Calling all armchair generals! Boudica's Last Stand.

[Owein Walker]

Hate to fulfil the "doubting" label but I "doubt" this approach is going to get much quality collaboration. You might want to re-think your engagement strategies.

I've recently come across some quite appalling behaviour from academics who literally refused to even acknowledge an email after I left some things for them. Fortunately, they were just rocks of no particular value (which they asked for) ... but they had asked for them, before I got them ... so very strange behaviour. I have found that this year in particularly academics are behaving very strangely and not even responding to very polite emails just looking for people with an interest in niche subjects.

Based on my own experience, I would wait till next year in the hope that things improve ... or maybe they'll all be on strike!

I think hell will freeze over before things improve, but it's not just academics, look to our leadership for inspiration. Good luck!

One point I now realize is that history doesn't belong to everyone like I thought, it actually belongs to the finder.
Until it is shared, the finder can keep it all to himself.It's not like metal detecting where there are rules of expected behaviour, No,it really just belongs to the finder who can keep it hidden or just bide his time. It is the Archaeologist who needs funding or the historian looking for his next book who has a need for publicity, not the finder.