During the late 1st millennium BC into the early 1st millennium AD, the small island of Unst in the far north of the Shetland (and British) Isles was home to well-established and connected farming and fishing communities. The Iron Age settlement at Milla Skerra was occupied for at least 500 years before it was covered with storm-blown sand and abandoned. Although part of it had been lost to the sea, excavation revealed many details of the life of the settlement and how it was reused over many generations. From the middle of the 1st millennium BC people were constructing stone-walled yards and filling them with hearth waste and midden material. Later inhabitants built a house on top, with a paved floor and successive hearths, and more domestic rubbish accumulated inside it. Outside were new yards and workshops for crafts and metalworking, which were remodelled several times. The buildings fell into disrepair and became a dumping ground for domestic waste until the 2nd or 3rd century AD, when sand buried the settlement. Within a few generations, a man was buried beside the ruins along with some striking objects. Thousands of artefacts and environmental remains from Milla Skerra...
A few stories encountered mainly in the 21st century as a result of working on construction sites. Humour, still having to deal with the good, the bad, and the nasty! 2018 saw the demise of one of the biggest players: Carillion. How many companies went into receivership like my old company? How many others in the 21st century? Was the philosophy Carillion followed replicated by the Post Office? In 2023, in his autumn statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt highlighted receiving payment times by the big companies. I can remember those immortal words: ‘spell redundant’, ‘P45, boss’. The American eagles were just laid off! Subcontractors are worth more dead than alive.
Vol. 25: The distribution of Hepaticæ in Scotland, by S.M. Macvicar.
This volume is a collection of 30 papers on the broad subject of the Scandinavian expansion westwards to Britain, Ireland and the North Atlantic, with a particular emphasis on settlement. The volume has been prepared in tribute to the work of Barbara E. Crawford on this subject, and to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the publication of her seminal book, Scandinavian Scotland. Reflecting Dr Crawford's interests, the papers cover a range of disciplines, and are arranged into four main sections: History and Cultural Contacts; The Church and the Cult of Saints; Archaeology, Material Culture and Settlement; Place-Names and Language. The combination provides a variety of new perspectives both on the Viking expansion and on Scandinavia's continued contacts across the North Sea in the post-Viking period.Contributors include: Lesley Abrams, Haki Antonsson, Beverley Ballin Smith, James Barrett, Paul Bibire, Nicholas Brooks, Dauvit Broun, Margaret Cormac, Neil Curtis, Clare Downham, Gillian Fellows-Jensen, Ian Fisher, Katherine Forsyth, Peder Gammeltoft, Sarah Jane Gibbon, Mark Hall, Hans Emil Liden, Christopher Lowe, Joanne McKenzie, Christopher Morris, Elizabeth Okasha, Elizabeth...
Text in Vlaams & Français "De Gouden Boeken" zijn een samenwerking van het NTGent met de Berlijnse uitgever Verbrecher Verlag. Het is een reeks met programmateksten over theater, esthetiek en politiek, en met achtergrondteksten over producties en projecten van NTGent. Een reeks over de theorie én de praktijk van een "stadstheater van de toekomst". "Globaal realisme" vormt het eerste deel in deze reeks en verschijnt in de herfst van 2018, bij de start van het eerste seizoen van Milo Rau als artistiek directeur van NTGent. Dit boekdeel bundelt basisteksten, gesprekken en essays over het werk van Milo Rau en het IIPM – International Institute of Political Murder van de afgelopen tien jaar en wordt uitgebracht in een Duits/Engelse en een Nederlands/Franse editie. La série "Les livres d'or" est une collaboration entre le théâtre belge NTGent et l'éditeur berlinois Verbrecher Verlag, qui publie des textes programmatiques sur le théâtre, son esthétique et son politique ainsi que des livres d'accompagnement sur les productions et les projets du NTGent : une série de textes sur la pratique et la théorie d'un "théâtre de ville du futur". "Réalisme global" est le premier...
Texte auf Deutsch / Text in English Die Reihe "Die Goldenen Bücher" entsteht in Zusammenarbeit des belgischen NTGent mit dem Berliner Verbrecher Verlag und veröffentlicht programmatische Texte zu Theater, Ästhetik und Politik sowie Begleitbücher zu Inszenierungen und Projekten des NTGent: eine Textreihe zu Praxis und Theorie eines "Stadttheaters der Zukunft". "Globaler Realismus" ist der erste Band dieser Reihe und erscheint zur Eröffnung der ersten Spielzeit von Milo Rau als künstlerischer Leiter des NTGent im Herbst 2018. Der Band versammelt – in einer deutsch-englischen und einer niederländisch-französischen Ausgabe – Grundlagentexte, Gespräche und Essays aus den letzten zehn Jahren zur Arbeit von Milo Rau und dem IIPM – International Institute of Political Murder. "The Golden Books" are a joint project by NTGent and the Berlin publisher Verbrecher Verlag. It is a series comprising programme articles on theatre, aesthetics and politics as well as background pieces on productions and projects by NTGent. A series on both the theory and the practice of a 'city theatre of the future'. The first in this series is "Global Realism", which will be published in autumn...
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