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Current Archaeology’s April Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home

There are lots of great ways to get involved with history and archaeology over the next few months, including exhibitions, lectures, and conferences exploring a wide range of subjects. If you would prefer to get your heritage fix from the comfort of your sofa, though, there is a variety of resources on offer online, too, from virtual site-tours and digital offerings by museums to podcasts, TV shows, and more. Kathryn Krakowka has put together a selection of some of the options available.

Go digging!

Current Archaeology

With the summer digging season rapidly approaching, we will be running a series of pages highlighting excavation opportunities across Britain and Ireland. This month features projects ranging across East Anglia, the Midlands, and the South-East.

Vikings: the immersive experience and Pilgrimage of Love: Eleanor of Castile

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Newly opened exhibitions at Dock X, London, and Leeds Castle, Kent,
include AI technology that brings the past to life in a startlingly personal way,
offering interactive audiences with medieval queens: one from Viking Age Scandinavia and the other from 13th-century England. Carly Hilts reports.

Books

The White Lady: the story of two key British secret service networks behind German lines

Military History

January 15, 2026

REVIEW BY TAYLOR DOWNING Helen Fry has specialised in fascinating and revealing histories of wartime intelligence and espionage, especially of the role of women in these activities. Women in Intelligence, The Walls

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Redemption: MacArthur and the campaign for the Philippines

Military History

January 15, 2026

REVIEW BY GRAHAM GOODLAD General Douglas MacArthur is arguably the most controversial military leader in US history. His command career was bookended by two divisive episodes. As Army Chief of Staff in

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Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site

Military History

January 14, 2026

Reviewing the best military history exhibitions, with Ben Goodlad.

Books

Cremation in the Early Middle Ages: death, fire, and identity in north-west Europe

Current Archaeology

January 8, 2026

REVIEW BY SAM LEGGETT This volume reads as a ‘Who’s Who’ of early medieval cremation research, with most of the top historians, funerary-, and bio-archaeologists assembled. Williams and Lippok have been truly

Books

From Coast to Fen: archaeology in a dynamic landscape, the archaeology of the Triton Knoll Electrical System, Lincolnshire

Current Archaeology

January 8, 2026

REVIEW BY JONATHAN LAST Cable routes and similar projects are a challenge to archaeologists because their narrow footprints are not necessarily representative of the broad landscapes they pass through. Yet they often

Books

The Neolithic in Jersey

Current Archaeology

January 8, 2026

REVIEW BY KK This book synthesises what is currently known about the Neolithic in Jersey, highlighting the fact that while our knowledge for some areas of the island and for some phases

Books

The Story of English Banknotes

Current Archaeology

January 8, 2026

REVIEW BY KK This is a nice short book on the history of the English banknote, and is rather timely, with the era of the banknote seemingly coming to an end as

Books

Winchester: city of kings

Current Archaeology

January 8, 2026

REVIEW BY SIMON ROFFEY Winchester: city of kings presents an authoritative exploration of one of England’s most historic cities, and one that has been the subject of extensive archaeological research. Consequently, this

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Current Archaeology’s January Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home

Current Archaeology

January 8, 2026

There are lots of great ways to get involved with history and archaeology over the next few months, including exhibitions, lectures, and conferences exploring a wide range of subjects. If you would prefer to get your heritage fix from the comfort of your sofa, though, there is a variety of resources on offer online, too, from virtual site tours and digital offerings by museums to podcasts, TV shows, and more. Kathryn Krakowka has put together a selection of some of the options available.

What's on

Current Archaeology Live! 2026

Current Archaeology

January 7, 2026

In partnership with: Current Archaeology Live! 2026 will be here before we know it, and tickets are selling fast. The conference, again held in partnership with University College London’s Institute of Archaeology,

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Museum news

Current Archaeology

January 7, 2026

The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.

Books

Landscape and Society in Dumnonia

Current Archaeology

January 7, 2026

REVIEW BY JACQUELINE A NOWAKOWSKI Diligent reporting of a dispersed hoard of more than 50 Roman coins by metal-detectorists to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) in 2009 led to a major landscape

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Ancient Egypt December listings

Ancient Egypt

December 14, 2025

FROM THE HUDSON TO THE NILE: DOWS DUNHAM AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF EGYPT AND SUDAN This exhibition explores Dows Dunham’s pioneering fieldwork in Egypt and Sudan, including excavations at Giza, Gebel Barkal,

Books

Delta Reports 1: Research in the cultural history of the Ancient Egyptian Nile Delta

Ancient Egypt

December 14, 2025

REVIEW BY SARAH GRIFFITHS ‘Without the Nile Delta, ancient Egyptian culture could not have emerged’. This bold statement begins the first of a new series of volumes that aims to publish more

Books

Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt – Volume 1: Akhmim and Sohag

Ancient Egypt

December 14, 2025

REVIEW BY MICHAEL TUNNICLIFFE This is a paperback edition of a work following the Third International Symposium on Christianity and Monasticism in Upper Egypt. There is a particular focus on the life

Books

Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century

Ancient Egypt

December 14, 2025

REVIEW BY CAMPBELL PRICE This book takes as its subject a relatively unusual theme: books written about Egypt. But it is one that will probably interest Egyptophiles because many of us are

Books

Threads of Contact: Tracing the relationship between Egypt and the Southern Levant through textile tools

Ancient Egypt

December 14, 2025

REVIEW BY HILARY WILSON Spinning and weaving are among the earliest ancient technologies, and implements used in textile production turn up in archaeological excavations worldwide. Introducing this volume, part of Oxbow’s ‘Ancient

Books

Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries: Highlights from the first century of the Egypt Exploration Society

Ancient Egypt

December 14, 2025

REVIEW BY SARAH GRIFFITHS This new publication developed from the first Egypt Exploration Society online course, taught in 2020, and includes contributions from 26 international experts. The book presents a curated journey

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Current Archaeology Live! 2026

Current Archaeology

December 3, 2025

In partnership with: Our upcoming conference, Current Archaeology Live! 2026, will be held on Saturday 28 February. We are delighted to be returning once more to University College London’s Institute of Education

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Current Archaeology’s December Listings: exhibitions, events, and heritage from home

Current Archaeology

December 3, 2025

There are lots of great ways to get involved with history and archaeology over the next few months, including exhibitions, lectures, and conferences exploring a wide range of subjects. If you would prefer to get your heritage fix from the comfort of your sofa, though, there is a variety of resources on offer online, too, from virtual site tours and digital offerings by museums to podcasts, TV shows, and more. Kathryn Krakowka has put together a selection of some of the options available.

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