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Bloody British History: Cambridge
Death to students: The weird origin of the University! A plague on both your parishes: Black Death in Cambridge's streets! Off with his head: The bizarre true story of Oliver Cromwell's travelling skull! Gas! Gas! The secret research team behind WWI's deadliest weapon! The fifth man: The truth about the Cambridge Five, the Soviet spies who studied! Cambridge has some of the most violent history ever recorded. From invading hordes of Vikings, Saxons and Normans to the secret Allied plans of the Second World War, it will thrill, disgust and delight in equal measure!
Prehistoric Cumbria
Prehistoric Cumbria
Prehistoric Lancashire. David Barrowclough
The first book to explore Prehistoric Lancashire
Prehistoric Cumbria
The first book to consider the prehistory of Cumbria from the post-glacial period to the end of the pre-Roman Iron Age
Digging for Hitler
The true story of the Nazi villains that spent the war searching for archaeological treasures that inspired the Indiana Jones movies.
Our Precious Past
Taken from a session at the TAG conference in Lampeter in 2003, these five essays look again at the cliché of breaking down the barriers and sharing information and responsibility of our past with the wider, non-archaeological community. These authors argue that if archaeologists really intend to do these things, this calls for a re-definition of archaeology `as a set of practices that connects beliefs, practices, aims, intentions and values, to create a community of shared interests'. These papers from the conference provided a platform for graduates to address more seasoned archaeologists and suggest the way forward. They include contributions from an Egyptological perspective (Phillipa Payne) , `Theme-Park archaeology' (David Barrowclough) , the relationship between metal-detectorists and archaeologists (Mary Chester-Kadwell) , between conservation and archaeology (Andrew Shapland) , and between politics and archaeology seen here from a Palestinian stance (Najat El Hafi) .
Ely
The Norman Cathedral is a masterpiece of medieval architecture sitting proudly on the Isle of Ely, but there is more to this city, once home to Oliver Cromwell. The authors trace the origins of life in Ely and the surrounding villages. Using vivid illustrations to bring the most recent archaeological excavations to life, the monumental Neolithic burial chamber excavated at Haddenham and Early Bronze Age burials from Sutton village are presented here for the first time. The latest research on the nationally important later Bronze Age hoard from Wilburton and Iron Age bog body from Soham highlight the importance of the Isle of Ely to British archaeology. The findings from Channel 4’s Time Team excavation of the medieval Broad Street are included with illustrations, as well as the stories of Hereward the Wake and later that of Oliver Cromwell and the Littleport riots. The book ends in the 20th century and the story of wartime Ely.
Digging for Hitler
During the 1930s, in the build up to the Second World War, the Nazis established a band of specialists, the SS-Ahnenerbe, under the command of Heinrich Himmler and Hermann Wirth. Their aim was nothing less than to prove the superiority of the Aryan race, and with it the unique right of the German people to rule Europe. The occult figured as a key feature in many of these increasingly desperate quack research efforts. Part science, part espionage, and part fantasy. Archaeological expeditions were sent to Iceland, Tibet, Kafiristan, North Africa, Russia, the Far East, Egypt, and even South America and the Arctic. The Nazi Ancestral Heritage Societys chief administrator was Dr Wolfram Sievers, ...
Cult in Context
Gods, deities, symbolism, deposition, cosmology and intentionality are all features of the study of early ritual and cult. Archaeology has great difficulties in providing satisfactory interpretation or recognition of these elusive but important parts of ancient society, and methodologies are often poorly equipped to explore the evidence. This collection of papers explores a wide range of prehistoric and early historic archaeological contexts from Britain, Europe and beyond, where monuments, architectural structures, megaliths, art, caves, ritual activity and symbolic remains offer exciting glimpses into ancient belief systems and cult behaviour. Different theoretical and practical approaches are demonstrated, offering both new directions and considered conclusions to the many problems of studying the archaeology of cult and ritual. Central to the volume is an exploration of early Malta and its intriguing Temple Culture, set in a broad perspective by the discussion and theoretical approaches presented in different geographical and chronological contexts.
