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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

Museum·What's on

Military history events, lectures, and exhibitions – July 2021

Military History

July 14, 2021

MHM offers a glimpse into the best military history exhibitions and experiences available to the public in July 2021, including The Tank Museum’s fair and auction, and the National Army Museum’s exhibit on West Indian servicemen.

Museum

Cleaning Cold War aircraft

Military History

July 13, 2021

The team from Arco Services had to abseil from the hangar’s 30m-high roof to get access to the various aircraft, which include a Vulcan bomber and an English Electric Lightning.

Books

River Kings: a new history of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

Military History

July 13, 2021

The sleepy village of Repton in south Derbyshire seems like an unlikely starting point for a voyage halfway around the world. But it is here that Cat Jarman begins her brilliant new

Books

Barbarossa Through German Eyes

Military History

July 12, 2021

Hitler’s invasion of Russia on 22 June 1941 – Operation Barbarossa – initiated a campaign of epic proportions. While the format of recounting a campaign through the recollections of individual participants is

Books·British Army·Comment·Ideas

The Battlefields of England

Neil Faulkner

July 12, 2021

I headed for the battlefield monument to get my bearings – an obelisk erected in 1740 to mark the spot where Warwick the Kingmaker, the greatest figure of the Wars of the Roses, was supposedly cut down…

Museum·What's on

The D-Day Story Museum

Military History

July 11, 2021

Reviewing the best military history exhibitions, with Calum Henderson.

Books

The Devil’s Bridge: the German victory at Arnhem, 1944

Military History

July 11, 2021

Few events in military history have been picked over as much as Operation Market Garden, now notorious only because it resulted in a German victory when it was believed that, halfway through

Books

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

Military History

July 10, 2021

Paths of Fire: the gun and the world it made

Pathfinders

The Viking Great Army and the Making of England

SBS: Silent Warriors

The Confidence Men: how two prisoners of war engineered the most remarkable escape in history

Blood and Ruins: the Great Imperial War, 1931-1945

British Army·TV & Film

War on Film: The Desert Rats (1953)

Military History

July 10, 2021

The battle scenes are, in the main, well made, especially in showing what it was like for men hiding in dugouts and wadis in the desert under intense artillery-fire.

Books

The Western Front: a history of the First World War

Military History

July 10, 2021

This is the first of a planned three-part history of the First World War organised by theatre. The second volume will deal with the Eastern Front (including Italy and the Balkans), the

Books

An Englishman at War: the wartime diaries of Stanley Christopherson, DSO, MC, TD, 1939-1945

Military History

July 9, 2021

When Stanley Christopherson wrote in his diary in late November 1945, he proclaimed, ‘So many outstanding things were done during this war, which so thoroughly deserved an award, but were never witnessed.’

Books

50 Finds from Kent: objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme

Current Archaeology

July 1, 2021

Kent is a county with a rich and unique archaeological record. Situated as it is, surrounded by sea to the north and east, cut off from London and Essex by rivers to

Books

Breaking Seas, Broken Ships: people, shipwrecks, and Britain, 1854-2007

Current Archaeology

June 30, 2021

Broken Seas, Broken Ships is Ian Friel’s latest book on the history of ships and shipwrecks in Britain, and is the ‘sequel’ to Britain and the Open Road (2020), which covered British

Books

Roman County Durham: the eastern hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall

Current Archaeology

June 29, 2021

At over 500 pages, David Mason’s volume on Roman activity in County Durham is the first comprehensive analysis of Roman military and civilian activity for this part of north-east England; many of

Museum·Places·What's on

Heritage from home: July

Current Archaeology

June 29, 2021

Many museums and heritage sites in the UK and Ireland have already reopened to visitors, with more to follow in the coming weeks, but if you still fancy getting your heritage fix at home there are plenty of great options, from virtual tours and online exhibits to podcasts and TV shows. Current Archaeology’s Amy Brunskill has put together another selection of archaeology-, history-, and heritage-related resources to enjoy from your sofa, plus places you can now visit in person.

Museum·What's on

Festival of Archaeology

Current Archaeology

June 28, 2021

This July, the Festival of Archaeology returns with an exciting mixture of digital and on-the-ground events, as well resources and activities, all centred around ‘Exploring Local Places’. Here is a taste of just some of the options.

Books

Garranes: an early medieval royal site in south-west Ireland

Current Archaeology

June 28, 2021

In 1938, the large triple-banked early medieval ringfort of Lisnacaragh at Garranes was excavated by Professor Brendan O’Riordain of University College Cork. He uncovered debris from fine metalworking and imported pottery on

Books

Migrants in Medieval England c.500-c.1500

Current Archaeology

June 27, 2021

One of the more impressive aspects of this book – the outcome of a British Academy Conference held in 2015 – is the range of evidence that is marshalled to trace migrants

Books

Silchester Revealed: the Iron Age and Roman town of Calleva

Current Archaeology

June 27, 2021

Writing a book about the history of a Roman town in Britain is not an easy task. To create a readable and balanced account, an author has to contend with various levels

Feature·Museum

Last supper in Pompeii

Minerva Magazine

June 20, 2021

The Romans’ passion for fine dining is well known – now a mouth-watering new exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum shows how the production, distribution and consumption for food and wine coloured every aspect of Roman life, as its curator Paul Roberts explains

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