A reading list for HLC (Feb 2008, some additions Nov 2010)
Older things (early milestones, if you like):
1. Fairclough, G., Lambrick G. and McNab A. (eds) 1999 Yesterday’s World, Tomorrow’s Landscape: the English Heritage Landscape Project 1992-94.London: English Heritage
2. Fairclough, G .J.1999Protecting Time and Space : understanding historic landscape for conservation in England, in Ucko, P. J. and Layton, R. (Eds)1999: The Archaeology and Anthropology of Landscape: Shaping your landscape (Proceedings of the World Archaeology Congress, New Delhi, 1994), One World 30, Routledge, London, pp 119-134
3. Herring, P. 1998. Cornwall’s Historic Landscape: Presenting a Method of Historic Landscape Character Assessment. Truro: Cornwall Archaeological Unit.
And
4. Herring, P. 1999. Cornwall: how the Historic Landscape Characterisation methodology was developed. In G. Fairclough (ed.), Historic Landscape Characterisation: ‘the State of the Art’. London: English Heritage, pp. 15-32. (there are other relevant papers in there too of course)
5.. Dixon, P., L. Dyson-Bruce, and J. Stevenson, 1999. Historic Landuse Assessment (HLA): Development and Potential of a Technique for Assessing Historic Landscape Patterns, Report of the Pilot Project 1996-98, Edinburgh: Historic Scotland/RCHMS.
Various papers (eg Lancs, Hants in:
6. Fairclough, G.J. and S.J. Rippon (eds) 2002. Europe’s Cultural Landscape: archaeologists and the management of change. Brussels and London: Europae Archaeologiae Consilium and English Heritage (EAC Occasional Paper no 2)
And (a slightly different viewpoint) there is (which you will know)
7. Rippon, S. 2004. Historic Landscape Analysis: Deciphering the Countryside.York: Council for British Archaeology.
Mainly focussed on method-
8. Fairclough, G. J. 2002: Cultural landscape, computers and characterisation, in Burenhult, G. (Ed) Archaeological Informatics: Pushing the Envelope – CAA2001 – Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Proceedings of the 29th Conference, Gotland, April 2001, BAR International Series 1016, Oxford: Archaeopress, 277-294
9. Aldred, O. and Fairclough, G.J. 2003:. Historic Landscape Characterisation: Taking Stock of the Method – The National HLC Method Review. English Heritage and SomersetCounty Council: London. < landscape
10. Fairclough, G.J. and Macinnes L., 2003: Understanding Historic Landscape Character, Topic Paper 5, Landscape Character Assessment Guidance for England and Scotland, Countryside Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, Historic Scotland and English Heritage
11. Fairclough, G.J. 2006: Large Scale, long duration and broad perceptions: Scale issues in Historic Landscape Characterisation, in Gary Lock and Brian Molyneaux (eds) Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice, Springer, 203 - 215
More recent general accounts
12. Fairclough, G.J. and Wigley, A. 2006: Historic Landscape Characterisation: An English approach to landscape understanding and the management of change, in del Arbo, M-R & Orejas, A.(eds) 2005:Landscapes as Cultural Heritage in the European Research, Proceedings of COST A27 Workshop, Madrid 2004. 87-106
13.Landscapes journal (
notably –
- vol 7.1, 2006 (Farmsteads in HLC, Urban HLC) and
- 8.2 2007 (themed issue on HLCincluding papers Herring, Turner, Lake, Finch) in the themed issue of Landscapes (Austen, D., S. Rippon, and P. Stamper: Historic Landscape Characterisation, Themed Issue, vol 8:2, of Landscapes, Windgather Press (Oxbow))
14. Turner, S. 2006a. ‘Historic Landscape Characterisation: a landscape archaeology for research, management and planning’, Landscape Research 31
15. Turner, S. & Fairclough, G.J. 2007: Common Culture: Time depth and Landscape Character in European Archaeology , in Hicks, D., McAtackney, L. and Fairclough, G. J. (eds) 2007: Envisioning Landscape, Situations and Standpoints in Archaeology and Heritage; WAC; One World Archaeology 52, Left Coast Press Inc, Walnut Creek Ca.
The next three are simple guides for (as it happens) German audiences
16. Fairclough, G.J. 2003: The Character of the Historic Environment – Heritage Protection and the sustainable management of change, Von Nutzen und Nachteil der Demkmalplfelge für das Leben: 70. Tag fürDenkmalpflege. Jahrestagung der Vereinigung der Landesdenkmalpfleger in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland vom 17.21 Juni 2002 in Wiesbaden (Arbeitsheft 4des Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege Hessen), Wiesbaden 2003, 103 109
17. Fairclough, G.J.2005: Wider Horizons, Wider Aims: Historic Landscape Characterisation in England, in Kelm, R (ed) 2005: Frühe Kulturlandschaften in Europa: Forschng, Erhaltng und Nutzung, papers from the 3rd and 4th Albersdorfer Kolloquium Albersdorfer orschungen zur Archäologie und Umweltgeschichte, Band 3, Heide, ÄOZA and Boyens, 176 - 194
18. Went, D. 2007: Painting a bigger picture - an overview of Historic Landscape Characterisation in England, in Bauerochse, A., Haßmann, H., and Ickerodt, U. 2006: Kultulandschaft, administrative – digital – touristisch, Initiativen zum Umweltschultz Band 67, Berlin : Erich Schmidt Verlag, 145 – 161
Some papers on characterisation building on / expanding HLC:
19.Lake, J. & Edwards, B. 2006a: Farmsteads and Landscape: Towards an Integrated View, Landscapes, Volume 7 (1) pp. 1-36.
