Practical building conservation: conservation basics, by English Heritage, I. McCaig (Ed.), Ashgate (2013), 382 pp. 226×248 mm. £65.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780754645511 by Orr, S, Viles, H

The Gresham Ship, Thames Estuary: Conservation of an Elizabethan Shipwreck Assemblage by Domoney, K

Cannibalism & politics: The English Renaissance revisited by Working, L

“…This article explores how anthropological approaches to Anglo‐Native American exchanges in the 16th and 17th centuries – thinking through and beyond terms like ‘cannibal’ – can draw attention to different facets of encounter and shed light on the influence of indigeneity on English heritage. Using the Englishman Anthony Knivet’s travels to Brazil in the 1590s as a case study, what emerges is the importance of interdisciplinary approaches which acknowledge the complicated and at times surprising interactions between representations and lived experience, between rituals and their appropriations. …”

Community recording and monitoring of vulnerable sites in England by Wragg, E, Cohen, N, Milne, G, Ostrich, S, Nimura, C

“…Alarmed by the rate of loss, the location of many of these sites has been noted during the national ‘Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey’ programme initiated by English Heritage (now Historic England) and also by archaeological groups around the country. …”