EXCAVATING BUTRINT IN LOCKDOWN: BUTRINT 7 PUBLISHED
Lockdown has had its silver lining: working remotely with David Hernandez in South Bend, Indiana, Butrint 7 – a complicated volume...
Fifty Years of Archaeologists putting the Great into Britain
The UK government, struggling with Brexit and the pandemic, have reacted by ear-marking treasury cuts in a practice Britain does best:...
Destination Santa Fiora?
Destination tourism: how do you attract tourists to places that have genuine history and natural wonders, yet lie off the beaten track?...
Claudio - delivered by Amazon Prime?
An exhibition about the Emperor Claudius with a sub-title dedicated to his women is currently on at the Ara Pacis, Rome. I tend not to go...
Small Things Not-Forgotten
Herculaneum. The unprepossessing 1970s antiquarium at Herculaneum was intended to be a museum. But this never happened and crowds of...
Easter egg hunts at Stourhead
Easter egg hunts have brought swarms of families to Stourhead on a radiant April day. How Richard Colt Hoare (1758-1838) would have...
Investing in the Romans at Chedworth
I have been visiting Chedworth Roman villa on and off for half a century. One of the walks featured in my 1975 book, Walks in the...
Celebrating the Box Archaeological and Natural History Society
52 years ago Henry Hurst, a young postgraduate at London University, arrived in my village to undertake an emergency excavation on a...
Vikings (at the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia)
Blockbuster archaeology exhibitions are increasingly challenging to mount. Do you market the show as if it was (and in this case is) a...
My struggle with Salvo
Salvo belongs to a world that is fast disappearing. Born to country folk, his life has almost entirely revolved around managing olive...
