London S Waterfront 1100 1666 Excavations In Thames Street London 1974 84

Author : John Schofield,Lyn Blackmore,Jacqui Pearce
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784918385

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London’s Waterfront 1100–1666: Excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 by John Schofield,Lyn Blackmore,Jacqui Pearce Pdf

This book presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. Four Museum of London excavations of 1974–84 are presented: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100–1666 are presented.

Author : John Schofield,Lyn Blackmore,Jacqueline Pearce,Tony Dyson
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : 1784918377

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London's Waterfront 1100-1666 by John Schofield,Lyn Blackmore,Jacqueline Pearce,Tony Dyson Pdf

This book presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. Four Museum of London excavations of 1974-84 are presented: Swan Lane, Seal House, New Fresh Wharf and Billingsgate Lorry Park. Here the findings of the period 1100-1666 are presented.

Author : John Schofield,Stephen Freeth
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803276557

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London’s Waterfront and its World, 1666–1800 by John Schofield,Stephen Freeth Pdf

This volume, covering the period 1666–1800, considers the archaeology of the port of London on a wide scale, from the City down the Thames to Deptford. During this period, with the waterfront at its centre, London became the hub of the new British empire, contributing to the exploitation of people from other lands known as slavery.

Author : Gaynor Western,Jelena Bekvalac
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789253238

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Manufactured Bodies by Gaynor Western,Jelena Bekvalac Pdf

Industrialization is a notoriously complex issue in terms of the hazards and benefits it has brought to human beings in our endeavors to improve our lives. This is never more evident than in the field of health and medicine, where there are many questions about the causes and treatments of diseases we commonly encounter today, such as cancer, diabetes and degenerative age-related conditions. Are there genetic predispositions to these conditions? Are they a mirror of our modern lifestyles, driven by our fast-paced lifestyles or have they always existed but gone undetected? The archive of human skeletal remains at the Museum of London provides a large bank of evidence that has been explored here, along with other skeletal collections from around England, to investigate how far some of these diseases go back in time and what we can tell about the influence of living environments past and present on human health. The Industrial Period was a key period in human history where substantial change occurred to the population’s lifestyles, in terms of occupations, housing and diet as well as leisurely past-times, all of which would have impacted on their health. London had become the most densely populated metropolis in the world, the beating heart of trade and consumerism, an unambiguous example of the urban experience in the Industrial age. Using up-to-date medical imaging technologies in addition to osteoarchaeological examination of human skeletal remains, we have been able to establish the presence of modern day diseases in individuals living in the past, both before and during Industrialization, to compare to rates in UK populations today. By re-examining the skeletal evidence, we have traced how the perils of unregulated rural and urban lives, changing food consumption, transport, technologies as well as improving medical treatment and life expectancy, have all altered health patterns over time.

Author : Trevor Rowley
Publisher : Pen and Sword Archaeology
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526724298

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Landscapes of the Norman Conquest by Trevor Rowley Pdf

For a long time, the Norman Conquest has been viewed as a turning point in English history; an event which transformed English identity, sovereignty, kingship, and culture. The years between 1066 and 1086 saw the largest transfer of property ever seen in English History, comparable in scale, if not greater, than the revolutions in France in 1789 and Russia in 1917. This transfer and the means to achieve it had a profound effect upon the English and Welsh landscape, an impact that is clearly visible almost 1,000 years afterwards. Although there have been numerous books examining different aspects of the British landscape, this is the first to look specifically at the way in which the Normans shaped our towns and countryside. The castles, abbeys, churches and cathedrals built in the new Norman Romanesque style after 1066 represent the most obvious legacy of what was effectively a colonial take-over of England. Such phenomena furnished a broader landscape that was fashioned to intimidate and demonstrate the Norman dominance of towns and villages. The devastation that followed the Conquest, characterised by the ‘Harrying of the North’, had a long-term impact in the form of new planned settlements and agriculture. The imposition of Forest Laws, restricting hunting to the Norman king and the establishment of a military landscape in areas such as the Welsh Marches, had a similar impact on the countryside.

Author : Robert Wynn Jones
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445691367

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The Flower of All Cities by Robert Wynn Jones Pdf

A unique account of old London with all its energy, filth and splendour before the city's destruction by the Great Fire in 1666.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781786726179

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The Art of the Poor by Anonim Pdf

The history of art in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance has generally been written as a story of elites: bankers, noblemen, kings, cardinals, and popes and their artistic interests and commissions. Recent decades have seen attempts to recast the story in terms of material culture, but the focus seems to remain on the upper strata of society. In his inclusive analysis of art from 1300 to 1600, Rembrandt Duits rectifies this. Bringing together thought-provoking ideas from art historians, historians, anthropologists and museum curators, The Art of the Poor examines the role of art in the lower social classes of Europe and explores how this influences our understanding of medieval and early modern society. Introducing new themes and raising innovative research questions through a series of thematically grouped short case studies, this book gives impetus to a new field on the cusp of art history, social history, urban archaeology, and historical anthropology. In doing so, this important study helps us re-assess the very concept of 'art' and its function in society.

