Landscape Archaeology and GIS examines the ways in which Geographical Information Systems can be used to explore archaeological landscapes, and summarizes the most appropriate methods to use. It is st
This book is part of the Archive Photographs series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and
Tom McCluskie grew up in Belfast, followed his father, and was apprenticed into Harland and Wolff's shipyard on Queen's Island, Belfast. Harland and Wolff was a hard-working and dangerous environment,
A revised edition of Billings' attractive history of the Crusades, an offshoot of the BBC Radio 4 series The Cross and the Crescent , which is updated with new archaeological and historical evidence.
This book is part of the Images of England series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in England, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.
Scotland, in common with the rest of Europe, was troubled from time to time by outbreaks of witchcraft which the authorities sought to contain and then to suppress, and the outbreak of 1658-1662 is ge
In 1974 Douglas McGowan purchased the Waverley for the princely sum of one pound. Since then, and after at least two major overhauls, Waverley has travelled tens of thousands of miles around the coast
At the turn of the twentieth century a race was on between the European shipping companies to build the largest liners in the world. From Cunard had come the Mauretania and Lusitania, from White Star
The compelling story of how the first transatlantic cable was laid ?the people who dared, the people who lost, and the people who profited. It tells of the dramatic attempts to cross the Atlan-tic dur
