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Editorial a fter the foray into the slightly challenging territories of Landscapes 13.1 ,the papers in 13.2turn back towards Landscapes’ more traditional concerns, the British landscape in all its historical and human depth. But they are far from conventional in their approaches, each bringing fresh modes of analysis and thought to their subjects. Graeme Kirkham studies the destruction of prehistoric monuments in cornwall by post-medieval agricultural improvement, an unusual application of a landscape ‘way of seeing’ to a topic (the erosion of prehistory, no less) normally seen piecemeal, site by site; this makes us recognise that some types of destruction should be seen as historic processes in their own right, in this case helping to create new landscapes. From cornwall we move to east Yorkshire, with Hazel Williams’ examination of eighteenth century timber plantation at estate scale, again with a distinctively ‘landscape’ feel, placing a particular period of change into its long term historical context whilst also locating it in a very particular moment of intellectual history. Then, to the city, with alastair Oswald and Mitchell pollington’s revelation of the rich field archaeology and history of Walmgate stray, one of York’s urban commons, a landscape which straddles town and country, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Editorial

Landscapes , Volume 13 (2): 1 – Nov 1, 2012
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2013 Landscapes
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2040-8153
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1466-2035
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10.1179/lan.2012.13.2.001
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a fter the foray into the slightly challenging territories of Landscapes 13.1 ,the papers in 13.2turn back towards Landscapes’ more traditional concerns, the British landscape in all its historical and human depth. But they are far from conventional in their approaches, each bringing fresh modes of analysis and thought to their subjects. Graeme Kirkham studies the destruction of prehistoric monuments in cornwall by post-medieval agricultural improvement, an unusual application of a landscape ‘way of seeing’ to a topic (the erosion of prehistory, no less) normally seen piecemeal, site by site; this makes us recognise that some types of destruction should be seen as historic processes in their own right, in this case helping to create new landscapes. From cornwall we move to east Yorkshire, with Hazel Williams’ examination of eighteenth century timber plantation at estate scale, again with a distinctively ‘landscape’ feel, placing a particular period of change into its long term historical context whilst also locating it in a very particular moment of intellectual history. Then, to the city, with alastair Oswald and Mitchell pollington’s revelation of the rich field archaeology and history of Walmgate stray, one of York’s urban commons, a landscape which straddles town and country,

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Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Nov 1, 2012

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