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LANDSCAPES 201 History. Rich in its use of source materials, and equally as much about the farmers and their families as their economic activity, this will be a key text for those interested in the exploitation of wetlands elsewhere as well as for those with an interest in Somerset and the south-west. Cur- iously, perhaps, the book is unillustrated other than by three maps and a gorgeous, evocative cover photograph. Paul Stamper University of Leicester paul.stamper52@gmail.com © 2018 Paul Stamper https://doi.org/10.1080/14662035.2018.1429714 Trees in England: Management and Disease since 1600, by Tom Williamson, Gerry Barnes and Toby Pillatt., University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017, x + 229 pp., 61 illustrations, Pbk £16.99, ISBN 978-1-909291-96-6. As the authors say in their Introduction, much has been written on the history of England’s trees and woodlands in the past five decades or so, with the late Oliver Rackham dominating the subject. The majority of this work has concentrated on ancient woodlands, i.e. those which were managed as woods since before A.D. 1600. As a landscape archaeologist with a special interest in woodlands and wooded landscapes of south-east England, I welcome this book, the product of an ambitious archive-based research project, using maps and leases