Follow the preservation success of Brownsville, Castroville, Georgetown, Mt. Vernon, Nacogdoches, San Marcos,
and Waxahachie and nominate your community for the 2012 First Lady's Texas Treasures Award.
With a $20 million appropriation from the 82nd Texas Legislature, the Texas Historical Commission (THC)
will begin accepting applications for Round VII of its award-winning Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program.
The Texas Historical Commission's (THC) website currently features a video
documenting recent archeological work conducted at the presumed grave of Texas Ranger James Coryell.
The Texas Historical Commission (THC) welcomes four new commissioners whose expertise
and accomplishments have helped to preserve the real places that tell the real stories of Texas history.
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) recently announced that the Texas Historical Commission's (THC) Texas in World War II
Initiative will receive a Leadership in History Award.
The state of the U.S. economy has many Texans rethinking upcoming vacation plans, but the Texas Historical
Commission (THC) would like to remind travelers that historic and cultural wonders are around every corner in the Lone Star State.
The Texas Historical Commission (THC) recently recognized several preservationists throughout Texas who have made major
contributions to preserving the real places that tell the real stories of our state's past.
What is archaeology alongside a film crew like? Matthew Symonds found out. There is something different about a Time Team dig. Excavations normally have an air of calm, with people quietly troweling, sectioning features or wrestling with drawing frames. The hustle and bustle comes at tea time, when diggers compete for the best biscuits and [...]
A Roman imperial jigsaw puzzle The discovery of fragmentary remains of several Roman helmets at Hallaton, Leicestershire, set conservators quite a challenge. Now, over a decade later their work is complete. Helen Sharp and Simon James reveal what has been learnt. It is 11 years since a mass of corroded iron was found in a [...]
One summer’s day in 2007 several companions set about an ambitious piece of landscaping in the back garden of their residence in Hackney, Greater London. As their shovels pierced the turf they were likely to have been thinking of the heavy work before them when a chance discovery brought them to a halt; for from [...]
A new chapter for Oliver Twist February 7th marks the 200th anniversary of novelist Charles Dickens’ birth. But how might archaeology offer a new chapter to his blockbusting London slum story, Oliver Twist? David Saxby, of Museum of London Archaeology, explains all. Few writers conjure up images of Victorian London more readily than Charles Dickens, [...]
February is the bicentenary of Dickens’ birth. Revered for his vivid descriptions of Victorian London, he is also applauded for drawing attention to the plight of the poorest in society. One of the slums he visited was Jacob’sIsland, which became the backdrop to the thrilling dénouement of Oliver Twist. Yet while the level of [...]
The Time Team are back! Join Tony Robinson and friends at a number of noted and less well known archaeological sites across Britain. Expect grubby hands, evocative insights, intriguing discoveries, revealing reconstructions, plenty of arguments amongst the experts and the usual excitement from the team.We are very excited to mark the start of series 19 of the [...]
I was down in the very splendid library of the Society for Roman Studies, looking for a book and happened by chance to notice a title Rome and China. I thought, ha ha!, this is a book for me. Since I am devoting my semi-retirement to writing my ‘big book’, a history of the world [...]
In December I was fortunate enough to stand on the Nene riverbank in 1300 BC. Beside me were the stumps of prehistoric willow trees. Beneath me was a channel choked with the detritus of Bronze Age river life. Perfectly preserved eel traps, fish weirs and boats – six of them – still lay where they [...]
Must Farm’s Bronze Age boats The discovery of six Bronze Age boats and an intact prehistoric riverside at Must Farm, Cambridgeshire, is a stunning find. It also provides a glimpse of the human struggle with a changing environment, as David Gibson, Mark Knight and Kerry Murrell from Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) told Matthew Symonds. The [...]
Exposing hidden sinners in a rural Welsh church Deep in the Vale of Glamorgan, the interior of the 13th-century church of St Cadoc in Llancarfan was once a riot of colour. Dramatic images of saints and allegorical scenes competed for space while vivid depictions of the Seven Deadly Sins cavorted around the arch of [...]
