This Blog In September 2001: Day Twenty-Five.

Theatre 'The Frieze' reviews Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave. One of the pivotal moments of the 1984/85 miner's strike was recreated in the style of medieval re-enactments. A heritage day out and social commentary all in one: "Any rail passengers staring out of the window as they sped through south Yorkshire on June 17th would have had the double-take of their lives: 800 or so miners and policemen, in period jeans and uniforms, could be seen slogging it out in a field as if no one had bothered telling them the miners' strike of 1984-5 had long been called off."Archaeology The Dead Sea Scrolls too fragile to travel. Oh really ... there has always been a debate within museum circles about the viability of moving objects for exhibition and whether the risks involved outweigh the educational value. To move the scrolls for an exhibition at the Olympics is surely for entertainment not education. Doesn't seem like a fair risk to me -- and surely they need the context of the original…