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Schinkel ‘in Athens’: Meta-Narratives of 19th-Century City Planning

Author:Dimitris N. Karidis
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Abstract: This book offers a fresh appraisal of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s urban design legacy and his involve…

Wholesome Dwellings: Housing Need in Oxford and the Municipal Response, 1800-1939

Author:Malcolm Graham
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Abstract: This study by Malcolm Graham, a leading Oxford local historian for many years, provides a fascinati…

A Classical Archaeologist’s Life: The Story so Far

Author:John Boardman
Publisher:Archaeological Lives
Abstract: Sir John Boardman is one of the foremost experts on ancient Greek art. His autobiography offers a m…

Wonders Lost and Found: A Celebration of the Archaeological Work of Professor Michael Vickers

Author:ed. Nicholas Sekunda
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Abstract: Twenty-one contributions, written by friends and colleagues, reflect the wide interests of Professo…

The Buckley Potteries: Recent Research and Excavation

Author:Nigel Jones
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Abstract: A regional pottery industry flourished in Buckley, Flintshire, from the medieval period to the mid-…

Aleksei P. Okladnikov: The Great Explorer of the Past. Volume I

Author:Aleksander K. Konopatskii et al.
Publisher:Archaeological Lives
Abstract: Aleksei P. Okladnikov (1908–1981), a prominent Russian archaeologist, spent more than 50 years stud…

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Text and Archaeology

Author:Justin L. Kelley
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Abstract: This book studies the archaeological record of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, surveying past exc…

Blood, Faith and Iron: A dynasty of Catholic industrialists in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England

Author:Paul Belford
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Abstract: The Ironbridge Gorge is presented as the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and so part of a n…

When Archaeology Meets Communities: Impacting Interactions in Sicily over Two Eras (Messina, 1861-1918)

Author:Antonino Crisà
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Abstract: When Archaeology Meets Communities examines the history of nineteenth-century Sicilian archaeology …

Percy Manning: The Man Who Collected Oxfordshire

Author:ed. Michael Heaney
Publisher:Archaeological Lives
Abstract: This volume provides the first detailed biography Percy Manning (1870-1917), an Oxford antiquary wh…
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