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A history/archaeology of Crazy Shit
I have a belief about beliefs Posit: certain beliefs cluster. Through an unknown combination of crowd effect (you like the stuff your friends like) and perhaps some weird, alchemical property of the...
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NOTES: War Photo Limited, Dubrovnik
Photo above, my own. Dubrovnik from the city walls, September 2016. Rooves much repaired. The many brighter orange patches are where the shells fell. Below are a few pictures from the exhibitions at...
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If you’re not slightly freaked out by conflict archaeology, there’s something...
Bit of easy hit, this one. So, bite me. My friend Dr Gabe “Legend in his own Lecture Notes” Moshenska, an archaeologist at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, has been roundly traduced by no less organs...
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I dream of islands: the Dubrovnik project, part 1
I dream of islands And city states Marble on marble, wave on wave The towers rise from Byron’s pages Disrupt the pine and rock hung sea With benedictions from St Blaise And through the monastery...
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The consequences of conservatism in the US and the UK
Actually, not really conservatism, that’s not fair (but it was alliterative). Conservatism is a political mood or tradition or character feature with a long (duh obviously) history, and it is seen on...
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HyperNormalisation
In response to one person asking public demand, a couple of thoughts arising from the new Adam Curtis documentary HyperNormalisation released on iPlayer a couple of weeks ago. Yes this take is as hot...
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Who dug the New Cut?
This is a story about oral history and how oral history can conflict with official history. It is not yet, unfortunately, a story about how to tell which is correct. It is also a story about Bristol,...
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A walk through Montpelier, Bristol
Above, Lower Cheltenham Place, Montpelier, Bristol, with those flat-fronted houses that could be any age from 1810s to 1850s. You may already suspect that I am a naturally untalented photographer. It...
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Ethereum and the Bronze Age – quick and dirty post on how archaeology can...
In the Tolkien, not the endocrinological or Snow White sense, Randy is a dwarf. Tolkien’s Dwarves were stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent a lot of time in the dark hammering out...
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The Second Referendum, or, Obliquity
The following has occurred: The election result has opened up a window of opportunity for rethinking Brexit. Certainly that’s what European leaders, various journalists and pro-EU British politicians...
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