Weatherman Walking returned to BBC One Wales this week – and what better month to air its first few episodes than the UK’s National Walking Month. The show returns to our screens with yet another season of wonderful walks and stories from across Wales, headed by Wales’s favourite weatherman Derek Brockway. Once again, his trusty […]
Delighted to let you know that Celts: The Untold Story is now streaming on TV in America! I was really honoured to recently contribute to the new three-part series. It focusses on new research on the Iron Age in Central Europe. The series was made by KM+Media and Big Media. A big thanks to Past […]
The final episode of this year’s Weatherman Walking airs this Friday, and I’m going for gold! This week, Derek, Matt and I are in the Fairbourne area and, after meeting Derek at the start of his walk, I head for the hills in search for stories about the Welsh Gold Rush. Derek finds out about […]
Join Poppy and I on our recent walk to Y Gop Hill, Trelawnyd, in our latest video. We spent a sunny afternoon visiting the Neolithic mound, which is not far from Prestatyn, Rhyl and St Asaph. The mound dates to the Neolithic period – the ‘New Stone Age’. In archaeology, the Stone Age is broken […]
Tune in to BBC One Wales’ Weatherman Walking on Thursday, 8.05pm to join Derek and I on Anglesey. I’ll be revealing one of my favourite stories which merges ancient archaeology, the second world war, mystical magic and… golf! Join me at Llyn Cerrig Bach. Weatherman Walking is on a day early this week, so don’t […]
Tune in to BBC One Wales’s Weatherman Walking at 7.30pm Friday night to watch Derek the Weather’s journey along the Wales Coast Path from Little Haven to Solva, plus a feature presented by me in the middle, all about work at an ancient coastal hillfort in Pembrokeshire. Filmed last summer, I speak to National Trust […]
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On this morning, 160 years ago, most of Western Britain woke up to destruction. The Great Storm, the worst in the 19th Century, had hit our shores and taken many poor souls with it; many of whom were out at sea in boats and ships when the hurricane-force winds took hold. The Great Storm of […]
I was very pleased to be asked by my colleagues to write a blog about digital heritage and how I use digital media in my job in the historic environment. The first of my three blog posts, which are being published this week, is now live on the Welsh Government’s Digital Blog site: I may […]
Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity! This episode of Culture Shop is all about The Buying Cycle: a year in the life of a Buyer. Culture Shop is the Association for Cultural Enterprises (ACE)’s new retail series. ACE’s aim is to promote commercial best practice in the cultural and heritage sector by providing training and networking opportunities […]
I am really proud to present Culture Shop, the Association for Cultural Enterprises (ACE)’s new retail series. ACE’s aim is to promote commercial best practice in the cultural and heritage sector by providing training and networking opportunities and facilitating the sharing of information and experience. From the stunning Hepworth art gallery in Wakefield, myself and my […]