113The East London Line Project, London’s latest railway, presented a unique opportunity to discover more about some of London’s earliest railways, including parts of one of the world’s first passenger railways, the Eastern Counties of 1840. Construction led to important archaeological discoveries in Shoreditch. The sparsely occupied hinterland of Roman London here, either side of Roman Ermine Street, was used for occasional burials. Medieval development began with the foundation of Holywell priory on the west side of Shoreditch High Street. Tudor buildings included a mansion on the site of the priory. The spread of the suburbs in the 17th and 18th centuries transformed the area and encouraged large-scale quarrying of brickearth and brickmaking nearby.</p> <p><i>Revised edition published February 2010; 1st edition published June 2009</i> 72ppMany col ills20103978-1-901992-87-8Pb£9.95MOLATracks.jpg1Tracks_thumbnail.jpg1121This book is the first concerted attempt to synthesise the available prehistoric and topographic information from the area of north Southwark and Lambeth, London, in the period <i>c</i> 9500 cal BC to <i>c</i> AD 50. The interplay between environmental and riverine change and human communities is considered within broad themes, covering ‘mobile communities’, ‘ritual riverscape’ and ‘settled communities’, and placing these within the wider regional context of the Thames Valley. Recent work is also included and the thematic text is supported by a gazetteer as well as specialist papers on the worked flint, pottery and radiocarbon determinations.109pp50 col and bl/wh ills20021141-901992-31-4Pb£12.95MoLAS, Londonpresal.jpg1thm_presal.jpg1112London Underground's 1990s Jubilee Line Extension Project was rich in archaeology. This third book in the Project's archaeological series considers the new evidence for the Holocene environment of central London. The book's emphasis is explicitly geoarchaeological; results from a series of sites describe the sedimentary and ecological process operating in the central London floodplain. This information is presented within a wider archaeological synthesis. The hallmarks of this book are an investigation into the Thames' Holocene geoarchaeology, a model of the development of the London Thames, a series of maps (including the changing topography of Westminster from the Mesolithic to the Iron Age), and the integration of new evidence with earlier work in the environments of London and the Thames. It identifies what can be achieved from the seemingly unpromising circumstance of numerous, often quite small sites, some with very little archaeology but considerable potential for understanding past human environments, within four main study areas along the 18km line between Westminster and Canning Town. 144pp48 bl/wh and col ills2000151-901992-10-1Pb£15.00MoLAS, LondonHOLOCENE.JPG1thm_holocene.gif11