𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦 Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'. www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlm...

Aymer's wife Lucy is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...

Aymer Vallance, the owner of Stoneacre, was an active member of the RAI during the late 19th - early 20th centuries:

𝐕𝐎𝐋𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐕𝐀𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐘: 𝐇𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 The RAI is seeking applications for the role of Honorary Secretary. Expenses are available for business travel & accommodation where necessary. Full details at www.royalarchinst.org/news/2025/vo...

The Community Archaeology Radiocarbon Dating (CARD) Fund is now open for applications. ⏳ Funded by Archaeological Research Services Ltd and the SUERC Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, the fund covers the full cost of radiocarbon dating for community projects across the UK.👉

We are accepting 𝗥𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 8 December 2025. Full details/application at www.royalarchinst.org/grants

New paper! Thanks to @royalarchinst.bsky.social and Catherine Mackichan Trust for funding this research. Regional and Extra-local Pollen Evidence for Long-term Vegetation Change and Human Impact from the Hinterland of Hadrian’s Wall at Alston Moor, North Pennines, UK doi.org/10.1080/1461...

𝗩𝗔𝗖𝗔𝗡𝗖𝗬: Editor of the Archaeological Journal 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 31st October 2025

𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries. Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...

Booking is now open for our Autumn Meeting in Canterbury! We will be visiting St Martin’s Church, St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral during the day, with guided tours at each location and a special visit to the archives at the Cathedral ⛪️ www.royalarchinst.org/events/2025/...

Are you a student at a UK university and looking for support to come to TAG York? Did you know the Royal Archaeological Institute Cheney Bursary is available to support you? You can find more details here: www.royalarchinst.org/grants/bursa... @royalarchinst.bsky.social

𝟖 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐋𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: 𝟓 𝐩𝐦, 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞, 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 & 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 The first lecture of our 2025-26 series will be presented by our former Honorary Secretary, Brian Kerr who will be speaking about ‘Cathcart Castle reconsidered'. youtu.be/KGbT-sgQOSk

We are thrilled to reveal the shortlist for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards 2025. 🎉 Every shortlisted project demonstrates how archaeology connects people and places, and how it can spark fresh ideas about our shared past and future. Congratulations to all shortlisted! 👉 shorturl.at/DbaPk

Editor (RAI Archaeological Journal ) Royal Archaeological Institute Salary: annual honorarium of £4,500 Closing Date: 31/10/25 Location: UK based www.bajr.org/job-ad/edito...

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

A while back Historic England asked for my opinion on which was the oldest pub in London. The result is a new online article that outlines the variables, busts some myths, and points to a couple of genuinely ancient pubs in and around the city... heritagecalling.com/2025/09/25/w...

VACANCY: The Institute is seeking an Editor for the Archaeological Journal to succeed Prof Rhiannon Stevens. The newly-appointed Editor will shadow Prof Stevens during 2025/26. There is an annual honorarium of £4,500. For full details/expressions of interest, please contact [email protected]

It’s our Summer Meeting this week & we’ll be visiting sites around Kings Lynn in Norfolk. Our programme begins tonight with a lecture in the Great Hall at Thoresby College by Dr Clive Bond, about the prehistory of Norfolk & the (in) famous site of Seahenge. 📷 Wikipedia & @nathaliecohen.bsky.social

Check out the great line up for our 2025 - 2026 lecture programme. Full details at www.royalarchinst.org/events/lectu... Lectures are held in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House, at 5 p.m and on our YouTube channel.

The deadline for the Archaeological Achievement Awards has been extended, which means there’s still time to nominate! 🏆 That colleague who’s smashing it? The TikTok creator sparking a conversation? The project changing lives? Don’t let them go unrecognised! Closing noon 10/09👉 shorturl.at/6q5bx

Pleased to see some coverage by the BBC of our excavations at #CerneAbbey which concluded at the weekend! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Season 2 of #Bodiam100 at Bodiam Castle has officially begun! Yesterday was our induction day for our volunteers to get to know the site & we started digging today! #OutInTheField #EastSussex #festivalofarchaeology 🏺🪏 @nationaltrust.org.uk @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @archsoutheast.bsky.social

🧡 That’s a wrap on #FestivalOfArchaeology Youth Day! From powerful photography exhibitions to inspiring research & YAB news, today was all about young voices in archaeology. Huge thanks to everyone who joined us & to @royalarchinst.bsky.social for kindly sponsoring. We couldn't do it without you!

🔍 Meet the Sponsor: @royalarchinst.bsky.social, sponsors of #FestivalOfArchaeology Youth Day! Since 1844, RAI has championed archaeology across the UK through research, grants, lectures & more. Explore their work 👉 www.royalarchinst.org Thank you for your support 💙

🙏 A huge thank you to the @royalarchinst.bsky.social for generously sponsoring Youth Day Your support helps us shine a spotlight on young voices, fresh perspectives, and the exciting future of archaeology. Youth Day wouldn’t be possible without you! 💙

RAI Vacancies: Honorary Secretary and Honorary Treasurer Full details are available at www.royalarchinst.org/news/2025/va... Applications to be submitted to the Manager at [email protected] by 31st August.

