This new summer school course will introduce students to handwriting in England from 700-1700, explaining how to read a range of scripts as the language evolved. 8-12 June in London 📚 (bursary applications due 7 April) #Skystorians #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social 👇 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Rummaging through files looking for data from my PhD and found this excellent guide to writing by @osteoconnor.bsky.social So good!

Just three days remain before the deadline of Astyanax Journal's Undergraduate Composition Competition and our Year 10-13 Essay Competition! Entries must be submitted before 23:59 on Friday 27th February. For more information, visit astyanaxjournal.com/competitions/

Archaeology and Heritage Consultant/Senior Consultant The Environmental Dimension Partnership Ltd Salary: £36,000 - £40,000/£44,000 - £48,000 Date: April 22, 2026 Location: Cardiff, Cheltenham or Cirencester www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

Don't forget that the Annual Percy Ure Lecture with Prof. Naomi Sykes (Exeter) entitled "Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Ancient History and Modern Challenges" is this Friday at 5 PM!

UHI Archaeology Institute lecturer Dr Julia Cussans is one of the authors in a new monograph detailing the Romano-British villa and prehistoric settlement at Low Ham, Somerset.

Regional Manager Pre-Construct Archaeology Salary: £50,000-£60,000 Date: April 6, 2026 Location: Winchester www.bajr.org/job-ad/regio...

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

@naomisykes.bsky.social’s fellowship @exeter.ac.uk will provide much-needed evidence to demonstrate the significance of archaeological archives for nature renewal, food security and planetary health. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

One of the earliest recreations of Fishbourne @romanpalace.bsky.social 🤩 Created by the talented Michael Leonard (1933-2023) Featuring a merchant approaching with servants and a trunk of samples from the Mediterranean, the painting appeared in a 1968 edition of the Sunday Times #RomanSiteSaturday

Dave Rudling built Fishbourne Palace King Togidubnus supports Crystal Palace Or is that the other way round? 🤔

Applications welcome to be a PhD-student in my ancient DNA research programme at @crick.ac.uk: 🏰 Ancient human history in Europe and beyond. ⚕️ Statistical genetics to understand human biology with ancient genomes. 🦠 Pathogen genomics of past infections. Apply at www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

My extremely talented husband's first batch of knives to sell 🔪 ... Get in touch for details inc sheath options: cefn_digoll_crafts on Insta www.instagram.com/p/DUfpBDCDHO... #artisan #craft

This time last week we held a CBM (Ceramic Building Material) workshop, training keen students how to identify and record Roman tiles! This collection is from an important site in the centre of Exeter. They all know their imbrex from their tegula now! Huge thanks to Naomi Payne for leading the day.

Research funding news! Our very own Prof Naomi Sykes will be spending the next three years working on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, providing important context on the value of archaeological archives. More details here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

@naomisykes.bsky.social is a friend of the Palace and might well be sharing some amazing new insights into what was going on with our animals 2000 years ago. Either way - this talk is guaranteed to be a banger. Plus, it looks like it might be FREE! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/animal-ans...

This is the grant application that I spent most of last summer working on! Yes, I know - Romans! - but a great opportunity for us to work with local partners and rescue this important site.

From the contribution of the Global South to the development of human rights to making history: writing Scotland’s post-reformation, the Trust Board awards twenty-seven fellowships for research in the humanities and social sciences. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/major-r...

Are you in Year 10-12? Interested in history? We’re offering two students the chance to spend a week away from the classroom (29 June - 3 July) helping catalogue objects, curate displays + write blogs for our popular newsletter. Apply by 20 January: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/library-and-...

Come work with us! 🧬 We're hiring a part-time Biomolecular Lab Tech @cam-archaeology.bsky.social .Join our team in the Henry Wellcome Building working on DNA & proteins. Apply by Feb 2: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/biomole... #ScienceJobs #Cambridge #Archaeology #STEM

Are you a PhD student interested in using museum collections in your research? Our next free doctoral training webinar takes place next Wednesday. Join us for guidance and examples of uncovering marginalised and minoritised stories in collections. collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/doc...

Thrilled to have been part of this Digging for Britain series, led by a great team. Met fun colleagues, chatted about their cool research, over-enthused at the cameras and did my first ever voice over work (talking slowly is hard!) Tune in tonight, and over the next few weeks, on BBC2 and iplayer!

We may regret it, but we're allowing #CuratorRob out in public. We've hosed him down and locked his cider shed, so it'll be fine, right?🙏😬 For ONE NIGHT ONLY (15 Jan, 8pm) he's giving an online talk about the recent discoveries at Palace. Huxley may feature. £5 plus booking fee. bit.ly/flaevents

Join our PGTs for their annual conference! 📢 Researching the past 📅 Thursday 11 December 9.30-4.30 📍 Talks in Streatham Court LTC and posters displayed in Marchant Syndicate Room A in Building One Do come along to support our students and socialise ❤️

Great news! Our AHRC-funded Warhorse book has been nominated as Book of the Year in the 2026 Current Archaeology Awards. Prof Oliver Creighton's 'From Bayeux to Bosham' project is also up for Project of the Year! Voting is open at www.archaeology.co.uk/vote

A warning from the past: if there is anything you would like to preserve long-term in good condition, please don't stick tape on it! As tape deteriorates, it can discolour, become brittle, lose its adhesive strength, and leave a residue stain. Enough to give an archivist nightmares! 👻

🎉Exciting news! 🏆Together with our research partner the University of Exeter, we have won in the Strategic Partnership category at the #KnowledgeExchangeUK Awards! Read more about the work researchandinnovation.co.uk/creating-rea...

