Historic Buildings Publications
The CBA has over the years published many books about the archaeology of buildings on topics spanning everything from medieval churches to Britain’s WWII anti-invasion defences. A full list of our Research Reports (RR - detailed and technical) and Practical Handbooks (PH - briefer introductions and ‘how-to’ guides), can be found on our Books pages, along with our full back list. Our current publications are available to buy online from Central Books.
Those relating to historic buildings include:
- Renewed Life of Scottish Castles by Richard Fawcett and Allan Rutherford, RR165
- St Mary’s Abbey and The King’s Manor by Barbara Wilson and Frances Mee, Archaeology of York supplementary series
- Houses and the Hearth Tax: the later Stuart house and society edited by PS Barnwell and Malcolm Airs, RR150
- The vernacular workshop: from craft to industry, 1400–1900, edited by PS Barnwell, Marilyn Palmer and Malcolm Airs, RR140
- Vernacular buildings in a changing world: understanding, recording and conservation, edited by Sarah Pearson and Bob Meeson, RR126
- Stirling Castle: the restoration of the Great Hall, edited by Richard Fawcett RR130
- Archaeology and Conservation in Ironbridge, by Richard Hayman, Wendy Horton and Shelley White, RR123
- Medieval urbanism in Coppergate: refining a townscape, by RA Hall and K Hunter-Mann, Archaeology of York series
- Recording and analysing graveyards, Practical Handbook in Archaeology 15, by Harold Mytum
- Recording a church: an illustrated glossary, Practical Handbook in Archaeology 7 (Revised edition), by Thomas Cocke, Donald Finley, Richard Halsey, Elizabeth Williamson
- Recording timber framed buildings: an illustrated glossary, Practical Handbook in Archaeology 5 (Revised edition), by NW Alcock, MW Barley, PW Dixon and RA Meeson, illustrations by RA Meeson
- Fixture & fittings in dated houses 1567–1763, Practical Handbook in Archaeology 11, drawings by Linda Hall, text by NW Alcock and Linda Hall
- 20th century defences in Britain: an introductory guide, Handbook of the Defence of Britain Project, Practical Handbook in Archaeology 12 (Revised edition), edited by B Lowry
