Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...

Man, the things mudlarkers find on the Thames foreshore … This small statuette of a winged Harpocrates was discovered in 1825 at in the river at London Bridge. An Egyptian god - Horus, son of Isis and Osiris - Romanized and syncretized as a Cupid figure, complete with golden body chain. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

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"i just use it to generate ideas"

The edict should go out from Starmer to every Labour MP to always refer to the small boats carrying asylum seekers as "Farage Boats" and, if challenged, explain that we're only seeing so many now because of Brexit. He made that point in one GB News interview, but it needs to be made infinite times.

New Book Alert: A discussion of Roman Militaria from the South East of England. What can Roman military finds tell us about the actions of the Roman army in the 'civil zone' of Roman Britain. www.barpublishing.com/book/britann... #Roman #RomanBritian #RomanArmy #Archaeology

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have unveiled a promising new vaccine that generates a powerful immune response against HIV and other viruses including SARS-CoV-2 and influenza with just ONE dose. By combining immune-boosting adjuvants, the vaccine encourages the body to generate more antibody variations.

This week I have mostly been researching that dodgy bit of British history between 'romans leaving and Saxons coming' and also Roman recycling. #MyResearchExplainedByTheFastShow

One particular highlight of the Being Human Festival: Reading in the Roman Empire: ICS Acting Director Dr Kathryn Tempest and Prof Gesine Manuwald (UCL) will introduce a series of lightning talks on the literature and reading culture of ancient Rome. Weds 12 Nov 2.30-3.30pm shorturl.at/WxLB4 2/2

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.

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Illness and creativity can so often be mutually exclusive. I know. But @annelouiseavery.bsky.social has continued to give us her wonderful tales—tales that express the best of humanity—throughout. If ever her stories have touched you, please show her your support. (Ko-fi is really quick and easy.)

Also nowhere near as good as Jane Draycott's 'Cleopatra's Daughter'. She doesn't get her Ptolemies in a twist.

Sometimes, despite everything *waves hands*, it feels like not only the dystopian SF has purchase in the world. #tinyjoys #wayfarers #stillmulticultural

Today's #TinyJoys is getting flea tablets into both cats at first attempt. Tbf they're usually pretty good but it still feels like a small victory.

I had one big hope for my book and that was for it to be translated into Vietnamese (ancient Vietnam is the topic of one of the chapters) - today I have signed that deal! #tinyjoys

I wrote up the whole book club placement specialist weirdness on the blog - do feel free to pass on to other academics so more folks are aware that this is a thing. #academia #AcademicSky

For many of us, the web is more than information; it’s a window to the world 🌐, a place to learn, explore & connect in ways unimaginable before the internet. Join us in October to celebrate how the internet connects us ⤵️ blog.archive.org/trillion/ #Wayback1T

I would also accept a named member of staff with actual time and passion to run it who was not a librarian. But someone. I'm not sure the "librarian" at my kids' primary school was an actual librarian, they did a lot of emotional literacy stuff too. But you have to have someone in charge.

The Home Secretary just told people seeking safety "your only route into the UK should be a safe and legal one". She's right. Everyone should be able to seek sanctuary safely. But it's her Government that refuses to create safe routes - forcing people to risk dangerous ones.

A fragment of 2nd-century Roman mosaic from an ancient town house in Colchester for #MosaicMonday. It is now on display in Colchester Castle Museum @colmuseums.bsky.social

Detail from the early 4th century Hinton St. Mary Mosaic, part of a large floor mosaic found in #Dorset in 1963, now in the #BritishMuseum. The figure is sometimes interpreted as Christ, given the chi-rho monogram behind the head. Most of the work is in storage. #MosaicMonday

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Thanks everyone who helped by donating or spreading the word! Well done Oxfordshire Museum Almost 5 years to the month from when I rescue excavated this hoard with the detectorist, it's brilliant to know it will have a local forever home share.google/SBVFry6JFzwx...

#MosaicMonday Every time I go fishing near Rockbourne, I tell myself I must see the villa. Always after fishing, I'm too late and they have closed. This time, I fished Saturday so I could focus on the villa Sunday. I was not disappointed. Also a very special hypocaust I didn't stand in.

In 1971, a late 4th century AD mosaic was found at #Halstock in #Dorset This painting, by Stephen Cosh, was made for the @antiquaries.bsky.social (Roman mosaics of Britain vol II 2005) The original was reburied and sadly can no longer be seen A lost little masterpiece for #MosaicMonday

Talking in Oxford on 2 Oct. Just a few tickets left. I will be kicking off with a tiny Oxford classical treasure: some ancient Roman bullets with surprising messages imprinted on them! www.fane.co.uk/mary-beard

Still forgetting to use 🏺#archaeology

Really intriguing considerations of links between stone cutting and manuscript writing and illumination (not my period, I have no opinion about where the Book of Kells was made) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Hello! 👋🌍 You can now listen worldwide to our very funny episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about Hannibal of Carthage My guests are the fantastic comedian Darren Harriott and the brilliant ancient historian Professor @josephinequinn.bsky.social — listen wherever you get your podcasts!

When the review is almost undoubtedly more entertaining than the book. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

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New Euripides content just dropped (uploaded?) on our YouTube channel! Dr Rebecca Laemmle, ‘Last Things in the latest Euripides’ is now online - as is Prof. Patrick Finglass, ‘The New Euripides: Context and Discontinuity’ ... www.youtube.com/@HellenicSociety1879

Fun fact. Hairpins are an answer to that 'what did the Romans ever do for us'. Q (Also Roman baths spread intestinal worms but nobody wants to hear about that in polite conversation)

The prompt list for this year's Classicstober is here! And you will be able to see many of the figures featured here (and more) in our upcoming zine in just over a week!

Today I shall mostly be thinking about bees and new mead in old amphorae at Tintagel. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Volunteers at Iron Age hillfort after vandalism #Shropshire 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

Some eighteenth century graffiti with tea and cake yesterday. Images are of a sun-striped wooden café table in front of stone mullioned windows with greenery outside. A slice of cake and a pot of tea is on the table. The stone mullions have deeply scratched initials I . S and the date...

🏺 This review v much worth reading for fellow archaeologists. And I'd argue it's our work which both cranks & releases the tensions described: archaeology is how we learn more - as far as it is POSSIBLE - about what such places once meant, and a means to *engage with* them meaningfully now.

This is very clear and convincing. I think I'll show it to students in assignment briefings.

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Very much enjoying the culture of trust and respect implicit in the installation of room usage monitoring devices on academics' office doors today. Imagine my shock on discovering that managers' doors remain unsullied…

A goddess for #FindsFriday In 1882 antiquary Edward Cunnington dug at the #Roman temple at Maiden Castle hillfort in #Dorset Sadly his excavations were never published although one important find was this copper alloy plaque with repoussée figure, possibly Minerva Now in @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social

Went to lovely lecture by David Thorold @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social last night about fakes & frauds. Of particular interest was Risley Park Lanx, an apparently Roman 'rediscovered' platter that was actually made 20thC by, or for, a certain master forger, Shaun Greenhalgh... 1/2 #Archaeology 🏺

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Reading this book on bees reminds me of the beautiful Old English bee charm I learned about years back: "Sit, ye shieldmaidens! Settle down to earth. Never flee ye, wild to the woods. Be as mindful to my goodkeeping As each man is of his land and home."

Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war. Guardian September 17, 2025