I teach adult education courses for a variety of organisations, and have done for more than 30 years. My specialist teaching subjects include Roman archaeology, late medieval archaeology, buildings archaeology, and industrial archaeology, with an emphasis on (but not exclusively) North West England and Britain. COVID-19 has forced all of us to change the way…
CBA North West’s 2015 spring conference took as its theme recent work on the Bronze Age in North West and northern England. This reflects the revival of interest, and application of new field techniques, over the last decade in several aspects of Bronze Age archaeology in the region: death and burial; art; and mining. Two talks looked…
‘You can do research can’t you?’ This question, thrown at me by my first boss in March 1990 was, had I known it, a moment that would define my career and change my life. The occasion for this query was the prospect of a commission by the leader of Tameside Council, Roy Oldham, to write…
As a discipline archaeology is focussed upon, perhaps often obsessed by, material culture. The analysis of form, fabric, and function, whether it is a single object or a landscape, is at the heart of such study. This approach is the chief way for archaeologists to understand the past and to attempt the unrecoverable – the…
This year’s annual Festival of British Archaeology is nearly upon us. Running from 14 July to 29 July, and coordinated by the Council for British Archaeology, this is a chance to celebrate some of the best sites, organisations and finds in British archaeology, through more than 750 dedicated events including behind the scenes tours, walks,…
How do we value historic landscapes? This thought struck me on a recent Spring break in Sussex, standing shivering on the downlands above the Roman villa at Bignor, the mist creeping over the top of the escarpment and the air cold enough to turn each sigh into dragon’s breadth. There are of course many formal…
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