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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·Culture

Living on the Edge of Empire: the objects and people of Hadrian’s Wall

Current Archaeology

January 7, 2021

Do we need another book on Hadrian’s Wall? The answer in this case is a resounding ‘yes’. The authors curate the magnificent collections derived from several centuries of research, excavation, and antiquarian

Books·Culture

Offa’s Dyke Journal, Volume 1

Current Archaeology

January 7, 2021

The archaeological societies founded in the 19th century embraced all aspects of the discipline, and from about the beginning of the 20th century societies came to be formed. In recent years, they

Books·Culture

A Biography of Power: research and excavations at the Iron Age oppidum of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017)

Current Archaeology

January 7, 2021

Bagendon has long been the poor relation of British late Iron Age oppida, lurking on the distribution’s western fringe. Its extensive, intermittent ramparts have long been known, but only in the 1950s

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Nazi Prisons in the British Isles: political prisoners during the German Occupation of Jersey and Guernsey 1940-1945

Current Archaeology

January 7, 2021

This is a welcome addition to the literature on confinement, a topic that has developed from a little-studied phenomenon into one of most vibrant areas within the subdiscipline of Conflict Archaeology. Gilly

Museum

Mayflower 400: Legend & Legacy

World Archaeology

December 20, 2020

On entering the gallery, visitors are reminded that, despite their prominence in the story of the early colonists, the passengers of the Mayflower were not the first Europeans to settle in the ‘New World’.

Books

Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors

Minerva Magazine

December 10, 2020

In the mid 4th century BC, Greece experienced a seismic convulsion whose shockwaves would be felt as far away as India, when an energetic young commander took the throne of Macedon, led

Books

Rome in the 8th Century: A History in Art

Minerva Magazine

December 10, 2020

What do we imagine the city of Rome to have been like in the 8th century AD? With the supremacy of Constantinople as the political and administrative centre of the empire, the

Books

Secret Britain: unearthing our mysterious past

Minerva Magazine

December 10, 2020

From a small spindle whorl to an expanse of moorland, there are many objects, individual sites, and entire landscapes in Britain that offer a portal to the past. In her engaging new

Books·Culture

Ness of Brodgar: as it stands

Current Archaeology

November 17, 2020

The Ness of Brodgar: as it stands Nick Card, Mark Edmonds, and Anne Mitchell (eds) The Orcadian, http://www.orcadian.co.uk/shop, £35.99 ISBN 978-1912889082 Review CH

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Hillforts of the Tay: community archaeology at Moncreiffe Hill and Castle Law, Abernethy

Current Archaeology

November 17, 2020

Hillforts of the Tay: community archaeology at Moncreiffe Hill and Castle Law, Abernethy AOC Archaeology Group Perth and Kinross Heritage Trust, £5 ISBN 978-527264052 Review Miles Russell

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Gloucester: the Roman forum and post-Roman sequence at the city centre

Current Archaeology

November 17, 2020

Gloucester: the Roman forum and post-Roman sequence at the city centre H E Hurst Gloucester Archaeological Publications, £25 ISBN 978-0948386022 Review Richard Hodges

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Hinterlands and Inlands: the archaeology of west Cambridge and Roman Cambridge revisited

Current Archaeology

November 17, 2020

Hinterlands and Inlands: the archaeology of west Cambridge and Roman Cambridge revisited Christopher Evans and Gavin Lucas McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, £45 ISBN 978-1902937892 Review Kasia Gdaniec

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Excavation at Chester: the northern and eastern Roman extramural settlements, excavation 1990-2019 and other investigations

Current Archaeology

November 17, 2020

Excavations at Chester: the northern and eastern Roman extramural settlements, excavations 1990-2019 and other investigations Leigh Dodd Archaeopress, £30 IBSN 978-1789696271 Review Nick Hodgson

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The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and Wales

Current Archaeology

November 17, 2020

The Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 1530s was one of the most-important religious, political, and social events ever to unfold in England and Wales. This act, and the associated (but separate)

Culture

Museum: the American Airpower Museum

Military History

November 13, 2020

Reviewing the best military history exhibitions, with Marc DeSantis

Culture

In View

Military History

November 13, 2020

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

Culture

Lancaster: the forging of a very British legend

Military History

November 11, 2020

Penned by former RAF Navigator and Gulf War veteran John Nichol, Lancaster is one of the most enthralling aviation history books I have read. But its succinct title does not do it justice. Its pages narrate not only the history of the legendary bomber but also of those who flew her.

Culture

Allenby: making the modern Middle East

Military History

November 11, 2020

Edward Henry Hynman Allenby was born in 1861 in Brackenhurst, Nottinghamshire in comfortable circumstances – a Victorian squire perhaps destined to help govern the British Empire on behalf of the Queen-Empress.

Culture

The Glamour Boys: the secret story of the rebels who fought for Britain to defeat Hitler

Military History

November 11, 2020

To oppose the Munich Agreement of 1938 was once considered something close to treason. The prime minister of the day had met an intimidating opponent and had extracted from him a pact that would save the world from war. Who could possibly object to that?

Culture

Crucible of Hell: Okinawa: the last great battle of the Second World War

Military History

November 11, 2020

In this year of reflection on the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, too often our Western gaze falls solely on events in Europe. We rightly mourn those who died in the final, catastrophic battles in Nazi Germany and celebrate the final end of war in Europe on VE Day. But when the guns fell silent in Europe, the desperate fight between the Allies and the Japanese raged on. In Crucible of Hell, Saul David takes the reader on a journey to Okinawa, ‘the last great battle of the Second World War’.

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