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Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

byMatthew Green

Historian Matthew Green journeys through British settlements erased by storms, coastal erosion, plague, war, industry, reservoirs, and deliberate clearance. Archaeology, maps, ruins, and archival voices recover communities such as drowned towns, deserted medieval villages, and neighborhoods sacrificed to development. Each “shadowland” reveals how people built ordinary lives before environmental or political forces removed them from the map. Green treats disappearance as part of history rather than an empty space, showing how lost places continue to shape memory and warning that climate change may create new vanished communities on an even larger scale.

Publisher

Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780393635348