Collaboratory through Crises: Researching Linear Monuments in 2021

Howard Williams

Abstract


This article introduces the third volume of the Offa’s Dyke Journal (ODJ). As well as reviewing ODJ 3’s contents, I present reviews of the journal received to date, notable new publications on linear monuments, and the Collaboratory’s key activities during 2021. The context and significance of the research network’s ongoing endeavours are presented set against intersecting academic and public crises affecting the study and public’s engagement with past frontiers and borderlands.

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borderlands; Collaboratory; crises; frontiers; linear earthworks

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