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The Group records urban and rural buildings and researches their history: focussing on ‘vernacular’ buildings of Northumberland, Durham, and Tyne & Wear. Results are published in our occasional journal ‘Northumbrian Building Studies’. Meetings are informal, and no membership fees are charged. New members with or without experience are welcome.
Two days after unveiling a reconstruction of the face of Richard III, Leicester experts have now … [Read More...]
A new free exhibition dedicated to the search for Richard III opened today (8 Feb) at Leicester's … [Read More...]
If it seems a stroke of incredible good fortune that ULAS’ trial trenches came down on the very … [Read More...]
In CA 274, Mick explained how his local research project examining the origins of Winscombe in … [Read More...]
In his new bi-monthly column, Mick Aston guides us through the trials and triumphs of local … [Read More...]
11,000-year-old artefacts from Star Carr, Britain's largest-known Mesolithic settlement, will go on … [Read More...]
This summer the Museum of London will return to Syon Park, Hounslow, with digging opportunities for … [Read More...]
It used to be thought that only high-class houses had survived from the Medieval period. Radiocarbon … [Read More...]
What was life really like for Medieval peasants? Renowned as the epitome of poverty, they appear as … [Read More...]
Roman documents discovered Probably the most important - and certainly the most dramatic … [Read More...]
Roman Britain does not just consist of grand buildings. There are also smaller buildings out in the … [Read More...]
This specialism looks at ideologies and belief systems of previous civilisationsthrough their … [Read More...]
Initially, this area came under the auspices of general field archaeology, but battlefield experts … [Read More...]
What was life really like for Medieval peasants? Renowned as the epitome of poverty, they appear as stock images performing hard manual labour in the margins of illustrated manuscripts. With the squalor they faced memorably lampooned by Monty Python, among others, it has always been assumed that the ramshackle hovels they called home have long … [Read More...]
The past is constantly being re-written. Across the country there are hundreds of excavations going on. It’s back-breaking work in often tough conditions, but the findings are essential for our understanding of our past. Yet who has the time to visit them all and put their findings into context? We do! For 40 years Current Archaeology has been … [Read More...]
Current Archaeology has a sister magazine - Current WORLD Archaeology Current World Archaeology covers the world from the first emergence of man up to yesterday: from Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Near East, to Anatolia, Classical Greece and Rome, as well as Asia and the Far East. Launched in 2003 as the sister magazine to Current Archaeology, we report on … [Read More...]
