This is a test of the new bookmarking script I’m working on. It it works then it should collect links during the week and then compile them into one post on a Friday.

Resting place of choice – Le Monde diplomatique – English edition Roger Gaess gives a tour of sights found at the dead centre of London.

Time Team America: Fort Raleigh K. Kris Hirst is eager to see more of Time Team America. My fingers are crossed. Done well it could be a great series about the archaeological process, but there’s an awful lot of British TV series which have been mutilated by American television.

Fort Raleigh | Time Team America | PBS Here’s information from PBS about their programme on Fort Raleigh in North Carolina. Readers from the eastern side of the Atlantic might be interested as it’s the earliest English colony in North America.

Abnormal Interests: Epigraphy By The Numbers Duane Smith follows up on the paper “Automatic Writer Identification of Ancient Greek Inscriptions” with a discussion of the method. I’m not sure if this is going to make epigraphists more or less scary.

History Blog Origins of the Royal Color Purple Why is the colour purple for royalty? Charlotte Gardner finds an answer that smells More >