Offa's Dyke Journal: Volume 5 for 2023: A Journal for Linear Monuments, Frontiers and Borderlands Research

The Offas Dyke Journal is an open-access academic venture that promotes new research and public understanding of walls, barriers, and frontier zones from prehistoric and ancient societies to the medieval and modern world. It presents reliable peer-reviewed academic research, critiques misinformation, and combats disinformation, promoting an informed and nuanced conversation about their stories and legacies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 270 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2023
Publisher: Archaeopress

This open-access academic venture has established itself as a distinctive venue fostering new research and public understanding regarding the complex global story of walls, barriers, and frontier zones from prehistoric and ancient societies to the medieval and modern world. In doing so, the Offas Dyke Journal not only presents reliable peer-reviewed academic research in an accessible venue, it also critiques and combats both misinformation and disinformation shared about this aspect of the human past in popular culture and political discourse in today's world. Promoting an informed and nuanced conversation about their stories and legacies and the positive dimensions of linear monuments is thus a key aspiration of the Offas Dyke Journal as both an academic and open-access resource. In doing so, we can learn about the human past, recognise how these material traces inform contemporary identities and society, and both recognise their legacies as well as celebrate their redundancies.

This open-access academic venture has established itself as a distinctive venue fostering new research and public understanding regarding the complex global story of walls, barriers, and frontier zones from prehistoric and ancient societies to the medieval and modern world. In doing so, the Offas Dyke Journal not only presents reliable peer-reviewed academic research in an accessible venue, it also critiques and combats both misinformation and disinformation shared about this aspect of the human past in popular culture and political discourse in today's world. Promoting an informed and nuanced conversation about their stories and legacies and the positive dimensions of linear monuments is thus a key aspiration of the Offas Dyke Journal as both an academic and open-access resource. In doing so, we can learn about the human past, recognise how these material traces inform contemporary identities and society, and both recognise their legacies as well as celebrate their redundancies.

Weight: 702g
Dimension: 173 x 249 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781803276502