This #FossilFriday, Lyme Regis Museum is aiming to buy a handwritten letter by #MaryAnning. To help raise the funds, an auction featuring an original piece of art by palaeoartist Lee Brown is now live. Please consider bidding and helping the museum raise these funds :) www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticket...

WOW! What a find - Anning writing to someone unknown, potentially referencing another female collector... "But was so worn out after you saw me that I almost wish'd that I might never see a Lady again and the name of fossils makes me sick with its concominants [sic]..." Pls support!

For anyone at #aaba2026 there is a great women’s networking and mentorship group — happy hour later today too! bawmn.org

Making a map of Maud Cunnington’s eleven Iron Age excavations, so that she can finally reclaim her rightful place in our disciplinary history.

#MaryLeakey 👀 at M. Wheeler... Quoted in this fab review of her 1984 book: “I can’t help wondering whether many of the achievements in archaeological discovery and methodology that are so often attributed to him did not rightly belong to his charming and extremely able first wife, Tessa”... p. 37)."

Happy no-longer-boycotting-#IWD -actively-protesting-it-day ;) Shout out to everyone does this work anyway ❤️💪 www.instagram.com/reel/DVnkI0R...

How do we lose the history of women in academia? Well, start by losing their citations to better networked groups… This makes me think of the citation analyses of ‘who gets taught’ in archaeology that Colleen Morgan at York did (and I tried elsewhere) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Article here the-past.com/feature/expa... (footnote ref to @trowelblazers.bsky.social)

Ah this looks like a great series; hybrid as well. www.bsa.ac.uk/events/women...

Including very helpful information on women lecturing on archaeology at the Institute that we used in @beyondnotables.bsky.social database!

I had no idea video of Margaret Murray existed! The one the only OG TrowelBlazer Witch 😍👑🙌 www.instagram.com/reel/DVRSsmZ...

This should be great. Send us a copy!!!! 😜

11 February 1765, London: birth of Elizabeth Knipe, later Mrs Cobbold, poet, writer & pioneer fossil collector from the Plio-Pleistocene Red Crag Formation of Suffolk. From 1813 to 1824 she sent over 40 fossils to James Sowerby for his Mineral Conchology, one of which he named Nucula Cobboldiae.

#FossilFriday: Always worth keeping an eye out for this specimen if you visit @nhm-london.bsky.social, the ichthyosaur found at Lyme Regis by #MaryAnning and her brother in 1811–12, the first specimen to come to scientific attention, and its impressive ring of sclerotic plates.

It is International Day of Women in Science! For this ocassion, a thread on influential women that illustrate prehistoric life🧵 Marta Szubert. Creator of one of the first to-scale feathered dinosar models (1997). If you've been to Poland or Slovakia, you've probably seen her models on display.

And here's a video - Wild beaches! Cosy house! Gorgeous views! Ammonites galore! Gifts for #MaryAnning! The Cobb! Palaeontology-themed wine!

And here's a video - Wild beaches! Cosy house! Gorgeous views! Ammonites galore! Gifts for #MaryAnning! The Cobb! Palaeontology-themed wine!

Well what a week at Belmont in Lyme Regis! Thanks to Landmark Trust Futures, we had a fully in-person, extended AGM, with time to think through & plan our future. We also kicked off our new project on women connected with #MaryAnning, inc museum archives 🗃️, & really got into the fossiling vibe 🐚!

As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, my MPhil & PhD research were supported by the Gates Cambridge Trust. This month they're featuring scholars' impact in archaeology, including my work in understanding adaptation to climate and environmental change in past societies. www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/g...

This Victorian observatory tower was 👌 www.instagram.com/reel/DUadfGP...

Everyday is a Jurassic adventure on our epic Landmark Trust stay at Belmont House in Lyme Regis. Today: damn the tides, damn the busses; we’re going to Charmouth! (And meeting a fossil shop dog 😍) www.instagram.com/reel/DUYj0RE...

It’s all Very Serious here ;)

Incredibly grateful to Landmark Trust for the opportunity for all four of us to come together in iconic #TrowelBlazers territory, Mary Anning’s Lyme Regis, to reflect on the last 13 years and figure out the next ;)

Extremely excited to be down in Lyme for the first time (for me !). Utterly gorgeous house, and wonderful to have all four of us back together in one place - first time in over 6 years...

We're down on the Jurassic Coast at Lyme Regis for a week of @trowelblazers.bsky.social work inc planning new writing project on #MaryAnning, and some epic fossiling - staying at the stunning late 18th-early 19th century Belmont House thanks to Landmark Trust Futures grant

The Iron Age hillfort of Chalbury in #Dorset was investigated by archaeologist Margaret Whitley in 1939 Her report, with this excellent site plan, was published in the Antiquaries Journal (23) in 1943 🤩 @trowelblazers.bsky.social @antiquaries.bsky.social #HillfortsWednesday

My love of stone anchors is all down to my mini obsession with Honor Frost, the trowelblazer who pioneered underwater archaeology. If you don’t know her, then check out @gabemoshenska.bsky.social’s fabulous troweltoon @trowelblazers.bsky.social

Buckland wrote this despite understanding that women of his time, whether his wife Mary, or #MaryAnning whose work he benefitted from, were serious, skilled palaeontological fieldworkers & thinkers... Here's the @trowelblazers.bsky.social article on Mary Buckland trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/m...

