The Very Best Time Team Digs, £24.99

This three-disc box set features the very best of Time Team's digs as chosen by the Team members themselves. The digs chosen include: the discovery of the huge Roman villa at Turkdean; the Anglo-Saxon treasures uncovered at Braemore; Time Team's adventures in the Caribbean; an investigation into a crashed spitfire from World War II; and the dig that no one will ever forget – the mysterious site at Llygadwy in Wales, where the archaeology proved just too good to be true. The digs are introduced and reviewed by Tony Robinson and the Team.
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Time Team – In your garden, £24.99

Join Tony Robinson and the rest of the Time Team regulars as they take apart eight ordinary British gardens in search of hidden history.
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Time Team Digs – A history of Britain, £24.99

Features highlights from the television series. Watch as Time Team uncovers the history of Britain from the Bronze Age through to modern times.
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Drawing on Archaeology: Bringing history to life by Victor Ambrus (Tempus 2007) paperback £13.99
How does excavation enable the archaeologist to reconstruct the past? Victor Ambrus, who has been Time Team's resident artist since the programme's inception in 1993, has selected some of the key recent Time Team excavations to show how it has been possible to reconstruct snapshots of the past. His evocative drawings cover everyday life in the country and the town, trade and industry, religion, warfare, crime and punishment, disease and death. There are also sections on royalty, prehistoric animals, caves and cannibalism. Foreword by Mick Aston.

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The Time Team Guide to What Happened When by Tim Taylor (Transworld Publishers, February 2006) hardback £20
Everything you need to know about Britain's past since 650,000 BC.

Recent surveys have shown that, as a nation, our knowledge of British history is sketchy at best. A 2001 poll found that 30% of 11-18-year-olds thought that Oliver Cromwell fought at the Battle of Hastings and a similar number had no idea in which century the first world war occurred.

The rest of us are no better. Many of us remember important dates and events only if there is a handy rhyme –'In 1492 Colombus sailed the ocean blue' – or a charming folk story to accompany them. As a result, Henry VIII is remembered for his wives rather than the Reformation; and Charles I, who was publicly executed during the English Civil War, is famous for climbing a tree!

Here, in What Happened When, Tim Taylor and the expert archaeologists and historians behind Time Team set us straight. Various members of the team have selected the events they believe had a major impact on our society and set out to justify their choices.

Key events are discussed and key technologies featured, together with photographs from Chris Bennett and illustrations from Time Team's own Victor Ambrus. So, whether you want a quick foray into the past or a definitive guide to British history, this book will give you and your family an accurate chronology of the events that shaped our society and a clear picture of exactly what happened when.

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Time Team Guide to the Archaeological Sites of Britain and Ireland by Tim Taylor, (Channel 4 Books, 2005) hardback £20
Channel 4's perennially popular Time Team take us on an archaeological sight-seeing tour of Britain and Ireland. Region by region, they select the most interesting and important sites which are open to public visitors, some familiar to all, others relatively unknown. Each is treated with the inimitable no-nonsense Time Team style. This book is like having Tony, Mick, Carenza and the gang in the back seat of your car – sharing their specialist knowledge and fascinating insights wherever you travel in the British Isles.
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Archaeology is Rubbish by Tony Robinson and Mick Aston (Channel 4 Books, 2002) paperback £12.99
British archaeology is the history of our nation's waste disposal. The raw material with which archaeologists work is the waste discarded by a long line of Stone-Age tool makers, Roman housewives, Norman potters, Tudor carpenters and Victorian factory workers. But if archaeology is rubbish why bother to dig it up?

In this thoroughly entertaining book, Tony Robinson and Mick Aston, the nation's favourite archaeologists, explain how the mire of ancient rubbish strewn across Britain brings back to life the story of our ancestors far more than a thousand jewel-encrusted goblets.

Tony Robinson and Mick Aston have created a book that is as entertaining and innovative as the Time Team series they present, and one which answers many of the hundreds of questions they are regularly asked by their enthusiastic public.

From the earliest looters of the pyramids to modern techniques such as geophysics, DNA testing and tree-dating, archaeology has never been so much fun. This book will inspire everyone to get out into their back gardens and start digging.
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The Ultimate Time Team Companion: An alternative history of Britain by Tim Taylor (Macmillan, 1999) paperback £12.99
Time Team series producer Tim Taylor constructs a personal 'time line' – a mental map of the past – guiding readers through the history of Britain by way of more than 50 separate Time Team investigations in this lavishly illustrated book. Starting more than 400,000 years ago, he embarks on a journey through our past that takes us from Stone-Age sites in Suffolk to the excavation of a Second World War Spitfire in northern France. With photo stories of five particularly significant sites from the 2000 series to act as milestones along the way, the book provides both a complete guide to the various excavations carried out by the Team and a view of the history surrounding them. It is illustrated throughout with photographs from the series as well as paintings, artefacts and illustrations.
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Behind the Scenes at Time Team by Tim Taylor, photographs by Chris Bennett (Macmillan, 1998) £14.99
Tim Taylor, who devised Time Team and is the series producer, uses a selection of digs and Chris Bennett's fabulous action photographs to provide an insight into how the Team research and choose the sites for Time Team, describes the trials and tribulations of filming the digs and reveals the production process right down to editing the programmes. He creates a picture of what life is like on location, as well as describing the archaeological techniques used.

Now available in paperback, Time Team series producer Tim Taylor's book goes behind the scenes of Britain's best-known archaeology programme to bring you the lowdown on the digs, the programmes and the personalities.
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Time Team's Timechester by Carenza Lewis, Phil Harding and Mick Aston, edited by Tim Taylor (Channel 4 Books, 2000) £12.99
Inspired by the wide variety of towns excavated by Time Team, this companion to archaeology traces the development of an imaginary British town from prehistory to the present day. Discussions by each member of Time Team follow the historical commentary and cover techniques, artefacts, history and favourite excavations. This book also features many fantastic illustrations by the talented Victor Ambrus.
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Recreating the Past by Victor Ambrus and Mick Aston (Tempus, 2001) £12.99
After the production of over 50 programmes, Victor Ambrus has produced hundreds of reconstruction drawings and paintings for Time Team. In this fantastic book Victor features over 100 of his favourite illustrations. Each picture is accompanied by Mick Aston's enthusiasm for the subject as he writes a commentary for each piece. Victor and Mick were jointly awarded the 2002 Longman – History Today 'New Generation' Historical Book of the year prize for their work.
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Monasteries in the Landscape by Mick Aston (Tempus, 2000) £17.99
Mick explains how and why monasticism developed in Britain and why monasteries were placed where they were. This book also takes a look outside the monastery at the agricultural, industrial and commercial activities of monks and friars.
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Revealing the Buried Past: Geophysics for archaeologists by Chris Gaffney and John Gater (Tempus, 2003) paperback £17.99
Written by two of the foremost experts in the field, this book draws the reader into the world of geophysics. Aimed at the seasoned archaeologist, student, amateur and those who have seen the 'geofizz' techniques used and want to learn a little more, the book is well written, clearly presented and has lots of illustrations and explanatory diagrams. An introduction to the history of geophysics is followed by a lucid discussion of the different techniques available, the methods and equipment used, survey logistics and post-survey analysis. Drawing on their work with Time Team, Gaffney and Gater present a series of case studies from different periods. In conclusion, they consider the future for prospecting for the past and how this powerful surveying tool may be transformed in years to come. Foreword by Mick Aston.
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