| Our Other Books |
| We have been writing archaeology and history books for many years.
We have given separate pages on this website to our more recent books, Jack Tar,
The Handbook of British Archaeology, The War for All the Oceans,
Trafalgar, Empires of the Plain, The Keys of Egypt and
The Little Book of Egyptian Hieroglyphs. The following section gives
information on all our other books, many of which are still in print, while
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Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
This reference book provides comprehensive access to over 1,000 years of Roman rule,
dealing with the archaeology and ancient history of Rome and its empire from the 8th
century BC to the 5th century AD. [Click on the title for more information]
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Handbook to Life in Ancient Greece
This reference book provides comprehensive access to over three millennia of ancient
Greek history and archaeology. [Click on the title for more information]
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Dictionary of Roman Religion
Over 1,400 entries and 120 of our own line drawings and photographs relating to
all aspects of the ancient Roman religion. [Click on the title for more information]
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Introduction to the Romans
Published as a colour illustrated hardback in 1991 by The Apple Press, this book has also appeared under other imprints, including The Burlington Press and more recently Grange Books. As its title suggests, it is an ideal starting point for those wanting to get to know the Roman world, and many of the colour photographs were taken by ourselves. Out of all our books, it is the one most often borrowed in public libraries! It is also available in Spanish as El Imperio Romano: Historia, cultura y arte.
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A Field Guide to Somerset Archaeology
This guidebook with its rather stuffy title (not ours!) was published in 1992 by The Dovecote Press. It is an illustrated guide to the prehistoric, Roman and medieval sites of the county of Somerset in south-west England, with directions, car parking, factual descriptions, opening times, and information on access for disabled visitors. We visited each site personally, which was an excellent way to get to know the county.
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Talking Archaeology: A Handbook for Lecturers and Organisers
This is a small publication issued by the Council for British Archaeology in 1990. We wrote it after attending many badly organised conferences and lectures where the speaker was ill-prepared! The highlight of the publication must surely be the ten cartoons by Bill Tidy.
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Abandoned Places
This was published as a colour illustrated hardback in 1990 by The Apple Press, but has also appeared under other imprints, most recently Grange Books. Each chapter deals with the different reasons why prehistoric and historic sites were abandoned – such as through warfare or natural disaster.
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An Introduction to Archaeology
Originally published as a colour illustrated hardback in 1989 by The Apple Press, this has also appeared
under other imprints such as The Burlington Press and more recently Grange Books. We were initially horrified
that the publishers gave us just four weeks to write the book, but we managed to complete it in the allotted
time, basing it on a series of adult education classes we had fortuitously just given. The book has become very
popular as a starting point for students in archaeology, and it is borrowed widely in public libraries.
Many of the colour photographs were taken by ourselves.
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Archaeological Illustration
This book was published in hardback in 1989 by Cambridge University Press in the Cambridge Manuals
in Archaeology series. Always fiendishly expensive, particularly considering that archaeological
illustrators are generally poorly paid, the book is now out-of-print and we have no plans to revise
it – we understand that secondhand copies are virtually impossible to obtain. We decided to write
the book because of the low standard of illustrations published in many archaeological journals,
and each chapter deals with a different aspect such as recording buildings, drawing on site,
drawing artefacts, and drawing for publication.
Rights: We hold all rights for this book.
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Under the Sludge. Beddington Roman Villa
This was a 92-page illustrated book published in 1986 by the Beddington, Carshalton and Wallington
Archaeological Society. The Beddington sewage works near Croydon was once operated by having sewage
sludge spread over its many acres of farmland – hence the title of the book. Much of the land was
redundant and its destruction threatened by gravel extraction in the early 1980s, and so we began a
process of looking for the Roman bath-house which was known to exist on the site. With the help of
many volunteer workers, a Roman villa complex was also found, as well as a prehistoric settlement.
This ‘popular’ account of the rescue excavation was written primarily for the local people who
took a keen interest in the project.
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