We’re hiring a full-time Historic Environment Advisor for our West England District. Work across Exmoor, Dartmoor, Cornwall WHS and the Forest of Dean, supporting biodiversity and sustainable forestry. A rare chance to shape landscapes at scale. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

Fen to Fire brings to life the Must Farm pile-dwelling settlement, showing activity from construction to destruction. Each run-through is different with varied activities, events, weather and camera angles while the seasons change over time. The cause of the site’s fiery demise can also vary.

If you need to go somewhere and not spend any money, please visit your local library. Library crawls are awesome. Every library is its own little world.

☀️ Be cool and visit the Govan Stones this week! We've got a few scorchers coming up over the next few days, so do come see our stunning collection of early medieval carved stone sculpture from the lost kingdom of the Clyde Britons in the blissfully cool A-listed Govan Old ⛪️ 🖼 Simon Dickie

Recent arrivals!

So I was thinking of it because of an experimental archaeology (textiles) presentation I saw the other day where, when using a bronze age loom the fibres just kept bunching up in spots. I had the immediate urge to shove in spacers, but had no idea if it would work or whether it had been done.

The National Gallery of Art communicating in modern youth vernacular ✨ youtube.com/shorts/V3eRM...

A truly handy tool! It encouraged me to search for existing research on something that I have been thinking about - the use of combs in weaving - and lo and behold: scarf.scot/students/ear...

New report comissioned by the @heritagecouncil.ie - Best Practices in Community Management of Heritage-rich Landscapes: www.heritagecouncil.ie/content/file...

If you or your students research any aspect of British, Irish or British colonial/imperial history (Roman empire to today) and need a tool that will never hallucinate sources, check out the BBIH. It develops research skills rather than repressing them. Instit. & indiv. subscriptions available.

New light and a 'bottom-up' perspective on Flag Fen and the Flag Fen Basin this Friday flagfen.org.uk/events/frida...

This week is your last chance to see our 'Dear Library' exhibition - and get some knitting inspo 👀

Archaeologists in Glasgow have unearthed what may be a 1,000-year-old posthole in the churchyard of Govan Old, an early medieval Christian site established by Northern Brittonic Clydesiders around AD 500. @govanstones.bsky.social Read all about it in AWLOH! open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Archaeology is a driver of scientific innovation. Rather than being a perceived financial burden, it is actually a high-value investment that can improve human health and environmental sustainability. 🏺1/7 doi.org/10.11141/ia....

When we first decided to carry out a geophysical survey at Crookston Castle, none of us thought we’d be rewriting history. Watch our short flim to find out more youtu.be/B1Z2RZSvAfs?... @castlestudies.bsky.social @archscot.bsky.social @nts-archaeology.bsky.social @glasgowheritage.bsky.social

Social History Curator's Group Conference Friday 10th July at The People's History Museum, Manchester @phm.org.uk ‘The Long March – Strikes, Protests and Riots Through History’. Tickets will be on sale soon at the link below, with Early Bird Tickets available until the 12th May:

Interested in finding out how to support pupils’ reader identities? Join award-winning children’s writer Nadine Aisha Jassat, pupil support worker Becca McHugh and school librarian Jacqueline Baird in this free online event. Tuesday 21 April - 4 PM to 5:30 PM www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shared-pra...

I’m leading this London Rare Book School course on the history of collecting. Ideal for anyone interested in studying the history of libraries and how and why books have survived. We’ll be looking at why special collections are special. 22-26 June. #bookHistory👇📚📖 ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

I've just posted a new Prehistoric, Bronze Age pottery video on YouTube ⚱️🏺We learn so much from the marks left on pots by the tools and hands of the original maker. #Archaeology #pottery "Barbed Wire, String and Bone - A pot from Sizewell C" youtu.be/-V7Hl7gKOjI?...

📰 We're in the news! Work to turn 5th Century church into museum to begin www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BAJR Field Schools Map mow online To add your own fieldschool.. www.bajr.org/field-school... We will check it over. have 3 photos ready :) www.bajr.org/field-schools

OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy 📚 Read online for free or purchase a printed copy at www.sidestone.com/books/advanc...

📰⛏️💥 We got a double-page spread in Sunday's The National! If you can't access it, why not find out about our most recent early medieval discoveries and the natural heritage of Govan Old THIS SATURDAY - the 11th of April - at our Open Day? (£) www.thenational.scot/news/2599463...

New exciting insights into gendered labour division in prehistoric Iberia, with Miriam Vílchez Suárez www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Do you or one of your colleagues need an index created for a book in the humanities? I make beautiful indexes (yes, such a thing does exist!) I have space to take on 1-2 additional projects in April/May. Get in touch!

