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Monthly Archives: November 2015
Why the Fens Aren’t Flat and Boring
I hate our boring preconceptions about places. London isn’t rich, crowded and stuck-up, any more than Liverpool is gritty and down-to-earth. They’re just places where people live, love and wish-away their lives. Reality is what we all want to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Cadbury, black fens, fens, silt fens, The Way the Truth and the Dead
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Archaeology and the English Language
This is a guest blog I did for my crowdfunding friends at DigVentures. It’s very serious indeed and should provide some useful material for undergraduate dissertations. The picture is particularly worthy of mention. The duck is called Mephistopheles, or … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology
Tagged academic writing, Alan Cadbury, DigVentures, English language, George Orwell, writing
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