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Washing up the Romans' plates
PETER FROST has been helping on a Roman dig near his Northamptonshire home, while nearby one of the area's biggest Roman settlements sees the light of day after 2,000 years
The head of a Roman statue found at Chipping Warden
CHARLEY ALLAN reports from Clacton on Farage’s fears his by-election stunt has backfired
JEREMY CORBYN says we should never forget the horrific reality of nuclear weapons, or cease our efforts to rid the planet of them entirely
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
Internationalism is deeply embedded in socialist theory and practice. Examination illuminates its complexity asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The Claudia Sheinbaum government is no pushover and is holding firm despite US abuses of the relationship, says DAVID RABY
As we approach the grim anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, SIMON BARROW sounds the alarm over the dangerous and murderous direction our government is heading
IT’S a very peculiar feeling. There we were, my wife Ann and I washing up — well actually much more delicately cleaning — bits of broken plates. Not just any plates, mind you. These shards were parts of plates Roman soldiers had eaten their supper off 2,000 years before.
Ann and I were helping out on an archaeological dig near our home. We had volunteered and were given the job of cleaning the finds from one of the many Roman villas and other sites in these parts.
Neither of us are trained archaeologists, but Ann often reminds me of Agatha Christie’s advice to women of a certain age. “Marry an archaeologist” said Christie. “They are the only men who get more interested in you as you get older.”
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