Chester Civic Trust @ChesterCivTrust · Nov 1 Consortium has launched a consultation on its plans, which include up to 350 one- and two-bedroom flats on a large site near the station. t.co/jtcWPqF9DJ

Seriously looking forward to this with the renowned @richardosgood.bsky.social 🔥🧙💯

At the crossing in Canterbury Cathedral looking up into Bell Harry Tower.

Chester people, don't miss this excellent @chesterscibar.bsky.social talk next week on plans to get green heat for the city from the Dee. Will also cover the history and ecology of the river and it's importance to the city. It is FREE and part of @storyhouselive.bsky.social Futures Festival.

Music, along with Theology and all modern languages now under threat at Nottingham Uni. More details in Hannah’s message below.

I see @jesszafarris.bsky.social beat me to it. bsky.app/profile/jess...

Today's news: What happens when museums can't afford to buy coins... 'Auctioneer, David Guest said the "stunning" coins were sold to "bidders from all over the world and exceeded my expectations".' Bidders. From. All. Over. The. World. 😡 #Archaeology 🏺 #Detecting www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Iron Age hillfort 'mysteriously faded' from use' 🏺

LiorLefineder @lefineder 9h Rise and fall of Greek & Latin inscriptions. x.com/i/status/198...

istoric England @HistoricEngland · 1h Peatlands hold vital archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records. 🍃 We have released new guidance to support peatland restoration while safeguarding the historic environment. Read more: ➡️ bit.ly/PeatRestorat...

Our next talk: 'Victorian Workers' Housing' by Dr Gareth Carr of Wrexham University at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester, Weds 19 November, 7:30pm. Non-members welcome (£5 entry). Also back copies of our journal for sale. CAS members : check you emails for a notification of this event.

If you seek hope, looks at some of the marvellous Gentle Density happening in Britain right now. From the always marvellous work of Ollier Smurthwaite in Altrincham to....

You can read our 7 ideas for curing these highway halves in our latest report 'A-road between us' here www.createstreets.com/projects/a-r...

Many of Britain’s 6,116 villages and small communities have an A-Road running through them. Fast roads like these are slicing British villages in two, creating Highway Halves. So, how do we fix it?

Also covered in the Times! www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

Everywhere people are rejecting places that are heartless, ugly and soulless. Find out where, how and why... We were delighted to work with our good friend The Aesthetic City voyaging around the urban renaissance now underway. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn9V...

#HillfortsMonday 🧐🤔 ending the day at the enormous Trevelgue coastal promontory fort, Newquay in Cornwall. A complex set of defences enclosing a substantial Bronze Age barrow & metal resources

#TombTuesday one of the mighty (they are huge!) coastal barrows dominating the north coast of Cornwall at Newquay This one was enclosed - & no doubt revered - by Trevelgue Head coastal promontory fort, while several others stand nearby. A number were lost during C19th improvements 😟 📷 Yesterday

Maps, Maps, Maps! We have a good number of maps of #Cheshire that you can view and download FREE of charge. See our website in the Bio 😊 #localhistory #maps #Saxton

f you don't already do so, follow the blog of our member Andie Byrnes, 'Based in Churton'; It's fascinating, high-quality information on a range of historical topics. Go to basedinchurton.co.uk. The latest contribution is ' A Face like a Buckley Panmug'.

If you want an update on the rich multi-period archaeological site at Poulton, take the opportunity of going to this lecture!

@FUTURUMCareers The Mobility of Objects'. Prof Katherine Wilson and Dr Thomas Pickles, historians at the University of Chester, have put together a collection of everyday medieval objects to help people understand more about life in the medieval period. youtube.com/watch?v=gVbE...

Vesuvius as the Romans knew it! Before!!!

A new consideration of the chronology of the key settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney - shows that the buildings here belong firmly in the Pictish tradition. This leads to a wider consideration of the timings and character of the Viking Age in the Northern Isles. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

... or, if it's Roman dogs you're after, here are @robin-f.bsky.social's characteristically innovative and thought-provoking @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Ford Lectures on A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain’s Dogs and People www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ja...

This week! Make sure to register online!

When worlds collide! One of the joys of rescuing several hundred thousand negatives is not knowing what will turn up next. Not for the first time do we see the long association that chemical firms have had with our museum since its inception.

Don't miss this free talk about the plans for a green energy showcase in Chester. @shitchester.bsky.social

Know what's happening here? Created in 1592, the Molyneux Globe at Petworth in East Sussex is the first terrestrial globe made in England. It's undergoing the process of microfading, a non-destructive conservation technique that measures the light sensitivity of historical objects.

Bored on a wet Sunday afternoon? DYK that many of our talks over the past six years have been recorded and are available on the Society's YouTube channel? Go to www.youtube.com/results?sear..., scroll through and see what appeals; there's a great variety of topics there!

Good turnout this morning for our tour of St John's, Chester's original cathedral. Thanks to Pauline Clarkefor organising and Simon Oliver, Church Archselogist, for leading the tour.

A wooden Roman sword, dating 1st century AD. Found in Carlisle. The sword, crafted entirely from wood, was a practice weapon used by Roman soldiers during training drills - or a kid's toy. ⚔️ Currently on display at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, on loan from Tullie House Museum Carlisle 📷me 🏺

Friedrich Engels ‘took creative liberties’ with descriptions of class divides in Manchester www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Very exciting to evidence of lead extraction/trading & use in the Bronze Age - a great find from Norfolk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The lost art of darning. A Child's tunic made from 11 pieces of fabric from 3 different sources, patched and darned. (Whitworth Art Gallery T.8549). From Faith Morgan's Dress & Personal Appearance in Late Antiquity. brill.com/display/titl... & visualisinglateantiquity.wordpress.com/2015/08/10/t...

For those who missed it and those who want to hear it again, we are delighted to say that the recording of Glynn Davis's talk on the Colchester Vase is now available on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRX....

This will be a fascinating talk tomorrow, 3pm BST. It's online, free but registration is required: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-archaeo...

Life in the old lead-mining area of Shropshire - this is Pennerley, close to the ridge of the Stiperstones.

Folklore conservation in action! Absolutely loved learning about this campaign! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Now this is rather fabulous. Multiple ingots, tools etc. 1st thoughts - Yay, a chance to provenance the lead! Was it desilvered? What's it doing in Norfolk & how did it get there?? One of those REALLY useful finds. Nice! #Archaeology 🏺 finds.org.uk/database/art... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So, is John Hines right that there isn't after all good evidence for plague before c. 541 at Edix Hill? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@heritagechester.bsky.social It will soon be the start of #Rowember 2025! To mark it, here is a photo in vol 5 (4) of our journal for 1895 showing #Thun (CH) as a possible parallel for the Rows.

Visiting Speyer today with its impressive Kaiserdom (Imperial Cathedral), which was consecrated in 1061. The building was regarded as a monumental symbol of imperial power and faith. Built of sandstone and measuring about 133 meters long, it remains the largest surviving Romanesque...🧵1/2 📷 me

#FindsFriday The highly decorated reverse side of a #Celtic bronze mirror from Desborough, Northamptonshire, England, showing the development of the spiral and trumpet decorative theme of the Early Celtic La Tène style in #Britain. #Artwork #History #Art #Archaeology

CAS members: check your emails for a notice about our next meeting: a guided tour of St John's Church and Chapter House, 22 October, 11:00am; no need to book.

£3.5 million to pay a detectorist/landowner for our shared heritage and to stop it going into private hands. This stinks and it has to stop. #Archaeology museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...