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Andy Brockman

Andy Brockman[ andyarchaeology@gmail.com ] is director of Operations Room Archaeology [the Op’s Room] and the Digging Dad’s Army Project and is a specialist in the Archaeology of Modern Conflict. He has a particular interest in community based projects which involve research into archaeology within living memory and supports Operation Nightingale, a British Army initiative to use archaeology to help rehabilitate injured servicemen and women.

Archaeology

April 21, 2013 0 Comments

Margaret Thatcher’s Legacy To Archaeology Undone By Her Heirs

The Government of Margaret Thatcher played a crucial, if unwitting, role in the development of modern UK Archaeology. Yet as former UK Prime Minister is buried in London her Conservative heirs in the governing coalition are busy undoing her Government’s system for protecting archaeology and the environment in the planning process. Andy Brockman reflects on this unexpected legacy.

Archaeology

October 22, 2012 4 Comments

Channel 4 calls time on Time Team

As Channel 4 announces Time Team will not return as a regular series Andy Brockman looks back on twenty years of legendary TV Archaeology and tries to assess it significance and legacy.

Archaeology

Odyssey Explorer deploying equipment over the HMS Victory site Copyright Astrid Harrisson 2012

September 20, 2012 3 Comments

Possible new restrictions on Victory Salvage

Ministers are considering placing further restrictions on Odyssey Marine Exploration and the Maritime Heritage Foundation as pressure builds on the Cameron Government to stop the Banks and Hedge Fund investors backing Odyssey profiting from the grave and property of lost Royal Navy sailors.

Archaeology

20100514-bosworth fight (photo John Kliene)

September 18, 2012 1 Comment

New Battle Of Northampton Puts Leader Mackintosh under Pressure

In 1460 the first Battle of Northampton saw the forces of the Duke of York, father of King Richard III, assault the fortified encampment of the Lancastrian Army of Henry VI and amid gunfire and the clash of thousands of soldiers win the day.

Archaeology

August 3, 2012 18 Comments

Odyssey Marine and Cameron Peer Out of Control on HMS Victory

Ministers Jeremy Hunt and Philip Hammond are in the firing line as the Ministry of Defence admits Odyssey Marine Exploration is already preparing to cash in on HMS Victory and the remains of over 1000 British sailors without the permission of the Government.

Archaeology

July 16, 2012 8 Comments

MOD admit – we know charity can’t protect HMS Victory wreck

Heritage Daily can reveal a stolen cannon remains in limbo in a Dutch museum tank as MOD Officials admit they knew the Maritime Heritage Foundation had no financial or legal capability to protect the site once the British Government gave up ownership

Archaeology

June 25, 2012 7 Comments

Odyssey Victory salvage plan hit by fresh revelations

The plan for American treasure hunting salvage company, Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc, to salvage the wreck of HMS Victory, flagship of Admiral Sir John Balchen lost in a storm with all hands in October 1744 has been dealt two fresh blows.

Achtung! Spitfires

For a number of years the Kent brewer Shepherd Neame have run an advertising campaign for their eponymous real ale, which gleefully takes up the iconography of the Spitfire and those nationalistic backward looking clichés that often accompany coverage of relations with Europe and particularly Germany in the British tabloid press.