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Friday, 31 October 2014

Ethically-engaged Early Medieval History-writing. Why it matters and how (not) to do it ... or 'They was asking for it!'

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Every year I do a session on 'History and Ethics' with the students on our Public History MA course.  As you know, this is a topic ...
Thursday, 23 October 2014

Otherness and Identity in the Merovingian Cemetery (updated)

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I have updated this post, now with complete footnotes.  Although it did receive a sniffy comment (which had signally missed the point of t...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014

The sincerest form of flattery...

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The other day I was enduring the reading of Lotte Hedeager's Iron Age Myth and Materiality. An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400- 1000 ...
Monday, 20 October 2014

The Space Between: The undead Roman Empire and the aesthetics of Salin’s Style I

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[ This is the text read as the annual Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies, at UCL's Institute of Archaeology last Wednesday.  ...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

Sir David Wilson Lecture

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On 15 Oct I will be giving the 6th annual Sir David Wilson Lecture in Medieval Studies at UCL.  Details can be found here .
Tuesday, 16 September 2014

Some heartening feedback

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You all know what I think of the numerical aspects of feedback and (even more so) the production of league tables from the National Student...
Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Otherness and Identity in the Merovingian Cemetery

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[ This is a draft version, without proper footnotes, of the paper I mentioned in my previous post.  It attempts to expose the evidently wi...