Death of the High Street
05.09.2025 19:30
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Death of the High Street
Excellent interview. This sounds like a fascinating script! Well done.
But they won't, will they?
A day late for #FolkloreThursday but if you want to read my review of Imogen Corrigan's book The Green Man, it's here. It's not perfect but I really enjoyed the book and found some useful insights, particularly about the possible origins of the phenomenon. www.archaeologists.net/publications...
Oh that is disappointing 😉
A favourite of mine too, which I have held onto, despite horned Viking helmets. And who wouldn't want to be called Plantaganet Somerset-Fry? Is it a nom-de-plume? Is it really Ed Reardon? Le nom just for a historian.
Excellent article, thank you
Boss are more of an art project, but the influence is a good thing.
The circle also sits immediately above active springs in a verdant, even fecund, re-entrant.
Last time I visited it was busy with ravens too.
This is the sort of thing we all need in our lives.
If the Metropolitan Police did indeed break open the doors of the Grade II Listed Friends Meeting House, they may have committed a #HeritageCrime and should not be above the law @mayoroflondon.bsky.social #Quakers @quaker.org.uk do report to Historic England
Wasn't that "The Fall of Eagles"?
Earthworks at Old Sarum hillfort, looking toward the former RAF Old Sarum airfield.
Old Sarum, looking from the Iron Age rampart toward the medieval motte.
Ramparts of the Old Sarum hillfort.
As it's #HillfortsWednesday, here are a few from a recent site visit that involved a trip up Old Sarum, #Wiltshire.
Cultural heritage?
It may be uncomfortable, contested, hateful or whatever, but the battle flag of the Confederacy is, undeniably, part of the cultural heritage of the USA, whether in its original purpose or as a trope.
Same goes for Native arts.
Ignorance is evident (but we knew that).
Reasons to be Cheerful (Part 3) by Ian Dury & The Blockheads namechecks Buddy Holly, Ihn Coltrane, Elvis and, of course, Wee Willie Harris, amongst others. It's almost the sung version of the Sergeant Pepper cover.
Isn't it on private land, with access discouraged?
Estates in the West Indies, Sir Thomas... umm
Nice!
The media aren't above creating quotes but, taken at face value (and why should we not), this is irresponsible, superficial and potentially, very harmful.
But I couldn't resist taking a pop at the Indy and DK, who once royally and willfully misinterpreted what I told him about the Shinewater site.
I'm so pleased to read that; I thought it was just me and I was just some sort of reactionary! I used to enjoy the discourse but couldn't ever get on with the discard of facts and objective truth. Look where it's got us.
Nice to see the Indy's archaeological reporting still aspires to the heady days of David Keays, of blessed memory.
May I also add how lovely it is to see Seller & Yeatman's theory of displacement "by fire and the sword" making a welcome return to the discourse.
Oh dear god...
I was musing about the torchlit processions and Stonehenge as a place of nocturnal theatre a couple of years ago (but I wouldn't dream of publishing anything about that place). It would have been stunning! No need for N~z~s at all - more like some of the wassailing that's going on at the moment.
I'm sure I know people who will take no pleasure in seeing this... eh, @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social ?
I was surprised to find a connection to Elvis in my archaeological practice 😅
and Wooden Heart is 19th century German song Muss I'denn, popular in the Great War - it features in "Songs for March and Camp" that soldiers had - we found remains of a copy on remains of Leopold Rotharmel (KIA 1915, Loos). I'd forgotten it featured in Das Boot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4R_...
And ambulances, presumably. So can we have the performative outrage from the people who were yelling about Just Stop Oil, please?
I wrote a little about the reactions to dealing with Great War human remains, including Albert Thielecke, in this volume of Archaeological Review from Cambridge: arc.soc.srcf.net/issues/22-2
That was my first reaction on discovery. It was very uncanny: he's the only body/person I have excavated with whom I had an immediate point of contact and reference.
And the picture, with scraper, centre, as well as harmonica above, and clasp knife.
Finally, when I excavated the remains of Unteroffizier Albert Thielecke (KIA 1915), I found an Bronze Age scraper among the more usual items, like razor, harmonica and watch in the remains of his bread bag. brill.com/display/book...