British Isles naming dispute "British-Irish Isles" and the Islands of the North Atlantic. In documents drawn up jointly between the British and Irish governments, the archipelago is referred to simply as "these islands". To some, the dispute is partly semantic, and the term is a value-free geographic one, while, to others, it is a value-laden political one. The Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands may also for geo-political reasons be included in the British Isles, despite not being geographically part of the archipelago. United Kingdom law uses the term British Islands to refer to the UK, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man as a
Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles Taylor published the first comprehensive study of the available evidence, entitled "Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles". In 1994, the archaeologist George Eogan published an academic monograph on the subject, entitled "The Accomplished Art: Gold and Gold-Working in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze Age", which was brought out through the U.K.-based Oxbow Books. In it, Eogan noted that his study was "not a "corpus" or catalogue" of artefacts, instead being "an evaluation and interpretation of the material in social terms". Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles Gold working in the Bronze Age British Isles refers to