The Williamson Collection

Tom Williamson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2026
Casemate Publishers (Verlag)
979-8-88857-261-0 (ISBN)

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Celebrates the academic career and major influence of Tom Williamson on aspects of English medieval landscapes as seen through his publications with Windgather Press.

Tom Williamson is a landscape historian and archaeologist whose wide ranging interests have long placed him at the forefront of research into many aspects of the English countryside from the Iron Age to the post-medieval period. His interests include the origins and development of systems of territorial organisation in early England; the history of trees and woodlands; medieval field systems and settlement patterns; and post-medieval estate landscapes and agricultural ‘improvement’. This volume in our new Reflections series re-presents some of his most important chapters published in our Windgather Press imprint, which is devoted to a broad brushstroke approach to landscape studies, and celebrates his contribution to our understanding of the development of the English countryside. Each chapter includes a new introduction by the author.

Tom Williamson is Emeritus Professor of Landscape History at the University of East Anglia and has written widely on landscape archaeology, environmental history and the history of landscape design.

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Preface

Part 1. Fields and settlements
1. The distribution of ‘woodland’ and ‘champion’ landscapes in medieval England (from S. Rippon and M. Gardiner (eds), Medieval Landscapes. 2007)
2. Village, farm and hamlet (with Andrew Macnair and Anne Rowe, from A. Macnair, A. Rowe and T. Williamson, Dury and Andrews’ Map of Hertfordshire: Society and landscape in the eighteenth century. 2016)
3. ‘Floating’ in context: meadows in the long term (from H. Cook and T. Williamson (eds), Water Meadows: history, ecology and conservation. 2007)
4. Understanding enclosure (from Landscapes 1(1). 2000)
5. Conclusions (with Gerry Barnes, from G. Barnes and T. Williamson, Hedgerow History: ecology, history and landscape character. 2008)

Part 2. Landscapes designed and experienced
6. Designed landscapes: the regional dimension (from Landscapes 5(2). 2004)
7. The triumph of the park (from Suffolk’s Gardens and Parks: designed landscapes from the Tudors to the Victorians. 2000)
8. The Wuffingas’ River (from Sutton Hoo and its Landscape: the context of monuments. 2008)
9. Hill figures in the landscape: contexts, survival and function (from M.J. Allen (ed.), A Date with the Two Cerne Giants: reinvestigating an iconic British hill figure. 2024)

Part 3. Inventing and conserving the rural past
10. Commons and communities and Conclusion (from The Landscapes of Common Land: history and ecology in Norfolk and beyond. 2025)
11. The importance of orchards: culture and history and Afterword (with Gerry Barnes, from G. Barnes and T. Williamson, English Orchards: a landscape history. 2022)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.7.2026
Zusatzinfo	60 B/W illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
ISBN-13	979-8-88857-261-0 / 9798888572610
Zustand	Neuware