Inspired?

English Heritage is ‘spearheading’ yet another campaign, this time to save historic church buildings.

Oxford and Prehistory

Barry Cunliffe is about to retire as Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford.

The Museum of London rebuilds – yet again

The Museum of London has just received a substantial grant of some £11m from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a major £18m rebuilding.

Who are the volunteers?

Another yawning gap is opening in archaeology – and indeed I suspect in many other subjects, this time over the use of the term ‘volunteer’.

Metal Detectorists get Code of Practice

On 2 May 2006 a Code of Practice for Responsible Metal Detecting was launched at the British Museum.

Sexing up Climate Change

I am sorry to return once again to the subject of Climate Change, but this is a subject on which I remain suspicious.

Stonehenge again

The saga of Stonehenge continues, with the various learned bodies vying with each other to see who can produce the most extravagant and expensive plan for Stonehenge.

Calling all local societies

Join the cream of Britain‘s local archaeological societies on Independent’s Day, when local independent archaeological societies come together to celebrate the achievements of an outstanding local group.

The Wainwright archaeological essay prizes

The Wainwright archaeological essay prizes

On May 7th 1952, The Times reported: Congregation at Oxford will be asked on Tuesday next to accept a gift of £4,000 from an anonymous benefactor who wishes to encourage the study by schoolboys and by more mature students of non-classical archaeology and general history, as deduced from comparative archaeology, of the countries of the [...]

Oxbow

Oxbow – Britain‘s leading archaeological bookseller – is changing.

Fund-raising in Archaeology: The Robert Kiln Charitable Trust

Does archaeology have the wrong brand? One of the things that rather worries me about archaeology is that we are getting the wrong brand image.

Does History Matter?

The silly season is upon us, and I hereby proclaim that the award for the silly gimmick of the year must be given to a campaign calling itself History Matters.

Presenting the Heritage

The Awards for the Presentation of Heritage Research were a great success this year.

The Roman Wall

The Roman Wall

Let us give a great welcome to the archaeological publishing event of the year: the 14th edition of J Collingwood Bruce’s Handbook to the Roman Wall.

Farewell to the Local Heritage Initiative

The Local Heritage Initiative has been wound up.

Rescue News

Congratulations to Rescue News on reaching its 100th issue.

The Church in Ireland

In a fascinating article by Eamon Hedderman on Church and State in the Republic of Ireland, we learn that Article 44 of the Irish Constitution guarantees ‘the rights of every denomination to manage its own affairs’.

Champion

A corner devoted to the champions of political correctness

Jack Lucas

On 14th December I was off to Rugby to celebrate the opening of the Jack Lucas Gallery at Rugby Museum.

New Ancient Monuments Act?

A new Ancient Monuments Act will apparently shortly be published, but already main outlines are beginning to emerge. There will be three core proposals.

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