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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DON REVIE - ONE OF THE MOST COMPLEX AND
CONTROVERSIAL MEN EVER TO GRACE THE GAME OF FOOTBALL 'Engrossing' -
Sunday Times 'Impeccably researched... As a life and times, Evans's
account is immaculate.' - Jonathan Liew, New Statesman 'A poignant
and engrossing read... a well-crafted biography.' - FourFourTwo
'Thoroughly researched and engagingly written, this superb
biography sheds new light on one of the most controversial,
enigmatic figures in football history' - Leo McKinstry, journalist,
historian and award-winning author 'Excellent' - Johnny Giles,
Leeds United legend 'Essential reading' Ryan Sabey, the Sun
Whenever the greatest managers the game has ever produced are
mentioned, names like Busby, Shankly, Paisley and Ferguson trip off
the tongue. Despite dominating the game in the late 1960s and '70s
there is one name missing: Don Revie, the former Leeds United and
England manager. Revie was one of the most complex and
controversial men ever to grace the game of football. As a player,
he was crowned Footballer of the Year and credited with creating
the modern centre-forward. As a manager, he took a Leeds United
side languishing in the lower half of the second division and
turned them into not only league champions, but one of the most
dominant sides in the country. As England manager, Revie lost the
magic touch and became increasingly indecisive. After three years
in the role and fearing the sack, Revie became the first man to
walk out on England. Then came the backlash. Revie was branded a
traitor and banned from the game for 10 years, and the press
declared open season on the manager. Accused of offering bribes to
throw matches, his reputation was destroyed. Shunned by the
football establishment, he died just 12 years after walking out on
England. Revie's death, at the age of 61, robbed him of the
opportunity ever to rebuild his reputation as one of the most
important figures ever seen in English football. The life and times
of this multifaceted, enigmatic, pioneering football man have still
never been fully explored and explained in detail before. Featuring
new interviews with Johnny Giles, Kevin Keegan, Norman Hunter,
Eddie Gray, Allan Clarke, Joe Jordan, Gordon McQueen, Malcolm
Macdonald and members of the Revie family, this long-overdue
biography reveals how today's football owes so much to Don Revie.
--- Shortlisted for THE SUNDAY TIMES Sports Book Awards 2022 'A
no-holds-barred insight that convinces the reader that Don Revie
stands amongst the giants of English football.' -Lord Mann
'Meticulously researched and expertly crafted exploration' - Jeff
Powell, Daily Mail 'A superb read'. - Alex Montgomery, Chief
football writer and former Chairman of the Football Writers
Association
The excavations led by Margaret and Tom Jones on the Thames gravel
terraces at Mucking, Essex, undertaken between 1965 and 1978 are
legendary. The largest area excavation ever undertaken in the
British Isles, involving around 5000 participants, recorded around
44,000 archaeological features dating from the Beaker to
Anglo-Saxon periods and recovered something in the region of 1.7
million finds of Mesolithic to post-medieval date. While various
publications have emerged over the intervening years, the death of
both directors, insufficient funding, many organisational
complications and the sheer volume of material evidence have
severely delayed full publication of this extraordinary palimpsest
landscape. Lives in Land is the first of two major volumes which
bring together all the evidence from Mucking, presenting both the
detail of many important structures and assemblages and a
comprehensive synthesis of landscape development through the ages:
settlement histories, changing land-use, death and burial, industry
and craft activities. The long time-gap since completion of the
excavations has allowed the authors the unprecedented opportunity
to stand back from the density of site data and place the vast sum
of Mucking evidence in the wider context of the archaeology of
southern England throughout the major periods of occupation and
activity. Lives in Land begins with a thorough evaluation of the
methods, philosophy and archival status of the Mucking project
against the organisational and funding background of its time, and
discusses its fascinating and complex history through a period of
fundamental change in archaeological practice, legislation,
finance, research priorities and theoretical paradigms in British
Archaeology. Subsequent chapters deal with the prehistoric
landscape, each focusing on the major themes that emerge by major
period from analysis and synthesis of the data. The authors draw on
archival material including site notebooks and personal accounts
from key participants to provide a detailed but lively account of
this iconic landscape investigation.
Set in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys,
four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge
chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British
marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a
changing prehistoric environment. Volume II moves on to later
periods, and reveals how Iron Age and Romano-British communities
adapted to the wetland environment that had now become established.
Set in the context of this project's innovative landscape surveys,
four extraordinary sites excavated at Haddenham, north of Cambridge
chart the transformation of Neolithic woodland to Romano-British
marshland, providing unrivalled insights into death and ritual in a
changing prehistoric environment. The highlight of Volume I is the
internationally renowned Foulmire Fen long barrow, with its
preserved timber burial chamber and facade. The massive individual
timbers allow detailed study of Neolithic wood technology and the
direct examination of a structure that usually survives only as a
pattern of post holes.
Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed
extensive evidence for a multi-phase rural Romano
face=Calibri>-British settlement, perhaps an estate centre, and
five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial
areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The
settlement demonstrated clear continuity from the preceding Iron
Age occupation with unbroken sequences of artefacts and enclosures
through the first century AD, followed by rapid and extensive
remodelling, which included the laying out a Central Enclosure and
an organised water supply with wells, accompanied by the start of
large-scale pottery production. After the mid-second century AD the
Central Enclosure was largely abandoned and settlement shifted its
focus more to the Southern Enclosure system with a gradual decline
though the 3rd and 4th centuries although continued burial, pottery
and artefactual deposition indicate that a form of settlement
continued, possibly with some low-level pottery production. Some of
the latest Roman pottery was strongly associated with the earliest
Anglo-Saxon style pottery suggesting the existence of a terminal
Roman settlement phasethat essentially involved an 'Anglo-Saxon'
community. Given recent revisions of the chronology for the early
Anglo-Saxon period, this casts an intriguing light on the
transition, with radical implications for understandings of this
period. Each of the cemetery areas was in use for a considerable
length of time. Taken as a whole, Mucking was very much a
componented place/complex; it was its respective parts that
fostered its many cemeteries, whose diverse rites reflect the
variability and roles of the settlement's evidently varied
inhabitants.
This is the first volume charting the CAU's on-going Barleycroft
Farm/Over investigations, which now encompasses almost twenty years
of fieldwork across both banks of the River Great Ouse at its
junction with the Fen. Amongst the project's main directives is the
status of a major river in prehistory - when a communication
corridor and when a divide? Accordingly, a key component throughout
has been the documentation of the lower Ouse's complex
palaeoenvironmental history, and a delta-like wet landscape dotted
with mid-stream islands has been mapped. This book is specifically
concerned with the length of The Over Narrows, whose naming alludes
to an extraordinary series of mid-channel 'river race' ridges. With
their excavation generating vast artefact sets and unique
palaeo-economic data, these ridges saw intense settlement
sequences, ranging from Mesolithic camps, Grooved Ware, Beaker and
Collared Urn pit clusters (plus field plots) to Middle Bronze
fieldsystems and their attendant settlements, a massive Late Bronze
Age midden complex and, finally, an Iron Age shrine. The latter
involved extensive human bone or body-part deposition and bird
sacrifice. Four upstanding turf barrows and two accompanying
waterlogged pond barrows feature among the main excavations
reported here. With more than 40 cremations (including in situ
pyres), the resultant detailing of Early Bronze Age mortuary
practices and the insights into the period's monument construction
are ground-breaking. This is an important book, for the scale of
The Narrows' excavations and palaeoenvironmental studies, its
comprehensive dating programmes and, particularly, the innovative
methodologies and analyses undertaken. Indeed, a commitment to
experiment has lain at the project's core.
The 2010-11 excavations along Trumpington's riverside proved
extraordinary on a number of accounts. Particularly for its 'dead',
as it included Neolithic barrows (one with a mass interment), a
double Beaker grave and an Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery, with a rich
bed-burial interment in the latter accompanied by a rare gold
cross. Associated settlement remains were recovered with each. Most
significant was the site's Early Iron Age occupation. This yielded
enormous artefact assemblages and was intensively sampled for
economic data, and the depositional dynamics of its pit clusters
are interrogated in depth. Not only does the volume provide a
summary of the development of the now widely investigated greater
Trumpington/ Addenbrooke's landscape - including its major Middle
Bronze Age settlements and an important Late Iron Age complex - but
overviews recent fieldwork results from South Cambridgeshire. Aside
from historiographical-themed Inset sections, (plus an account of
the War Ditches' Anglo-Saxon cemetery and Grantchester's settlement
of that period), there are detailed scientific analyses (e.g. DNA,
isotopic and wear studies of its utilised human bone) and more than
30 radiocarbon dates were achieved. The concluding chapter
critically addresses issues of local continuity and de facto
notions of 'settlement evolution'.
Thinking Hinterlands - Spanning 25 years of fieldwork across a 3
sq. km swathe on the west side of Cambridge, this and its companion
volume present the results of 15 sites, including seven cemeteries.
The main focus is on the area's prehistoric 'inland' colonization
(particularly its Middle Bronze Age horizon) and the dynamics of
its Roman hinterland settlements. The latter involves a variety of
farmsteads, a major roadside centre and a villa-estate complex, and
the excavation programme represents one of the most comprehensive
studies of the Roman countryside anywhere within the lands of its
former empire. Appropriately, this book also includes a review of
Roman Cambridge, appraising its status as a town.
Tracking knowledge down to ground concerned with trail-based
archaeology, journeys and histories, this is a volume of both
firsts and thick context. At face-value it documents almost a
decade of groundbreaking investigations within the Annapurna
highlands of Nepal. Including survey recording of fort and
settlement sites, from the outset the projects focus was the
extraordinary ruins of Kohla Sombre Kohla, The Three Villages the
ancestral settlement of the Tami-mai (Gurung) community, who hosted
and instigated the fieldwork programme. Ultimately, only a single
seasons excavation was conducted, before the project was cut short
by the political insurgency within the country. It concluded with
holding a great shamans meeting in Pokhara in 2002, at which their
historical oral texts were presented. Narrating the long migration
of the Tamu-mai into the region and down from a distant north, the
present volume includes the full translation of one of these oral
epics, the Lemako Roh Pye. The project represents a unique
collaboration between archaeologists, anthropologists and a shaman.
Including interviews with upland inhabitants, the volume
encompasses the diverse voices of both its immediate participants
and the local community. Fulsome in its presentation of the
archaeological data and rich in ethnographic source-material, not
only is this book crucial for Himalayan culture studies generally,
but also relevant for any concerned with the construction and
context of the past in the present, and the active forging of
ethno-historical identities.
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