This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generatio...

In 1970 a concrete replica of the St John’s Cross arrived in Iona sitting incongruously on ...

A cultural and ecological biography of the black poplar in Britain. Fiona cooper explores the tre...

From the earliest of times people have sought to grow and nurture plants in a garden area. Garden...

The open hilly terrain of much of Derbyshire has long been a challenge to gardeners and landscape...

The study of stone circles has long played a major role in British and Irish archaeology, and for...

The North Downs are a range of hills that run east-west from the south-east tip of England, at Do...

We live in an age of unprecedented environmental change: global, interconnected and universal. Ye...

Of all Britain's great archaeological monuments the Iron Age hillforts have arguably had the most...

The Manchester Botanical and Horticultural Society was founded in 1827 to allow members the oppor...

Anglo-Saxon farming has traditionally been seen as the wellspring of English agriculture, setting...

Yorkshire is by far the largest county in England, taking up most of the land area from Sheffield...