11 November 1904 | Dutch Jew, Marcus Koster, was born in Amsterdam. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and registered in the camp. He perished there on 22 September 1942. --- Jews deported from the German-occupied Netherlands to Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/32_en/

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This is just fascist evil. Hope the Dutch can do something about this. Utterly disgusting. 🧵

Is it creepy if male ancient historians start to describe the sensuality of ancient female sculpture a little too suggestively? 🤣🤣😂🤨

The BBC says COP30 is now a joke www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting look at the social, economical, and environmental factors affecting the "decline" of the baguette. "86% of French people admit to eating industrial, sliced white supermarket bread." #food #foodsky #cooksky 🍜

The Roman empire built 300,000 kilometres of roads: new study. theconversation.com/the-roman-em...

'A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining historical records with modern mapping techniques, researchers mapped hundreds of thousands of kilometres of roads. The findings nearly double the known length of Roman roads.'

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Oooh brilliant Alan!! 👻👻😁🤓 #TheTraitors

Just what we need, right? 👿😱💀"The plant, called Project One, is designed to turbocharge European plastic production." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

No one did resting emperor face quite like Caracalla (photo is my own from the Baths of Diocletian).

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Fragment of 4th century mosaic from the #Roman bathhouse of Lydney #Gloucestershire Beautifully captured in watercolour by the great archaeologist, Tessa Verney Wheeler in 1929 🤩 Original painting held by @antiquaries.bsky.social #MosaicMonday

Very interesting thread about 'that car park dig' and the film (haven't seen it yet) made, books written etc.

Never been to Egypt.... giant museum set to open soon: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Our Persian Ironwood looking gloriously autumnal

Just a reposting of the most impactful Finnish archaeological article ever. #TombTuesday www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The trees are on fire.

Enjoyed the conference The Ideal and The Ugly at Warwick uni. My talk went well (I think 🤔). Great variety of speakers! #phdlife #universityofWarwick #conference #ancientBlueSky

Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅 www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...

I am once again telling you that taking money from Musk makes you complicit in his instrumentalization of cultural heritage to support his beliefs. Taking funding from amoral entities is, in my opinion, not ethical and it is in fact harmful. www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/elon...

#ReliefWednesday shows us the rich #relief work of the #cinerary #urn of one C. Iulius Saecularis, from c. 90 CE. The nude youth, a bit chubby, holds a #butterfly in his right hand, symbol of the #spirit. He doesn't want to let go of his earthly life. #Dionysiac symbols abound. #AncientBluesky 🏺

I'll be giving a talk at this conference in the coming week. Looking forward to it! The Ideal and the Ugly: bodies through senses, media and cultural memory” (University of Warwick) #AncientBluesky #Classics #AncientHistory #Arthistory classicalassociation.org/events/the-i...

This is Who Do You Think You Are on steroids. An amazing and touching story of bravery and loss. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This unassuming #Roman ceramic floor tile from ancient Londinium (London) sports a sketch of a pharos, a lighthouse. It's very much like the two lighthouses that flanked ancient Dover harbor, where the Roman fleet was based. Those, in turn, were based on the pharos of Alexandria. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

Reliefs funéraires de Palmyre (calcaire blanchâtre, IIe s.). Ils appartiennent aux collections du musée de Picardie à Amiens.

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What a story …. 🫡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The absolutely stunning 15th century frontage to the former White Hart Inn, on the market square in Newark, Nottinghamshire 🤩 More photos and link to the history/architectural development of the building in a short thread below…

Some thoughts on Rembrandt's lace.... www.sophieploeg.com/blog/rembran... #arthistory #fashionhistory #lace #Rembrandt

Here's a video of the Bayeux Tapestry being carefully removed from its case and packed away. I had my heart in my mouth while watching. And yes, I do have nightmares about it crossing the channel! I had my heart in my mouth just watching this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ys...

The amazing Roman pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩 The tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD. 📷 by me #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology

Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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...

Plastic Soup has an app that reads ingredients lists of any product and tells you whether it has micro plastics in it. Scanning anything in my house.. very interesting results!! www.plasticsoupfoundation.org/en/

Being forced to wait a week between episodes of Slow Horses should be prohibited under the Geneva Convention

A real life Dan Brown novel featuring a European wide web of antique book thieves. What an amazing (and concerning) story 📚🧐 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Promising exhibition of 18th century pastel paintings at the @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social but at £16.50 a ticket a bit expensive for what is no doubt not a huge exhibition. Hm. Will think about it. #pastelpainting #Liotard #Bath holburne.org/events/powde...

*Laughs hollowly in 2025*

Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

hey @waterstones.bsky.social you're a book shop, why can't we just win a book? www.waterstones.com/win

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Incredibly thoughtful piece on the uses (or lack thereof) of AI. Historians will find this thinking relevant too.

“If you’re a writer, your first duty, a duty you owe to yourself and your readers, and to your writing itself, is to become wonderful. To become the best writer you can possibly be.” ― Theodora Goss #WritingSky #AcademicSky

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta horse with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology