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Martyn Barber

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Aerial archaeology, history of archaeology, misc spookery; ex-RCHME, Historic England etc. Stuff at independent.academia.edu/MartynBarber

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Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · yesterday

More from OGS Crawford. This time, it's limericks rather than doggerel. The subject? Being editor of the journal @antiquity.ac.uk The staff of this journal (Antiquity) are accused of all kinds of iniquity but they hereby declare that the editor's chair is the seat of all moral obliquity (1/2)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 4d ago

Another burst of OGS Crawford's doggerel for the weekend. Not clear who/what prompted this one. Obituaries After they are dead things may be said without misgiving that are best suppressed while they are living, allowing perhaps a decent lapse to pass for the growing of grass. (1/3)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · last wk.

Another slice of OGS Crawford doggerel, once again on the subject of Mortimer Wheeler. For once we know when it was wrotten - 1955. [Untitled] (emphases as in original) The friends of SIR MORTIMER have always thought his a BAWDY OLD CROOK; but in hit latest book ("Still Digging") (1/4)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Time for another slice of OGS Crawford's doggerel. This one concerns Mortimer Wheeler and a lady. Like me, you may have questions. There are some comments at the end. [Untitled] Dear Madam, I am instructed by the British Acdemy to acknowledge your letter which I had better answer in verse. (1/6)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Time for more childe-ish verse from the archives of OGS Crawford (at some point I will post some kind of explanation for all these): Childeish Distillations The beer that's brewed by Gordon Childe is sometimes bitter, sometimes mild; but whether it be mild or bitter (1/4)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 2w ago

Another prime slice of OGS Crawford's doggerel, this time concerning another of his archaeological contemporaries: Comrade's Fall Once upon a time Gordon Childe was a bit wild (red, not yellow - he's a good fellow); it just goes to show what can be done by playing cards with those die-hards (1/3

Verity Holloway@verityholloway.bsky.social · 3w ago

Astonishingly, Blackwells will ship The Others of Edenwell to readers outside the UK for FREE. This is wild. So if you've had a hankering for a WW1 ghost story set in a hydropathic hospital in the Norfolk brecks where the crows know your name, now's your chance. blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

The Others of Edenwell

Norfolk, 1917. Unable to join the army due to a heart condition, Freddie lives and works with his father in the grounds of the Edenwell Hydropathic, a wellness

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Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 3w ago

Time for another piece of OGS Crawford doggerel. This time his target isn't another archaeologist but art historians. No idea what prompted this: Artist Suarians All these books about the history of art make me fart long and loud, sending up a cloud of gas, whose stink you might think (1/3)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Following on from yesterday's piece of Crawford doggerel about Glyn Daniel, here - as promised - is another example, this time on the subject of Christopher Hawkes (NB spelling and punctuation as per the handwritten original]: Hawking Look, there from the Chair - now pawing the ground, (1/5)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 4w ago

There seemed to be some genuine interest the other day in OGS Crawford's hitherto (and perhaps wisely) unpublished doggerel, of which there is a lot. So... to begin with, a shortish piece about Glyn Daniel: Mud & Sand "Hello, Glyn Daniel!" Said his faithful spaniel, "Did you visit any (cont)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 4w ago

There seemed to be some genuine interest the other day in OGS Crawford's hitherto (and perhaps wisely) unpublished doggerel, of which there is a lot. So... to begin with, a shortish piece about Glyn Daniel: Mud & Sand "Hello, Glyn Daniel!" Said his faithful spaniel, "Did you visit any (cont)

Martyn Barber@martynjb.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ahead of the promised OGS Crawford doggerel, I popped down to Southampton City Art Gallery for Jo Wren's talk on the man himself's Southampton-based activities. There's a wee exhibition and this book too, which costs just a tenner. Don't miss out...

Photo showing the front cover of the book Changing Landsc: O G S Crawford and the Southampton Blitz, by Richard Henry, Claire Ransom and Jo Wren.
Brian Edwards@public-history.bsky.social · last mo.

George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was born on this day in 1903. He lived for a while in this cottage in Wallington where he and Eileen were married, and they held a wedding reception of sorts in The Plough.