23rd August 2013, 04:09 PM
Yep - it can be a challenge convincing folk that an industry that turns out intellectual reports about the past is somehow critically important enough for them to pay for it! Yet they'll all tune in if you've got an interesting programme about Stonehenge (or a dead Plantaganet under a car park) on the telly! We shouldn't be too surprised at the indifference we get from those who might be inconvenienced by excavations or Planning Conditions though - it isn't as if the nation will starve or go without shelter if there was a national archaeologists' strike...
(And yes, I do attempt to make my living in our glorious trade! Managed over two decades with more or less success so far!)
(And yes, I do attempt to make my living in our glorious trade! Managed over two decades with more or less success so far!)