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Fragile Landscapes

The Making of the Industrial Landscape

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Philip Parker

Between Tree Stump & Fen

Citadel of the Saxons: The Rise of Early London

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Christine Finn

Ground Force

Ancient Wonderings: Journeys into Prehistoric Britain

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Roger Crowley

Micklegarth by Sea

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities

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Ronald Hutton

Digging for Britain

The Tale of the Axe: How the Neolithic Revolution Transformed Britain

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Will Wiles

Look on My Works, Ye Mighty

Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers

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Charles Allen

It’s All Cuneiform to Me

Empires of the Plain: Henry Rawlinson and the Lost Languages of Babylon

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Christopher Woodward

Barrow Boys

Antiquaries: The Discovery of the Past in Eighteenth-Century Britain

By Rosemary Sweet

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Allan Massie

Walking with Ghosts

Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

By Mary Beard

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Norman Hammond

Emerging Eurozones

Europe Between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000

By Barry Cunliffe

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Simon Heffer

No Ordinary Surveyor

Bloody Old Britain: O G S Crawford and the Archaeology of Modern Life

By Kitty Hauser

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Jonathan Meades

The Pen & the Spade

Time’s Anvil: England, Archaeology and the Imagination

By Richard Morris

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March 2013 Issue

Tom Shippey

Living Legend?

Worlds of Arthur: Facts & Fictions of the Dark Ages

By Guy Halsall

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Gillian Tindall

Good Housekeeping

Men from the Ministry: How Britain Saved Its Heritage

By Simon Thurley

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June 2013 Issue

Tom Holland

By the Rivers of Nineveh

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

By Stephanie Dalley

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August 2013 Issue

Anthony Sattin

Taking off the Bandages

The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut’s Mummy

By Jo Marchant

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