‘a hole worlde of things very memorable’

Julian Munby has gained a reputation over half a century in many branches of archaeological and historical knowledge. His lively and warm character and sense of fun has made him many friends who also in some sense feel they are his pupils, and this collection of papers has been assembled as a tribute in honour of his 70th birthday.

Julian Munby has gained a reputation over half a century in many branches of archaeological and historical knowledge, from his meticulous publication of the medieval timber structure of 126 High Street and his later elucidation of Tackley’s Inn from J. Buckler’s nineteenth century records when he was an undergraduate, to more recent work on the Historic Towns Atlas for Oxford. He has taken in the publication of the medieval castle at Portchester, the roofs of Chichester and many other cathedrals, the landscape history of Levens Park, Westmorland, the Round Table at Windsor Castle and the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He is an enthusiast for the history of Antiquity, topographical art, and for reading historical sources in the original. His lively and warm character and sense of fun has made him many friends who also in some sense feel they are his pupils, and this collection of papers has been assembled as a tribute. The first part comprises a preface by the editors, his daughter and son share accounts of being brought up in a household where it was normal for parents to be archaeologists, Jane Woodcock remembers ten years when Julian spent his day in an office arranging exams and cooking gourmet meals, and Deirdre Forde and others reveal his pioneering work teaching building archaeology. The second part consists of papers by friends who share his enthusiasm and in each case write on a facet of his interests, from his brother’s paper on the superbly engineered tunnel at Box, a reminder that railways and railway architecture has always been one of Julian’s loves, to Oxford topography in a number of papers and the later decor of Windsor Castle.

Preface by Martin Henig and Nigel Ramsay - Contributions by Hal Munby, Bea Munbu, Jane Woodcock, and Deirdre Forde Julian Munby's Publications OXFORD The Development of Oxford Dendrochronology - Daniel Miles The Oxford Races and the Racecourses on Port Meadow - George Lambrick Oxford Preservation Trust takes the long view: J. M. W Turner and Michael Angelo Rooker - Debbie Dance Evacustes Phipson (1854-1931) and his watercolours of Oxford's old houses - Malcolm Graham ARCHITECTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY The Temple at Bath: Classical, Romano-Celtic or somewhere in between? - Anthony C. King Winchester: a northern 'boundary' - Martin Biddle Rustic dwellings in rugged protuberances: Two case studies in using buildings archaeology to understand rock-cut buildings - Edmund Simons The Legend of Box Tunnel - James Munby ART AND THE ANTIQUARY Rediscovering Romanitas: Bronze statues, statuettes and figurines from Britannia, c. 1660 - 1900 - Martin Henig A medieval Limoges corpus of Christ from Christ Church, Oxford - Marian Campbell 'Rescued from oblivionby the magic of art': Making Pyne's History of the Royal Residences - Kate Heard From Microcosm to Radiohead: A Schoolboy Publication by the Artist Oswald Jennings Couldrey while at Abingdon School - Lauren Gilmour Gale and Sarah Wearne THE WRITTEN WORD Before there were Guidebooks: Tabulae in Medieval English Cathedrals and Greater Churches - Nigel Ramsay Thomas Baskerville on the Upper Thames: Verse and Prose by a Seventeenth-Century Maverick - John Blair The Study of Palaeography in England: Thomas Astle - David Ganz,

Preface by Martin Henig and Nigel Ramsay – Contributions by Hal Munby, Bea Munbu, Jane Woodcock, and Deirdre Forde

Julian Munby’s Publications

OXFORD

The Development of Oxford Dendrochronology – Daniel Miles

The Oxford Races and the Racecourses on Port Meadow – George Lambrick

Oxford Preservation Trust takes the long view: J. M. W Turner and Michael Angelo Rooker – Debbie Dance

Evacustes Phipson (1854-1931) and his watercolours of Oxford’s old houses – Malcolm Graham

ARCHITECTURE AND TOPOGRAPHY

The Temple at Bath: Classical, Romano-Celtic or somewhere in between? – Anthony C. King

Winchester: a northern ‘boundary’ – Martin Biddle

Rustic dwellings in rugged protuberances: Two case studies in using buildings archaeology
to understand rock-cut buildings – Edmund Simons

The Legend of Box Tunnel – James Munby

ART AND THE ANTIQUARY

Rediscovering Romanitas: Bronze statues, statuettes and figurines from Britannia, c. 1660 – 1900 – Martin Henig

A medieval Limoges corpus of Christ from Christ Church, Oxford – Marian Campbell

‘Rescued from oblivion…by the magic of art’: Making Pyne’s History of the Royal Residences – Kate Heard

From Microcosm to Radiohead: A Schoolboy Publication by the Artist Oswald Jennings Couldrey while at Abingdon School – Lauren Gilmour Gale and Sarah Wearne

THE WRITTEN WORD

Before there were Guidebooks: Tabulae in Medieval English Cathedrals and Greater Churches – Nigel Ramsay

Thomas Baskerville on the Upper Thames: Verse and Prose by a Seventeenth-Century Maverick – John Blair

The Study of Palaeography in England: Thomas Astle – David Ganz

• Edited by Martin Henig
• Edited by Nigel Ramsay

'This volume is a mixed bag, and its range may seem a little eccentric, but it is none the worse for that. It is a fitting tribute to a fine and well-loved archaeologist. Any reader of this journal would find something to enjoy in it – and learn something from it.' – Steven Philip Brindle (2025): The Antiquaries Journal

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