"This is the first book to study in detail the making of the rural English landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For decades historians have debated the nature, timing and even the existence of the 'agricultural revolution'. This book approaches the debate from a new direction: that of landscape archaeology. It argues that there was not one 'agricultural revolution' but many. The enclosure of open fields and the reclamati ..."
"While few detailed surveys of fauna or flora exist in England from the period before the nineteenth century, it is possible to combine the evidence of historical sources (ranging from game books, diaries, churchwardens' accounts and even folk songs) and our wider knowledge of past land use and landscape, with contemporary analyses made by modern natural scientists, in order to model the situation at various times and places in the more ..."
Sandlands The Suffolk Coast and Heaths (Landscapes of Britain) by TomWilliamson Paperback, 164 Pages, Published 2005 by Windgather Press ISBN-13: 978-1-905119-02-8, ISBN: 1-905119-02-X
"The Suffolk coast has long been a popular destination for visitors, who come to enjoy the tranquillity of resorts like Southwold and Aldeburgh, and the abundant wildlife, especially birds. Designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the district's biological diversity derives from its unique combination of coastal wetlands, heaths, and extensive woods. This book explains how this distinctive landscape - the Sandlings or, ..."
Property and Landscape(1st Edition) A Social History of Land Ownership and the English Countryside by TomWilliamson, Liz Bellamy Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 1987 by Sheridan House Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-540-01125-4, ISBN: 0-540-01125-8
"This book examines international developments in investigative interviewing. It analyses the cases and other factors leading to the paradigm shift in a number of countries, it considers issues that are of current interest to practitioners and academics including the continuing calls for the use of torture, whether it is possible to detect deception and the contribution of investigative interviewing methods to ..."
"This beautifully produced volume, the outcome of many decades of research, is a celebration of Norfolk’s particularly rich heritage of parks and gardens. It provides a detailed exploration of the history of gardening and landscape architecture in the county, from the geometric gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through the landscape parks of the eighteenth century and the civic spaces of the nineteenth, to the emergence ..."
"Rabbit farming was an important part of the rural economy from medieval times through to the early twentieth century, and the archaeological remains of rabbit warrens still litter the countryside. This book describes the main archaeological features of warrens and discusses their date and function, the banks and walls used to contain the rabbits, the traps used to catch both them and their vermin predators, the lodges in which the warre ..."
Rabbits and Archaeology (Paperback) by TomWilliamson Paperback, 190 Pages, Published 2007 by Npi Media Group ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-4103-0, ISBN: 0-7524-4103-5
"Written by Britain's leading landscape archaeologists, this book talks about this subject."
The Transformation of Rural England Landscape and the Agricultural Revolution, 1700-1871 by TomWilliamson Hardcover, 21 Pages, Published 2002 by University Of Exeter Press ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-627-6, ISBN: 0-85989-627-7
Suffolk''s Gardens and Parks Designed Landscapes from the Tudors to the Victorians by TomWilliamson Paperback, 205 Pages, Published 2000 by Windgather Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9538630-0-6, ISBN: 0-9538630-0-X
"Thanks are also due to the many landowners who allowed me access to their
properties and their archives: the list is a long one, but particular thanks go to
Peter Strutt, Lord Somerleyton, Lord and Lady Henniker and above all, Eric and
Susie, ..."
Roots of Change Farming and the Landscape in East Anglia, c. 1700 - 1870. by Susanna Wade Martins, TomWilliamson Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 1999 by Exeter: British Agricultural History Society, 1999. Import ISBN-13: 978-0-9536668-0-5, ISBN: 0-9536668-0-8
"This was also a region in which the gentry were more prominent than in the
Central Claylands, although large estates were not ... Nevertheless, it must be
emphasised that not all the differences between these two clayland regions can
be attributed in any simple or direct way to post-medieval ... Village nucleations
were more prominent and the dispersed element took the form of isolated farms,
and small ..."
"This is one of a series designed for local historians and all lovers of Britain's heritage, the main aim of which is to enable readers to look at the landscape and to "read" its features with understanding. This book demonstrates the significance of parks and gardens as part of the landscape. The authors pay as much attention to parks and gardens associated with local manor houses or created by local landowners and obscure local designe ..."
"2018 marks the bicentenary of the death of Humphry Repton, one of the most important and prolific of English landscape designers. Repton made a particularly significant contribution to the landscape of Hertfordshire, working at no less than eighteen places in the county, ranging in size from great mansions like Cashiobury and Panshanger to more modest 'villas' owned by wealthy businessmen and industrialists, such as Woodhill in Essendon ..."
"The countryside we enjoy today has a very long history, but many of its key features were created in the relatively recent past - as this book shows. It investigates how the landscape of a particular area of England, East Anglia, developed in the period of the so-called great depression, beginning in 1870, and the phase of wartime intensification which succeeded it after 1930. It considers how fields, farms and villages developed in thi ..."
"Often overlooked in favour of the South East, West Midlands or the West Country, the region has a rich history of fruit growing with orchards being a familiar part of the landscape.This short book not only looks at the history of orchards ..."