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Current Archaeology ‘Book of the Year’ Nominations 2024

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[…]

Advent Calendar Day 6

Day 6: Weapons and Warfare Strengthen your knowledge of significant altercations, ancient armies and historic weapons with these ten books on weapons and warfare. Use code ADVENT06 at checkout on the Pen and Sword website[…]

Oxbow Books Advent Calendar 2023

We’ve got an announcement that will make you shiver with excitement: an avalanche of amazing deals is heading your way! That’s right, the Oxbow Books Advent Calendar is back, and it’s bigger and better than[…]

Inside Anglo-Saxon Church Architecture and Stone Sculpture

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[…]

A Conversation with Richard Osgood

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[…]

Beyond the Epitaph: 6 Intriguing Facts About Britain’s Forgotten War

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,[…]

Verse Voyage: 10 Poetic Picks to Celebrate #NationalPoetryDay

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[…]

SNEAK PEEK—Belle Nash and the Bath Circus

In William Keeling’s series, The Gay Street Chronicles, Belle Nash is a gay hero in Regency Bath. At the end of his last adventure, Belle Nash was banished for four years to the island of Grenada. It is now 1835, and Belle has returned to Bath, glad to be back but pained by the absence of his most recent Caribbean love…

Mapping out Viking Place-names in East Anglia: Looking for Patterns of Settlement and Migration

What’s in a name? Discover what the Scandinavian-influenced place names of East Anglia can reveal about Viking migration in the region with this blog, in which David Boulton charts out his course from his fascination[…]