by Gerard Genette
RRP: £54.00£46.35By definition, a palimpsest is "a written document, usually on vellum or parchment, that has been written upon several times, often with remnants of erased writing still visible." Palimpsests (originally published in France in 1982), one of Gerard...