Muddy Archaeologist
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I graduated from Exeter University in 1983 having revelled in studying Latin & Ancient History, broken my wrist on my Professor’s front door step and learned it was sometimes easier to keep quiet because seeing the silly side of history and laughing in lectures can get you funny looks – oh yes, and I also had to constantly field the ubiquitous “but what use is Latin and Ancient History?” question, to which my answers were, and still are, many and varied but which always include the concepts "because it's relevant" and "because it's FUN!". I
spent some years at
the BBC working on everything from live television at No.10 for Panorama
to the Domesday
Project (remember that?) and a spell in Children’s Programmes, as well as
Series and Serials, TV Liaison (everyone from ambassadors and princes to
students) and other departments, and generally baffling
folk who wondered why I could spell Latin phrases without looking
at a dictionary.
Normal life resumed and then we had our
children and a dog and nothing has ever been “normal” since.
We moved to North Yorkshire where I began to throw myself (often
literally) into archaeology and started my writing career.
Whenever I am clean enough, I write or research (a doctorate looms) and I
give professional, lively and entertaining talks. Happiness is digging
in the dirt, buying a new Latin text, or sharing the joys and relevance of our
heritage with you all in talks and at events and films (the BBC bug never leaves
you ...). For Latin is all around us.
We use it every day of our lives - and it can be great fun.
Honest. And History
(especially muddy history) is just as great!
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Date this site was last edited: 18 November 2011 |
