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"The West Midlands has struggled archaeologically to project a distinct regional identity, having largely been defined by reference to other areas with a stronger cultural identity and history, such as Wessex the South-West, and the North. Only occasionally has the West Midlands come to prominence, for instance in the middle Saxon period (viz. the kingdom of Mercia), or, much later, with rural south Shropshire being the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Yet it is a region rich in natural mineral resources, set amidst readily productive farmland, and with major rivers, such as the Severn, facilitating transportation. The scale of its later prehistoric monuments, notably the hillforts, proclaims the centralisation of some functions, whether for security, exchange or emulation, while society supported the production and widespread distribution of specialised craft goods. Finally, towards the close of prehistory, localised kingdoms can be seen to emerge into view. In the course of reviewing the evidence for later prehistory from the Middle Bronze Age to Late Iron Age, the papers presented here adopt a variety of approaches, being either regional, county-wide, or thematic (eg. by site type, or artefactual typology), and they also encompass the wider landscape as reconstructed from environmental evidence. This is the second volume in a series--The Making of the West Midlands--that explores the archaeology of the English West Midlands region from the Lower Palaeolithic onwards. These volumes, based on a series of West Midlands Research Framework seminars, aim to transform perceptions of the nature and significance of the archaeological evidence across a large part of central Britain"--Publisher description.
Bronze age --- Iron age --- Prehistoric peoples --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Landscape archaeology --- Social archaeology --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Cavemen (Prehistoric peoples) --- Early man --- Man, Prehistoric --- Prehistoric archaeology --- Prehistoric human beings --- Prehistoric humans --- Prehistory --- Human beings --- Antiquities, Prehistoric --- Civilization --- Methodology --- West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands, Eng. --- West Midlands (England : Metropolitan County) --- West Midlands (England : Region) --- West Midlands County (England) --- County of West Midlands (England) --- West Midlands Region (England) --- Herefordshire (England) --- Shropshire (England) --- Staffordshire (England) --- Worcestershire (England) --- Warwickshire (England) --- Antiquities. --- Primitive societies
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The post-Brexit environment introduces notable challenges for regional policy; however, it also offers the opportunity to reassess regional needs and appropriate funding formulae. Regional Success After Brexit: The Need for New Measures examines the metrics currently used to evaluate regional performance within the UK and, in the wake of Brexit, suggests better alternatives. Alongside an in-depth critique of GVA/capita, the book challenges current thinking based on nominal productivity differences and advocates measures based on real incomes, real living standards and real labour productivity. The book is an illuminating read for academics, researchers and policy-makers working within regional economics as it exposes the need to replace European regional funding with a new formula that takes regional prices into account and redistributes authority over the UK's revenue and spending to the regions.
Economics of industrial organisation --- Economics --- Brexit --- regional economics --- regional policy --- industrial strategy --- north-south divide --- Scotland --- West Midlands --- manufacturing --- economic re-balancing
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The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood. The town is suggested to have developed from a late Iron Age Dobunnic tribal centre, which owed its evident status and wide range of contacts to control of the production and distribution of Forest of Dean iron. Rapid expansion during the second half of the 1st century AD indicates that the local population was able to articulate rapidly with the economic opportunities the Roman conquest brought. The town developed as a typical small
Romans --- Iron age --- Antiquities. --- Great Britain --- Herefordshire (England) --- History --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Herefordshire, Eng. --- Hereford (England : County) --- Herefordshire --- County of Herefordshire (England) --- Hereford and Worcester (England) --- West Midlands (England)
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