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[winterbadger]

It's not just Virginia where they want to pave over military history!

BBC short on a dig at a possible military encampment from the '45.

Comments

[ladymandrake.livejournal.com]

This is the kind of work I want to go into, archaeology for historical preservation :)

They do it in PA too, seems if its not in gettysburg it doesn't matter...stupid gits...

[winterbadger]

Indeed. Stupidity, alas, knows no boundaries.

I came to the article on the Facebook page for the UHI Centre for History.

Which I was reading because I was considering this program and then saw they were also working on providing a masters in history.

Some pretty damn' cool opportunities there.

[ladymandrake.livejournal.com]

*drool* too bad I can't do anything abroad due to my kids...

[winterbadger]

Yeah! But at least they get to grow up in a household where learning and history are looked on as good and important! :-)

[wolfette]

heck, if we were to avoid ALL possible military camps, battlefields, ancient burial sites, Roman settlements, we'd never get anything built in the UK!

[winterbadger]

This is also true! One has to strike a balance...

[wolfette]

a few years ago my friend Shamenka got into a bit of an online argument with another AOL user about Roman remains. Sha lives in Musselburgh, which was the site of a Roman fort. Her opponent couldn't believe that we in Europe might live side by side or even on top of "sites of historical interest" because, well, surely they'd be all preserved in a park or something? :-)

[winterbadger]

The other user was, what, in the US or Canada? Probably the only places people wouldn't be accustomed to having the past cheek by jowl with the present.

AOL...*shudder* do people still use that? :-)

[wolfette]

the US.

as for AOL - I have tried to break her of the habit, but you know how hard it is to learn to use real internet clients when you've learned on AOL's own systems. She says that she has it for the "parental controls" - but her son is now an adult! (pair wee lad still isn't allowed to do anything on his own - she still goes everywhere with him)

[winterbadger]

Sounds like the parental controls are well installed. :-)

[winterbadger]

Two more stories from the '45...

possible French supply ship found

searching for the house of a Jacobite leader: includes a cautionary tale for fractious wives!