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landscapes, Vol. 14 No. 1, June, 2013, 1–2 Welcome to a new – and unusual – Landscapes. New, because as we explained in volume 13, it is the first produced by Maney under licence from Oxbow- Windgather, and whilst its outer covers retain their customary elegance and style, within all is new stylistically, partly to reflect Maney’s recent traditions, but mainly to draw us deeper into the world of on-line publishing and reading, with its penchant for simple fonts. Maney also will draw us deeper into the world of academic libraries, which seem universally to be setting aside real books in favour of e-access, but as a result we hope that Landscapes will gain in the next year or two a much wider readership, overseas in particular. We strongly hope, however, that our loyal subscribers continue to value the artefact of the real journal, and its place on their bookshelves. Unusual, because it is a themed issue; the last such, on historic landscape characterisation, was as long ago as 2007. To produce it we are joined by four guest editors, for all of whose hard work and enthusiasm we are grateful; at the risk of being invidious, we might