Publications

The Society has an active publishing programme, producing both academic and general books, either under our own imprint or in association with other publishers and research organisations.

The following is a complete list of titles in print and forthcoming. Further details of many of these titles can be found on by clicking on the title. Orders should be placed directly with the distributor. Distributors' contact details can be obtained by clicking on the distributor's name.

You can consult the ARCHway website for the contents pages of volumes 1 to 110 of the Society's occasional Archaeologia series.

BOOKS IN PRINT (most recent first)

Hill Hall: A Singular House Devised by a Tudor Intellectual

by Paul Drury and Richard Simpson

ISBN: 978-0-85431-291-7 544p, 378 illus hardback in 2 parts

This is the complete history of a building that began as a hunting lodge, late in the eleventh century and that grew to be the principal house of the manor of Theydon Mount in Essex, a small country retreat within easy reach of London. In 1556, the house was acquired by Sir Thomas Smith (151277), a man of humble origins but precocious intellect who became Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge at the age of thirty and Chancellor of the University two years later. He then forsook academic for political life, becoming Master of Requests to the Lord Protector Somerset. From 1557, Smith rebuilt the house in French-influenced classical style and decorated it with wall paintings of Cupid and Psyche and King Hezekiah, conveying complex messages of morality and affinity as part of a coherent programme of images in paint, glass and tiles.

Four centuries on, the house was first used as an open prison, then, in 1969, largely gutted by fire and finally, in 1980, taken into the care of the Department of the Environment. Archaeological excavation and detailed recording of the surviving fabric took place prior to the restoration of the house and its mural paintings, the results of which are now presented in this copiously illustrated account of one of the most important and influential houses to be built in Elizabethan England. 

Price £55 (Fellows' price £45)

Order your copies now from Oxbow Books, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW, UK

Tel: 01865 241249 Fax: 01865 794449 Email: orders@oxbowbooks.com

Website: www.oxbowbooks.com

Roman Mosaics of Britain Volume III South-East Britain

by David S Neal and Stephen R Cosh

ISBN 978-0-85431-289-4 606p, 531 photographs and line drawings in colour and b&w hardback in 2 parts

This is the third volume in a massive project to create the first complete corpus of the Roman mosaics of Britain. Roman Mosaics of Britain Volume
III covers the areas of Britain that were first to come under Roman control and where some of the country’s most impressive mosaics are to be found. These include those of Colchester, Silchester, London and Verulamium, and in the villas and palaces at Brading, Bignor, Fishbourne and Rockbourne.

In this unrivalled work, the authors cover the origins of mosaic-making in Britain, the development of colour palettes and motifs, as well as the types of buildings with which mosaics are associated, the functions of mosaic-decorated rooms, the materials from which they are made and the impact of mosaic discoveries on early antiquaries. The catalogue provides an account of each mosaic’s discovery and locates the mosaic within its building plan. Every mosaic is described, with significant parallels and major references, and illustrated with the authors’ own paintings, reproductions of historic
engravings and over 500 line drawings and photographs, taken in situ wherever possible, before lifting or restoration. This is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Roman art, craftsmanship, architecture and social life.

Normal price £200; special offer price £160 (offer valid until end of June 2009).You can also order Roman Mosaics of Britain Volumes I and II, covering northern and south-west Britain, for only £100 each, reduced from £160, when bought with Volume III.

Order your copies now from Oxbow Books, 10 Hythe Bridge Street, Oxford, OX1 2EW, UK

Tel: 01865 241249 Fax: 01865 794449 Email: orders@oxbowbooks.com

Website: www.oxbowbooks.com

Visions of Antiquity: The Society of Antiquaries of London 1707-2007

Archaeologia 111, Society of Antiquaries of London 2007
Edited by Susan Pierce, FSA

This fascinating portrait of the Society of Antiquaries of London, founded in 1707, assesses the impact that individual Fellows and the Society as a whole have had in influencing the way we visualise and understand the past. There are, for example, essays on the Society's pioneering role in recording monuments and antiquities for posterity, in establishing the scientific and empirical basis of archaeological studies, in replacing Biblically based timeframes with a clearer understanding of deep time measured in millions of years, in drawing up the first legislation protecting ancient monuments, and in funding and publishing the great excavations of the last one hundred years, from Stonehenge, Maiden Castle, Richborough and Sutton Hoo to Aksum (Ethiopia) and Mons Porphyrites (Egypt). All the papers represent fresh and original scholarship and they tell us much about the Society's achievements (and some of the accompanying conflicts between personalities and ideas) over three hundred years. They are based on diaries, letters, minute books and confidential government papers and on portraits that chart the changing image of the antiquary from a figure of fun to heroic seeker of forgotten people and civilizations. Visions of Antiquity reveals astonishing echoes across time - from the repeated and continuing attempts to record all ancient buildings and monuments to the continuity of the title 'antiquary' to describe scholars who build bridges between different branches of knowledge based on the study of material remains of the past and of a Fellowship whose numbers have included prime ministers, bishops, peers and parliamentarians, as well as radicals and free thinkers, such as William Morris and many of the founders of modern conservation.

ISBN: 978 0 85431 287 0 (hdbk)
£75; 488pp, 116 photographs and line drawings in colour and b&w
Distributor: Oxbow Books

Special Fellows' price: £45 plus p&p (request Fellows' discount when placing your order with Oxbow Books)

Excavations at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, 1990-1999

Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007

The celebrated catalogue of the Society's 'Making History' exhibition is available from Amazon books at £28 (full price £40).

William Morris’s Kelmscott: landscape and history (2007)

Edited by Alan Crossley, FSA, Tom Hassall, FSA, and Peter Salway, FSA
ISBN: 978 1 905119 13 4 (hdbk); 978 1 905119 14 1 (pbk)
£60 (hdbk); £25 (pbk)
Distributor: Windgather Press (Oxbow Books)

Nicopolis ad Istrum III: A late Roman and early Byzantine City: the finds and the biological remains

Society of Antiquaries of London Research Report No. 67 (2007)
Edited by Andrew Poulter, FSA
ISBN: 978 1 84217 182 0
£50
Distributor: Oxbow Books

Roman Mosaics of Britain. Volume II: South-west Britain (2006)

David Neal, FSA, and Stephen Cosh, FSA
ISBN: 0 95479 161 4
£160
Distributor: Oxbow Books

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