Comments on: Bah. And Furthermore, Humbug.

By: Nova9047

Nova9047 — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:08:19 +0000

“I think the symbolism of how his body was disposed of matters a great deal – it’s tied up innately with the notion of kingship and how Henry VII established his right to rule amongst both the nobility and the population at large.”
Game, set, match. Bravo, Worthington!

By: Historical Honeys » Richard III: A 2:1 in Publicity

Historical Honeys » Richard III: A 2:1 in Publicity — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:16:46 +0000

[...] then there is the history… Like Neville Morley and Charlotte Higgins, I’m still really wanting to know what history this really adds to [...]

By: Media Theatre, Imagination, and the Archaeology of Richard III « Archaeology and Material Culture

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 22:06:32 +0000

[...] research) than with pursuing a genuinely intellectual field of enquiry.” Bristol archaeologist Neville Morley likewise cautioned about the pressure to demonstrate “impact” and court popular media shape scholarly questions: [...]

By: Scholarly blogging and Richard III’s old bones | The Daybook

Scholarly blogging and Richard III’s old bones | The Daybook — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:46:23 +0000

[...] Neville Morley, at the University of Bristol weighs in to show us that scholars can really muster sarcasm. And even base it on scholarly [...]

By: heartofoshun

heartofoshun — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:48:10 +0000

I found it fascinating, surprising and of great personal interest. I love history and archeology both although I am not a qualified scholar in either field. But anything that inflames curiosity is likely to attract young people to the field, people who will grow up to be tomorrow’s serious scholars. I cannot see the problem of publicizing with a little hyperbolic excitement and romance facts and deeds that can attract interest which may lead a minority to explore our past on a deeper level. Why would someone want to roll their eyes about that?

I was first curious about Richard III some fifty years ago as a young teenager. It was a lovely surprise for me to see the discussion come into the public eye with such a vengeance in my dotage.

Have a sense humor and a little joy that people are able to get excited about the politics, life, and times of a person dead for over 500 years.

By: And Richard it was « Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper

And Richard it was « Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:06:03 +0000

[...] is the discovery and identification of this skeleton going to make to anything?”, says classicist Neville Morley. His answer? “It’s all about [...]

By: NevilleMorley

NevilleMorley — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:46:06 +0000

Just a quick note to say that I’m in London tomorrow and then off to Germany until next weekend, with little change of getting onto the internet, so will be unable to approve or respond to comments for the next week and a half. Thankfully things seem to have quietened down a bit.

By: NevilleMorley

NevilleMorley — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:26:58 +0000

What sorts of ‘popular’ history do I like? I’m going to take another opportunity to promote this fantastic documentary (and not just because I have a 30-second cameo, summarising the plot of an Aristophanes play):

By: NevilleMorley

NevilleMorley — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:12:18 +0000

As for the abuse, well, that’s the internet for you; I’m mainly relieved that it’s so mild compared with the appalling stuff that gets directed against someone like Mary Beard, and of course I do have the power simply not to approve the comment.

By: NevilleMorley

NevilleMorley — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 12:10:30 +0000

Absolutely: it’s not that the skeleton itself is at all uninteresting – I first got interested in the past because of a skeleton, specifically one that was on display somewhere near the entrance of the Museum of London – but that it all depends on what questions you ask about it, how it fits into wider debates and so forth.