Category Archives: Kent

Playing away at Onomastics.co.uk

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Robert J S Briggs

The past month has been bonkers busy, or, to use the slicker corporate jargon that now disfigures my professional writing and speech after two months of working for a leading tech company, my bandwidth has been maxed out all too frequently. So, if you were wondering why posts … Continue reading →

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New work – Reassessing the territorial nomenclature of the Early and Middle Anglo-Saxon periods…

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

…or, why there was no such thing as a regio in the area of southern England in the sixth century. Having been hard pushed these past few weeks to set aside a few minutes to compose a blog post, I … Continue reading →

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New blog, new work

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Robert J S Briggs

While the rest of the medieval world goes loopy that bones under the car park in Leicester are those of Richard III (rather than a temporally and geographically dislocated Brookside storyline), I have been busy setting up a new sister … Continue reading →

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