Transactions: latest reviews

There’s sometimes an unavoidable delay between our receiving book reviews, and their formal publication in the next issue of the Transactions. We therefore post selected items here, to give readers an early sight of them. The reviews are in order of the most recent.

  • Gloucestershire Seventeenth Century Tokens. Brian Smith, Irvine Grey, John Neufville Taylor, Robert Thompson, John Rhodes, Tim Everson. Galata, 2022 – review by Francis Boorman

 

  • Simon Esmonde Cleary, Jason Wood and Emma Durham, Chedworth Roman Villa, Excavations and Re-imaginings from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Centuries (Britannia Monograph 35. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies in association with the National Trust, 2022) – review by Graham Barton 

 

 

  • Alison Brown and Jonathan Harlow, eds. Atlantic Venture Accounts of Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Bristol Record Society, vol. 74: Bath, 2021) – review by Nicholas Rogers

 

  • The Forced Loan and Men Fit to Serve as Soldiers (Berkeley Castle Muniments: Select Book 28). BGAS Gloucestershire Record Series 36, 2021 – review by Karen Davidson

 

  • Jo Pine, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman Features and a Saxon Burial at Spratsgate Lane, Shorncote, Gloucestershire (Thames Valley Archaeology Monograph 44 2022). – review by Tim Copeland

 

  • Daniel Bray, Steve Ford, James Lewis, Danielle Milbank, Jo Pine, Steve Preston and Sean Wallis. Farm Quarry, Siddington, Gloucester: Archaeological Excavations, 2007-2019: Thames Valley Archaeological Services Monograph 35. Also, Kyle Beaverstock. A Bronze Age Triple Ditch Barrow and a Middle Iron Age Settlement at Wetstone Bridge Quarry, near Marston Meysey, Gloucestershire: Thames Valley Archaeological Services Monograph 38.  (both Reading, Thames Valley Archaeological Services 2020). – review by Tim Copeland

 

  • Sheila McClure, ed. (Letters from Chefoo: Constance Douthwaite’s Life in China 1887-1896. Little Knoll Press, 2019. – review by Keith Clements

 

  • Max Skjönsberg and Mark Towsey, eds.The Minute Book of the Bristol Library Society, 1772-1801. Bristol Record Society 2022. – review by Howard Sykes

 

  • Edward I’s Regent: Edmund of Cornwall, the Man behind England’s Greatest King. Michael Ray. Pen & Sword, 2022. – review by Charles Wright

 

  • Christopher Dyer, Peasants Making History: Living in an English Region 1200-1540. Oxford University Press, 2022. – review by Kathleen Thompson

 

  • A.R. Baker, ed., Martin Crossley Evans, Selected writings and tributes, The Bristol Masonic Society 2022 – review by William Evans

 

  • Dinah Moore. Dr Edward Long Fox: Radical and Mental Health Pioneer. ALHA Books No 36, Avon Local History & Archaeology, 2022 – review by Paul Main

 

  • Sue Jones. Votes for Women. Cheltenham and the Cotswolds. Stroud: The History Press, 2018 – review by June Hannam

 

  • John Bryant, Excavations at Minster House, Bristol, 1992, (BAR British Series, 669, 2021) – review by Joseph Bettey

 

  • Timothy Darvill, Andrew David, Seren Griffiths, Jonathan Hart, Heather James, Ken Murphy and James Rackham. Timeline: The Archaeology of the South Wales Gas Pipeline (Cotswold Archaeology Monography 13, 2020) – review by Tim Copeland

 

  • Matthew S. Hobson and Richard Newman (Eds) Lyde Green Roman Villa, Emerson Green, South Gloucestershire (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 85, 2021) – review by Tim Copeland

 

  • Martin Graebe, ed. The Forgotten Songs of the Upper Thames: Folk Songs from the Alfred Williams Collection.  The Ballad Partners in Association with the Traditional Song Forum 2021 – review by Yvette Staelens

 

  • Chris Fisher. The Forest of Dean Miners’ Riot of 1831. Bristol Radical History Pamphleteer No 50, 2020 – review by Steve Poole

 

  • Robert Dunning, ed. Bath and Wells Ordinations, 1465-1526.  Somerset Record Society, vol.99, 2021 – review by Nicholas Orme 

 

  • Michael Whitfield. Susanna Morgan: campaigning for reform in early 19th century Bristol. Avon Local History & Archaeology, 2022 – review by Lucienne Boyce

 

  • Jonathan Harlow. The Trade of Bristol in the later Seventeenth Century. Avon Local History & Archaeology Books, 2021 –  review by Evan Jones

 

  • Brian Vincent, The Pass Family and the Smelting Industry in Bristol (Avon Local History & Archaeology, 2022) –  review by Tony Coverdale

 

  • Cathryn Spence, Nature’s Favourite Child: Thomas Robins and the Art of the Georgian Garden (Stephen Morris, Bradford-on-Avon 2021). – review by Anthea Jones

 

 

  • Julian Luxford (ed.) with contributions by Adrian Ailes and Susan Powell, The Founders’ Book: A Medieval History of Tewkesbury Abbey. A Facsimile of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Top. Glouc. D.2, (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2021) – review by Anthea Jones

 

 

 

  • Richard Israel, Cannon Played from the Great Fort: Sieges in the Severn Valley in the English Civil War – review by John Paddock

 

  • AR Baker & MJ Crossley Evans, 1404 Biographies, volume 1 (1872-1914) and Some Prominent Bristol Masons of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries – review by Peter Malpass

 

 

Disclaimer: the trustees of the Society are not responsible for any statement made or opinion expressed in these reviews; the reviewers alone are responsible for their reviews. No alteration to these reviews will be considered unless to correct an error of a purely factual nature.

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