The following may interest some members:
Tides and Floods: New Research on London and the Tidal Thames from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
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£7.00
Edited by James A. Galloway
The crucial importance of the Thames to London has been familiar to contemporaries and historians alike for centuries. Important as a vital commercial artery, it was also a complex hydrological system supporting a wide variety of ecosystems, and posing a recurrent flood threat to the communities that lived alongside the river and its estuary.This volume of five papers aims to demonstrate some of the variety of work currently being undertaken on Thames history and archaeology, beyond the most common encapsulation of the river as a trade route. Three of the papers explore the tidal Thames as a hazard, as well as a resource, between the fourteenth and twentieth centuries. The remaining papers are the work of archaeologists presenting preliminary reports on the tidal mills uncovered at Northfleet and Greenwich, and an overview of the work of the Thames Discovery Programme.
CONTENTS
* Damian Goodburn with Simon Davis: Two new Thames tide mill finds of the 690s and 1190s and a brief up-date on archaeological evidence for changing medieval tidal levels
* James A. Galloway: 'Piteous and Grievous sights' : the Thames marshes at the close of the middle ages
* Carry van Lieshout: Floods and flood response in eighteenth-century London
* Anna Carlsson-Hyslop: Storm surge science: the London connection 1928-1953
* Gustav Milne: Rediscovering the Thames
Centre for Metropolitan History Working Papers Series No. 4; paperback; 80 pp.; illus.
Price: £5.00 (+ £2.00 postage)
Published: Nov 2010 ISBN: 9781905165599
Available from:
http://www.history.ac.uk/bookshop/centre-for-metropolitan-history/tides-and-floods