In preposterous gen- #AI news, a grokipedia (ugh) entry on us ENTIRELY INVENTS an inaugural TrowelBlazers meeting "over drinks in a London pub in 2013". This never happened (we only all met IRL years after forming) 🙄 plus, it makes up criticism of our work... p.s. not giving it traffic by linking

No sign of Mortimer Wheeler in this photo (maybe he took it himself?) but that’s almost certainly Tessa Verney Wheeler at the top right. #TrowelBlazers #archaeology

but actually i think the most interesting stuff i have to say about fieldwork is saved for Vivien's blog communities.springernature.com/posts/their-... -- some thoughts on trowelblazers and my own experience with being a little too female to do my honors thesis

Remembering #Trowelblazer Dorothy Burr Thomas, born #OnThisDay in AD 1900. A leading authority on Hellenistic terracotta figurines, she is also credited with discovering the tholos tomb of the king and queen of Midea (an ancient city in the Peloponnesian region of Argolis) 🏺 1/2

New pod! 🎙️ Get your archaeological ponderings from our very own @brennawalks.bsky.social!

News from Lyme Regis, 17 January 1831: 'Miss Anning has again made a discovery of a grand fossil animal ... Geologists are now very numerous: perhaps much more than at any former period'. Then at the height of her fame, #MaryAnning and her discoveries attracted droves of fossil collectors to Lyme.

Textbooks tend to say it's William Buckland or Robert T. Bakker, who made modern dinosaurs. But what if I told you, palaeoart started in South Africa, was revolutionised by Nazi-fighting Polish women and illustrated by an Oxfordian homemaker and her pet tortoise? Let's rewrite the history 👇

Still not dead ;)

Hellloooo wow how do people find time for social media these days. And welcome to my TAG talk! Which was in fact about just that “the existential panic of keeping a social media based project like @trowelblazers.bsky.social alive when we can barely keep our heads above water: a DEI Story”

📣 More NEWS! (it's quite a week...) Thrilled to announce that we're a Landmark Trust Futures 2026 beneficiary - early next year we'll be staying at historic Belmont in Lyme Regis, to begin a new project on the networks of women centring on #MaryAnning! www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved...

📣 More NEWS! (it's quite a week...) Thrilled to announce that we're a Landmark Trust Futures 2026 beneficiary - early next year we'll be staying at historic Belmont in Lyme Regis, to begin a new project on the networks of women centring on #MaryAnning! www.landmarktrust.org.uk/get-involved...

We've been up in York for @tag2025york.bsky.social conference where 3 of us met, Brenna gave a talk on the challenge of creating an accidental archive, AND... we only went & won the Outstanding Achievement Award for Archaeological Theory In Action 🏆! Huge gratitude to the entire community ❤️ 🏺

Heading to @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social today on the trail of this woman: Gertrude Elles, graptolite palaeontologist extraordinare. Left: the young Victorian hammer-wielder, from a photo in the @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social. Right: her sagely postwar portrait at Newnham College, Cambridge.

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅

🏺 Rachel and Anne have tirelessly (and often thanklessly and entirely without financial support) produced yet more vital work on the state of professional experience for #trowelblazers

Hello! A little Sunday evening survey... 📝 We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures... Pls repost!

Late afternoon, Wednesday 10 December 1823: Mary Anning discovers and begins excavation of a near-complete skeleton of Plesiosaurus. Recognising this as 'the first and only one discovered in Europe', she sent scale drawings to some potential purchasers. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

15 December 1829: in reply to an enquiry sent via their mutual friend Charlotte Murchison, Mary Anning provides Charles Lyell with information about the rate of erosion of Church Cliffs at Lyme Regis which he uses in his 1830 book, 'Principles of Geology', acknowledging Anning as his source.

Ps TAG uk! You’re getting 3/4 of us! Not at the same time natch 😅🤘 catch @lemoustier.bsky.social and @toriherridge.bsky.social today then stay for the angriest data activism paper you’ve yet seen from @brennawalks.bsky.social tomorrow

Hello! A little Sunday evening survey... 📝 We're looking for examples where info or resources concerning achievements of 🏺⛏️ #trowelblazing women in archaeology, geology or palaeontology have been removed or vanished from public sources in the past year due to external pressures... Pls repost!

I mean, are you going to take gendered misrepresentation of archaeology LYING DOWN? Or will you be mattocking ;)