Cryptoforestry

In the preface to a book collecting some of his lectures " The Global Condition: Conquerors, Catastrophes, and Community " (199...

Taken from Penguin Atlas of Medieval History .

It is hard to escape the image of the modern day wild plant watcher as a bearded teacher of the old stamp who would wear a dear stalker o...

Been bending over this today in the Dutch Royal Museum of Antiquities, its an oak figure with a C14 age of 5300 to 5000 years before pre...

Recently I have been enjoying several pieces by food historian Rachel Laudan . Her recent book I have not yet read but  here is an inter...

Etnobotanica brings together papers on European wild plant use in places that I would consider obscure (ohh that Dutch self-centredness). T...

  From various places (Gutenberg, Archive, Bit-Torrent) I have collected the full text of 29 cookbooks published between 1390 and 2010. ...

R.S.R Fitter's ' London's Natural History ' (1945) is what we would now call an environmental history of Greater London. ...

In 1855 Richard Deakin published a study of the wild flowers growing in and on the Colosseum in Rome. It is available online . There was a...

Carl Sauer, cultural geographer, author of the brilliant New Spanish Main on the Spanish landnam of America after Columbus, also wr...

Map your Recipe does a simple thing: enter the ingredients of a recipe and it will show you where the vegetables that went into it were ...

Included in the Penguin edition of the Vinland Sagas (two medieval Viking tales about the discovery and settlement of Greenland and furthe...

Many times I have been asked this question: How do archaeologists find the ancient cities? The should rather be: How can one who is not ...

Have been greatly enjoying Waldemar Januszczak' The Dark Ages . In the episode on the barbarians he begins by showing the above "...

On Sunday 1 April 1469 a group of poor men (described as labourers in a legal action three months later) collected on St George's Hil...

Nomads, the historical records show, can evade, resist, stop, sustain, exploit, destabilize, and destroy empires. They can also build en...

The special quality of the writing of Gerrard Winstanley (1609-76), the radical English protestant priest often seen as a proto-communis...

Recently I have read two books on the History of Food. The first was 'Food in History' by Reay Tannahill. It was firs...