In last month’s column, I examined a series of sites legacy of the Norman Conquest. One of these was Westminster Abbey, which…
After only two years, we are already beginning to establish some Festival traditions. One is to tackle a ‘difficult’ subject. Last year…
The Staffordshire Hoard has thrown up a problem. It is it is all very well to say the finder or the landowner…
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…
The Council for Independent archaeology is holding its annual get-together at Monmouth on Saturday the 30th August, and all archaeologists are invited…
A new exhibition on Hadrian has just opened at the British Museum. At the same time, an exhibition on Skeletons has opened…
Day three at WAC and the conference mates are well.Following our prehistoric musical interlude yesterday afternoon, I attended a session on development-funded…
As I type, it is lunch time. One thousand delegates are thronging around the coffee and sandwich tables. Suddenly, into the crowd…
Lisa Westcott and Nadia Durrani head out to Dublin for the 6th World Archaeological Congress, the Olympics of Archaeology. First impressions: Dublin…