2017: a year in blogging

It’s now the end of my second full year of blogging, so here is a look back at what I have been writing about in the last twelve months … Runaway success of the year  When I first started thinking about writing a blog, I jotted down a few ideas and created OneNote pages for…

Clasps, crosses and conservators: a visit to the Staffordshire Hoard

Over the summer, I wrote a review of the Viking exhibition at the Yorkshire Museum in York. In this, I mentioned that it was useful to see an Anglo-Saxon sword equipped with the kinds of golden and jewelled fittings that we can see in the hoard that was discovered in Staffordshire a few years ago, most of…

The things we leave behind

So we are in December now!  Apologies for the late blogpost: I have big changes coming up (good ones), including a house move, so I have been furiously sorting and packing a lot of stuff.  In particular, I have a lot of books, most of which will be going into storage courtesy of a kind…