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Registration open for Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France conference

Registration is now open for the annual conference for the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France, taking place from 9-11 September 2014 at the University of Southampton. This interdisciplinary conference will focus on the ways in which the power of Language and Culture is used and abused by individuals, social groups and institutions, and will aim to understand their role in shaping identification, contesting order or transforming society. Continue reading →

Who were the people who made the amphorae for Portus? The evidence from manufacturing techniques

Fig. 1 Handle of a Tripolitana 2 amphora showing finger indentations An understanding of the manufacturing techniques and of the production sequence in terms of how pots are made provides us with an insight into the people making the ceramics. The clay, the raw material, is a plastic additive medium, allowing for traces of its manipulation by the potters, to be left in the finished ceramic product. Fashioning methods, or manufacturing techniques, used in creating a vessel are usually detectable. Continue reading →

Lights Camera Action

Taplow House, a housing block within the notorious Aylesbury estate, southeast London, named after Taeppa’s Low, a 7th Century Anglo-Saxon burial mound 29 miles west along the River Thames, this 1960’s housing development, famous for the Channel 4 ident, the one where the camera pans across desolate concrete walkways. The regeneration is underway, a project that will see Taplow House disappear in 2024. Continue reading →

Horatio Nelson to Simon Taylor, 10 June 1805

Horatio Nelson first met Simon Taylor during the American Revolutionary War, while stationed in Jamaica. The two remained in touch. As Nelson remarks towards the end of this letter, by 1805, they had been acquainted for about three decades. The letter was written while Nelson pursued the French fleet in the Caribbean, during the months before the Battle of Trafalgar, and in it Nelson expressed his opposition to William Wilberforce and the abolitionists. Continue reading →

Conservation and computational imaging technologies

Silver roman imperatorial denarius of Julius Caesar, CAESAR /Aeneas advancing to front, holding Palladium in palm of right hand and carrying father Anchises on left shoulder (O 19 mm), Archaeological Museum of Amphipolis, clockwise from top left: digital image, comparison between PTM (top) and a standard computer graphic approximation (below), normal map and RTI visualization in specular enhancement rendering mode (c) Eleni Kotoula I’m Eleni Kotoula, a PhD student in the Archaeological... Continue reading →