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Current Archaeology’s October 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 from the options available.

Museum news

Current Archaeology

The latest on acquisitions, exhibitions, and key decisions.

The Bayeux Tapestry

Current Archaeology

Britain has been overcome by Bayeux Tapestry fever (as has CA: see our feature on here and more in Sherds on here) with the famous embroidery returning to British soil for the

Books

The Archaeology of Medieval Towns: case studies from Japan and Europe

World Archaeology

September 19, 2021

The Archaeology of Medieval Towns is an interesting proposition: a book which aims to act as a bridge between the medieval worlds of Europe and Japan, introducing each to the specialists of

Books

Drawn and Written in Stone: an inventory of stepped structures and inscriptions on rock surfaces in Upper Tibet (ca.100 BCE to 1400 CE)

World Archaeology

September 17, 2021

For many thousands of years, humans have inscribed their presence on the landscape. They drew or pecked images of the fanciful, representational, or sacred on the walls of caves, rock shelters, rock

Books

The Viking Great Army and the Making of England

Military History

September 10, 2021

Whether you like this book will depend on whether you like archaeology. If you do – as well as liking military history – and you therefore choose to read it, you will

Books

Stalin’s War

Military History

September 8, 2021

This book convincingly argues that Stalin’s war began long before the German invasion of Russia in June 1941, and can really be said to have begun in the late 1920s. Initially, this

Books

Hitler and Stalin: the tyrants and the Second World War

Military History

September 8, 2021

In the autumn of 1939, after they signed a pact agreeing to carve up Poland, Hitler and Stalin were depicted in a cartoon as a newly wed couple walking down the aisle.

Museum

Military History Exhibition – The National Memorial Arboretum

Military History

September 7, 2021

MHM’s Calum Henderson reviews the best military history exhibitions. This month, he explores The National Memorial Arboretum.

Books

The Shortest History of War

Military History

September 7, 2021

Heinrich Severloh was a good soldier. On 6 June 1944, the 20-year-old Wehrmacht private manned a machine-gun overlooking Omaha Beach. He did his job without complaint: mowing down American soldiers as they

Museum·What's on

The best military history events, lectures, and exhibitions (September 2021)

Military History

September 6, 2021

MHM’s round-up of the best military history activities to explore this September, which includes an exhibition featuring 50 portraits of Holocaust survivors, and the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall.

TV & Film

War on film: Tunisian Victory

Military History

September 6, 2021

Talk of the war in North Africa and most Brits will think of Tobruk or El Alamein, while most Americans will think of Operation Torch, the Kasserine Pass, and Tunisia. The victory

Books

Facing the Mountain: the forgotten heroes of the Second World War

Military History

September 6, 2021

The most highly decorated combat unit in the history of the United States Army is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, with its distinctive motto ‘Go for Broke’ – a reference to a

Books

MHM’s round-up of the latest military history titles

Military History

September 5, 2021

World War I Illustrated Atlas In fine and comprehensive detail, this book plots key battles and the exact course of the global land, sea, and air campaigns that made the First World

Museum·What's on

John Pull: Worthing’s hero archaeologist

Current Archaeology

September 2, 2021

Self-taught archaeologist John Pull made discoveries of national significance in the South Downs around Worthing, but his humble origins saw him sidelined by more privileged professional peers. With a recently extended exhibition at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery bringing his story back into the spotlight almost 100 years after his investigations began, Current Archaeology’s Carly Hilts visited to find out more.

Books

Cumbria’s Prehistoric Monuments

Current Archaeology

September 1, 2021

Adam Morgan Ibbotson has successfully brought together around 100 prehistoric sites from across Cumbria into a much-needed single volume. Home to a range of prehistoric monuments, Cumbria has more than just stone

Museum·Places·What's on

Heritage from home – September 2021

Current Archaeology

September 1, 2021

Across the UK, many heritage sites and museums are now welcoming visitors again, but if you’re still looking for activities and resources that you can take advantage of from home, there is an ever-growing supply of those too! Amy Brunskill has put together a selection of the options available, from virtual tours and online exhibitions to podcasts, TV shows, games, and activities, as well as a list of some of the places that are open once more.

Books

Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley: excavations at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire

Current Archaeology

August 31, 2021

This book presents the results of excavations at the Dix Pit quarry near the village of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, which revealed one of the largest and most-remarkable Pleistocene assemblages yet to be

Books

The Viking Great Army and the Making of England

Current Archaeology

August 31, 2021

The arrival of the Viking Great Army on British soil in AD 865 had an immeasurable impact on England. No longer content with hit-and-run raids, this force – which was far greater

Books

50 Finds from Buckinghamshire: objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

Current Archaeology

August 30, 2021

In this latest book in the 50 Finds series, Arwen Wood, Finds Liaison Officer for Buckinghamshire and Milton Keynes, presents Britain’s history through the objects found across the county and recorded with

Books

Belonging and Belongings: portable artefacts and identity in the civitas of the Iceni

Current Archaeology

August 29, 2021

Belonging and Belongings is the latest BAR publication in the Archaeology of Roman Britain series. Focusing on the portable archaeology of the ‘Iceni’, Natasha Harlow presents an enormous volume of work that

Books

Brickmaking: history and heritage

Current Archaeology

August 28, 2021

It is always interesting to find a new book about bricks. Often ignored, these little marvels need to be celebrated, and, for this reviewer at least, there can never be too many

Books

The City of Babylon: A History, c.2000 BC – AD 116

Minerva Magazine

August 18, 2021

The history of the Mesopotamian city of Babylon had a powerful legacy even within antiquity. Today, many are familiar with the city, situated in modern Iraq, for its numerous appearances in the

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