Save Geography at Leicester: sign the petition! c.org/8rgnvB5RRy

What a fabulous find from Egypt! A cat playing a harp - really love this! 😻👇

I just love this! So cool to see the remains of this Roman bathhouse in Glasgow! 👇

Bonfire Night can be frightening for pets. 🐾 Keep them indoors 🎶 Play gentle music or TV 🏠 Close curtains & windows- make them a safe space 🕯️ Keep fireworks/candles safely away 🦔 Check bonfires for wildlife before lighting Let’s keep everyone safe tonight 💛 #BonfireNight

Archaeologists Discover A Large Roman Bakery That Supplied An Ancient Mining City In Spain www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/11/a...

Two weeks to go until History Day 2025! Take a look at some of the amazing organisations participating this year 🤩 Explore the different organisations and online collections on the History Day website: exhibitions.london.ac.uk/s/history-da... #HistDay25 @senatehouselib.bsky.social

We're looking forward to History Day 2025! The library will have a table with some freebies📚

Wow! What an amazing find! 🤩

We're doing a conference on the Early Medieval Period and demand that you buy tickets and then share this post immediately. sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...

So delighted to have recorded this podcast with the fabulous Emily Briffett @historyextra.bsky.social. Really great to have been talking “all you could want to know about Roman houses”. 😃 podcasts.apple.com/sk/podcast/r...

What's for dinner? A detail of the mosaic floor of the triclinium of a house in Thessaloniki (250-300 AD). The lack of maritime context in these mosaics suggests to some that the fish are seen here primarily as food #mosaicmonday

More than 800 Roman coins found in a shipwreck in the Rhône River from 1,800 years ago www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/m...

Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics - Charlottesville, Virginia, United States www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/basil-h...

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Lecturer (Education) in Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW139/l...

Great thread about an amazing site on the Via Appia called Tres Tabernae. Important site but not widely known about/visited. 😃😃

This fab black and white mosaic is at the entrance to the House of Marcus Caesius Blandus. I love how its marine theme - with its dolphins, hippocampus, trident and rudder- and the crenellated city wall at the top, hint at life in #Pompeii overlooking the Bay of Naples 😍 #archaeology #MosaicMonday

Here are the remains of a lockable strongbox (arca) in The House of the Vettii #Pompeii. Found in the front reception room (atrium), it stored money and valuables - displaying the owner’s wealth and power to visitors. #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Just fabulous! 😍😍😃

Hey, kids. My eponymous #Archaeogaming book (2018) paperback is on sale for 50% off this week. I only need 12 more people to buy the book to crack 1,000 lifetime sales! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Reinha...

It’s been fab being on Channel 5’s Pompeii: Life in the City with @k8lister.bsky.social & @thehistoryguy.bsky.social. As well as talking all things #Roman, I got see the House of the Vettii before opening hours. Amazing 😍 @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulhistory.bsky.social @rhulclassics.bsky.social

Job alert! Come and join us for 12 months in our lovely @chppc.bsky.social team. We're seeking a fixed-term Lecturer in Historic Environment, who'll work on our projects, including research, publishing and digitisation. Closing date 29 August. Please share! www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

This looks great - hopefully going up to Ambleside next month, so will be keen to try this out! 👇😃

Great to have been filming with @k8lister.bsky.social talking about lives of the elite in the glorious & recently restored House of the Silver Wedding for the 2nd episode of Channel 5’s series #Pompeii - Life in the City. @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulhistory.bsky.social @rhulclassics.bsky.social

I was this old when I found out that #Roman nail cleaners are a distinctly Romano-British thing 💅 Great blog for #FindsFriday on artefacts from #Southwark 🏺 www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/...

We're restocking our bookshop! 📕📘📗 All suggestions of titles we should stock are very welcome.

Museums in Italy open their doors for free this Sunday

Funny seeing myself talking about #Pompeii on Channel 5 with @thehistoryguy.bsky.social & @k8lister.bsky.social. Great experience! 😃 First episode last night at 9pm, and episode 2 next Tuesday. Post with tags this time…! @rhulhistory.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social @rhulclassics.bsky.social

I’m so excited to have been part of this series on Channel 5 with @thehistoryguy.bsky.social and @k8lister.bsky.social. Such a great experience to be talking about life in Pompeii! First episode last night at 9pm, and episode 2 next Tuesday! 😃

Building to the American model I see..

New discovery: Archaeologists have uncovered a rare, intact Etruscan chamber tomb – a discovery hailed as one of the most significant finds in recent decades for understanding the ancient pre-Roman civilization.  news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2... 🏺

OMG!!! This is just soooo fabulous! Please can everyone nominate the wonderful, marvellous Fishbourne Roman Palace to be one of the squares on this board?! And please share this, so others can do likewise! Let’s get Fishbourne on the Monopoly board 😃😃😁

A beautiful purple clematis in full glory in our garden! 😍😍 #TinyJoys

Pompeii’s Ancient Garden of Hercules Reopens With Thousands of Flowers Planted. 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️ greekreporter.com/2025/06/18/p...

Beautiful early summer evening - the Shard looks fabulous against the blue sky 😍

The feeling after a fabulous day at great conference connecting with friends and new people, and hearing and planning new projects with fabulous colleagues. Lovely to catch up with @drhick.bsky.social @willtullett.bsky.social, Kate McLean @heritagelizzie.bsky.social - feeling inspired 😃😁

At the excellent conference “Scents of Time and Place” on olfactory history and heritage, and having an amazing opportunity to smell recreated scents from the Titanic. Utterly fascinating 😃

"Humanities aren’t just about old books and theories. They’re about understanding people, culture, and the world around us. And whether you’re studying Medicine, Engineering, Law, or Journalism, they might just make you better at what you do." bit.ly/43LUUxo

#Epigraphy #EpiDoc #AncientSky A reminder that I set up a starter pack for epigraphy: go.bsky.app/PmuQYDH, which will give you a few dozen suggestions of people to follow who work on a talk about ancient inscriptions. (Or you can bulk-follow, if you like them all!)

Current VE Day street party organising discussions where I live … 🩲😅🤣

I can lend a helping paw… That piece will fit purrrrfectly…! 🐾😹

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/...

The moment you open the box to start a jigsaw…. 😹

I have just seen footage on BBC of the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree. I was so sad when it happened at the senseless destruction, and now I’m desperately sad again. Not only was it visually iconic, but it will have supported so much wildlife. 😢💔

He is joined by Lucy Noakes who considers the crucial position of organisations like the Royal Historical Society and their role in championing the importance of History and historians.

Amazing discovery - lion bite marks on bones found in York from Roman period show first ever physical evidence of gladiatorial and animal combat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Universities have urged the new German government to ensure higher education and research remain the responsibility of the same department, after plans to restructure the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) were announced.' Wish Westminster would also take note.

Last week on Wonkhe: With schools struggling for funding, previously state-funded tutoring programmes are foundering. Stacie Bond argues that higher education institutions can help to bridge the gap

Lectureship in Digital History. A new, permanent post on a teaching & research contract. Any period from ancient to contemporary. Specialism in history of any region of the world. Friendly, committed, diverse department in the heart of Bloomsbury. Deadline 7 April. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI974/l...