Hello again! Now, as I blogged briefly the other day, a team from the University of Manchester led by our friend Prof Julian Thomas, has...

If you are a Key Stage 2 history teacher/co-ordinator, this summer sees some really important excavations on famous and less famous...

Ok, as promised, here is some more of the archaeology we got to see in Anglesey on our weekend away! As last week we focused on the...

Well, it was good to get home after a weekend away in Anglesey and North Wales. We were so busy and saw so much I’m going to have to do...

Thank goodness for the internet. Can you imagine the trouble we’d have catching up with excavations from all corners of the country...

As we hit summertime, well in theory anyway, archaeologists up and down the country can be found out doing what most people think they do...

Back in January BBC Radio 4’s History of Ideas broadcast a piece by Dr Matt Pope of University College London in which he explored the...

Colin Merrony (with his back to us!) of the Archaeology Dept, University of Sheffield talking to Dave Barratt, Derbyshire County...

Hey, we couldn’t resist this one – a school in Reading has come up trumps – a hoard of Roman coins has been discovered in its grounds!...

War Memorial at Saltburn, N Yorks Hot off the press is the latest blog from  one our favourite archaeologists – The Urban Prehistorian...

As it is all about the Romans, we’re going have to talk about pottery. But, not only that, the children are also going to be making their...

This Roman fort at Hardknott Pass in Cumbria dates to the 2nd century CE. As part of our efforts to keep you abreast of things...

War memorial commemorating the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 Today is ANZAC Day and it is perhaps more poignant than ever with it being the...

If someone asked you if you knew of Alauna, chances are you’d say no. If someone asked you if you’d heard of Maryport, a few of you might...

There has been a lot of talk in the media over the years about developments such as Crossrail, HS1 and HS2, especially about the cost of...

One of the metaphorical things about archaeology is that archaeologists like to put real things into categories so they can make sense of...

Just a little video to highlight some of the work I do with Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield. I appear about 8 seconds in, wearing ...

You might think that finding information on the archaeology of the Palaeolithic of the area you live and work in might be difficult....

KS2 pupils and teachers are just so lucky – they get to study heaps of interesting things in the History curriculum. One of these can be...

Norfolk, quiet rural backwater right? Nothing much ever happens there . . . if only that were true! After last week’s story of the...