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 – Britain‘s leading archaeological bookseller – is changing.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Local Heritage Initiative has been wound up.

Congratulations to Rescue News on reaching its 100th issue.

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’.

A corner devoted to the champions of political correctness