Rudston Roman Villa (1980)
ISBN10 9780902122321 297mm by 210mm; 196 pages; black & white illustrations and photographs throughout.
Paperback: £10 P&P Free in UK
This important report of the villa site at Rudston in the East Riding of Yorkshire combinesan overview of the excavations, conducted at various times from the 1930s to the 1970s,with specialist reports on the pottery and other artefacts, the decorative remains –including the well-known and very distinctive 'Venus' and 'Charioteer' mosaics (now in theHull and East Riding Museum) – and a range of organic remains.
I.M. Stead
Medieval Scarborough: Studies in Trade and Civic Life (2001)
ISBN13 9780902122967 297mm by 210mm; 123 pages; black & white illustrations and photographs throughout.
This publication brings together a number of articles by a distinguished group of historians and archaeologists to create a wide-ranging new history of Scarborough in the medieval period. It includes essays on church life, urban government, mercantile Scarborough, domestic architecture, the pottery industry and includes a gazetteer of Scarborough’s medieval place and field names. It includes a gazetteer of Scarborough’s medieval place-names.
D. Crouch & T. Pearson
Patterns of Quern Production, Acquisition and Deposition. (2008)
ISBN13 9781903564752 297mm by 210mm; 175 pages; black & white illustrations
Paperback £10 P&P Free in UK
The first publication by The Yorkshire Querns Study, established in 1985 to collect data on querns of all periods. Using data from North Yorkshire and Southern Durham, this volume considers beehive querns of the later Iron Age and earlier Romano-British Period and promotes the use of quern evidence as an important resource for the study of settlement, technology, innovation, inter-group relations and religious expression.
D.H. Heslop
Lady Anne Clifford: Culture, Patronage and Gender in 17th-Century Britain (2009)
ISBN13 9781903564751 297mm by 210mm; 139 pages, 106 black & white and colour illustrations.
A collection of papers by leading scholars in the field devoted to the study of Lady Anne Clifford, Countess of Dorset, Pembroke and Montgomery (1590-1676), and one of the great figures of English seventeenth-century history. The volume’s origins lie in a symposium held in March 2004 at Tate Britain, to coincide with the display there of Lady Anne’s Great Triptych, on loan from the Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal.
K. Hearn and L. Hulse (eds)
Guide to the Quarter Session Records of the West Riding of Yorkshire 1637–1971 and Other Official Records (2011)
ISBN13 9781903564516 60 pages; 297mm by 210mm
The massive quarter sessions records for the West Riding are probably the largest and best preserved of any county. For centuries, and up to as recently as forty years ago, quarter sessions was the major criminal court in the county. The court of quarter sessions was also the major local government authority up to 1889, and so many other aspects of life were affected by its activities. The records offer a remarkable variety of research materials and this guide to them will be invaluable for family and local history researchers.
Brian J. Barber
Romanesque Yorkshire (2012)
ISBN13 9781903564868 265 pages; 297mm by 210mm; numerous black & white photographs throughout.
In England, the architectural term ‘Romanesque’ (Norman) covers the period 1066 to 1200. This volume provides a guide to the notable Romanesque remains to be found in Yorkshire. The volume first provides a 31-page introduction and glossary of architectural terms, with a location map of Romanesque sites in Yorkshire. This is followed by an alphabetical gazetteer that lists over 300 sites with appreciable Romanesque remains.
Rita Wood