Marry an archaeologist. The older you get the more interested they will be in you (paraphrased from Agatha Christie)
I visited last week. It's an amazing achievement. Congratulations to all involved.
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Norwich Castle Reopens as “The People’s Palace” - Medievalists.net
Norwich Castle has reopened after a £27.5 million transformation, offering full access from basement to battlements, immersive medieval rooms, and a new British Museum gallery of 900 artefacts.
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Norwich Castle Reopens as “The People’s Palace” www.medievalists.net/2025/08/norw... #castles #medieval #England #NorwichCastle
Norwich Castle Reopens as “The People’s Palace” - Medievalists.net
Norwich Castle has reopened after a £27.5 million transformation, offering full access from basement to battlements, immersive medieval rooms, and a new British Museum gallery of 900 artefacts.
www.medievalists.net
Brian, building of the US Capitol was ongoing into the 1860s using enslaved labor www.whitehousehistory.org/enslaved-lab...
Enslaved Labor and the Construction of the U.S. Capitol
“Would it be superstitious to presume, that the Sovereign Father of all nations, permitted the perpetration of this apparently execrable transaction, as a fiery, though salutary signal of his displeas...
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👇 Open letter calling for the reframing of the #Stonehenge debate. Please read.
If you're an #archaeologist, please sign & share. Thank you 😊
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The Stonehenge Debate Must Be Reframed
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Voting has opened for the National Trust's annual elections & members' resolutions. Deadline is 11:59 pm on Friday 25 October. As in past years, so-called 'Restore Trust' is running candidates, identified in the banner on their website. Quick-vote is a quick way to vote against RT, if so minded.
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I've just heard the sad news that John Barrett has died. #Archaeology has lost a lot of folks this year. 😔
Understood but his article has left me Full of Doubt about the whole concept of ancient landscapes. Maybe best discussed over a pint...
You don't buy Williamson's critique of 'ancient fields' then?
Au contraire Brian. One of the great evocations of a deserted London. I agree it goes downhill when they leave for the countryside and it all gets faux pastoral
In the c18 gentry bought books by the yard, to furnish their houses
When Anthony Fletcher complained that Germaine Greer panned his gender book without reading the 2nd half, a colleague retorted that he shouldn't have written such a very long book in the 1st place
It's the white heat of intellectual enquiry emanating from the IoA
When the rest of us would sit around saying 'someone should do/say something', John was the one who got up and did it.
RIP John Barrett. I never came away from one of his talks without being forced to think deeply and in new ways about archaeology. His was a really profound and uncompromising intellect. And he practiced and insisted on values of decency and responsibility in our work.
I show this (the clean version) every year in our Intro class
Wear it as a badge of pride Cat. Your work is transformative, and therefore will attract its naysayers.
Saddened to hear of the death of Mark Leone. He was a giant figure in historical archaeology; his work set an intellectual horizon for the field. I can't think of anyone who thought more deeply and profoundly about the archaeology of capitalism. He was also a kind and generous mentor to me.
Mark Leone, The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital. RIP Mark.