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:

02:04 - Hobby Lobby returns 11,500 artefacts of ‘dubious origin’ to the Middle East:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/museum-of-bible-founder-returns-more-ancient-artifacts-1819623

Stolen Crown Returns Crown to Ethiopian Church:

https://africadailynews.net/2020/03/05/stolen-crown-returns-to-ethiopian-church.html?fbclid=IwAR3SU_9B3ThcrRn1RtAAnSoC_UXDNqiZ4nZ6VdiWW3QJCNesTrL3quhngJ0

Indigenous experts call for return of countless treasured belongings held in museums:

https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/canada-news-pmn/indigenous-experts-call-for-return-of-countless-treasured-belongings-held-in-museums

Will Europe’s museums rise to the challenge of decolonisation?

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2020/mar/07/europe-museums-decolonisation-africa-empire?CMP=share_btn_tw&__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR3HXyuOUMC8oHisZNrEU9nbSzXApMQvHTBDIzgpQwNoMLHy3amLYQeT8OY

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21:51 - Groundbreaking Female Archaeologists:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/women-in-history/six-groundbreaking-female-archaeologists?fbclid=IwAR2v-hHvpiDDvXX3LVyGo1FKqmyTtLnCx4C3RKQ9J4Zzuyt-BSAoEGzd9Ww

Cut Out and Keep The Great Archaeologists: Mortimer Wheeler and Tessa Verney Wheeler:

https://twitter.com/GabeMoshenska/status/532268048963891200/photo/1

New Blue Plaques for women honour spies, artists and suffragettes:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/mar/04/new-london-blue-plaques-women-honour-spies-artist-suffragettes?fbclid=IwAR2Yks8G0iGhBBz4rjUi58au41PxIyj5x9pRfKNzdfCIBcB0VtFA16KE4co

Land girls hostel given listed status to mark women’s war work:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/land-girls-hostel-given-listed-status-to-mark-womens-war-work?CMP=share_btn_tw&fbclid=IwAR31-48rC6CEV4QVbaS5mtZ1mzzSU3rSrigDxn_MXEC_-_5zhw2990MBCJE

Boris John picks Boudicca as one of his five female heroes:

https://www.harwichandmanningtreestandard.co.uk/news/north_essex_news/18280982.boris-picks-boudicca-female-icon/?ref=twtrec&fbclid=IwAR0Qi6TQj2f5Z1SCZQ8jwe9bvsq7AgEnS8vWOJYNOHLpptm4ZBtgdOwa0QU

Trowelblazers:

https://trowelblazers.com/

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36:57 - Are Archaeologists Destroying Britain’s Heritage?

https://archmdmag.com/are-archaeologists-destroying-britains-heritage-by-andrew-castleton/?fbclid=IwAR1TRjfy3UenNTE_qE2jz2M1PTat2HlZufh6qXBpqpLBpYe2IHSjBRySFNg

Hurrah for heroic detectorists digging up our heritage:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/07/hurrah-heroic-detectorists-digging-heritage/?fbclid=IwAR3OW3_9p4Yc-q7TYwdwmffAgAOad96cNidtU4Dsep0tk0vNJh7u9-y8WWc

London Bridge Station Archaeology on Show: 

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2020/03/17/london-bridge-station-archeology-on-show/?fbclid=IwAR3FePw_P1eXbp23M6NiafWPaDiaua88g2k0hwk5Ho8hl9GuRPZwBn-Ldow

Crossrail Archaeological Exhibits List:

https://archaeology.crossrail.co.uk/exhibits/

Muppet(s) of the Month:

57:53 - Anger on Easter Island after Truck crashes into sacred stone statue: