Lea Ypi, Free. A child and a country at the end of history
This is a marvelous almost magical book about growing up in Albania. It encompasses just over a decade under communism, then her teenage...
Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover and Albania
John Sainsbury, who passed away on 14 January, aged 94, is remembered for his business acumen, but he also had an avid interest in...
Kosta Lako (1949-2021): placemaker of Saranda (ancient Onchesmus/Onhezm)
Kosta Lako was one of the outstanding Albanian archaeologists of his generation. Born in the coastal port of Saranda in December 1949, he...
Prince Philip and the British School at Rome
I only encountered the Duke of Edinburgh once. In October 1980 he visited the British School at Rome in his capacity as President of the...
EXCAVATING BUTRINT IN LOCKDOWN: BUTRINT 7 PUBLISHED
Lockdown has had its silver lining: working remotely with David Hernandez in South Bend, Indiana, Butrint 7 – a complicated volume...
Fifty Years of Archaeologists putting the Great into Britain
The UK government, struggling with Brexit and the pandemic, have reacted by ear-marking treasury cuts in a practice Britain does best:...
Netflix’s The Dig
The very thought of this new film thrilled me, and I wasn’t disappointed. The story of the discovery and excavation in 1939 of the...
On a personal note - my father, Roy Hodges
In March 1969 after the inaugurial meeting of the Box Archaeological and Natural History Society (Box, Wiltshire, UK), my father invited...
In Memoriam – Sheila Gibson 1920-2020
I was reading some proofs today and remembered with a start that Sheila Gibson, the peerless archaeological architect, who died on...
A Prehistorian at large in Robert Harris’s new thriller
Robert Harris’ characteristically gripping thriller about the race to locate the launch sites of the deadly German V2 ballistic bombs...
