Updates on New Content
Every time I add something new to the site I'll write about it here, in this website diary.
Recent Additions (most recent first)
(April 2024 - editing site and layout)
(December 2023-March 2024 - research on Roman villas)
(June-November 2023 - working on new content including audio files of popular blog pieces on ancient history, archaeology and women’s history; general editing of site)
May 31st 2023 - Politics Blog - ‘Ed Balls Should Stick To Dad Dancing - Debate With Prof Stock Is Beyond Him’
May 28th 2023 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Musculoskeletal Disorders in Archaeologists Who Dig’
May 14th 2023 - Politics Blog - ‘Penny Mordaunt Seeks Out Her Prime Directive’
(April 2023 - site editing (Biog) and research)
March 2023 - work on ‘Roman Villas in Britain: New Discoveries’ page
March 14th 2023 - Dig Food Blog - ‘Cheapo Meals: Tinned Tomatoes on Toast’
February 25th 2023 - Dig Food Blog - ‘Cheapo Meals: Sardines on Toast’
February 24th 2023 - addition to ‘Villa Discoveries Since 1993’
February 6th 2023 - Dig Food Blog - ‘Cheapo Meals: Eggs on Toast’
(Dec 2022-Feb 2023 - research & development for website)
December 8th 2022 - Dig Food Blog - ‘Humble Mushrooms - Are They Worth It?’
November 14th 2022 - Dig Food Blog - ‘Are 30p Meals Really Possible, Including Hidden Costs? No, Not Really’
October 31st 2022 Home Page - temporary Hop Tu Naa (Halloween) content
October 30th 2022 - Politics Blog - ‘Phil Shaddock RIP - The Man Who Ate the Raffle Prize’
October 8th 2022 - editing and updating of page: Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain. Addition of new page on recent discoveries of Roman villas in Britain (under construction).
September 2022 - research for cost-of-living ‘Dig Food’ Archaeology Blog posts - coming soon, in October
August 21st 2022 - Politics Blog - ‘Penny Mordaunt - All At Sea With Liz Truss’
August 4th 2022 - Politics Blog - ‘The “Support of Penny Mordaunt”? I’d Rather Trust a Fifth Columnist’
July 18th 2022 - Politics Blog - ‘Margaret Foster, Friend of the ‘Hancock Dynasty’, and Jacqui Hancock to be Voted on as Honorary Aldermen’
July 13th 2022 - Politics Blog - ‘The Unease Around Penny Mordaunt: A Mumsnet Explainer’
(June-July 2022 General site editing and tidying)
June 11th 2022 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Women In Archaeology - Meeting Dr Larch Garrad, Isle of Man’
May 8th 2022 - Politics Blog - ‘Mike Hancock and his ‘Category X’ Parliamentary Pass - his Victim ‘Annie’ Says ‘Enough’
May 3rd 2022 - LONG READ in Archaeology Blog - ‘When Gertrude Met Vita: the Friendship of Gertrude Bell and Vita Sackville-West’
(December 2021 to April 2022 - research and editing)
November 14th 2021 - Archaeology Blog - ‘The Falklands Yomper - Still Betwixt Barracks and Beach’
November 5th 2021 - Politics Blog - ‘Fireworks Ahoy - the Questions that Still Exist for the Portsmouth Lib Dems’
October 31st 2021 - Archaeology Blog - ‘The Horrors of the Burning of ‘Witches’ and Heretics - Island Stories’
October 12th 2021 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Infanticidal Women: The Strange Resurgence Of Murder Trials In A Corner Of Modern England’
July 10th 2021 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Gertrude Bell and the Pandemic’
April 22nd 2021 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Norton Disney Roman Villa Landscape 2021 - A New Threat’
Full Archive List (oldest first)
September 1st 2016 - website launched
September 2nd and 3rd 2016 - additions to Gertrude Bell Project Page and Gertrude Bell Gallery
September 12th 2016 - TRAC papers added
October 3rd 2016 - Roman Palestine - 'Roman Landscapes of the West Bank' page - first draft
October 5th - 6th 2016 - general editing of Home Page, and additions to Roman Landscapes of the West Bank
October 7th 2016 - additions to Jerusalem Gallery. Additions to Roman Landscapes of the West Bank and Roman Israel pages
October 15th 2016 - general editing
November 15th 2016 - general editing including Home Page, and a news update about Scott Vanderbilt's work on digitising to map form the Gazetteer of Roman Villas in Britain.
