This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – February 2014. The site of the Grace Dieu, during fieldwork in the 1980s. The ship was huge, in medieval terms: the archaeologist in the red wetsuit is standing on the end of the keel at the stern – the other end…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – February 2014. A different sort of 1914 anniversary: a plaque in Southampton marking the centenary of the death of the composer Charles Dibdin Anniversaries are not easy to escape, at least if you’re trying to interpret history. The current plethora of…
This article was originally published on my WordPress blog – February 2014. Modern-day Climping Beach – once part of the village of Atherington From tales of Atlantis to the Arthurian romance of Lyonesse, there is no shortage of legends about land that has sunk beneath the waves, but inundations of…