Today’s blog is an ode to the women who have wielded pens, megaphones, and shared secrets to build communities and fight injustice. #FindYourVoice in these 11 volumes that turn up the volume on subversive women brandishing language and rhetoric like blades.
What Grooved Ware Can Teach us about Social Developments in the Late 4th and Early 3rd Millennia BC. This groovy blog by Mike Copper, co-editor of Revisiting Grooved Ware, will take you on a journey from Orkney to Cornwall and beyond, following the rise and demise of Grooved Ware, and revealing the insights into the… Read More »Into the Groove
Guest post by Laura Gowers, co-author of Listen to Your Microbes | 7 min read Most of life on Earth is invisible! We are, in fact, living in a microbial world, surrounded by trillions of microscopic creatures. They are all around us, in the air we breathe, the water we drink; they are in us… Read More »Listen To Your Microbes: A Story of Connection, Collaboration and Creation!
Did you see the stories about the Cerne Abbas Giant in the news back in January? Want to learn more? Enjoy this exclusive insight into a hugely exciting Windgather Press volume on the subject, published August 2024! By Julie Gardiner, Publisher for Oxbow Books, and Michael J. Allen, editor of A Date with the Two… Read More »A Date with the Two Cerne Giants
Voting is now open for the 16th annual Current Archaeology Awards and we have exciting news: not one, but two Oxbow books, as well as a title from Sidestone Press, have been nominated in the Book of the Year Category! These awards are voted for entirely by the public, so do get involved and support… Read More »Current Archaeology ‘Book of the Year’ Nominations 2024
Calling all Anglo-Saxon architecture admirers: want to know what to expect when checking out churches and studying sculpture? Enjoy top tips and insights, as well a sneak peek between the covers of Anglo-Saxon Church Architecture and Stone Sculpture with this blog. By Guy Points | 4 min read Anglo-Saxon Church Architecture and Stone Sculpture provides… Read More »Inside Anglo-Saxon Church Architecture and Stone Sculpture
We were recently fortunate enough to sit down for a conversation with Richard Osgood, author of Broken Pots, Mending Lives, which tells the story of Operation Nightingale, the groundbreaking wellbeing initiative using archaeology to help veterans on their journeys to recovery. Scroll down to discover what led Richard to become an archaeologist, learn more about… Read More »A Conversation with Richard Osgood
At the British 2nd Division War Cemetery located in Kohima, India, there is a stone memorial with an inscribed epitaph that states, ‘When you go home, tell them of us and say, for your tomorrow, we gave our today.’ Unfortunately, these poignant words have largely gone unheeded. Despite the fact that the British Empire and… Read More »Beyond the Epitaph: 6 Intriguing Facts About Britain’s Forgotten War
The first Thursday of October is Forward Arts Foundation’s #NationalPoetryDay! NPD was founded to foster a love of language and acknowledge the value of verse in our society, whether it be for self-expression, cultivating understanding and connection, or simply for the sake of lavish lyricism. Since we’re not full-time rhymers, we’ve decided to mark the… Read More »Verse Voyage: 10 Poetic Picks to Celebrate #NationalPoetryDay
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