July 28, 2015
Between 1914 and 1918 Britain’s cities, towns, villages and countryside were transformed by war. For the first time in generations her population was directly threatened by conflict. Coastal towns were… READ MORE
June 22, 2015
I was brought up in Barnes, in south-west London, and if I went to the countryside for the day, or a weekend camping with the boy scouts, the destination would… READ MORE
March 13, 2015
Giles Darkes, Cartographic Editor for The British Historic Towns Atlas, discusses the process of preparing the maps for the latest volume in the collection – Windsor and Eton. When cartographers create maps, we’re… READ MORE
September 24, 2014
From the 10th to the 14th September 2014, the European Association of Archaeologists’ 20th Annual Meeting was held in Istanbul. Oxbow was represented at EAA 2014 by Managing Editor Julie… READ MORE
August 27, 2014
Author Alan Ruff talks here about the parts played by Edith Wharton and Lawrence Johnston in the First World War, and how the events of the war shaped their lives… READ MORE
August 6, 2014
A consideration of the training of artists before the emergence of academies of art inevitably follows a trajectory from the trade to the profession. This was once a sequence of… READ MORE
July 25, 2014
The great volcanic eruption of the Thera (or Santorini volcano) in the southern Aegean has been central to several archaeological controversies. Originally, the main question was whether this eruption (now… READ MORE
May 21, 2014
Thanks to a suggestion from my friend and colleague Chris Collard, I included in my new Dictionary of Classical Mythology an “Index of Recurring Motifs”, so that anyone interested in… READ MORE
May 16, 2014
Marianne Vedeler is Associate professor in Archaeology at Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. Her research and publications focus on clothing, style and costume accessories from the Middle Ages…. READ MORE
May 13, 2014
The volume Archaeology in the ‘Land of Tells and Ruins’ is based on the photographs and accounts made by a former student of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française in… READ MORE
