Come join us (for a little while at least)! Associate Lecturer job at Exeter in archaeology (especially people with human osteology, zooarch or forensic skills), until 30 April 2026: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPI165/a...

Congratulations to Dr Aaron Deter-Wolf, one of our PhD by publication students, who successfully passed his viva yesterday. Aaron is one of the world’s leading experts on ancient tattoos & was recently featured in National Geographic magazine: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

🐾 Explore 'Do Not Feed the Animals?' where science meets art to reveal the surprising stories behind why we feed animals, from home to zoo. Experience vibrant artworks, hands-on research and reflect on your own animal encounters!🦉 📍Queens Building, Streatham campus 📆Until 12 December, all welcome

Staff member Joe Hirst has a new paper out! 'Modelling Maize Agriculture by the Pre-Columbian Casarabe Culture of Amazonian Bolivia: An Agent-Based Approach', is published in the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation: www.jasss.org/28/4/5.html

A round up of recent @materialwills.bsky.social project news below 👇 Including recent @zooniverse.bsky.social milestones, project meetings, and new blog posts! #earlymodern #history #skystorians @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social

Last week some of our first year students got to head out into Dartmoor and see some archaeology. They visited Merrivale, and also Lydford Saxon earthworks and castle/prison and were very glad the rain held off!

🌿🔍 From ancient soils to modern crime scenes, we are connecting the past and present in surprising new ways! See how forensic ecology is stepping into the spotlight => news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Dr Todd Gray MBE, local historian and honorary appointment in our department, has brought together stories of Devon life during the Second World War, after years of painstaking research🔍 📖 New book: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Days 2 and 3 of our Experimental Archaeology fieldtrip to the Ancient Technology Centre saw our students preparing cow hides to make leather, thatching, wooden spoon and bowl making with expert Martin Hazell, chalk cob wall building and flint knapping! Rounded off with a Viking style historic meal 😀

Our Masters students taking a module in Experimental Archaeology visited Stonehenge yesterday to learn about reconstructed Neolithic houses and a new project to build a large Neolithic education building, based on timber structure Durrington 68 😍 Also starring Ed's Late Neolithic decorated hard hat👷

Are you around London this Monday (27 Oct)? Do come and say hello 👋 to Laura Evis and Hajnalka Herold at the University Archaeology day! Lots of interesting stuff to see and hear, all welcome 😊 🎫 Tickets www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/10-... 👉 Livestream bournemouth-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Yesterday, Prof. Stephen Rippon was invited to London to be presented the prestigious British Academy Landscape Archaeology Medal, awarded for distinguished achievement in that field of archaeology. Many congratulations on this much deserved honour!

Are you considering a PhD? 🤔 Join our 'Masterclass - PhD proposal and funding 101' 📅Wednesday 3 December 🕰️ 10am or 4pm 📍ZOOM All welcome! 🎫 Book your *free* ticket: • 10am: fixr.co/event/master... • 4pm: fixr.co/event/master...

Come and see the house at St Nicholas Priory, Exeter brought to life in 1602, exploring a 'New history of women's work'. Sunday 26th October 11am - 3pm Historical research by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin.

The West country premiere of award-winning documentary film 📽️ A CANTERBURY TALE Albert Figg and the Battle for Hill 112 🪖 followed by Q&A 🎤 📅Wednesday 12 Nov 19.15 📍Exeter Alumni Auditorium, Forum 🎫 www.thehill112.com/a_canterbury... £10 Suggested donation* * Students free: fixr.co/event/a-cant...

🛰️ Ancient hunters left their mark - and it’s only now visible from space! Satellite images show vast South American 'desert kites' once used to trap game across the Andes. A glimpse into how past societies shaped whole landscapes for survival 🏜️🐾 Read more here 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Last week most archaeology staff were retrained in First Aid skills, keeping us updated for another three years. Sadly many injuries were sustained during the session!

