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  • The Cuckmere Pilgrim Path
    Rodney Castleden
    The book describes the route of the Cuckmere Pilgrim Path, a 14 mile round walk through the Sussex countryside. The path links seven churches and the Long Man, a chalk hill figure. As each church is reached, the narrative of the walk breaks off and there is a section about the detailed history of the building and its setting. The route includes Alfriston, Berwick, Alciston, Sel...
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    26,10 €

  • Selmeston Church
    Rodney Castleden
    An historical guide to Selmeston Church in Sussex and its setting. The church looks like a medieval church, but was rebuilt from the ground up in the nineteenth century by the vicar, William Parish; his friend Lewis Carroll often stayed at the rectory opposite the church. The history of the site goes back much further, to the first Saxon settlers, and before that to neolithic a...
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    12,81 €

  • Wilmington Church
    Rodney Castleden
    A guide to the history of Wilmington church in Sussex and its setting. The book includes the architectural history of the church and the ruined priory right next to it, as well as sections on the ancient yew tree in the churchyard and the Long Man on Windover Hill immediately to the south. The book includes way the church was altered during the Victorian restoration, as well as...
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    11,45 €

  • Alciston Church
    Rodney Castleden
    An historical guide to Alciston church and the surrounding area. The manor of Alciston is unusual in having only two owners since the Norman Conquest, Battle Abbey and the Gage family, both of whom were conscientious record-keepers. Alciston’s history is therefore known in some detail. The guide explores the church’s fascinating architectural history, illuminated by a rare arch...
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    12,88 €

  • Arlington Church
    Rodney Castleden
    Arlington in Sussex is an enigma - a large church and churchyard serving a tiny hamlet. What happened here? This historical guide has the church as its focus, but explores the long history of the surrounding area along the way. The Saxons chose an unusual and difficult site - low, wet and densely wooded. They may have founded a river port here. The church’s Norman chapel was pr...
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    11,63 €

  • Berwick Church
    Rodney Castleden
    Berwick church in Sussex is renowned for its wall paintings by Duncan Grant and other artists in the Bloomsbury Group. But the church also has a fascinating earlier history. It was radically restored by Edward Ellman, the Victorian rector, and before that it had a history dating back to Saxon times. The font is Saxon, and the large mound in the churchyard may be a pre-Christian...
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    11,66 €

  • History of Seaford
    Rodney Castleden
    The first full history of Seaford in Sussex, this book covers the development of the port shortly after the Norman Conquest and its rise to Cinque Port status in the middle ages. Natural silting at the mouth of the River Ouse led to the port’s decline. Later Seaford became a major poltical hub, returning two Members of Parliament. Seaford is a town that has struggled for surviv...
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    43,28 €

  • Garden of Memory
    Rodney Castleden
    A complete record of all the inscriptions in the church and churchyard at Wilmington in Sussex. Wilmington is steeped in history and folklore. Stories of the church, the priory next to it and the figure of the Long Man looming over them on Windover Hill seem to intertwine. The yew tree presiding over the churchyard may be more ancient than any of them. A detailed historical int...
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    18,29 €

  • In love and faith
    Rodney Castleden
    The book reviews the history of Arlington Church and Churchyard in Sussex, and gives the full record of all the inscriptions on the site, together with plans, photos and indexes. An invaluable resource for local amd family history. Arlington is an enigma: an unusually large church and churchyard serving a tiny village. The Saxons, who founded the village, chose an unusual and d...
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    17,19 €

  • Into the Light
    Ann Murray / Rodney Castleden
    Alciston’s church dates back to Saxon times, but after the Norman Conquest the village was run from Battle Abbey. It became prosperous under a progressive sheep-and-corn system. When Battle Abbey was seized by Henry VIII, the Gages of Firle became Alciston’s new feudal masters. This is a village with only two owners in a thousand years. The book reviews the site’s history, then...
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    18,52 €

  • Shadows flee away
    Ann Murray / Rodney Castleden
    Selmeston in Sussex was a settlement long before the Saxons arrived, even though it has a Saxon name. Eight thousand years ago, stone age houses stood close to the site of the church. The unusual circular churchyard hints at a pre-Christian origin. The book reviews the site’s history and gives a full record of all the inscriptions, together with plans, photos and indexes. 242 p...
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    17,12 €

  • The Seaford Axe Hoard
    Rodney Castleden
    The fascinating story of the discovery and rediscovery of a unique prehistoric stone axe hoard. The 15 flint axes were found in 1986, but then forgotten and only displayed as a hoard in 2014, when their national importance was recognized. Hoards like this are very rare. Where were the axes made? By a remarkable coincidence, the factory where they were manufactured was also disc...
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    18,86 €

