What do Charles Edward Stuart, members of the Mosley family, and Sid James have in common? At some point they all, most likely, occupied the Henry VII and Elizabeth of York Marriage Bed. The bed[…]
Category: Author Post
The Story behind the Books
Are you ever curious about the stories behind your favourite books? In this blog, Natale Barca takes us behind the scenes of the event which led to the start of his life as an author,[…]
A Tale as Ancient as Time: Exploring the Archaeology of Early Societies in the Llŷn Peninsula
Have you ever been to the Llŷn Peninsula? This highly popular holiday destination, with its captivating coastline and magnificent mountains, is widely considered to be one of the most beautiful places in Britain. Something which[…]
The Secret Seventeenth-Century Water Garden
By Stephen Wass There are multiple references to the garden at Hanwell Castle in Robert Plot’s Natural History of Oxfordshire, with pools and islands hidden away in its woods, it has survived almost intact in[…]
The Dos and Don’ts of Digging a Bog Body
(and a warning about tasting the archaeological record!) ‘Bog bodies’ are some of the most familiar finds associated with peatland archaeology. However, they are in fact comparatively rare. In this blog Benjamin Gearey, co-author of[…]
The Archaeology of Egypt’s Western Desert
Searching for a Needle in a Sand Dune RICHARD J. LONG, author of The Excavations at Mut al-Kharab II, has worked with the Dakhleh Oasis Project since 2004. In this blog, he takes us on[…]
Running an 18th Century Landscaping Business
Having unearthed the previously unpublished work of Britain’s greatest landscape designer, Thomas White, two experts provide insight into how this infamous designer ran his landscaping business…in the 1700s. Although I have been researching historic designed[…]
Searching for Interdisciplinarity in Archaeology: A Fascinating Story
Margarita Díaz-Andreu tells us how her personal journey inspired her most ambitious project yet: Interdisciplinarity and Archaeology, the first book to explore the relationship between archaeology and other branches of knowledge. Universities’ greed for external funds[…]
Stitching it Together – The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery
How does a book on a “Lost Art” come into being? DR. ALEXANDRA LESTER-MAKIN shares how her research into medieval embroidery began, and evolved into the book The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred[…]