1st August 2008, 05:45 PM
This discussion is turning into a fascinating session... and I feel it is throwing up dozens of interesting points... I saw which way Redearth went, so will grab hold, drag back to spotlight and ask more everything from perceptions of quality to the need for turning nasty nationalism into positive pride and bigoted arrogance into acceptive support.
There is a whole programme to be made here... and the concept of border, is one of my faves .. down here (well it is in Scotland) in the Lowlands I love winding up audiences with the fact that they are actually Britons NOT Scots... and once the langiage was not English but British (Dalkeith, Pentland, Rosslyn etc) and we never spoke gaelic here.. so when the Angles came, we now have more in common with Welsh and North Anglish ..
I would rather see a celebration of diversity and of acceptance, as one that accepts that no one group that is around today i s 'better' than any other.
Yorkshire archaeology is great... I also love a bit of Northwest... the midlands.. top... the south east ... brill... (never worked in the proper southwest) but I am sure it is fascinating... wales... etc....
Celebrate a Festival of Archaeology... whenever you want, and how you want... in a way that suits where you come from in the UK Archaeology does belong to ALL.. and is also of equal billing across the country... or should be!
"I don't have an archaeological imagination.."
Borekickers
There is a whole programme to be made here... and the concept of border, is one of my faves .. down here (well it is in Scotland) in the Lowlands I love winding up audiences with the fact that they are actually Britons NOT Scots... and once the langiage was not English but British (Dalkeith, Pentland, Rosslyn etc) and we never spoke gaelic here.. so when the Angles came, we now have more in common with Welsh and North Anglish ..
I would rather see a celebration of diversity and of acceptance, as one that accepts that no one group that is around today i s 'better' than any other.
Yorkshire archaeology is great... I also love a bit of Northwest... the midlands.. top... the south east ... brill... (never worked in the proper southwest) but I am sure it is fascinating... wales... etc....
Celebrate a Festival of Archaeology... whenever you want, and how you want... in a way that suits where you come from in the UK Archaeology does belong to ALL.. and is also of equal billing across the country... or should be!
"I don't have an archaeological imagination.."
Borekickers