Michael Driver

Timber and Construction contains 40 papers on timber and its use in the history of construction and a series of papers on other aspects of construction history delivered to the ninth annual conference of the Construction History Society from 1-3 April 2022.

This volume continues the series published by the Construction History Society which look at various aspects of the history of construction. The book contains 44 papers delivered at the 8th Annual Conference of the Construction History Society held in August 2021. The theme of the conference was Trades and Professionalism and many of the papers cover this subject, but the volume contains papers on many other aspects of the history of building construction including papers on the history of fountains and water supply, the construction of domes and vaults, formwork and scaffolding. contracts and contracting, prefabrication and labour.

This book contains the 50 papers delivered to the Sixth Annual Conference on Construction History held in Queens' College, Cambridge Cambridge from 5-7 April 2019. The papers are on a wide variety of subjects to do with the history of building construction, with the first section being devoted to papers on water infrastructure.