20.Lake, J. & Edwards, B. 2006b: Buildings and Place: Farmsteads and the Mapping of Change, Vernacular Architecture, Volume 3, pp. 33-49.
21..Thomas, R.M. 2006: <Mapping the Towns: English Heritage’s Urban survey and Characterisation Programme>, Landscapes Volume 7 No 1, Spring 2006, 68-9.
22. You will know David Stocker’s work (LARA) on Lincoln? Partly reprinted in the Heritage Reader
23.Seascapes – Dave Hooley had an article in the last issue of the landscape Character Network’s e-newsletter, easily found on the web (and some of the pilot projects are on the ADS website
Some musings on interdisciplinary aspects etc
24. Fairclough, G. J. 2003: The long chain : archaeology, historical landscape characterization and time depth in the landscape, in Fry, G. and Palang, H. (Eds) 2003: Landscape Interfaces: Cultural Heritage in Changing Landscapes, Landscape Series 1, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Hardbound, ISBN 1-4020-1437-6, 295-317 (reprinted in the Reader)
25. Fairclough, G.J. 2006: Our place in the landscape? An archaeologist’s ideology of landscape perception and management, in Meier, T (ed). Landscape Ideologies, Archaeolingua, Budapest, 177 - 197
More general heritage background is
26. The European Landscape Convention is very important. Onthe web (Council of Europe) but printed in no 6 above, and in the Heritage Reader; a magazine called Naturopa (available on line, Council of Europe, had athemed issue, no 98, in 2002, as did Landscape Research in issue 31 (2006)
27. English Heritage 1997. Sustaining the historic environment, London. (reprinted in the new Heritage Reader)
28. And there are small ‘public’ articles here and there in Conservation Bulletin, notably the themed issue on Characterisation issue 47; a very small article called Boundless Horizons (issue 40) gets quoted a lot because its accessible (and short); there’s an update in (the Irish)Heritage Outlook, Summer/Autumn 2007 pp32-35 at
Or
29. my Preface to (New Ways in the New World) in Dingwall, L. and Gaffney, V. (eds) 2007: Heritage Management at Fort Hood, Texas – experiments in historic landscape characterisation, Oxford: Archaeopress, vii - x
Mainly about uses and applications and heritage theory
30. Clark, J., Darlington, J and Fairclough G. J, 2004: Using Historic Landscape Characterisation, English Heritage Review of HLC Applications, 2002-3. English Heritage and Lancashire County Council, Preston.
31. Macinnes, L. 2004. Historic Landscape Characterization. In K. Bishop and A. Phillips (eds) Countryside Planning: New Approaches to Management and Conservation. London: Earthscan, pp. 155-169.
32. Fairclough, G.J.2003: Cultural Landscape, Sustainability and Living with Change? In Teutonico, J. M. and Matero, F., (eds) 2003: Managing Change: Sustainable approaches to the Conservation of the Built Environment, Proceedings of the 4th Annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2001. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 23-46. Digital at
33. Fairclough, G.J. 2006: A new landscape for Cultural Heritage Management: characterisation as a management tool in Lozny, L. (ed), Landscapes Under Pressure: Theory and Practice of Cultural Heritage Research and Preservation, Springer, New York, 55-74
34. Fairclough, G.J 2007: L’histoire et le temps: gérer paysage et ses perceptions (History, Time and Change: managing landscape and perception), in Berlan-Darque, M, Terrasson, D., and Luginbuhl, Y. (eds): Paysage: de la connaissance à l’action (Landscapes: from knowledge to action), Editions Quae, Paris (I haven’t seen the English version yet)
35. Fairclough, G.J. (2006a) From assessment to characterisation, in Hunter J. & Ralston, I. (eds), Archaeological Resource Management in the UK, Second Edition, pp. 250-270 (Stroud: Sutton). Was an attempt to explain the road taken since the early 90s, but it’s a bitautobiographical!
and as a sort of broader more theoretical update
36. New Heritage, an introduction – people, places and change, chapter 22 in Fairclough, G.J, Harrison, R,. Jameson, J Jnr. And Schofield J. 2008: A Heritage Reader, Routledge,
Annex, a few newer things
Fairclough G.J. and Møller P. G. 2009: Character and Change: heritage management and the future European landscape, In Orejas, A., Mattingley, D. and Clavel- Lévêque, M. 2009, COST A27 -From Present to Past Through Landscape, Madrid: CSIC, pp 197 - 220
Fairclough G.J. and Møller P. G. (2008): Landscape as heritage - the Management and Protection of Landscape in Europe, a summary by the Action COST A27 “LANDMARKS”, Geographica Bernensia G79, 299pp
Fairclough, G.J. and van Londen, H. 2010: Changing Landscapes of Archaeology and Heritage, in Bloemers, J.H.F. & H.Kars & A. van der Valk eds. 2010: The cultural landscape and heritage paradox: Protection and development of the Dutch archaeological-historical landscape and its European dimension. Amsterdam: AmsterdamUniversity Press.
Fairclough, G. et al 2010: Complexity and contingency: classifying the influence of agriculture on European landscape. In: Pungetti, G., Kruse, A., Rackham, O. (eds.) 2010: “European Culture Expressed in Agricultural Landscapes”. The Eucaland Project Book. Roma: Palombi Editori, ppnn-nn (in press)
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