Author : Margarette Lincoln
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300258820

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London and the Seventeenth Century by Margarette Lincoln Pdf

The first comprehensive history of seventeenth-century London, told through the lives of those who experienced it The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century was one of the most momentous times in the history of Britain, and Londoners took center stage. In this fascinating account, Margarette Lincoln charts the impact of national events on an ever-growing citizenry with its love of pageantry, spectacle, and enterprise. Lincoln looks at how religious, political, and financial tensions were fomented by commercial ambition, expansion, and hardship. In addition to events at court and parliament, she evokes the remarkable figures of the period, including Shakespeare, Bacon, Pepys, and Newton, and draws on diaries, letters, and wills to trace the untold stories of ordinary Londoners. Through their eyes, we see how the nation emerged from a turbulent century poised to become a great maritime power with London at its heart—the greatest city of its time.

Author : Stuart J. Prior,Mark Horton,Konstantinos P. Trimmis
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781803275697

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Berkeley Castle Tales by Stuart J. Prior,Mark Horton,Konstantinos P. Trimmis Pdf

Presents results of 15-year-long excavations and landscape research at Berkeley Castle. Combining archaeological results with information from the castle's 20,000 historical documents, the project adds greatly to our understanding of the changes that accompanied the arrival of the Normans, with the erection of a castle on the former minster site.

Author : John Schofield,Stephen Freeth
Publisher : Archaeopress Archaeology
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1803276541

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London's Waterfront and Its World, 1666-1800 by John Schofield,Stephen Freeth Pdf

This volume, covering the period 1666-1800, considers the archaeology of the port of London on a wide scale, from the City down the Thames to Deptford. During this period, with the waterfront at its centre, London became the hub of the new British empire, contributing to the exploitation of people from other lands known as slavery.

Author : A. E. Brown,H. L. Sheldon
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784919795

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The Roman Pottery Manufacturing Site in Highgate Wood: Excavations 1966-78 by A. E. Brown,H. L. Sheldon Pdf

Excavations at Highgate Wood, London, over a period of eight years uncovered at least ten pottery kilns, waster heaps, ditches and pits, but only a few definite structures. This volume provides a very detailed analysis of the forms and fabrics of the pottery finds.

Author : Gustav Milne,Chrissie Milne
Publisher : London & Middlesex Archaeological Society, Surrey Archaeological Society
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049816369

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Medieval Waterfront Development at Trig Lane, London by Gustav Milne,Chrissie Milne Pdf

Author : Trevor Brigham,Aidan Woodger
Publisher : Mola (Museum of London Archaeology)
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112212563

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Roman and Medieval Townhouses on the London Waterfront by Trevor Brigham,Aidan Woodger Pdf

The north bank of the Thames near Cannon Street Station was occupied by some of London's most prominent buildings in both the Roman and Medieval periods. Substantial stone walls revealed at the site in 1969 were initially interpreted as part of a Roman townhouse attached to the 'Governor's Palace' building complex to the west. In 1994-7 new excavations uncovered a prehistoric marsh, a riverside quay dated to AD 84 and a revetment constructed in c. AD 100-200. Later Roman buildings were recorded on terraces overlooking the Thames. Two of these buildings predated the townhouse, and one of these may have been a goldworker's premises. Important new evidence for the ground plan and use of the later townhouse has revealed that it developed separately from other large Roman buildings to the west. Part of a Tuscan order column recovered from the site suggests that the building had some architectural pretensions and a high status. In the late 4th century the townhouse was demolished and the settlement abandoned. The first evidence of reoccupation at the site took the form of early 11th century pitting succeeded by sunken-floored or cellared buildings. The walls of the 14th century Pountney's Inn, later the Manor of the Rose, were recorded along Suffolk Lane. This volume presents the results of the archaeological work at this important site in a clear chronological narrative supported by many detailed illustrations and specialist reports.

Author : Michael Walsh
Publisher : British Museum Research Public
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0861592026

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Pudding Pan by Michael Walsh Pdf

For more than 300 years commercial fishermen working in the outer Thames estuary have recovered Roman pottery in their oyster dredgers and fishing nets from the seabed in the vicinity of Pudding Pan. However, despite numerous attempts to locate the source of the material, this elusive site has remained undiscovered beneath the waves. This book assesses the recovered assemblage from Pudding Pan to determine the nature and location of the site. Almost 700 artefacts have been retrieved from this area to date, the majority of which are complete plain samian wares, one of the key indicators of the widespread cultural reception of Rome, which were undoubtedly transported throughout the Empire in huge quantities. The exhaustive research presented in this book convincingly argues that the material represents an unknown proportion of a cargo from a Roman trading ship en route from northern France to London that was deposited on the seabed between AD 175 and 195; it is not yet clear whether the deposit represents a shipwreck or a jettisoned cargo. Such a site is extremely rare throughout the Roman Empire, particularly so in northern Europe, and its discovery could play a crucial role in our understanding of Roman trade. The search for the site continues, but this publication offers the first detailed study of a seemingly predominantly samian cargo in British waters and contributes a new perspective on the organisation of trade and consumption in the Roman era.

Author : Kathryn Kirkpatrick,Borbála Faragó
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349683167

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Animals in Irish Literature and Culture by Kathryn Kirkpatrick,Borbála Faragó Pdf

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.