There are two kinds of popular history book: the cameo and the synthesis. Historians find it easy to fit cameos … More
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Vikings S1 – what may laughably be called a review a year late
Apparently US Memorial Day means we can’t have another episode of Game of Thrones S4 this week (though seemingly we … More
Housing the Citizenry
You are tenacious so-and-sos, you lot. I still get as many hits here at PRoM on a bad day as … More
How do archaeology conferences work?: engagement from my sofa
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of going to archaeology conferences and tweeting from them like a particularly chirrupy and … More
Daniel Kahneman and my unexpected stupid
About half-way through the Masters degree I’ve just finished I began to get interested in how and when I had … More
Open access – the nuclear option
Universities do, of course, have one option in the open access war that the publishers may not be considering: they … More
CaSE all-party debate at the Royal Society #1
The call of pie prevented me from watching the whole of tonight’s all-party debating panel (David Willetts, Julian Huppert, Liam … More
The Fingerprints of the Lone Maverick Researcher
I still don’t know whether Graham Robb’s The Ancient Paths is tosh or not. If you dig into the book … More
The narrative device of striding around looking amazed
Lots of terribly clever people who I admire are busy laying into this on Twitter and I can see why. … More
Things that are not necessarily untrue
One thing I find interesting about the Richard III Society is that (in their collective worldview at least) they seem … More