Naxos – Chora
I am passing through the Cycladic island of Naxos on my way to visit Colin Renfrew’s excavations on Keros. The little airport defines one...
Athens Elefthérios Venizélos Airport
Airports, according to the French philosopher, Marc Augé, are quintessential non-places. They are anonymous and essentially figments of...
John Blair’s 'Building Anglo-Saxon England'
In the summer of 1969, excavating on the Bell Hotel site in Gloucester, we discovered – deep down – the remains of the Flavian Roman...
Democracy, liberty and a cook called Hercules
Today I was invited to WHYY in Philadelphia to participate in a radio programme. The theme was the silent rise of demagogues and...
Nico Muhly’s Liar, Suite from Marnie
The Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin kicked off its new season with a world premiere of Nico Muhly’s Liar –...
Musings on the European Archaeology Association Congress and Brexit
The European Archaeology Association 24th congress was in Barcelona. It is the first time I have attended and I spoke to a canonical...
Worms and deep Viking levels
Why drive 3 hours from Copenhagen to see a hole in a side-street of medieval Ribe in western Denmark? Passion or sheer folly, my...
Neolithic California in South Devon
Buckland Abbey, a National Trust property in south Devon, nestles in a richly wooded valley that leads by way of inlets to Plymouth....
Brexit and King Arthur
England’s exceptional weather this summer has attracted foreign tourists in record numbers and persuaded the English to stay in England....
Yanis Varoufakis and Homer
As a baby-boomer who has enjoyed the extraordinary benefits of the post-war European project, it is hard not to be deeply affected by...
