Books by Michael Stammers

This study investigates the drivers for the development of the elite Late Period tombs of the necropoleis of Memphis. It studies their conceptual basis in the context of the social and political situation of the Late Period. It examines the landscape of Memphis and explores the geographic, geological and man-made features that encouraged the creation of a 'sacred landscape' with a view to discovering what features made this a desirable place for the building of tombs and why Late Period clusters of tombs were built in some parts of that landscape but not in others; it also considers the significance of their alignment. It sets out to discover what religious, social or ancestral factors made the elite choose the location of the individual tombs, what determined their structure and how they relate to older as well as contemporary structures. Finally, the reason for the positions of the different burial grounds of Memphis, and the interrelation between them, is explored in order to establish the socio-political factors influencing that choice.

The Charles Cooper of 1856 was a packet ship sailing between New York and Antwerp. Many European emigrants were carried on the return voyage to seek a better life in the United States. After 1859, there were 'tramping' voyages around the world until 1866 when the Charles Cooper was declared unseaworthy at Stanley in the Falkland Islands, and remained there as a storage hulk. This book records the ship's history - its construction, travels and ultimate fate.

Redevelopment, restoration and new modes of commerce have put Liverpool's docks back in the black and the docks continue to be a significant part of the Liverpool of today, albeit a very different-looking docks to the port of over sixty years ago.