In my previous two columns I explored some of the known for their medieval and later histories, and for their towering urban…
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…
This is another quietly evangelising publication, priced to ensure a wide circulation and written by the leading experts in their field, part…
It is astonishing to think that this two-volume report, the definitive account of Roger Mercer’s excavations at Hambledon Hill between 1974 and…
Nothing is as good as a question to establish the theme of a book. But in this case the question is not…
This is an excellent book about a subject so fundamental to archaeological field practice that nobody should be let loose on an…
Many archaeologists regard Druids with disdain, as cranks or romantics who claim to have roots deep in the ancient past, but whose…
Tuscany is famous for handsome villas set in elevated positions overlooking formal gardens of clipped box that give way to an increasingly…
Coming to a library near you soon (one hopes, given the investment involved in owning a copy) is the third volume in…
Bryony Coles gave the name ‘Doggerland’ to the drowned landscape beneath the North Sea in her 1998 paper in the Proceedings of…