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Antinoupolis Survey Magnetometry Commences

Trying to catch up with blog posts this week, on a slow internet connection and pushing the magnetometer survey forwards. Work is moving ahead with the survey of the necropolis of Antinoupolis. The area was gridded out last Saturday, with 10 hectares prepared, and the magnetometry has been moving forwards. The area in question is located between the north-western corner of the city, the Coptic cemetery to the west and the confines of the wadi to the north. Continue reading →

British Academy report on the state of languages

The British Academy published its latest report entitled “Languages: The State of the Nation, Demand and Supply of Language Skills in the UK” on 14th February 2013. The publication, based on a survey of UK employers, a wide-ranging appraisal of language policies across England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and a synthesis of existing evidence on language skills aims to deepen understanding of foreign language use in the UK and identify key priorities for action. Continue reading →

Languages in the 2014 National Curriculum

On 7th February 2013, the government announced its latest thinking on the National Curriculum / GCSE reform. Studying a foreign language will become compulsory in Key Stage 2 (ages 8-11), and will continue to be compulsory in Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14), but will now continue to be optional in Key Stage 4. For full details of the new proposals, plus details of a consultation on the new national curriculum, see the DFE website. Continue reading →

York Heritage Seminar Series: Description, Dialogue or Debate? Examining the role of narrative in the visualisation of archaeology

Date: 26.02.2013 Time: 5.30pm Speaker: John Swogger (Archaeological illustrator) Location: Room 3043 building 65a (avenue campus) Tuesday 26 February we will be live-streaming another York Heritage Seminar, this time by the archaeological illustrator John Swogger who will talk about “Description, Dialogue or Debate? Examining the role of narrative in the visualisation of archaeology”. Continue reading →

Italian film showing today: La prima cosa bella (2010)

The Italian film, La prima cosa bella (Paolo Virzì, 2010) will be showing in Lecture Theatre A, Avenue Campus, at 6.30pm on Monday 18th February 2013. A review, introduction and discussion will be led by Laura Nera. La prima cosa bella racconta la storia di una mamma formidabile ed ostinatamente ottimista anche di fronte a grandi difficoltà. Attraverso pene e dolori insegna ai suoi figli il valore delle piccole cose che danno gioia nella vita. Continue reading →

sotonDH small grants: A Connected Island? Citation Network Analysis

By Tom Brughmans and Iza Romanowska This third blogpost about the Connected Island project will introduce our method for analysing publications and their citations. We will briefly discuss how citation network analysis works and the issues surrounding its applications. Finally, we will look at the very first results of this project: an analysis of publications about the Middle and Lower Palaeolithic in Hungary. Continue reading →

End of Theban survey and up to Antinoupolis

The internet connection at Sheikh Ebada near El Minya is terrible, so no blogging for the last week. This is the first time I have managed to get set up so there is plenty to write about. We finished the survey at Thebes on 7th February, and Angus and the team departed for the UK on the 8th. We caught up with some American colleagues before the end, and enjoyed an amazing view of the West Bank including Kom el Hetan, one of the focal points for the THaWS survey. Continue reading →

Southampton Tudor House (and more RTI)

I can’t read for a PhD in digital technology and cultural heritage interpretation at Southampton and not visit the recently reopened Tudor House Museum, which touts some of the very latest interpretation technology. So with my daughter on an inset day from school, I thought this would be the ideal opportunity for an educational visit. We parked at the West Quay shopping centre, and skipped across the road to Bugle Street (what a great name). Continue reading →