After last month’s column on Westminster Cathedral, I will continue my ecclesiastical theme this month by exploring three of the great religious…
It is a common complaint today that our society has become too unequal. To an archaeologist, of course, the complaint is nonsense.…
What to do when you retire A lot of my friends seem to be retiring at present and for the same…
Lincoln – Mick ‘Lindiana’ Jones retires On October 20th2012, I went up to Lincoln, to the Retirement Party for my…
Now that I am Editor-in-Chief, it means that I am at least semi-retired from Current Archaeology and I am therefore able to…
I was down in the very splendid library of the Society for Roman Studies, looking for a book and happened by chance…
It is always fascinating to find out how archaeological magazines are doing in other countries, and we had a marvellous opportunity…
We have just been to Vienna for a short break. We had never been to Vienna and we thought it was…
Are we all Druids now? Tuning in to the BBC’s religious affairs programme on 1 October, Sherds was amused to hear Emma…
State of play Believing that things are not what they used to be is a viral disease that strikes as you enter…
Rock and roll Bits of rock, in various guises, form a running theme in this month’s Sherds, starting with Neolithic ball bearings.…