Editorial

We have been trying for several years now to align the contents of Landscapes towards a more international if not yet global range of articles, usually by including one, very occasionally two, articles that are not about Britain or Ireland. In a couple of recent issues we already reached a majority of articles not solely concerned with these islands off the north-western cast of Europe; one special issue on the landscape of medieval castles by definition looked almost exclusively eastwards. We think however that issue 22.1 is our first to be entirely composed of research articles about landscapes elsewhere in Europe and indeed elsewhere in the world. This is unlikely to be the case for issue 22.2, but nor would we wish it to be because we hope to establish and maintain a good balance between western European and other parts of the world. The current issue is also one of our most broadly-based in disciplinary terms. As always, we aim to continue in that direction, accepting research from any or all disciplines that offer insights into understanding past and evolving landscapes. The growing diversity and variety of landscapes featured in this journal brings us into closer contact with other ways of seeing and thinking, and – we believe – of other ways of wring and ‘speaking’. One of the Landscapes editors, in his former capacity as a trustee of the Landscape Research Group which publishes our sister T&F journal Landscape Research, has recently contributed with a small group of others to the preparation of guidelines on how certain types of language needs to be used carefully. Those guidelines aim to advise authors contributing to Landscape Research on ways that language can be thoughtfully chosen and utilised in academic writing. One reason for saying this is of course clarity and precision of expression, but even more importantly because, first,