by Kate Sharpe | Mar 13, 2017 | Iron Age, Roman
Last week I began been looking at very early impressions of the ancient peoples of Britain so thought I’d share some initial thoughts. This is a subject I’m hoping to look at in more detail during the course of the project. As adult participants in the...
by Kate Sharpe | Feb 20, 2017 | Iron Age, Roman
Got a bit side-tracked this week, looking at ‘heritage’ represented in one of my favourite genres, science fiction… Any sci-fi buff will soon list many examples of alien cultures based loosely (or sometimes very closely!) on Rome: the Republic-turned-Empire of Star...
by Kate Sharpe | Feb 13, 2017 | Roman
On Friday Richard and I set out in his trusty VW across the frosty ‘uplands’ of County Durham and over the border into the wild lands of Northumberland. The light dusting of snow across the landscape was perfect for a bit of feature-spotting with lots of...
by Chiara Bonacchi | Jan 1, 2017 | Roman
Happy New Year! I am back from an intense and fun week of crowdsourcing development in Madrid with Daniel Lombrana-Gonzalez, the lead developer of SciFabric. In the past, Daniel helped the MicroPasts team to set-up the Pybossa framework that supports MicroPasts, the...
by Ancient Identities | Oct 1, 2016 | Roman
Hello everyone! Ancient Identities is our first project altogether as a team and we are very much looking forward to exploring the grounds of identity formation and the rehashing, heritage and values of Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval pasts in present-day Britain....