November 16th-18th - general site editing including repairs to intra-site links, and changes to site lay-out.
November 30th - 10th December - changes to Main Home Page. Working on as yet unpublished blog pieces. BLOG publication dates: estimated mid-late December 2016
December 11th 2016 - TRAC archives page added - original delegate list from 1991 (1st conference in Newcastle) and letter.
December 13th - El's Politics Blog begins.
December 16th - new political blog post; and El's Archaeology Blog begins.
December 17th-19th - added Twitter. Added new TRAC 1 (Newcastle 1991) archival info.
December - Twitter activated.
January 7th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - Greenham Common Peace Camp, space and material culture, women's history, competing masculinities
January 14th - Political Blog - 'The Knives Are Out For You, Eleanor'.
January 16th - Political Blog - Hancock and the 'Independent' Blue Letter
January 18th - some Archaeology of Infant Death pages under review (disabled for time being)
January 25th - Political Blog - Why Weren't Hancock's Texts Enough?
February 6th - new photo added to Gertrude Bell Project page (Auguste Salzmann 1854, Damascus Gate interior) and some new text
February 9th 2017 - Gertrude Bell - More Than 'A Free Booting Scholar'. Archive article added
February 10th 2017 - Political Blog - Neil Gaiman - An Apology (piece about Lib Dem Cabinet shenanigans in Portsmouth)
February 12th 2017 - 'Romano-British Villas and the Social Construction of Space'. Article from Social Archaeology of Houses 1990
February 14th 2017 - El's Urban Garden & Food Blog begins. 'The Power of the Small Urban Garden'. Food history and food politics, set in a small urban garden in Fratton, Portsmouth UK
February 17th 2017 - Urban Garden & Food Blog - Growing Chillies In Britain And What To Do With Them
February 18th 2017 - Political Blog - From Nuttall To Hancock - The Strange Arts Of The Political CV
February 21st 2017 - 'Animal and Infant Burials on Romano-British Villas: a Revitalization Movement'. Article from Sacred and Profane 1991
February 24th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - Beadlam Roman Villa - Unpicking an Archaeological Site (Show Houses and Quantum Archaeology)
February 26th 2017 - Archaeology of Infant Death - 'Images and Contexts of Infants and Infant Burials: some thoughts on some cross-cultural evidence' 1990 Archaeological Review from Cambridge 11:1
March 1st 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Yomper'
March 2nd 2017 - Urban Garden & Food Blog - 'March in the Urban Garden'
March 16th 2017 - 'Wells on Villa Sites in Roman Britain'
March 21st 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Experimental Archaeology - building the first Iron Age roundhouse at Castell Henllys, Pembs, Wales, 1981'. A piece written for my daughter Maddy - from 21 to 21. Happy birthday.
March 28th 2017 - 'Inventing TRAC'
April 19th 2017 - 'The Death of Gertrude Bell'
April 20th 2017 - Urban Garden & Food Blog - 'April in the Urban Garden'
April 28th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Excavation - Let's talk about the Mental and Physical Challenges'
May 2nd 2017 - Politics Blog - 'Tam Langley - the best Lib Dem MP this city never had'
May 29th 2017 - Politics Blog - 'Shaddock Vs Hunt - the Rumble in Hancock's Jungle'
June 13th 2017 - Urban Life Blog - 'Urban Crow Rescue - Mortimer's Story'
June 15th 2017 - general editing and updates to home pages; and postscript to crow story
June 18th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Writing Roman Britain in 1,200 Words - aka Writing for Encyclopedias'
June 28th 2017 - 1st July 2017 - editing of format of main home page (the hub)
July 9th 2017 - Postscript #2 update to Mortimer's Story (rescue crow) in Urban Life Blog. Mortimer lives!
