Out-of-print Archaeology North West volume now available online
CBA North West’s ground-breaking Living on the Edge of Empire is now available as a free download!
The volume, published in 1999 as part of CBA North West’s Archaeology North West publication, has long been out of print but is now accessible once more from their website. Living on the Edge of Empire – Models, Methodology & Marginality: Late-Prehistoric and Romano-British Rural Settlement in North West England marked the first application of wider models of how imperial frontiers work to Roman North West England – with sites ranging from Merseyside and the Wirral to Cumbria and the Pennines – fundamentally altering the way we think about the region in the Roman period.
Although published ten years ago, Living on the Edge of Empire remains an authoritative text for the general approach and is only slowly being superseded (a forthcoming final excavation report on Irby expected later this year will supersede one chapter). In view of frequent requests for copies, CBA North West took their cue from CBA Research Reports, already available digitally from the ADS, and took the decision to re-release the volume online, making it more easily and widely accessible – and freeing them from the hassle of burning and posting CDs for one-off requests!
The Archaeology North West series includes the proceedings of the CBA North West autumn conference, closely tied to their regional research framework. Last year’s conference, Roman north-west England: hinterland or ‘Indian country’?, took up many of the issues broached in Living on the Edge of Empire. Looking to the future, CBA North West hope that forthcoming issues may also be made available online after publication, and that this may spark further interest in older volumes.
