Windgather Press
Windgather Press is a publishing imprint founded by Richard Purslow and now owned by Oxbow Books. The press specialises in publishing accessible and attractive books and journals on landscape history, landscape archaeology, and the history of Britain’s countryside. The publications are designed not only for those professionally engaged in the subject, but also those with a serious amateur interest in landscape research.
The name comes from Windgather Rocks, a prominent gritstone edge on the Cheshire/Derbyshire Border, close to where the press was originally founded in Bollington. Well-known amongst climbers and walkers, the edge overlooks a landscape of seventeenth and eighteenth century field-walls and scattered farms typical of the western Pennine edge.
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Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens
Full Price: $50.00
Discount Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781914427350
Pub Date: 2024-06-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
288 Pages
Discusses the concept of Royal Gardens across Tudor and Stuart times, highlighting their internationalism and diplomatic theme.
Medieval Bridges of Middle England
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781914427299
Pub Date: 2024-03-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Windgather Press
200 Pages
Highly illustrated picture book organised into a series of local tours, each focused on visiting up to seven medieval bridges, with histories and local stories provided for each.
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia
The Place-Name Evidence
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781914427251
Pub Date: 2023-10-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Reassesses the traditional interpretations of how Scandinavian place-names in England came into being and offers a new model of place-name formation that incorporates the hypothesis of a substantial migration of settlers from Scandinavia.
From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians
The Archaeology of Ancient Societies in the Llŷn Peninsula
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781914427220
Pub Date: 2023-02-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
An in-depth study of the rich and varied archaeology and history of the Llŷn Peninsula, north-western Wales, from the Mesolithic to early Christian times.
Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford
The Case of Hanwell Castle
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781914427169
Pub Date: 2022-12-02
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Tells the story of the Copes, Baronets of Hanwell Castle, Oxfordshire, and the creation of a water garden that became a crucible for the development of scientific thinking in seventeenth-century Oxford.
Medieval Bridges of Southern England
100 Bridges, 1000 Years
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781914427138
Pub Date: 2022-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Windgather Press
304 Pages
Organized into a series of short tours, this book describes and discusses the history of a selection of the best surviving medieval river bridges in southern England.
English Orchards
A Landscape History
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781914427190
Pub Date: 2022-07-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
224 Pages
A new title on the history, development and importance of orchards in terms of their economic, biodiversity and ecological contribution to the British landscape.
Surveying the Domesday Book
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781914427107
Pub Date: 2022-03-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
168 Pages
Presents an innovative analysis of the Domesday Book from the perspective of a surveyor, arguing that it represents a revaluation of the hidage assessment system but was never used to collect tax directly.
Tudor and Stuart Royal Gardens
Full Price: $50.00
Discount Price: $40.00
ISBN: 9781914427350
Pub Date: 2024-06-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
288 Pages
Medieval Bridges of Middle England
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781914427299
Pub Date: 2024-03-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Windgather Press
200 Pages
Viking Migration and Settlement in East Anglia
The Place-Name Evidence
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781914427251
Pub Date: 2023-10-12
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
From Hunter-Gatherers to Early Christians
The Archaeology of Ancient Societies in the Llŷn Peninsula
Price: $59.99
ISBN: 9781914427220
Pub Date: 2023-02-22
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Seventeenth-century Water Gardens and the Birth of Modern Scientific thought in Oxford
The Case of Hanwell Castle
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781914427169
Pub Date: 2022-12-02
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
240 Pages
Medieval Bridges of Southern England
100 Bridges, 1000 Years
Price: $80.00
ISBN: 9781914427138
Pub Date: 2022-09-15
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Windgather Press
304 Pages
English Orchards
A Landscape History
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781914427190
Pub Date: 2022-07-29
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
224 Pages
Surveying the Domesday Book
Price: $49.99
ISBN: 9781914427107
Pub Date: 2022-03-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Windgather Press
168 Pages