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:
Black Trowel Collective Microgrants: www.blacktrowelcollective.wordpress.com Links:
01:27 – Honorable Mentions and News to Keep and Eye On:
An Archaeologist Who ‘Discovered’ One of the Earliest Crucifixion Scenes is Going to Jail for Faking His Unbelievable Finds:
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/spanish-archaeologists-fake-discoveries-1885953?fbclid=IwAR2mnf4RBJb56DoxHfK5AEVeumd2HT-JrnwaXRvEqo3x6Qy3P7YjfQuKLlQ
The Oldest And Largest Mayan Ceremonial Structure Ever Discovered Has Been Revealed:
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-oldest-and-largest-mayan-ceremonial-structure-ever-discovered-has-been-revealed/?fbclid=IwAR3wUtxplqlqRcLHoKmTmYGg5huYfgEd601yw4fNUZMsfeVZVhiR8bhTBYo
Major discovery of oldest and largest Mayan Structure in MExico sheds light on the rise of the Ancient Civilization:
https://tinyurl.com/ydfoa2ma
Archaeology in Development Management PDF:
https://www.algao.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Archaeology_in_Development_Management.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2Tz0gEH15EhBpRR0ray7tlcvsoeJ3khsFqkFF0o4-XOXQxdKLsP8wELhw
14:47 – COVID-19 Heritage Sector Response:
Vindolanda Fort: Roman site becomes family’s lockdown home:
https://tinyurl.com/yb3bkb35
COVID-19 and Brexit hit bid to save The London shipwreck: https://tinyurl.com/ycnuz328
£250,000 Boost to Creswell Crags From NLHF: https://www.creswell-crags.org.uk/2020/06/26/250000-boost-to-creswell-crags-from-national-lottery-heritage-fund/?fbclid=IwAR28vuDPUyKia2BSkDMiVvE9ZS8OD4dq1S3SLlLlO5DbtJlz6KdxA-zyUHU
Higher education: reopening buildings and campuses:
https://tinyurl.com/ycyhqo2e
Heritage Alliance COIVD-19 Guidance Hub:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p4w-6tGao9SmwDAfSB9yOY5482Tvmgz9miZyfn8XnNQ/edit?fbclid=IwAR12Qz5GDzQYlj7k3xZl4U4dMN2bgVqkK32zrBbO-TB3XPFdOJFTxL9Epkg
Back to the grind: Historic Mills Boosted by flour shortage during COVID-19 lockdown:
https://tinyurl.com/y7zbc8dr
35:56 - Sarah Parcak - Statue toppling instructions:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8376541/Archaeologist-gives-instructions-safely-pull-obelisks-George-Floyd-protests.html
Edward Colston statue pulled out of Bristol Harbour:
https://tinyurl.com/yagelvfl
Boris Johnson says removing statues is ‘to lie about our history’:
https://tinyurl.com/y9xhj6zr
Statue Wars: Mary Beard:
https://tinyurl.com/ycnl8nre
David Olusoga: “Thousands of Britons opposed abolition - Because they owned slaves”: https://tinyurl.com/y74gftcd Calls grow for black history to be taught to all English school pupils: https://tinyurl.com/ydxvtk7s George Floyd: Welsh black history lessons backed by race council chief: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52950562?fbclid=IwAR0MaUwjSibjT_OHrXMuVoEziG3gYxOkvOVeX3cPDu8pgr-bEYZrsKg9tfA The history of the British Empire is not being taught: https://tinyurl.com/yd5h6tqx