Sunday, 26 February 2012

"The War of Science and Religion," 2012 vs 1860

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Last Thursday’s debate [1] in Oxford between the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, and Professor Richard Dawkins has inevitably...
Saturday, 14 January 2012

Bronze Age boat to be reconstructed in Cornwall

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Archaeologists at the University of Exeter recently announced a project to recreate one the earliest boats ever found in western Europe, da...
Sunday, 18 December 2011

Islands and the Historical Imagination

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Having grown up on a small island ( Jersey ), and lived there for almost half of my life, I have often had occasion to pause and reflect on ...
Sunday, 20 November 2011

We are the resurrectionists!

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Last week’s conference at the Institute of Historical Research explored the links between academic history and historical fiction, in the li...
Thursday, 17 November 2011

Hilary Mantel on History and Fiction

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To my mind, Hilary Mantel is one of the finest living writers of historical fiction, combining an exhilarating sense of immediacy with a rem...
Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Two Little Ducks From Stonehenge (well, almost...)

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The Mail Online ( www.bit.ly/pWFjd6 ) today ran a headline “How two little ducks could transform our understanding of Stonehenge .” Gavin A...
Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Of Druids, Bones and Historical Fiction

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The High Court today rejected the demand from druid, King Arthur Pendragon, for the immediate reburial of human remains excavated at Stoneh...