Blog - help needed

Dear HARN colleagues As you know HARN has been undergoing some changes, we've sent out emails, you've answered the survey, we're updating our Facebook profile, we're on Academia.edu and hopefully we'll be expanding our presence on LinkedIn. Another change is this weblog; we'll still announce of seminars, workshops, conferences and publications but we also want the blog to be more interactive, a forum for the discussion of the history of archaeology, somewhere members can share their thoughts and views. I'm proposing having a weekly blog entry rather than only when there's news. But I need your help, I need volunteers to write posts that we can then share with the members. I had in mind an expanded version of the short pieces each member contributes when they join, a space for you to talk about your research or how you came to be interested in the history of archaeology and that's certainly something I want to incorporate. However, then it occurred to me, why stop there? If this is going to be a forum, we need to look beyond HARN as well as within, and we need more voices than mine if we're going to engage in debate. So, I'm throwing this open to the membership and soliciting your help: could you, would you, write a blog post? It can be about anything to do with the history of archaeology, a book or article review, a seminar/workshop/conference review, a review of a television or radio programme on the history of archaeology, a discussion of how archaeology has historically been portrayed in film or literature, anything that interests you. If you'd like to contribute then email HARNgroup@googlemail.com and put 'Weblog' in the subject and submit a piece with no more than 850 words. Make sure you include a title and attach any images that you would like included. We will read through your work and contact you with questions, small changes, and information about when it may be posted. Or, if there's something you'd like to see discussed here, get in touch and I'll do my best. I'm hoping to start posting regularly from now on, look out for a history of HARN from founder member/HARN creator Pamela Jane Smith and a wonderful post from Gabe Moshenska about how biographical research on one archaeologist led to working on Freemasonry, Milton, mummies, Royalty and bad poetry. Watch this space . . .. Julia