This study sheds new light on this question with an innovative approach to ceramics. Ceramics bear traces of the production techniques which potters learned and applied to create them. 💻: https://tinyurl.com/2sfhnuyx #Ceramics #PotteryTechniques #CeramicsStudy

The remains of Carnassarie Cairn - a large Bronze Age burial cairn, located on the west side of Kilmartin Glen in Argyll. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Kilmartin #Prehistory #Argyll

One of the joys (to me) of working in Europe is that one must be multilingual or willing to work towards multilinguality. Even just reading academic archaeology, reading in many languages opens you to so many ways of seeing the world

We're having a FREE open day on Saturday 11th of April, 11am-4pm. There will be archaeological survey work, TCV Scotland on biodiversity at Govan Old, crafting for kids, and a Lego competition! Thank you to our funders The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland and Glasgow City Heritage Trust.

Workshop announcement - free but booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/every-timb...

This just arrived on my doorstep with a big ‘thud’! Looking forward to reading it when I get a chance. Especially love the lino print image of Tap o’Noth #hillfort on the jacket cover by Bryan Angus. 🙌

I've got a lightning talk today - I'm talking about the various projects I'm involved with to help folks in libraries & scholarly comms to get more involved in research. #UKSG2026 We've got a discord and you can join too! discord.gg/uEmKnjYjQ

Important if unnerving article finding that 10s of 1000s of archaeological human remains excavated in Britain over the last c.150 years are unaccounted for. Shouldn’t be used as a stick to beat current curators - this is an inherited problem caused by a complexity of historic systematic issues.

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

R&I funding for Scotland’s universities to rise by 8 per cent @scotfundcouncil.bsky.social announces £27 million boost for the 2026-27 academic year www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

A couple of weeks ago one of our @leidenarchaeo.bsky.social students worked at the @rmoudheden.bsky.social depot on some of our late Neolithic pottery (Bell Beaker and Corded Ware) searching for physical evidence (pitting) in these ceramics of fermented fluids (aka 🍻). Cheers!

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

#TextileTuesday recreation of activities related to Bronze Age textile work, as documented at 2nd millennium BC Cabezo Redondo, Spain. Preserved remains of a loom here provide an unprecedented glimpse into prehistoric weaving 🏺 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 📷 based on a drawing by J. A. López Padilla

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

🚨 Attn #Glasgow folks ⚠️ I have developed a new #history #talk for the Alexander Thomson Society. "All that Remains: Tales from the Ramshorn Kirkyard" on Sat 25 Apr, 1pm, Mitchell Library, free entry. Booking 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-r... #Taphophile #Graveyard #MementoMori #DeathHistory

✍️ "In creative and media-adjacent careers, the ladder often starts with free labour." Many young people in this country simply cannot afford to work free, but many industries still normalise free labour as a route into a career. This must be tackled.

Liz Kendall calls on all PhD funders to give paid maternity leave. Science secretary pushes research funders and institutes to commit to better working conditions for women. #PhDsky #Academicsky www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

Are you interested in Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art? Join us at Kilmartin Museum on the 16th of May for a free, hybrid event led by the wonderful Tertia Barnett and @joanavaldez.bsky.social. In-person places are limited, so book soon if you're interested! More information: bit.ly/4s85XMi

Very pleased to announce that TAKE YOUR RESEARCH PUBLIC is back for 2026. It's a practical course supporting PhD students and academics working on historical topics to translate their work into public-facing scholarship. Runs 2-23 June online. Apply by 20 April @dcahf-met.bsky.social

Did you know that we run a Carbon Literacy for Libraries course? ♻️ The course is designed to provide librarians with an introduction to carbon literacy and empower them to support climate action. It celebrates the sustainable model of libraries and how they can support others to cut emissions.

Has your museum run a successful event that you’d like to share with others? 🎟️ Museums Journal is looking for case studies from museums that have programmed great events – these might be talks, lates, family days or workshops. 1/2

Wrote this on human remains in British museums this time last year and stand by it: it’s a slow process that many collections have been trying to deal with for a while and—above all else—one that needs time and resourcing: theconversation.com/new-report-c...

It's been online for a few weeks while putting on the final touches, but we are formally announcing the launch of Renaissance Medals Online, starting with the condottieri of Italy, with large contributions from the National Gallery of Art, British Museum, and Berlin: numismatics.org/pocketchange...

WORK WITH US: ScARF Research Officers and ScARF Research Manager We are looking to hire three new members of staff to help deliver the final two regional research frameworks as part of @scarf-scot.bsky.social. Find out more and apply by 11:59pm on 8 March 2026: www.socantscot.org/news/#appoin...