July 20th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - Excavation Challenges: Food, Fieldwork and Difference [now in Dig Food Blog]
July 22nd 2017 - Archaeology Blog - postscript to 'Yomper' - news is that statue is staying put
July 22nd 2017 - Urban Life Blog - 'Spring into Summer in the Urban Garden'
August 2nd 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Please Feed The Archaeologists (Recipes 4 All)' [now in Dig Food Blog]
August 16th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Archaeological Dig Food - Vegan Special' [now in Dig Food Blog]
August 19th 2017 - Site Maintenance and Editing - Main Home Page And Hub split into: main home page hub; about this website; and copyright
August-Sept 2017 - general site editing and maintenance
September 23rd 2017 - Politics Blog - 'Reflections on a Resignation - Football, Politics and Chucking Women under the Bus'
October 9th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Dig Food - Vegan, Gluten-Free and Type2-Friendly: Prep & Store Cupboard' [now in Dig Food Blog]
October 24th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'A Week Of Fieldwork Recipes - Vegan, Gluten-Free And Type2-Friendly [now in Dig Food Blog]
October 24th 2017 - separated out Dig Food Blog from main Archaeology Blog
November 8th 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Gertrude Bell, Photographer - from Jerusalem to the Dead Sea'
November 13th 2017 - Politics Blog - 'If The Lib Dems Care About Women's Well-Being, They've Got A Funny Way Of Showing It'
December 17th 2017 - Politics Blog - "The Best Deal We Could Get" - The Role of Alistair Carmichael MP, in a Scandal'
December 22nd 2017 - Archaeology Blog - 'Gertrude Bell's Christmas in Bethlehem, 1899'
January 20th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - 'The Intriguing Roman Villa at Norton Disney - a Conundrum under Threat'
January 31st 2018 - Archaeology Blog - 'Three Burials at Norton Disney - and the End of Roman Villas in Britain'
February 15th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - 'What is a Roman Villa?'
March 7th 2018 - Politics Blog - 'A History Lesson from Gertrude Bell to the Lib Dems - Hancock and Armenian Genocide Denial'
Mid-march till Late-april - some major surgery came calling
April 30th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - 'Polyandry in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain - Myth or Reality?'
May 1st 2018 - PhD thesis 'Aspects of the Roman Villa as a Form of British Settlement', Newcastle University 1988 - detailed contents
May 3rd 2018 - Politics Blog - 'The Liberal Democrat MPs, An Alleged 'Russian Spy', And Their Teeny Tiny London Flat'
May 16th 2018 - Politics Blog - 'Gerald Vernon-Jackson and his Hancockian Resurgence to Lead a Lib Dem Portsmouth'
May 19th 2018 - Politics Blog - 'Shout Out to the Lib Dems who Want to 'Just Move On' - You Are the Story Now'
May 22nd 2018 - Politics Blog - 'Hancock's Back'
May 23rd 2018 - Politics Blog - 'Hancock Calling - and He's Got Gerald's Number'
May 25th 2018 - Politics Blog - 'Too Unwell To Talk, Not Too Unwell To Speak - Hancock's Still Spinning'
June 18th 2018 - minor edits, Main Hub Page
June 18th 2018 - Dig Food Blog - 'Fieldwork Food and Diabetes'
June 24th 2018 - Urban Life Blog - 'An Urban Fledgling Blackbird - and Loss of Habitat'
June 26th 2018 - Urban Life Blog - 'The Urban Bat - Challenges Ahead'
June 29th 2018 - minor site edits
June 30th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - 'Rape - the Use and Misuse of Ideas about Sexual Violence'
