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An illustrated history of one of Britain's finest counties - Somerset. Using photographs taken from the unique Historic England Archive.

This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of Somerset's most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.

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In 2015 the Renaissance Society presented an exhibition of newly commissioned works by Los Angeles-based artist Mathias Poledna. Coinciding with the museum's centennial, it marked the final show in the institution's first hundred years. For this project Poledna used the notion of iconoclasm and its various historical contexts as a conceptual backdrop for two new works: a 35-mm film installation, co-produced with and premiering at the Renaissan...

This book will be of interest to all those who would like to know more about Somerset's remarkable military history.

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Uncovers the remains of nearly 400 Home Guard emplacements scattered across Somerset, Dorset and Devon.

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The author of "We Own This Game" tells the story of Mexico's infamous border city ravaged by violence, but held together by the resilience of its citizens and one beloved soccer team.

Investigations have revealed the buried history of the 2012 Olympic Park site. Archaeologists have unearthed prehistoric settlements, a medieval millstream and a Victorian riverboat, and they traced the area's industrial heritage. As the landscape changed over time, so did the lives of the people who lived and worked here. Now it has changed again, renewing and building on the past to create a legacy for the future.

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Grenville and the Lost Colony of Roanoke takes an authoritative look at how the English Nation first attempted to settle America - some thirty-three years before the Mayflower set sail.

Excavations and built heritage recording on the site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have revealed evidence dating from the last Ice Age up to the modern period. Extensive geoarchaeological and palaeo-environmenal studies, coupled with a comprehensive radiocarbon dating programme, have enabled the valley's past environments to be reconstructed. As well as significant Neolithic finds, the excavations revealed Bronze Age and Iron...

Wessex Water's decision to build a new water treatment works at Sutton Poyntz provided an opportunity, in 1993-4, for archaeologists from Wessex Arcaheology to find out how people had lived, worked and worshipped in the landscape around the River Jordan. This is the story of the archaeological investigations that preceded construction of the works, and of the river's influence on the people, the place, and the landscape.

This volume brings together the results from the excavations at the former Imperial College Sports Ground, RMC Land and Land East of Wall Garden Farm, near the villages of Harlington and Sipson in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The excavations revealed parts of an archaeological landscape with a rich history of development from before 4000 BC to the post-medieval period. The opportunity to investigate two large areas of this landscape provi...

Archaeological excavations have revealed significant evidence for crucible steelmaking, documentary research has helped elucidate details of this industry that made Sheffield world famous for the production of cutlery and tools in the 19th and 20th centuries. Evidence for domestic occupation was also found together with evidence for possible cottage industry.

Archaeological works at High Post near Salisbury have confirmed the presence of an Iron Age hilltop enclosure on the southern margins of Salisbury Plain.The enclosure was bounded by a deep V-shaped ditch in association with a wide zone suggestive of an internal bank. More significantly, lying beneath the line of the bank was a large spread of mostly articulated animal bone, dating to the Early Iron Age.The Iron Age occupation of the enclosure ...

Excavations just outside a large Late Bronze Age ringwork at Queen Mary¿s Hospital, Carshalton, in the London Borough of Sutton, revealed a settlement which was occupied possibly continuously from the Early Iron Age into the early Romano-British period. Originally an open settlement, by the Late Iron Age parts of it had been enclosed by an arrangement of small ditches, which underwent some modification over the next two centuries, while keepin...

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