UoL Goldsmiths has a department with the promisingly Mulder-esque name of the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit. They run a glittering speakers…
You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows
On Wednesday, to Housman’s bookshop in King’s Cross, a place I am making a habit of, to hear Jeff Laster…
Patrick Keiller at Housman’s Bookshop (1)
I love the smell of hobby horses in the evening so naturally I went to hear Patrick Keiller, architect-turned-filmmaker and…
Unreviewed! Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind
There are two kinds of popular history book: the cameo and the synthesis. Historians find it easy to fit cameos…
Why do people cry on Who Do You Think You Are?
Genealogy is, when I think about it, the thing I have been doing longer than I’ve been doing pretty much…
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…
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…
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…
Artists and archaeologists – what we learned
I have a self-imposed time limit of six months from dissertation hand-in on sneaking back into the Institute of Archaeology.…
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…
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