I have now examined the archaeology of every county in Britain bar one – Wiltshire. This was no accident, for I have…
Deja vu The Times published a letter on 2 June 2009 signed by Professors Martin Biddle and Brian Fagan, who called on…
If your accounts for the year are not quite as good as you might wish– if, for instance, you make a loss…
Jargon: which words would you ban?The Local Government Association has published a list of words and phrases that it thinks council staff…
Let it growOne can only applaud the National Trust’s decision to create 1,000 allotments within its disused walled gardens and on land…
When, at the IFA’s Liverpool conference in April 2004, I argued for a festival of archaeology to compare with the superb festivals…
After only two years, we are already beginning to establish some Festival traditions. One is to tackle a ‘difficult’ subject. Last year…
How does Heritage Link work? Heritage Link is a strange organisation that aims to help heritage charities work better. It presents an…
In 2002, launching the first ever ‘Heritage Counts’ digest of statistics on the health of the historic environment, Tessa Jowell, then Secretary…
The world’s media reported in August that a huge timber fence was used to separate ordinary mortals from the privileged classes…