June 30th 2018 - 'On the Incompleteness of Archaeological Narratives' (chapter from Invisible People and Places: writing gender and childhood into European Archaeology eds Jenny Moore and Eleanor Scott)
June 30th 2018 - 'Rape - the Use of Misuse of Narratives of Sexual Violence - (includes paper from Indecent Exposure: sexuality, society and the archaeological record ed Lynne Bevan)
July 5th 2018 - additions to Jerusalem Gallery
July 13th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - 'The "Gods of Old" - and the Power of Community Archaeology'
July 14th 2018 - updates to Biog
July 27th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - 'Museums, Children and Violence - Boudicca in Colchester'
SUMMER RECESS - working on three books for online publication (On: Gertrude Bell; Archaeology of Children; Inclusive Archaeological Practice - Food.) [edited entry]
October 13th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Gertrude Bell - in Search of the “Real Woman’’’
October 22nd 2018 - Urban Life Blog - ‘Preserving a Tomato Glut - Blanch, Peel and Freeze’
October 25th 2018 - Politics Blog - ‘The Politics of … Student Housing’
November 15th 2018 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Gertrude Bell’s WW1 - Beginnings’
December 22nd 2018 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Gertrude Bell 1914-15 - Christmas in France, A New Year in Purgatory’
January 18th 2019 - Archaeology Blog - ‘Fine Dining in the Desert with Gertrude Bell’
March 14th 2019 - Politics Blog - ‘Did Mumsnet Just Hand Penny Mordaunt Her Arse?’
March 16th 2019 - Politics Blog - ‘Did Mumsnet Catch Out Penny Mordaunt Over Turkey “Lies”’?
April 8th 2019 - Politica Blog - ‘Penny Mordaunt, THAT Mumsnet Webchat, And A Brewing Children’s Safeguarding Scandal’
May 2nd 2019 - Politics Blog - ‘Penny Mordaunt, Defence Secretary - Has Theresa May Replaced One Gaffe-Prone 'Liar' With Another?’
June 20th 2019 - Urban Life Blog - ‘The Crow Family at the Newcome Arms, Portsmouth’ (updated July 4th)
July 9th 2019 - Archaeology Blog - ‘The Prehistoric Infants of Wadi Kubbaniya – Making Young Lives Visible’ (link to guest blog on The History Girls website)
September 4th 2019 - Politics Blog - ‘Five Political Things I Love About Mumsnet This Week’
November 7th 2019 - Urban Life Blog - ‘Urban Cats - Fleas and Flea Allergy Dermatitis (FAD)’
November 11th 2019 - Archaeology Blog - ‘‘Our Boy’ - An Act Of Remembrance In A Landscape of the Fallen, East Jerusalem’
November 29th 2019 - Archaeology Blog - ‘The Last Dambuster - Landmark, Landscape And Memory At Norton Disney, Lincs’
December 3rd 2019 - Edits to ‘About This Website’ and ‘Main Home Page and Hub’
January 30th 2020 - Edits to ‘Main Home Page and Hub’
February 3rd 2020 - Politics Blog - ‘Keir Starmer’s Mumsnet Webchat & The ‘Lost’ Inquiry into Children’s Safeguarding’
February 5th 2020 - Politics Blog - ‘Emily Thornberry’s Mumsnet Webchat & the Children’s Safeguarding Inquiry Not Worth a Mention’
February 6th 2020 - Greenham Common Gallery added
April 22nd 2020 - Main page edit (news)
May 21st 2020 - Politics Blog - ‘Portsmouth’s Follies - Will imploding business plans make student sky-hutches redundant?'
Throughout 2020 - editing, research, article preparation, blog piece(s) preparation. Provision of assistance to researchers and other bloggers, and receipt of donations to this website
January 15th 2021 - site updates
March 15th 2021 - Politics Blog with link in Archaeology Blog - ‘From Greenham Common to Clapham Common - Two Generations of Vigil & Protest’
July 7th - 10th 2021 - site editing
July 16th 2021 - edits