Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Link of the Month:
The Paper Chase: The Printer, The Spymaster & The Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers:
https://tinyurl.com/y6xqh7am
Links:
05:30 – UK Archaeology outside the European Union:
Wessex Archaeology Announced as Highways England’s Archaeological Specialists for A303 Upgrade Near Stonehenge:
https://www.wessexarch.co.uk/news/wessex-archaeology-announced-highways-englands-archaeological-specialists-a303-upgrade-near
A303 Stonehenge Contractors Named:
https://highwaysengland.co.uk/our-work/a303-stonehenge/latest-news/a303-stonehenge-contractors-named/
MPs Reject Attempts to Strengthen Post-Brexit Fishing Protections:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/oct/13/brexit-mps-reject-adopting-sustainable-quotas-in-fisheries-bill
Government Overturns Measures Aiming to Guarantee UK Food Standards in New Law:
https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/government-overturns-measures-aiming-to-guarantee-uk-food-standards-in-new-law-39616777.html
Planning reforms are ‘big opportunity’ to tear down brutalist buildings, says Jenrick:
https://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/planning-reforms-are-big-opportunity-to-tear-down-brutalist-buildings-says-jenrick/5108337.article
Institute for Government - Preparing Brexit: How Ready is the UK?
https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/preparing-brexit-how-ready-uk
Latest on EU-Brexit Talks, Tony connelly (RTE) Twitter Thread:
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1324041492105728003
28:29 – Mass Exodus of Students is Expected as Second English Lockdown Starts:
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/education-54796255
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Restrictions:
https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus
Students Defy Guidance and Race Home Before Lockdown in England:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/03/students-defy-guidance-and-race-home-before-lockdown-in-england
Site Working in the UK and COVID-19: Last Updated May 2020:
https://www.archaeologists.net/practices/coronavirus/siteworking
Can Construction Workers and Builders Work During the Second Coronavirus Lockdown?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/11242165/construction-workers-builders-coronavirus-second-lockdown/
47:23 - The Function of History and Uncomfortable Truths:
China Insists Genghis Khan Exhibit Not Use Words ‘Genghis Khan’:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/14/china-insists-genghis-khan-exhibit-not-use-words-genghis-khan French Museum Postpones Genghis Khan Exhibition, Accusing Chinese Authorities of Censorship:
https://hyperallergic.com/594655/french-museum-genghis-khan-chinese-authorities/ Facebook Bans Holocaust Denial Content:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-54509975
Anglo-Saxon Girl’s Skull with Nose and Lips Cut off is ‘Earliest Physical Evidence of Brutal Punishment for Female Adultery’:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/anglo-saxon-skull-female-adultery-brutal-punishment-a4560701.html National Trust ‘Facing Questions Over its Purpose:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8874335/National-Trust-facing-questions-purpose-regulator-warns-inquiry-looming.html The National Trust’s State of Historical Confusion:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-national-trust-s-state-of-historical-confusion