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Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
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You know what's even worse than the Borderlands Line unreliable, often late, trains? Their completely inaccurate station departure boards. You know what's worse than both put together? The completely inacurate Transport for Wales 'live' app. Utterly dismal today
#transportforwales
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Steve Toase
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Here's a great conversation between
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
and my good friend
@trixranderson.bsky.social
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The Archaeology of Ghorman Pride - Andor Series 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZE...
See also my blog-post
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/a...
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The Archaeology of Ghorman Pride - Andor Series 2
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZEAh1rQOg
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It is with great sadness that I learn of the passing of Dr Andy Jones, long-term Principal Archaeologist with the Cornwall Archaeological Unit. In tribute, here's my Archaeodeath Interview with Andy from earlier this year. Rest in Prehistory, Andy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YK...
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Death in Peninsular Prehistory with Andy Jones
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YKFTg04cE&t=39s
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Harold’s Grave and the West Saxon Churchyard in King and Conqueror
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Harold’s Grave and the West Saxon Churchyard in King and Conqueror
Historical dramas struggle with representing Christian churchyards in the late Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-Scandinavian/Viking period (for England, mid-9th-mid-11th century) and partly this is justified. As …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/harolds-grave-and-the-west-saxon-churchyard-in-king-and-conqueror/
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Hidden Treasures: Skeleton Crew Archaeology
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Hidden Treasures: Skeleton Crew Archaeology
The past has power and allure, and hidden treasure which promises to unlock the secrets of an entire lost and hidden planet! Having previously explored the archaeology of The Mandalorian, The Book …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/hidden-treasures-skeleton-crew-archaeology/
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(Mar)Chella Ward
8 days ago
Inspired by
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
to get back on TikTok, and back to talking about imagining the ancient world beyond Eurocentrism! 🤓
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Irina Manea
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Howard
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
and I have developed a cute little series on the archaeology and history of death and burial in the Viking age. I simply love these sessions and hope more people will discover us :D
#vikingsky
#medievalsky
youtu.be/hi2MQG6ChXM
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Tostig Burns - Cremation in 'King and Conqueror'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlAY...
The video version of my recent blog-post on the BBC quasi-historical drama everyone loves to hate. Here's the blog-post:
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/t...
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Tostig Burns - Cremation in 'King and Conqueror'
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlAY9fX6i28
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Whoever wrote this at Hawarden Bridge has a good point. It's been at least 2 weeks since shelters were removed with no signs of their replacements
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I've 99 Patreons! Who will be my 100th member on Patreon to receive monthly updates about my Archaeodeath public education and engagement exploring the archaeology and heritage of death & memory?
www.patreon.com/c/Archaeodeath
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Archaeodeath | Patreon
Death & Memory - Past & Present
https://www.patreon.com/c/Archaeodeath
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Archaeodeath September 2025 Review
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September 2025 Review | Archaeodeath
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FYI, I'm only slowly catching up with blocking people on here as per X/Twitter, so bear with me if you find yourself mysteriously able to view my content 👍🤫
13 days ago
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I was just thinking how I've lost count of the number of times I've now been 'cancelled' by the academic community. 😁
14 days ago
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Andy Brockman
20 days ago
Thank you to everyone who has read and shared our story about the allegations the President of the
#EAA
supported a campaign pressuring the Executive Board to reverse its Gaza vote. There is now a
#WatchingBrief
video with a discussion putting the story in context. Please Like Share and Subscribe.
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EAA President (allegedly) Orchestrated Campaign Against EAA Board!
YouTube video by The Watching Brief
https://youtu.be/gidNbLc5yaQ?si=wnugIj-n5utqEHsD
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Andy Brockman
15 days ago
#HeritageCrime
News Police in Cambridgeshire have relleased CCTV images of four people they wish to speak to in connection with July's arson attack on a replica roundhouse at the Flag Fen visitor centre.
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Police seek 4 suspects after arson destroys Flag Fen Roundhouse - News for Peterborough and Cambridgeshire
Police have released CCTV images of four people they wish to speak to in connection with an arson attack at Flag Fen Bronze Age Centre Peterborough
https://www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/police-seek-4-suspects-after-arson-destroys-flag-fen-roundhouse/39103/
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Hunting for the Viking Great Army with Trix Randerson
@trixranderson.bsky.social
youtu.be/qO10bpuU8p0
14 days ago
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Chandrila Archaeologies: An Archaeology of Andor series 2 - I continue my musings on the archaeologies of the Star Wars universe in this post about Mon Mothma's homeworld of Chandrilla
#archaeology
#andor
#starwars
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvNP...
16 days ago
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Rabbi Chana, That Rebel Rabbi
17 days ago
Join me this Friday as I talk to
@archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
about all things Archaeology
#thatrebelrabbi
#archeodeath
#sacredchaos
#judaism
#podcast
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Essential watching for anyone working in European archaeology and considering staying a member of the EAA.
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19 days ago
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This is shocking and concerning for the EAA and its membership. As a signatory of the open letter asking the EAA to act responsibly and ethically, the way
@archagainstaparth.bsky.social
and EAA members were treated is appalling. More thoughts later.
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21 days ago
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Zoe Gardner
23 days ago
I’ll be on the
@jeremyvine.bsky.social
show in ten minutes!! Just walked past Cillian Murphy in a BBC corridor. Casual.
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Stop Trump Coalition
23 days ago
BREAKING NEWS: Everybody hates Donald Trump
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The Heritage Open Day at Burton Mere RSPB 2025
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The Heritage Open Day at Burton Mere RSPB 2025
So, yesterday far-right thugs were trying to take over the streets of our capital city with their misinformation-fuelled race-hate, attacking police officers and claiming they are taking back the c…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/the-heritage-open-day-at-burton-mere-rspb-2025/
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So, I'm releasing videos reflecting on my earlier blog-post about the 'Archaeology of Andor'. The original blost-post is here:
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/a...
and the new YouTube video is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyLO...
#andor
#archaeology
#StarWars
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Andor series 2: Coruscant Archaeologies
The past is in rebellion! The architectures and material traces of deep-time pasts, antiquities and vintage technology are pivotal to the story of resistance to imperial oppression in Andor series …
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/08/11/andor-series-2-coruscant-archaeologies/
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Laura McAtackney
27 days ago
Targeting archaeological heritage is a war crime and a significant facet of genocide. It is a clear attempt to deny Palestinian identity and right to their deep connections to place. Solidarity to those in the ground trying to protect Palestinian heritage.
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Dr Katherine Blouin
28 days ago
🚨 IOF plans to bomb the archaeological magasins of
@ebafjerusalem.bsky.social
! Huge respect for + immense solidarity w all the 🇵🇸 colleagues risking their lives on the daily to save what remains of their archaeological heritage from 🇮🇱 rampage & theft
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike
Officials hurriedly remove nearly three decades of finds in ‘high-risk operation’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/antiquities-evacuated-from-gaza-city-storehouse-ahead-of-israeli-strike
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Thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers.
30 days ago
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This is Ground Control to Oseberg....
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Zena Kamash
about 1 month ago
📣 Calling all archaeologists! 📣 ***This call requires 10% of EAA members to sign*** 🍉🍉🍉 EAA members: sign and share widely (you'll need your membership number) ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼 Not an EAA member? Please share widely around your networks!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA
Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffjN1aW9wWXB9aEDTU6G9q89oiby-Qbm5OJ36ppqP0XdB-Hw/viewform
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Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation
about 1 month ago
EAA members, sign to call for a special meeting to hold the Executive Board to account. When elements of our discipline are being used to justify apartheid and genocide, we need institutions (and members) to clearly and loudly condemn and work against this. Archaeology is political. Eyes on Gaza. 🍉
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Oseberg ship is moving faster than my next few writing projects, that's for sure!
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Offa's Dyke Journal 6 is out in paperback!
offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/o...