  • The Making of Stonehenge
    Rodney Castleden
    Castleden suggests that there is no one `meaning’ or `purpose’ for Stonehenge, that from its very beginning it has filled a variety of needs. ...
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    98,61 €

  • Forlorn and Widowed
    Rodney Castleden
    The story of Seaford in the French Wars, 1793 to 1815, based on contemporary sources, including historic maps, court books, diaries and newspaper reports of the time. Seaford was a town with two parallel histories. Its status as a member of the Cinque Ports Confederation gave it unusual privileges, such as the right to send two Members to Parliament, and there was no shortage ...
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    22,13 €

  • The Winfrith Letters
    Rodney Castleden
    A story of a collaboration. A series of letters between the co-writers of ’Winfrith’ (an historian and a composer) shows how a music drama came into being. All the stresses and strains of creativity are visible in this blow-by-blow account of a race against time, to write a full-scale stageworthy music drama in time to celebrate the Millennium at Brixworth Church in Northampton...
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    30,25 €

  • On Blatchington Hill
    Rodney Castleden
    The story of a small Sussex Downland village is told for the first time. Using a wide range of sources, including historic maps, house histories, old letters and personal reminiscences, the complex history of East Blatchington emerges, with unexpected results. The book reveals how close the village came to extinction in the Black Death, and how the ambition of the last squire l...
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    31,03 €

  • On Blatchington Beach
    Rodney Castleden
    The biography of part of the Sussex coast is told for the first time: the central stretch of Seaford Bay. The coastline of East Blatchington parish is less than a thousand yards long, but it has had a surprisingly rich and dramatic history. In 1545 it was the focus of a startling attack by a huge French fleet. In 1809 it was at the centre of the Seven Ships disaster. Exploring ...
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    26,43 €

  • The Sussex Coast
    Rodney Castleden
    The Sussex coast has attracted people for thousands of years - for foraging, fishing, trade and defence, and more recently for retirement and leisure. Settlements are destroyed as the sea advances or stranded as it retreats; living here is exciting - and risky. Now that nearly one million people live on the Sussex coast, the problem of managing the relationship between people a...
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    34,85 €

  • Genius!
    Rodney Castleden
    How do we identify a brilliant mind? IQ? Achievement? Originality? This book tells the stories of 50 people whose brilliance, achievement and originality changed the way we live, or the way we think. It is often assumed that geniuses are a race apart, but in many ways they are ordinary people, facing the ordinary problems of everyday life. Some have to struggle to make a living...
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    24,74 €

  • The Wilmington Giant
    Rodney Castleden
    This is the first book to have been written about the Long Man of Wilmington. Many different theories about the Long Man’s origins are discussed and evaluated. The book is a guide to the history and archaeology of the Giant’s Downland setting, and will appeal to everyone who loves the landscape, heritage, history and lore of the South Downs. An expanded version of the 1983 edit...
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    27,91 €

  • The Knossos Labyrinth
    Rodney Castleden
    The first excavators of the lost site of Knossos in the nineteenth century saw the site through the eyes of the classical authors. Rodney Castleden gives an alternative insight into the labyrinth which is equally exciting. ...
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    88,20 €

  • The Mycenaeans
    Rodney Castleden
    The Mycenaean world: the stuff of legends and heroes who conquered Troy and who still stand at the heart of Greek identity today. This clear, detailed study brings their civilisation, culture, and history to life for both students and enthusiasts ...
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    77,08 €

  • King Arthur
    Rodney Castleden
    In his quest for the real King Arthur, Rodney Castleden uses archaeological and documentary evidence to recreate the history and society of Dark Age Britain. ...
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    81,60 €

  • Atlantis Destroyed
    Rodney Castleden
    Fired by the imagination a new vision of Atlantis has arisen over the last one hundred and fifty years as a lost utopia. Rodney Castleden discusses why this picture arose and explains how it has become confused with Plato’s genuine account. ...
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    77,33 €

  • Minoans
    Rodney Castleden
    Bang up to date, and thoroughly researched, Rodney Castleden’s Minoans: Life in Bronze Age Crete here sues the results of recent research to produce a comprehensive new vision of the peoples of Minoan Crete. ...
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    77,36 €

  • The Stonehenge People
    Rodney Castleden
    Of all the monuments left by the past, Stonehenge is the most evocative, the most memorable and the most mysterious. Whilst the monuments of other cultures have gradually surrendered their mysteries, Stonehenge alone seems to stimulate endless conjecture. ...
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    77,26 €