the making of the british landscape...

... is what I'm reading at the moment:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0141040599/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1846142059&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=003EGQK6YMB1WSWSQAYA

What is Landscape History?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_history#Landscape_Features

What is Landscape Archaeology?

Landscape archaeology is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them. Landscape archaeology is inherently multidisciplinary in its approach to the study of culture, and is used by both pre-historical, classic, and historic archaeologists. The key feature that distinguishes landscape archaeology from other archaeological approaches to sites is that there is an explicit emphasis on the study of the relationships between material culture, human alteration of land/cultural modifications to landscape, and the natural environment. The study of landscape archaeology (also sometimes referred to as the archaeology of the cultural landscape) has evolved to include how landscapes were used to create and reinforce social inequality and to announce one's social status to the community at large.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape_archaeology

But it needn’t be boring:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tv/2010/09/michael-woods-story-of-england.shtml

At the BBC…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tw231

Kids having fun…

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhcgrr_michael-wood-s-story-of-england-romans-to-normans-1-3_shortfilms