🏛️ After 27 years, ArchSearch is being retired this September to make way for an upgrade - The ADS Data Catalogue! Featuring: ✨ Access to 5k ADS Archives and 100k reports 🗺️ Interactive maps & timeline views 🔍 Multi-parameter searching (What/Where/When) 🔗 Read more on the ADS website buff.ly/jW414wt

heads up historians of the Roman period - very, very, short deadline on this *permanent* job to start this academic year at Uni of Nottingham www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX393/a... 🗃️

New AHRC Doctoral Focal Award PhDs aimed at candidates based in the Scottish Highlands & Islands to develop in-situ research capacity. "A Golden Thread: Crafting the Creative Economy from Scotland’s Highlands, Lowlands & Islands’, aims to strengthen Scotland’s craft sector..." tinyurl.com/tkx7b66z

Our thoughts and best wishes go to colleagues involved in this difficult but necessary work. www.thejournal.ie/tuam-mother-...

🏺 Missed the latest CIfA Tea Break Talk? Our Training and Communications Manager, Dr Nicky Garland, broke attendance records with the 'OASIS Explained' session, demystifying the UK’s historic environment investigation database. 💻 To find out more and watch the full talk visit: buff.ly/YvVYTnP

Festival of Archaeology at Oakham Castle 10 am to 4 pm today. #archaeology #history

Who was NG10 and what was the world they lived in? The sister paper to our CAJ paper is now out in Antiquity and the cover image no less! Working on these papers with this group, has been one of the richest academic experiences I have had in my career. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨Archaeo-Science Job Klaxon🚨Please Share! We're hiring an interim Lab Manager here at @uclarchaeology.bsky.social. Would be esp suited to someone with experience of running Archaeobotany, Human Osteology or Zooarchaeology lab. £53-64k in a great department. 🏺🧪🦴🌱🔬🦣 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

We are looking forward to the @leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social History Fair 2025 which is being held in the grounds of Oakham Castle on Saturday, 5th July from 10 am to 4 pm. Please come and join us! Details at lahs.org.uk/events/lahs-...

Did you know that WAC-10 World Archaeology Congress (next week) is free for students to attend online? Register here: worldarchaeologicalcongress.com/wac10/

While the first excavation we are funding this year, at Clavering is underway, here's an update from project lead @richardnevell.bsky.social on the second one we are funding at Knepp in West Sussex: www.youtube.com/shorts/mTL2Z...

@nannonstevens.bsky.social is seeking contributions for The Archaeological Journal, a peer-reviewed publication of the Royal Archaeological Institute & an annual journal dedicated to the archaeology of the British Isles & adjacent areas of Europe. Details at www.royalarchinst.org/publications...

A permanent job here at Southampton in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology Please share widely! jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

The CST is delighted to announce that for our next round of grants, which will open in September, we will be increasing the maximum grant award by 40% to £14,000. Applications open on 1 Sept & closes on 1 Dec 2025. For more info you can go here: castlestudiestrust.org/Grants.html

Thinking of coming to TAG in York? While you wait for the call for papers (we're hoping for these to go live 1st June or thereabout) why not check out our plans for the annual party and the amazing community venue The Crescent: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/events/

Great weekend in #Brighton & #Lewes for the @royalarchinst.bsky.social Spring Meeting! Huge thanks to our Meetings Secretaries for organising a fab programme & to all those caring for the places we visited for sharing their stories with us 🏰

I'm delighted to be elected to the Council of the Royal Archaeological Institute. @royalarchinst.bsky.social www.royalarchinst.org/about/officers

For anyone filling out the Have your say survey there is a box to say what you’d like to see more of - perhaps somewhere to call for more archaeology programming (like the great Digging for Britain)?? @royalarchinst.bsky.social @prehistoricsociety.bsky.social

Call for Contributions! The Student & Early Careers Conference 2025 is back 🎓🏺 🗓️ 30 July | 🕒 3 - 8 pm | 📍 Online Share your work in a friendly space: talks, posters, or videos welcome! Submit by 2 June, 9 am 👉 [email protected] Find out more 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/youth-engage...

We need EVERYONE to see this advert for a Head of Operations at the Palace (£40-45k). Otherwise we might get some kind of numpty in charge. Please share. If we get 50 shares we'll post a video of #CuratorRob playing a hoover like a didgeridoo. hr.breathehr.com/recruitment/...

On 14th May, our AGM will be at (4.45 pm) followed by @nathaliecohen.bsky.social lecture (5 pm) on ‘Royal Archaeological Institute Past: Women and the RAI'. Lecture at Burlington House & live-streamed/recorded on our YouTube channel youtu.be/AchpfPuGyHY

14th May 5 pm👇

Exciting recruitment news, we're now advertising for the role of Head of Collections (Library, Museum and Archives)! Closing date is 18 May. For all the details on the role and how to join our friendly team, please see the link. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...

Interested in archaeoastronomy or skyscape archaeology? Up for doing a future course? Fill out this survey to help develop ideas! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...