The aim of the book is to promote English Heritages work in maritime archaeology by telling the story of shipwrecks around the coast of England, from the Anglo-Saxons to 1945, and placing these wrecks in their wider archaeological, social, economic and naval context, in particular their relationship to Englands broader historical landscape (submerged prehistoric landscape elements, defence, landscapes of war, memorials, churches, and buildings associated with particular wrecks). (English Heritage 2012)