Windgather Press

Windgather Press specialises in publishing accessible and attractive books on landscape history, landscape archaeology, trees, and the history of the British countryside including garden history. Their authors include some of the most accomplished landscape archaeologists and historians writing today. The books are designed not only for those professionally engaged in the subject, but also anyone else with a serious interest in landscape research.
Windgather Press’s name originates from Windgather Rocks, a prominent gritstone edge on the Cheshire/Derbyshire border, close to where the press was originally founded in Bollington, UK.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 158

ISBN: 9780954557553

Pub Date: 01 Dec 2004

Imprint: Windgather Press

Illustrations: 16 col pls, many b/w illus and figs

Description:

The Peak District has been inhabited by humans for tens of thousands of years, beginning the process that irreperably changed the shape of the landscape. This volume focuses on this relationship between human settlers and farmers and the landscape showing how both have been affected by the other. Following a brief examination of the earliest evidence for hunter-gatherers, principally stone artefacts and cave sites, the authors focus on the activity that, more than anything else, has shaped the landscape that we see today, agriculture.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 256

ISBN: 9780953863082

Pub Date: 01 Dec 2003

Imprint: Windgather Press

Illustrations: 10 col illus, 52 b/w illus

Description:

The oak tree has long provided people in Britain with a wonderful natural resource. In this book the authors reclaim the disappearing forestry and carpentry skills of our ancestors and show how, in an era of climate change, oak can continue to enrich our future as a key element in an ecologically rich countryside'. This book explores how people managed and exploited oakwoods since Neolithic times, and the skills required in the use of timbers for ship-building, furniture and constructing houses.

Format: Paperback

Pages: 250

ISBN: 9780953863051

Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002

Imprint: Windgather Press

Illustrations: 21 col pls, 156 b/w illus

Description:

During the Agricultural Revolution, the landowners of Britain constructed an enormous range of picturesque or classical buildings on their farms, inspired by Enlightenment ideals. These model farms, a phenomenan unique to Britain, are a significant yet largely undiscovered aspect of our heritage. This book is richly illustrated with interior and exterior photographs, most of them specially commissioned, as well as plans, paintings and historic photographs.