Floreat Salopia

A Celebration of Shropshire’s History and Archaeology

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2025
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
9798888571590 (ISBN)

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Shropshire, as one of the contributors to this volume notes, is simultaneously remote and well-connected … which also means it is often (but wrongly) overlooked and underestimated. This volume of collected papers – newly commissioned and bringing entirely new research into play – was brought together to commemorate the issuing of the 100th volume of the Shropshire Archaeological and Historical Society’s Transactions. It offers snapshots of Shropshire’s past, from the earliest prehistory to the end of the twentieth century. As befits the Society, it offers both archaeological and historic perspectives and demonstrates the importance of the county in the wider context of the United Kingdom. While not attempting to be comprehensive in its contents, it nonetheless offers insights into how the county came into being, and the forces that shaped it, not the least of which is its extraordinarily diverse geology. The volume offers too a perspective of those historically researching Shropshire’s past, often women who gained their foothold either through teaching on or participating in adult education.

This is certainly the first attempt to offer a comprehensive overview of Shropshire in over 50 years, and what it seeks to achieve in its scope has not been attempted before. The Society’s aim is both to showcase the research going on in the county, but also to parade its riches: there is much more to learn about Shropshire, and it is hoped this book will encourage others to take up its challenges and continue to allow the understanding of the county to flourish.

The contributors to this volume almost all have long-standing connections to Shropshire, and some are also proud Salopians. Most are based in the county, and continue their long-term research there, while one holds a significant role in the protection of Shropshire’s heritage.

Dedication
The Loggerheads: a note Roger H. White
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
A note relating to the maps in Chapters 5 and 8
A note on referencing

Preface: Roger H. White
1. Borderline practices? Reassessing earlier prehistory in Shropshire
David Mullin and Jodie Lewis
2. In the line of duty: new approaches to the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeologies of Shropshire
Andy Wigley
3. On the fringes or at the heart of things? Shropshire in the Roman era
Roger H. White
4. A meeting of peoples: PAS metalwork, material, and documentary evidence for cultural exchange in Anglo-Saxon Shropshire and the Mercian West Midlands
Morn Capper
5. Medieval towns in Shropshire, 901–1500
Nigel Baker
6. ‘Cemeteries everywhere enclosed, churches properly built and well furnished’. Parish churches in Shropshire’s changing religious landscape before 1200
John Hunt
7. From medieval to modern: a story of early industrialisation in Shropshire
Paul Belford
8. ‘The whole party of the King’s in this county being engaged, directly or indirectly, in this business’: Shropshire and the regional conflict in 1648
Jonathan Worton
9. The Grand Tour and the Shropshire Country House – a focus on collecting and architectural response in the long eighteenth century
Gareth Williams
10. Celebrating the manuscript maps of Shropshire
Robert Silvester
11. The changing pattern of industrial history
Barrie Trinder
12. The role of adult education in history and archaeology, 1945–2000
Barrie Trinder
13. What future for Shropshire’s past?
Roger H. White
14. Endword
Trevor Rowley

Erscheinungsdatum	19.08.2025
Zusatzinfo	150 images, mostly colour
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 280 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9798888571590 / 9798888571590
Zustand	Neuware