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Review – The First Kingdom: Britain in the Age of Arthur

‘The past lies in fragments… one might just as well try to reconstruct the idea of a tree from its leaves, or…

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Review – Living on the Edge of Empire: the objects and people of Hadrian’s Wall

Do we need another book on Hadrian’s Wall? The answer in this case is a resounding ‘yes’. The authors curate the magnificent…

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Review – Nazi Prisons in the British Isles: political prisoners during the German Occupation of Jersey and Guernsey 1940-1945

This is a welcome addition to the literature on confinement, a topic that has developed from a little-studied phenomenon into one of…

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Review – Hillforts of the Tay: community archaeology at Moncreiffe Hill and Castle Law, Abernethy

Hillforts, arguably the most Romantic and certainly the most monumentally impressive of archaeological sites in Britain, are currently undergoing a renaissance. Fieldwork…

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Review – Excavations at Chester: the northern and eastern Roman extramural settlements, excavations 1990-2019 and other investigations

This is a lucid and business-like report on developer-funded digs in the northern and eastern environs of the legionary fortress at Chester.…

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Review – Gloucester: the Roman forum and post-Roman sequence at the city centre

Concentrating around Southgate Street, Hurst’s meticulous open-area investigations revealed the Roman legionary headquarters, over which he discovered remains of the later Roman…

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Review – The Ness of Brodgar: as it stands

The Ness of Brodgar in Orkney is ‘a site of superlatives’. So write the authors of this absorbing new book about a…

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Review – Hinterlands and Inlands: the archaeology of west Cambridge and Roman Cambridge revisited

Despite the title, this book is about far more than the archaeology of Roman Cambridge and its western hinterland. It includes associated…

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Review – The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales

Hugh Willmott’s important new book seeks to redress the balance by providing a more-rounded and -nuanced explanation of the processes involved in…

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Review – The Isle of Man: Stone Age to Swinging Sixties

Within its 225 square miles, the Isle of Man boasts an impressively diverse historic landscape spanning some 10,000 years of human activity.…

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Review – Great Cloister: a lost Canterbury Tale

Among the 856 heraldic shields emblazoned on the ceilings of the cloister of Canterbury Cathedral is hidden a story of the social…

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