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Category Archives: History
A Moment of Reality
I spent three years as a student at Cambridge and never did so many things. I never visited the Fitzwilliam Museum. I never went inside King’s College Chapel. And I never visited Madingley American Cemetery. I soon put the first … Continue reading
Posted in History, In the Long Run
Tagged Cambridge, Madingley American Cemetery, war, World War II
Time Team. The Great War: the great leveller
Next Sunday is Remembrance Sunday: 11/11/12. At 4.40 in the afternoon Channel 4 will be broadcasting the programme we filmed at the Machine Gun Corps training camp at Belton Park, just outside Grantham, Lincolnshire. I’m not sure how this will … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, History, In the Long Run, Time Team
Tagged Belton House, Francis Pryor, Time Team, World War I
Drool Britannia
Like I’d guess sixty million other Brits I’m in a bit of a daze. First it was the man with the side-burns on his bike, then the Olympics, then the Paralympics and now Andy Murray. We sit in front of … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Olympic Games, Paralympic Games
Climate and the British Scene
The weather is an integral part of the landscape. Just go for a stroll on a sunny day: everything is rosy. The hills in the distance are there, but slightly concealed by the summer haze. Overhead, fluffy fair weather clouds … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landscape
Tagged Burghley House, climate, clouds, John Clare, Ribblehead Viaduct, Stamford
Travel: a Cure for Olympic Flatulence
If I had five pounds for every person I’ve met who’s been complaining about belches and farts caused by sitting in front of the television hour after hour watching the Olympics, I’d be a rich man. Happily, while the rest … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, History, Landscape, Time Team
Tagged Avebury, Guardian, Maes Howe, Maiden Castle, The Ridgeway, Time Team
In The Long Run: Times of Change
Every so often I want to try to live up to the title of this blog: In the Long Run. And now seems as good a time as any. Recent revelations about the latest nasty bit of bankers’ greed have … Continue reading
Posted in History, In the Long Run
Tagged bankers, banks, greed
Welcome to My Family Home: the Belton Spitfire Prom.
Many years ago – sometime back in the Middle Bronze Age – I used to be a Morris dancer. I know it’s hard to credit, given my almost total lack of bodily poise, grace or presence, but it happened, largely, … Continue reading
Posted in History, My life
Tagged Belton House, Francis Pryor, Kesteven Morris, morris dancing, National Trust, Spitfire Prom
Time Team Series 20. My Third Episode: Rig Day
Archaeology is very good at examining the social effects of long-term historical change. In this episode we’ll actually be returning to the huge after-effects of the rise of the modern industrial world. One by-product of that era, if one can … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcasting, History, Landscape, Time Team
Tagged Francis Pryor, Time Team, Witley Court
Here Comes Summer…
I got home from filming the last Time Team (the Machine Gun Corps training camp), then spent three frantic days trying (and failing) to catch-up in the garden, before setting off for the West Country on a pre-booked holiday in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Landscape
Tagged Arley Station, Hidcote Manor, Severn Valley Railway, Upper Arley, Victoria Bridge
Time Team Series 20, my second episode: Lest we Forget
I’ll keep this one short, like the one minute remembrance silence that Tony spontaneously called for at the end of the final scene. I don’t think it was filmed, and probably just as well – we were cold, tired and … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Broadcasting, History, Time Team
Tagged Belton House, Francis Pryor, Third Battle of Ypres, Time Team, Walter Marlborough Pryor, World War I
