If you or anyone you know is a PGR or ECR working on the Aeagan LBA/EIA, come to this online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) on the 27th of Nov. Proposals on any topic within the remit of the group are v welcome - forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC... Please share widely!

Suddenly, when I have to leave the library to go to a seminar (which will be fun! and have fizz, for some reason too!) I am filled with The Spirit of Productiveness. Great. Thanks.

I wonder what the Mantel effect has been on A-level answers about the Tudors, compared to 20 years ago? My 16 year old is encountering Cromwell for the first time, and we're watching Wolf Hall together, so naturally she adores him. When she reads the book her conversion will be complete.

🏺🗃️ 🤗 very excited to be at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social conference this week to talk abou the #HistoriansOfArchaeology online support group You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link: forms.gle/KptYbPZ641Z8...

We're hiring! 🔬 The BSA is currently seeking a Fitch Laboratory Scientific Research Officer, full-time, fixed-term appointment (5 years). Check out the full job advert on our website for further information and the application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/04/f...

My fab art history seminar group spent today's session designing and pitching an exhibition on iconoclasm for an imaginary job interview to be a gallery curator. I love that one group selected this sculpture by Esther Strauß to be their exhibition's finale:

It's not often I succumb to Kickstarter, but this was irresistible: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dux...

Gave a paper at the Bristol Classics Seminar yesterday on Arthur Evans & skulls. Great fun to share the Dark Truths (TM) with a brand new audience. Got to stop miming Charles Hawes being lowered down into a TOWER OF SKULLS to see how many he can grab like a claw machine (it was 26 - he was pleased).

We've launched a podcast: #AwayWithThePharaohs! Listen now for an introduction to @theees.bsky.social and the #podcast itself. Make sure you follow to never miss our monthly episodes (starting tomorrow), bringing Egypt to life in ways you’ve never heard before! #InternationalPodcastDay

Here is the direct zoom registration link: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

CPF: the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR Group online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) is on the 27th of Nov. We welcome proposals on any topic within the remit of the group - an ideal place to test out a chapter, article idea or presentation. forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC... Please share!

The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery. 1/7

Late night library find: a pamphlet written by the archaeologist John Evans with a note on the front cover that appears to be in his hand, dedicating it to his son, Arthur Evans (of Knossos fame). Any experts on Evan's handwriting out there?

the 16th colloquium on Mycenaean studies (basically Aegean scripts) begins in two days in Madrid: www.uned.es/universidad/...

Did Marco Polo’s dad abscond with an ancient Chinese tomb statue? Lead isotope analysis suggests that might be how the Lion of Venice got to Italy in the 13th century. 🏺🧪 (Study published today in @antiquity.ac.uk.)

It's been offline for maybe the last year, but the secret Heraklion Archaeological Museum online catalogue is BACK - thank goodness!! ca.heraklionmuseum.gr/ca/pawtucket...

We're hiring! Are you an enthusiastic and talented social media creator who loves museums? Join our team as Digital Content Producer (Video) and lead on TikTok and reels at The MERL and Reading Museum! Applications are open until 8 September. Apply now: jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Was Bristol Uni's swish new library quietly mothballed, does anyone know, or is it just the sort of project that moves very very slowly @bristolunilib.bsky.social ? They got planning back in 2021 but the pandemic must have put the brakes on - www.hawkinsbrown.com/news/a-place...

the horrors persist, but so do the poor quality and unhinged nature of my Middlemarch memes

📕 #ReviewArticle 200 years after his birth, how has Heinrich Schliemann influenced #archaeology? Our latest Review Article covers a collection of contributions exploring the legacy of the 'Father of Aegean archaeology’. 1/2 ✍️ Katja Winger Read the review 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Rereading Wolf Hall is playing absolute HAVOC with my StoryGraph reading goal. Going to have to blaze through a bunch of Agatha Christies to make up for this (and RESIST Bring Up The Bodies).

Me: I'm going to submit my PhD in early September 2026. Also me: Hey look, there's a archaeology conference in Athens a week earlier that I should totally submit a paper to! (It's okay, I have been talked out of it by my horrified husband.)

Having the absolute time of my life at our local Minoan necropolis this afternoon.

