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English medieval industries: Craftsmen, techniques, products edited by John Blair and Nigel Ramsay (Hambledon Press, paperback edition 2001) £19.95
This work is intended as a modern successor to L F Salzman's English Industries in the Middle Ages (1913). The approach to each industry is by material, discussing its acquisition, working and sale as a finished product. Only industries that resulted in the production of consumer goods and where substantial numbers of artefacts survive from the Middle Ages are dealt with (fishing and brewing are therefore omitted); the text is illustrated by pictures of surviving objects and contemporary representations of medieval work.

The Medieval English Economy by Jim Bolton (Everyman, 1988)
'The book on the subject that I recommended to everyone' – Mick Aston, but unfortunately out of print.

The rural settlements of medieval England edited by Mick Aston, David Austin and Christopher Dyer (Blackwell, 1989)
A wide-ranging collection of essays, written by a distinguished team of archaeologists, historians and historical geographers.

A medieval industrial complex and its landscape: the metalworking, watermills and workshops of Bordesley Abbey by Grenville Astill (Council for British Archaeology Research Report 92, 1993)
Professor of archaeology at Reading, Grenville Astill reports on his research project on the reconstruction of a medieval monastic economy, based on documentary research and archaeological fieldwork on the granges and estates of Bordesley Abbey.

Historical Metallurgy (Historical Metallurgy Society, 1 Carlton House Gardens, London SW1 5DB, www.hist-met.org/)
This internationally recognised journal, published annually in two parts, is mailed free to members of the Historical Metallurgy Society. Past issues have included papers on subjects as diverse as Neolithic copper working, early blast furnaces, Tibetan metal sculpture, the replication of Iron-Age smelting, tin and lead smelting, slag composition, oxidation enrichment bands in wrought iron, metallurgical processes, medieval arms and armour, and silver, pewter and copper alloys in domestic ware.

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