One of the joys of the Current Archaeology archive is its ‘tales of the unexpected’. After last month’s column on early medieval…
Were the Great Plagues in Britain really caused by rats and fleas, or is a cosmic event responsible for poisoning the atmosphere?…
It is one of the paradoxes of running a magazine that sooner or later the magazine starts to take on a life…
Once upon a time English Heritage used to publish an annual report.…
What happened to England after the Middle Ages?…
From an anonymous (but clearly knowledgeable) reader.…
English Heritage is ‘spearheading’ yet another campaign, this time to save historic church buildings.…
Barry Cunliffe is about to retire as Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford.…
The Museum of London has just received a substantial grant of some £11m from the Heritage Lottery Fund for a major £18m…
Another yawning gap is opening in archaeology – and indeed I suspect in many other subjects, this time over the use of…
On 2 May 2006 a Code of Practice for Responsible Metal Detecting was launched at the British Museum.…