From artefacts and materials class, Exeter University Archaeology, sending kind regards for the weekend

What's that? 5 ancient doggy papers in 10 days is too many dogs? Can I interest you in some cats? Perhaps a complete retelling of cat domestication, dispersal, and replacement across Eurasia? As you wish! Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Cell Genomics www.cell.com/cell-genomic...

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, a new Science study. finds. The results offer new insight into one of humanity’s most enigmatic animal companions and identify North Africa as the cradle of the modern housecat. Learn more: https://scim.ag/44kov1S

There was a great turnout yesterday to Prof Alex Pryor's (birthday) talk on 'Hunters of Giants: How to kill an Upper Palaeolithic mammoth, revealed by stable isotopes and DNA'. This was part of our Centre for Human-Animal-Environment Bioarchaeology (HumAnE) series of events, to which all welcome!

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the walruses, for today is their special day! To celebrate World Walrus Day, here is an illustration of a walrus from the book 'Animated Nature' (1828) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #WorldWalrusDay #WalrusDay #RareBooks

Head on over to our project website to read all about the recent conference and data collection trip which had me zigzagging across northwestern Europe via train all the way from Copenhagen to Exeter! #researchupdate #archaeology #datacollection sites.google.com/palaeome.org...

Our Masters students taking a module in Experimental Archaeology visited Stonehenge yesterday to learn about reconstructed Neolithic houses and a new project to build a large Neolithic education building, based on timber structure Durrington 68 😍 Also starring Ed's Late Neolithic decorated hard hat👷

We did a Telly! 🤩🎬 Four in a Bed.... www.channel4.com/programmes/f... (had to take a photo of our computer because stupid Channel 4 wouldn't let us screen snip)

Are you considering a PhD? 🤔 Join our 'Masterclass - PhD proposal and funding 101' 📅Wednesday 3 December 🕰️ 10am or 4pm 📍ZOOM All welcome! 🎫 Book your *free* ticket: • 10am: fixr.co/event/master... • 4pm: fixr.co/event/master...

Yesterday, Prof. Stephen Rippon was invited to London to be presented the prestigious British Academy Landscape Archaeology Medal, awarded for distinguished achievement in that field of archaeology. Many congratulations on this much deserved honour!

📢 Announcing three(!) new opportunities for aspiring archaeologists to join our Archaeological Fieldwork Technician apprenticeship program! Apply now (closes Friday 24 October): www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk/apprenticeship/VAC1000345576

Step back to 1086 and explore the fascinating world behind the oldest surviving Domesday manuscript!📜 Dr Chris Lewis speaks on the mysteries, gaps and stories of Exon Domesday. 👉 When: 30 October 7:30pm 👉 Where: Exeter Cathedral and online 👉 Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Has Halloween come early? No, last week some of our 3rd year archaeology and forensics students carried out a crime scene recovery exercise in our woodland on campus.

Increase your knowledge of Exon Domesday on 30 October with researcher Chris Lewis! Book your tickets to learn all about the oldest of the three original manuscripts surviving from William the Conqueror’s Domesday Survey of 1086: bit.ly/2025-library-lecture #ExeterCathedral #YourCathedral

This September we are hosting a Special Tour of the Bishop's Garden and Cathedral. Learn about the historic home of Devon’s bishops, who have lived here since the 13th century. 🌳 24 September | 10:30am 🌳 £20 (adults), £10 (under 18s) 🌳 Accessible tour Tickets: bit.ly/special-tours

Can’t wait to welcome you to the Department! Especially with such a glowing reference from Curator Rob!

Glass furnace update! 🔥🍷 We've been building a glass furnace @butserancientfarm.co.uk. We've removed the PhD student from the hole and replaced her with Roman tile and (less Roman) brick. Looks like a Goldfish. #CuratorRob has been helping make daub bricks and has in no way lost his mind.

I'm fundraising for LauraLynn - Irelands Childrens Hospice fundraise.lauralynn.ie/s/859/858/s I’m taking part in “Run 100K in September” challenge to raise funds for LauraLynn, Ireland’s only Children’s Hospice, for children with life-limiting conditions, be grateful for your support

You want hillforts? We got hillforts! The AHRC-funded project 'An atlas of the hillforts of Britain and Ireland' was an HCA project with the University of Oxford, edin.ac/411eXYa #HillfortsWednesday #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Edinburghuniversity

Such a lovely story this 😍 Jan Oke is an Exeter Archaeology alumnus and Fairlynch Museum’s Curator of Archaeology. She is a former recipient of the Angela and Tony Colmer prize 🏆 herself and was part of the team who awarded it to Phoebe Holland today ♻️ for outstanding Fieldwork in Local Archaeology👇

Very proud of Alisha and Jess who are that the launch of their co-authored book: Tails and Roots - a creative exploration of biodiversity in research @uoearchhist.bsky.social @frankieboyd.bsky.social

Some great finds fresh out of the ground today! In trench 6, we've been finding lots of animal bone and what some staff on site believe to be a key! We will need to x-ray to find out. Then in trench 3 we have found the remains of a wall, and also some beautiful Beauvais pottery from France!