'THE PIMLICO GUIDES provide an original approach to the writing of country histories. Written by authors who live or have roots in the countries of which they give such entertaining accounts, they are highly personal, even idiosyncratic, surveys, helping the reader to appreciate the pleasures of the present as wel as the treasures, oddities, legends and landscapes of the past. ' Christopher Hibbert 19960603
John Steane was educated at Dulwich College and Magdalen College,
Oxford, where he read Modern History. He is a consultant
archaeologist and part-time tutor at Kellogg College, Oxford
University's Department of Continuing Education. He is a fellow of
the Society of Antiquaries and a Member of the Institure of Field
Archaeologists. Previously, he was Headmaster of Kettering Grammar
School (1964-76), and County Archaeologist for Oxfordshire
(1976-1990).
He has undertaken research into many aspects of the historic
landscape, including fishponds, palaces and parks. He is the author
of The Northamptonshire Landscape (1974), Peopling Past Landscapes
(with B.F. Dix, 1978), The Archaeology of Medieval England and
Wales (1984), and The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy
(1993). He is currently working on aspects of the history of
Magdalen College, Oxford.
The desire shown in the editorial policy to get under the skin of a
county is a welcome antidote to popularisation and
pseudo-Hertmiage. The texts, although informed by genuine knowledge
of documents and places, are written in an accessible way
*Times Literary Supplement*
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