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...

Re-reading Dale Serjeantson's volume on Iain Crawford's North Uist Udal site. The Norse part of site remains enigmatic as it has never been published. Great @royalarchinst.bsky.social talk here by Beverley Ballin Smith: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtoK... 🏺#zooarchaeology #archaeobirds 📷:CANMORE/HES

And if you like fiddling around with maps (who doesn't??) this is a fantastic resource that collates what is known about many of the barrows I plod past: web.org.uk/barrowmap/

Brilliant! @sntipper.bsky.social 👇

Here’s committee membership lists for the two rival organisations both claiming to be the true British Archaeological Association, who briefly coexisted in 1845. The Albert Way faction later became the @royalarchinst.bsky.social

Don't forget to submit your session to the Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 conference, hosted here in York in December 2025: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk I am absolutely threatening you with a good time

Hooray! Our paper on kinship in Neolithic Ireland is out. Such a pleasure to write this (and draw fancy maps) with a team of fabulous and inspiring prehistorians: Neil Carlin, Jess Smyth, @cjfrieman.bsky.social, Dani Hofmann, @pennybickle.bsky.social, Kerri Cleary and @prehistorian.bsky.social:

Our 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 (𝟱 𝗽𝗺) will be presented by Simon Markus (Museum of London Archaeology) on 'Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428'. Lecture at Burlington House & live-streamed/recorded on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/live/Z8bL_7f...

We're hiring! Join our team investigating changing human behaviour on a landscape scale, across the UK and offshore: www.wessexarch.co.uk/geoarchaeolo...

𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 to the projects that have been awarded RAI research grants this year. www.royalarchinst.org/grants/awards

Project Manager (Fieldwork): Milton Keynes AOC Holdings LTD Salary: £37,123 – £42,252 (depending on experience and office) Closing Date: 25/04/25 Location: Milton Keynes www.bajr.org/job-ad/proje...

Associate Lecturer, Archaeological Landscapes www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ137/a...

In archaeology, mentoring provides guidance and support for early-career professionals, helping them balance career goals and research agendas. The new pilot scheme by Historic England will help support this. welcome to the Archaeological Mentoring Partnership Grants www.bajr.org/archaeologic...

HEADS UP people. Especially those of you passionate about historic church buildings in Scotland and ensuring they have a future. Hugely important new job at the Antiqs being advertised that could help save Scotland’s church heritage.

Palaeo-environmental post-doc alert! 2 years, University of Reading: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI153/p...

Our 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝟵𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 (𝟱 𝗽𝗺) will be presented by Simon Markus (Museum of London Archaeology) on 'Digging deeper: Initial results from the A428'. Lecture at Burlington House & live-streamed/recorded on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/live/Z8bL_7f...

We're looking forward to tomorrow's lecture at 5 pm by @hannahfluck.bsky.social. The lecture will be live-streamed at www.youtube.com/live/qc7JUDp...