Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.

Link of the Month:

Online History and Archaeology Resources:

https://tinyurl.com/rvd6kgd

Links:

Government advice re: COVID-19:

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/coronavirus-covid-19-list-of-guidance

UK universities face cash black hole amid Corona virus crisis:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/mar/06/uk-universities-face-cash-black-hole-coronavirus-crisis?fbclid=IwAR0Xuew7UV_r1N3quugpLMfMkpA2noUfQZL_a-Pk4JQ0XMN7v4-lV0lDguI

Hundreds of University Staff to be made redundant due to coronavirus:

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/apr/02/hundreds-of-university-staff-made-redundant-due-to-coronavirus?fbclid=IwAR1BhUapff6ZW5o81FrEk0dpPQ0eCRsmBCRH8xUDP51jr4m0HVdRVP0iBgo

Historic England: Impact of Coronavirus:

https://historicengland.org.uk/coronavirus/

How the Corona Virus (COVID-19) is Affecting the Heritage Sector:

https://www.heritagefund.org.uk/blogs/how-coronavirus-covid-19-affecting-heritage-sector?fbclid=IwAR1lWGOD54aFwn1JuyzIqypdjTyuxLb3XxJkMTpQ0CDSmGGszQZ9DGFW8Zk

CIFA Statement:

https://www.archaeologists.net/news/site-working-and-covid-19-update-27-march-1585303884

Statement from ALGAO UK:

https://www.algao.org.uk/

FAME Page:

https://famearchaeology.co.uk/archaeology-and-the-covid-19-pandemic-developments/

Archaeologists’ PPE could save the lives of health-workers’ and their patients:

https://www.archaeologists.net/news/archaeologists%E2%80%99-ppe-could-save-lives-health-workers%E2%80%99-and-their-patients-1585566630

Amid corona virus shutdown, some grad students feel pressure to report to their labs:

https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2020/03/amid-coronavirus-shutdowns-some-grad-students-feel-pressured-report-their-labs?fbclid=IwAR2nzu8kq-ujXiw6XLC2cBSLzsc2bYqyQj5byGWKo4AThd-z1J3anNGFECA

‘Social Distancing’: An Archaeologist’s thoughts on the space between us…

https://archaeosoupblog.wordpress.com/2020/03/29/social-distancing-an-archaeologists-thoughts-on-the-space-between-us/?fbclid=IwAR0Cbo_cRQmzarZwvuFvIRTNbpY0ZeJLjsHhlyp85tvFDN_XGn1T3JS-xl8

Fearing the end of the world, man returns ancient stolen relic:

https://www.israel21c.org/fearing-end-of-the-world-man-returns-ancient-stolen-relic/?fbclid=IwAR3kV2p9I7t67LHg45npTY6vJ8U3i2SFecWTgIlr22X0B9hZ8o3PHJxraLk