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Visualizing Portus #UoSFLPortus

Right, I think I might have reached the limits of Lego Digital Designer. And I’m only about a third of the way through visualizing the Grandi Magazzini di Settimio Severo. I started with the excellent notes and drawings made by Grant Cox and Christina Triantafillou especially for as after a couple of us on the Portus MOOC started modelling building five. From that I created a Lego model of a single warehouse space – a guess a “Magazzino”. Continue reading →

Wolvesey Castle and diplomacy with France

Central to Henry V’s pretext for war in 1415 was his claim of pursuing a just war against the French in support of his rights in France. In the parliament of November 1414, Henry had been advised to send an embassy to France. This was duly sent and arrived in Paris in February 1415, but although the French were prepared to make territorial concessions, the English delegates felt that they lacked the authority to accept the terms offered. Continue reading →

Pre-sessional course begins next week

Hundreds of international students will be arriving from all over the world to take part in the summer pre-sessional courses in English for Academic Purposes in Modern Languages at the University of Southampton, beginning on Monday 30th June 2014. For further information about the University’s pre-sessional courses, visit the pre-sessional pages on the University website. Continue reading →

Get Ready for Languages: An exciting online resource for new Southampton Modern Languages students

Are you soon to start your studies in Modern Languages at Southampton? Do you have questions about what life is like as a student in the Modern Languages department? If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, take a look at our new online resource, Get Ready for Languages, which aims to guide you to useful information about your future life as a Modern Languages student at Southampton. Continue reading →

Simon introduces the 2014 Portus Field School

The discussion of the Navalia and the nails relates to the following sections on the course: Building Five – a possible Navalia [Advanced] Nails and other metal artefacts from Building Five Reconstructing Building Five Use of Building Five Some examples of the “spheres” that Simon refers to are embedded below and also available on our Portus profile on Sphere. Continue reading →

Language learning for students with learning disabilities

The Guardian has recently published an article discussing the ways in which language teaching can be made more inclusive and inspiring for students with learning disabilities. To read the article in full, visit the Guardian website. Continue reading →

Nelson and Slavery

Listen to Christer Petley’s paper about Horatio Nelson, slavery and the Caribbean. It was presented to a conference about the Royal Navy and the British Atlantic empire, hosted by the National Museum of the Royal Navy in Portsmouth. Continue reading →

Portus and Me

Hembo taking photographs for photogrammetry. Photo: Rose Ferraby First time i came to Portus in 2008 and spent two months learning various technologies used in archaeological (high tech) excavation. Since then I’ve been back there every year, and I am writing this post from the Casale, overlooking the Grandi Magazzini Di Settimio Severo. Continue reading →

Southampton Archaeology Activities Day – Saturday 5th July 9:30am to 4pm

Southampton Archaeology Activities Day As part of the Festival of British Archaeology we are organising an Archaeology Activity Day at the University of Southampton. Continue reading →

A Lego Magazzini #buildyourownportus

My post a couple of weeks back on the Portus MOOC, and trying to model Building Five in Lego aroused some visits from my fellow students, a few comments in the MOOC itself, and at least one other attempt to use Lego Digital Designer to as an archeological tool. Continue reading →

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