Our Library Committee has just purchased these books for accession soon to the Essex Society for Archaeology and History Library at the University of Essex.
The Peregrine, The Hill of Summer and
Diaries: The complete works of J. A. Baker ed J. Fanshawe 2010 Collins ISBN 978-0-00-734862-6
The Wild Places Robert Macfarlane 2007 Granta Books ISBN
978-1-84708-018-9
The Old Ways: A journey on foot Robert Macfarlane 2012 Granta Books ISBN
978-0-241-14381-0
The Luminous Coast Jules Pretty 2011 Full Circle Editions ISBN
978-0-9561869-6-6
350
miles: An Essex Journey 2005 Jason
Orton and Ken Worpole
The New English Landscape is part of an extremely prominent
literary approach to topography and landscape which has flourished since the
turn of the century and in which Essex plays a prominent role. In many ways
J.A. Bakers work from the 1960s, focussed on the Chelmer valley and Blackwater
Estuary, is the ur-text for this kind of writing (the Hill of Summer is
basically the Danbury/Little Baddow ridge). Robert Macfarlane is probably the most
celebrated contemporary exponent of the genre.
Wild Places includes his account of the Chelmer valley and
Dengie, a homage to Baker, Old Ways includes the Broomway across the
Maplin Sands toward Foulness. The Pretty volume covers the coast of Essex,
Suffolk and Norfolk, and 350 miles is the book which James mentioned in
his email..
Regeneration and Innovation: Invention and
Reinventrion in the Lea Valley by
J. Lewis
An account of the important
industrial archaeology and history of the area, a useful overview and complements
the book on the archaeology of the Olympic Park which we purchased last year.
The Quaternary of the Lower Thames &
Eastern Essex – Field Guide.
D.R. Bridgland, P.Allen & T.S White eds 2014 (Quaternary Research Assoc)
ISBN:0 907780 14 8
The Field Guide of the QRA
resulting from their field meeting in Essex earlier this year, gives the latest
thoughts on a number of key sites in Essex, which are vital for our
understanding of Palaeolithic archaeology.
Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th
and 7th centuries AD: a chronological
by Alex Bayliss, John Hines, Karen Hollund Neilsen, Gerry McCormac and
Christopher Scull 2014 Society for Medieval Archaeology monograph 33 ISBN
9781909662063
An important reference work,
which obviously includes Essex material, and will certainly be vital for anyone
working on material from the Essex Anglo-Saxon cemeteries.
The Bronze Age in the Severn Estuary ed Martin Bell Counc. Brit. Archaeol. Res. Rep. 172
ISBN 9781902771946
Presents the results of twenty
years or so of research into the inter-tidal zone of the Severn estuary. Obviously it’s not about Essex (though comparisons/contrasts
with the Essex estuaries occur from time to time), and will be a useful source
of ideas and comparative material for anyone working on the archaeology of the
inter-tidal zone of the Essex estuaries.
England’s Coastal Heritage: A review of
Progress since 1997 Peter Murphy 2014
English Heritage
The most up to date overview
of the historic environment of the English coast, indispensable for anyone
studying coastal heritage, particularly in the context of coastal zone
management. As you’d expect from a book by Peter the Essex coast figures quite
prominently.
Lucien Pissarro in England: The Eragny Press
1895-1914 Ashmolean Museum Oxford ISBN
978 1 85444 253 6
This book and exhibition
catalogue, explores the work and art of the Eragny Press, and the lives of
Lucien (son of the painter Camille) and Esther Pissarro. They lived and worked in Epping for a couple
of years, but the main Essex connection is that Esther was a member of Bensusan
family. The Bensusans played a prominent
role in the social and literary life of the County, mostly through the work of
S. L. Bensusan, who began publishing stories of the Essex countryside in 1907
and continued to do so for the next 50 years. John Bensusan-Butt was Esther’s
nephew, he published articles on Lucien
Pissarro and the Eragny Press in the 1970s, and was a prominent member of ESAH.
A 16th-Century Merchantman Wrecked
in the Princes Channel, Thames Estuary Volume I: Excavation and
Hull Studies edited by Jens Auer and Thijs J. Maarleveld. ISBN
9781407312101. £28.00. Brit. Archaeol. Rep 602, 2014
This account of the excavation
of a ship wreck may be worth having, the ship is a significant discovery, but
the Essex connections are not very obvious, it’s from the Thames estuary but on
the Kent side.
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