Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archaeology. Show all posts
Friday, August 07, 2026

Raven: Phil Daniels and archaeology encounter nuclear waste

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Nuclear site dig will change prehistory, says archaeologist says the headline on a BBC News article about Sizewell C . A nuclear power stati...
Sunday, August 02, 2026

BBC Radio Leicester's Secret Leicestershire on Oakham Castle

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It's not in Leicestershire and it's no secret, but  Oakham Castle  is the subject of the latest short programme in BBC Radio Leicest...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

The Major Oak is dead and Phil Harding has discovered another ancient site near Stonehenge

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Forget Sycamore Gap: this is real tragedy. The Major Oak in Sherwood Forest is dead. The Guardian reports: The Major oak, one of Europe’s o...
Monday, May 25, 2026

The Joy of Six 1523

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Niamh McIntyre had been investigating the spike in racist AI videos aimed at British surfers: "It is often young, entrepreneurial men ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

The Joy of Six 1517

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"In 2026 our vote share in inner London boroughs was the worst since 1978. We aren’t running any inner London boroughs. We are only eve...
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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Standing Stones of Leicestershire and Rutland

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Some local lithic goodness from the redoubtable Bob Trubshaw.
Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Mercia rediscovered: The Synod of Gumley and Brixworth church

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Reviewing Max Adams's The Mercian Chronicles: King Offa and the Birth of the Anglo-Saxon State AD 630-918 for the London Review of Book...

The Joy of Six 1483

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Taylor Lorenz argues that there is little evidence that social media is driving a mental health crisis among young people and a banning the...
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Tuesday, February 03, 2026

The Joy of Six 1470

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Timothy Snyder  reports from a frightened city: "In the schools and churches of Springfield, Ohio, people are making hasty preparations...
Wednesday, January 28, 2026

For Central Bylines: The discovery of Richard III enriched Leicester in every way

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I've written another article for Central Bylines . This one celebrates the discovery of Richard III beneath Leicester's most famous ...
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Friday, December 26, 2025

The Joy of Six 1454

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"At its core, A Christmas Carol is the transformation of a man without empathy, to a man with empathy. It accomplishes this through for...
Sunday, December 21, 2025

The Joy of Six 1452

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Peter Jukes says Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev must be investigated in a new public inquiry into Russian influence "If you are y...
Monday, December 08, 2025

Rutland mosaic depicts lost Aeschylus narrative of the Trojan War

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The Roman mosaic discovered at Ketton in Rutland five years ago is even more remarkable than first thought. A story on the University of Lei...
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Wednesday, December 03, 2025

National Trust seeks to buy land around the Cerne Abbas Giant

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The National Trust has launched a £300,000 appeall to buy the land surrounding the Cerne Abbas Giant, reports BBC News . The site it hopes t...
Friday, November 28, 2025

The Joy of Six 1442

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"The costed tax rises at £26bn are remarkably similar to the £27bn tax increases proposed in the Lib Dems manifesto last year. ... This...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Hilary Mantel on the finding of Richard III

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Here's Hilary Mantel , writing in the London Review of Books, 21 February 2013: Royal bodies do change after death, and not just as a co...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

When filmmakers trample all over real-life stories you care about

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There should be an ancient Chinese curse: May someone make a film of a real-life story you care about. I went to a couple of open days at th...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Steve Coogan, Richard III and today's libel settlement

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I was going to write a post about Steve Coogan, the Richard III dig in Leicester and today's new of a libel settlement. But I found that...
Saturday, October 25, 2025

Plan approved to build Scotland's first broch in 2,000 years

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While presenting this blog's Headline of the Day Award to BBC News , the judges expressed the hope that this project marks the end of th...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

The drought revealed Rutland Water's hidden ruins and relics

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Lord Bonkers isn't going to like this, because he's convinced that Rutland Water has always been there. How else, he would ask, do y...