The winners of this year’s Current Archaeology Awards were announced on Saturday 28th February as part of Current Archaeology Live! 2026. The…
When thousands of bodies were discovered in Medieval mass graves at Spitalfields cemetery, the Black Death was believed to be responsible. Then…
Is a Medieval mass grave in London's Spitalfields cemetery linked to a massive volcanic eruption?…
Spitalfields in London is thought to be the largest excavated cemetery in the world. Recent research has focussed on the site’s…
In CA 111 Chris Scarre pointed out that the explosion of Thera could be dated to 1626 BC. This may, however, only…
In 1985 I presented a population graph for Britain extending from the Mesolithic to recent times, which was characterised by periodic ups…
When Andrew Selkirk asked me to append some comments to Mike Baillie’s piece on volcanic “events”, it prompted the notion that I…
Restoration work at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich has revealed a cache of hundreds of Victorian objects, from champagne bottles…
From Roman recipes to Victorian victuals, the Museum of London is hosting a series of cookery workshops exploring how our ancestors prepared…
'Valhalla: examining Viking burials in the British Isles', a new exhibition exploring Viking burials across the British Isles, opens tomorrow (21 July)…
Recent discoveries from Silchester include the burial of a 'poodle' and Britain's first Iron Age olive.…