If Keir Starmer wants to fight Farage, he has to go back left, not right. Just spoke with a colleague, a lifelong Labour voter, now without a political home. He is looking what Corbyn's party will do... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Roman Theatre at Faesulae (modern Fiesole, Italy) has a seating capacity of 2,600-3,250. It was began during the Augustan period (27 BC- AD 14), with the scene added during the Claudian period (AD 41-54) and renovations during Septimius Severus (AD 193-211). #RomanSiteSaturday

Interesting talk from St. Andrews on the excavations in the Plutonium of Villa Adriana in Tivoli by the University of Oxford #Archaeology

Today I volunteered at the University. Counting and weighing animal bones, mainly assorted large mammals and rabbit bones today. #FindsFriday

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

Week 1 #Strictly Dances Karen & Carlos - Jive Vicky & Kai - Cha Cha Cha Alex & Johannes - Viennese Waltz Chris & Nadiya - Samba Ellie & Vito - Cha Cha Cha Jimmy & Lauren - Quickstep 1/2

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

#FrescoFriday from the "Tomb of the Black Rider", c. 340 BC Found from Paestum in Magna Graecia, Lucanian period. #Archaeology #Art #History #AncientBlueSky🏺

#Classicstober25 is coming. I must admit, this will be demanding! #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

@greekmythcomix.bsky.social When do you publish the #ClassicsTober 2025 daily themes? Have to start prepare...

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Dr Hilary Cool speaks about Nubian glass. This beautiful blue beaker with decorations with scenes from the Osiris myth is my favourite. The Roman period, possibly made in Meroe. #FindsFriday

#Archaeology is used to forward land claims and whitewash history. Sounds familiar? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

The programme of the CAA Austalasia 2025 #Archaeology

Boppard in Germany began as a Celtic settlement with the name Baudobriga. In the middle of the 4th century, the Romans built a fortification which they named Bodobriga which later became Boppard. The fort was 308 × 154 metres and formed a rectangle of 4,7 hectare. #RomanFortThursday

I'd add to it the active ageing of members of archaeological societies and their turning away from proactive fieldwork, along with the decline of county archaeological museum / curators and the focus from knowledge through doing to performative display. We lost this within a generation

A side bar needed for ending of university extra mural departments & evening classes - I ran what was the last year of a brilliant WEA course in Hereford. Hands on pragmatic / personalised learning - teaching landscape archaeology through doing & collective experience- as good as an MA for breadth

Jonathan Last on the decline of the fieldwalking as a method in the CBA Fieldwalking conference in Grantham #Archaeology

Peter Liddle on Leicestershire Fieldworkers in the CBA Fieldwalking conference in Grantham #Archaeology

The Fieldwalking conference in Grantham today

New episode of your new favourite podcast! Billions and billions of Brian Cox can’t be wrong!

Borgberget hillfort lies 3 kilometres NW from Bollstabruk in Norrland in Sweden. It is dated to the Migration and Merovingian periods AD 400-800. On three sides it has a very well preserved stone wall, 200 metres long and 3 metres wide with an opening in the south. #HillfortsWednesday

#EpigraphyTuesday 🏺 First known mention of #Roman Londoners - Londiniensium - on late 2nd/early 3rd C AD Turkish marble tablet of Tiberinius Celeranius a trader from Beauvais. From important Tabard Square site in #Southwark excavated by @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social In new London Museum expected 2026

If permanence can be torn up by Reform for settled migrants, how long before it can be torn up for citizens? Read the Bear’s commentary ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

Was just accepted into a conference in Germany next March called "The Burning of Rome? – Antiquity in Metal." Given its location in Trier, I couldn't pass up doing a paper that I have titled "Panegyrici Metallici: In Praise (and Blame) of Later Roman Emperors." See you under the Porta Nigra!

Link seemed to be cut off, so here it is again: www.ucpress.edu/books/gender...

"Tarvitsemme myös vahvempia väyliä, joiden kautta SSH-tutkimus voi vaikuttaa suoraan EU:n politiikkaan ja julkiseen keskusteluun." www.hs.fi/mielipide/ar...

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Idi Amin of Britain 😡 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Look at our lovely autumn/winter @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar schedule, including talks from @bamcshane.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social @rubenros.bsky.social @thomassmits.bsky.social @melvinwevers.bsky.social and more! #dhist

"Suomen Akatemia varoittaa yli­opistoja perus­suomalaisista Yliopistoihin lähetetyssä ”varautumisviestissä” annetaan ohjeistusta häirinnän, maalittamisen ja mustamaalauksen kohteeksi joutuneille tutkijoille." www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-...

I must confess that I still believe “rapture” has something unspeakable to do with tentacles

A Hellenistic Etruscan tomb at Tarquinia. From Diana Pavel's (Bucharest) talk in the Etruscan Landscapes conference. #TombTuesday

A baby foot print on a roof tile from ancient Ratae, the modern Leicester. Now in the Jewry Wall Experience. #EpigraphyTuesday

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches. This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists! Archaeologists! Please volunteer www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Me talking in Phil's memorial conference on Saturday in Birmingham. Photo by Bekky Hillman. #Archaeology

'A Guardian and Zan Times investigation across eight of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces has revealed the Taliban’s deliberate and calculated efforts to make religious studies the only education option available to women and girls in Afghanistan.' See also: zantimes.com

📺 Introduction / Journée d'étude "Marc #Bloch, historien et médiéviste" sorbonne-tv.pantheonsorbonne.fr/introduction... #skystorians

Autumn Equinox today...

The mosaic from the Stibbe site just north of Ratae's forum in Leicester. The fine townhouses the mosaic was found from dated to the later Roman period after AD 250. The floor showed complex multicolour geometric patterns. Now in the Jewry Wall Experience. #MosaicMonday

Watching #Strictly on iPlayer. It will be Ella and Vito, LaVoix and Aljaz and Alex and Johannes for me ❤️

An important message from genetics. Only, archaeology shows it as a slow social mechanism. Not the mass migration events that we were told of in our youth. It’s Cunnington’s to and fro, individuals and small groups, the next valley, across the sea (and back). Movement over time. Small, cumulative.

Seconding @torneroo.ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.ooo @danietreg.bsky.social and @darthtempus.bsky.social here by recommending all of you #Eurovision fans to go watch this video, it's a must do for every Eurofan www.youtube.com/watch?v=THgn...

Some of the speakers yesterday in Phil's memorial conference #Archaeology

Champagne for Phil's memory in his memorial conference #Archaeology

Irelands largest stone circle is the Grange Lios embanked stone circle in Lough Gur, County Limerick. It was occupied in the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Early Christian, Medieval, Early Modern and Modern periods. It consists of 113 stone with a diameter of 46 m. #StandingStoneSunday