The Hart of the Matter
June 7, 2024
From art and literature, to royal emblems, to your local pub, the white hart has leapt and gamboled across British history, taking shelter under the ancient trees of deer parks…. READ MORE
Tag: Oxbow Books
The Oxbow Books End-of-Year Sale!
December 5, 2016
We’re happy to announce that starting today and continuing through the end of the year, over 200 Oxbow Books titles will be offered at great sale prices on casemateacademic.com! This… READ MORE
Art, Artisans and Apprentices
August 6, 2014
A consideration of the training of artists before the emergence of academies of art inevitably follows a trajectory from the trade to the profession. This was once a sequence of… READ MORE
A Test of Time and A Test of Time Revisited
July 25, 2014
The great volcanic eruption of the Thera (or Santorini volcano) in the southern Aegean has been central to several archaeological controversies. Originally, the main question was whether this eruption (now… READ MORE
Oxbow publication wins British Archaeological Award for the Best Archaeological Book 2013-14
July 16, 2014
A grand ceremony was held on Monday 14th July at the British Museum to present the British Archaeological Awards for 2014. The occasion was compèred by Loyd Grossman who, following… READ MORE
Mythological Motifs: Tests Set for Men to Win Brides
May 21, 2014
Thanks to a suggestion from my friend and colleague Chris Collard, I included in my new Dictionary of Classical Mythology an “Index of Recurring Motifs”, so that anyone interested in… READ MORE
Searching for Gold – by Marianne Vedeler
May 16, 2014
Marianne Vedeler is Associate professor in Archaeology at Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Her research and publications focus on clothing, style and costume accessories from the Middle Ages…. READ MORE
A Chance Meeting in a Museum – Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’
May 13, 2014
The volume Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’ is based on the photographs and accounts made by a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in… READ MORE
American Landscapes at the SAA
May 1, 2014
At last week’s Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting Oxbow Books had a poster session for its dynamic new series American Landscapes. On hand to talk about the series and… READ MORE
Gristhorpe Man launches at the Rotunda Museum and Oxbow talks to Christopher Knüsel
January 22, 2014
On Friday 17th January, Gristhorpe Man: A Life and Death in the Bronze Age was launched at the Rotunda Museum in Scarborough, where the remains of this significant Bronze Age… READ MORE