With so much doom and gloom, I tend to assume EVERYTHING is doom and gloom, but hwæt! It is not! I had absolutely no idea the UK was doing so brilliantly on renewable energy. Yes, there is further to go, but this should be celebrated every day: grid.iamkate.com

I want someone to write an article about listeria poisoning risks during WWII and call it Lysteric: It's Blitz #yeahyeahyeahs

📢 June Event coming up at the PEF! "Rethinking Preservation: Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past," with Mirjam Brusius. 🗓️ 19th June, 2025 🕕 6pm 📍 5-6 Dreadnought Walk, Greenwich SE10 9FP RSVP by emailing [email protected] ✍️

Look out for ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’, on display at the British Academy Summer Showcase, Friday 20 & Saturday 21 June. storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/47f5...

I've done so much work this week that I have back pain from having a slightly crappy chair, which raises the question "do I need a decent chair" but also the guilty realisation that I probably don't have ENOUGH back pain if I only have it this week. 💀

Can there be any more thrilling email than a notification that someone has shared a document called "Mummification Metadata" with you?

What a gorgeous postdoc - for a moment I thought they were looking for a papyrologist with Latin AND Greek AND Demotic, which seemed like a LOT for 34k, but there are TWO jobs on this great project - phew! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNL359/p...

Can't WAIT to listen to this - podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...

🏛Just ONE week to go until the BILNAS Summer Lecture & Reception at ‪@britishacademy.bsky.social‬, London, on the illegal trafficking of antiquities in Cyrenaica. – with Louvre researcher Dr Morgan Belzic. 📆 Thursday 12 June at 6.30pm For tickets: bilnas-summer-lecture-reception.eventbrite.co.uk

Just spent the last half hour trying to re-find a really pithy phrase about Kant's racism that I read last night, and my search history will never be the same again. If I'm under covert surveillance by anybody out there (hello!), they definitey think I'm an absolute monster by now.

This is my PhD thesis I did not ask for this I did not consent to this I did not approve of this I was not compensated for this I would not have advised this I do not like this And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

Call for Papers for @lornarichardson.bsky.social and my session on Archaeological Integrity at this year's @tag2025york.bsky.social Come and share your thoughts on keeping our profession safe from AI, intellectual theft, & political manipulation! tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'

I have no idea if this will help, but it just takes a moment - please sign this petition to try to save Ancient History at Cardiff - chng.it/QMNXVJkXrp

Do you use archives at all for your research? What is your absolute favourite online archive for ease of use/intelligence of set-up, and what is your most loathed?

We are delighted to share the exciting news that Lara Bampfield has joined our team as the Research Assistant for our new Tutankhamun project which aims to produce the first spatial archive in Egyptology!

Delighted to learn today that Vitruvius was actually Mark the Evangelist. (iykyk)

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Unfortunately we've had a last-minute loss from the Routledge Companion to Video Games and History, and so if there is anyone who'd be interested in contributing a chapter on the history of India in video games (from any perspective, range of case studies welcome) please get in touch asap with me!

Entirely in Ancient Greek and Old Persian? This sounds extraordinary! Nenikikamen: greekreporter.com/2025/05/15/n...

I've just discovered that you can spend your Wednesdays volunteering as an EMBROIDERER, of all things, at Christ Church Cathedral here in Oxford and it is taking all my power not to email them and say "I CAN LEARN!". Sometimes the world is just excellent.

It's getting harder to defend Labour. We are Irish & moved here 17 years ago, legally, as we are entitled to. We brought our own £ to buy our house & are very much net contributors here. Most people we know here in Oxford are also immigrants & net contributors. Immigration = £££ for this country.

If you read a writer in the late 1800's describe a woman's eyes as "turquoises chaliced in a setting of ebony" what would you think he was referencing? It feels SO like a reference (biblical?) but I can't track it down.

📺 Prof Nicoletta Momigliano (@clahbristol.bsky.social) features in a new documentary, Mothers of the Minotaur, which considers the Bronze Age civilization of Minoan Crete and its reception once rediscovered in the early 20th century Watch the full documentary 👉 bit.ly/3Z3DTwW

New #PeoplingPodcast alert! Today, we are joined by @robertamazza.bsky.social to discuss the antiquities trade in both the past and the present, the ethics behind papyrology, and the illicit papyrus trade in academia. Listen in to “Fragments and Falsehoods” here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/05/06/p...

Honouring the ancient plumbers, mosaicists, builders, and painters in an insula in #Pompeii (Region IX) who were tragically interrupted in their work. #LabourDay #MayDay

The Historians of Archaeology Support Group now has its own Discord server - discord.gg/YcRNpDby Join us to help build a community, join reading groups or co-working sessions, and meet some fantastic people in this exciting niche of archaeology.🏺