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
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Offa’s Dyke Journal 6 – Out in Paperback
The diamond open-access Offa’s Dyke Journal goes from strength-to-strength and with the publication of volume 6 of the ejournal in the summer of 2025. Now, I’m delighted to announce tha…
https://offaswatsdyke.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/offas-dyke-journal-6-out-in-paperback/
about 1 month ago
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Tostig Burns – Cremation in King and Conqueror
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Tostig Burns – Cremation in King and Conqueror
This post reflects on an implausible but striking cremation ceremony which takes place after the Battle of Stamford Bridge, 25 September 1066, in the new BBC historical drama King and Conqueror. In…
https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/09/tostig-burns-cremation-in-king-and-conqueror/
about 1 month ago
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Terry O'Connor
about 1 month ago
This 👆👆, incidentally, should be imagined as read in the voice of Hugh Bonneville.
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Andy Brockman
about 1 month ago
#HeritageCrime
News CADW claims "40 to 50 incidents a year" of heritage crime at sites it operates and "in the low hundreds" of incidents across the historical environment in Wales.
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Criminal damage to historic buildings in Wales on the rise
This year could see the highest ever number of reported crimes of damage and vandalism.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly6npkjy5yo
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👍Peer-review at its finest!👇
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about 1 month ago
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I'm just finishing watching 'King and Conqueror' and somehow it has managed to put me off studying the early medieval period 35 years after I started. Great job!
about 1 month ago
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Terry O'Connor
about 1 month ago
Important stuff.
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Andy Brockman
about 1 month ago
We have had a report that the closing cerimony of
#EAA2025
was taken off line and was in person only. No confirmation and, even if it was, whether it was a technical issue or a deliberate choice by the EAA organisers. Can anyone confirm/explain? DM in confidence or Signal ID AndyBrockman.25
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Andy Brockman
about 1 month ago
New in thePipeLine: EAA GAZA U-TURN TIMELINE OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS The beleaguered Executive Board of the
#EAA
has a new timeline trying making it look like the wronged and bullied party, but it doesn't explain who allegedly bullied its members into reversing a democratic vote.
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EAA GAZA U-TURN TIMELINE OFFERS MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS
The beleaguered Executive Board of the European Association of Archaeologists has offered members a timeline of events leading to the reversal of its decision to ask delegates from Israeli institut…
https://thepipeline.info/blog/2025/09/06/eaa-gaza-u-turn-timeline-offers-more-questions-than-answers/
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Laura McAtackney
about 1 month ago
After the disaster that was the EAA AGM, the contact info for the board is no longer on the website. If needed:
[email protected]
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Offa's Dyke Journal volume 6 in paperback has arrived! Available from
@archaeopress.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
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Almost Archaeology
about 1 month ago
Ben Affleck: almost archaeologist
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CALL FOR PAPERS - Cremation practices in Frankish Gaul (5th – 9th centuries) – 4th Gaaf Rendez-vous
www.gaaf-asso.fr/en/rendezvou...
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Cremation practices in Frankish Gaul (5th - 9th centuries) - 4th Gaaf Rendez-vous - Groupe d'Anthropologie et d'Archéologie Funéraire
The call for papers for the 4th Gaaf Rendez-vous around the cremation practices in Gaul is now open! The conference will be held in Caen (France), at the Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, 1...
https://www.gaaf-asso.fr/en/rendezvous/cramation-practices-in-in-frankish-gaul-5th-9th-centuries-4th-gaaf-rendez-vous/
about 1 month ago
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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide
about 1 month ago
Response from the BDS-movement (Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel) on the EAA. If you are a member, go to the AMBM today and voice your opinion!
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Archaeodeath August 2025 review
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August 2025 Review | Archaeodeath
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about 1 month ago
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(Mar)Chella Ward
about 1 month ago
If only there were an ethical way to imprint this simple fact into the minds of everyone who does anything at all with the past 😂
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'Those who pretend that historical disciplines are not political are aiding and abetting the use of archaeology as the “ideological scaffolding” of apartheid'
@luxmea.bsky.social
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How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
How the Past Became a Weapon of Genocide in Palestine - Volume 1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/how-the-past-became-a-weapon-of-genocide-in-palestine/0E813A009B965EB3D83CDCCE49CFCC38
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Death, Mounds & Memory in Icelandic Saga Literature
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about 1 month ago
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