Join us at the *free* FUTURES Festival (11–12 Oct Exeter) for inspiring events celebrating history, archaeology, science & culture! With @lsangha.bsky.social and Chris Hoban live music based on stories from 16-18th century wills🎵 and Laura Evis in the SHArD 3D Lab news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Has Halloween come early? No, last week some of our 3rd year archaeology and forensics students carried out a crime scene recovery exercise in our woodland on campus.

Step back to 1086 and explore the fascinating world behind the oldest surviving Domesday manuscript!📜 Dr Chris Lewis speaks on the mysteries, gaps and stories of Exon Domesday. 👉 When: 30 October 7:30pm 👉 Where: Exeter Cathedral and online 👉 Tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

💎Do you know about the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum on Streatham Campus? They have a really cool exhibition* on that celebrates cinema’s monstrous icons 🦖🐉👾 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... *free entry daily, on until Christmas

A piece of one of Britain’s most iconic trees is now revealing hidden stories🌳 Adrián Oyaneder Rodriguez and Julia Hopkin are using cutting-edge experimental techniques to uncover new insights from the felled Sycamore Gap tree. 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

When a historian swaps dusty archives for TikTok tricks 🎬🧐Dr Alun Withey stepped out of the lecture theatre and into the world of influencers in a brand-new BBC Radio 4 series 🎙✨ How did he fare? Curious to see how history goes viral? 👉 Read more here news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

How do psychiatry and world history collide? 🧠🌍 Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson just received a €1.5m ERC grant to explore how mental health and humanitarianism shaped lives during some of the twentieth century’s greatest crises. 👉 Read the full story here: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

🔎A forgotten household object, a spark of curiosity… and suddenly we’ve got fresh insight into queer domestic life in the Georgian era 🌈 Historian and actor Dr Anthony Delaney completed his PhD in 2022 and has now published his book 'Queer Georgians' Read more 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Devon Archaeology Society are leading guided walks exploring Exeter's amazing city walls on 20 Sep! 11am-4pm, meet at South Gate or East Gate (Princesshay) to start, regular tours. Part of #HeritageOpenDays - free and pre-booking not required.

Update from our team in Poland, excavating at Jaskinia Nietoperzowa! Finds so far include cave bear teeth & bones from a range of other animals, plus pottery & Neolithic flints. The main chamber was used by cave bears during winter hibernations but was also visited by Upper Palaeolithic humans.

Did you know that in some 18th-century Devon communities, up to a quarter of all children were bound as pauper apprentices? Dr James Fisher’s research looks at the realities of forced child labour in early modern Britain. Open access articles: - doi.org/10.1017/S026... - doi.org/10.1017/S026...

Some of our 2nd year students are currently working with Dr Alex Pryor and Dr Jarek Wilczyński at Nietoperzowa Cave in Poland. They're spending four weeks excavating early Upper Palaeolithic layers previously made famous for finds of Jerzmanowician lithic points and human remains!

Another great story ❤️ from the Alumni magazine: Dan & Emma Richter fell in love over History 🤩 We got together in 2000 and were married in 2002. We have been married 22 years, and have four children, two dogs, six chickens and about 26,000 bees publications.exeter.ac.uk/alumni-magaz...

Finding the stories behind centuries-old wills 📜✨ Dr Laura Sangha and her team are analysing 25,000 English wills (1540–1790) to uncover how everyday objects - beds, teapots, jewellery, even livestock - shaped lives and relationships in a time of economic transformation 👉 @lsangha.bsky.social

One of our about to be 2nd years students Mathu-Andrew "Magnus" Budge is finalist in the 🏆 YMCA Youth Matters Awards🥳 After experiencing homelessness, Magnus arrived at YMCA Exeter in 2023 and began rebuilding his life. He continues to give back volunteering weekly 👉Vote now ymca.org.uk/finalists/

14–18 years old and love history? Exclusive, hands-on sessions in Exeter Cathedral’s Archives this August 📜 🔎 Explore the Tudors & Elizabethans (13 Aug) 🌍 Uncover stories from the World Wars (20 Aug) Both sessions: 2-4pm | Just £5 | Limited spaces! Book 📨 [email protected]

Ever wondered how travellers from the past felt every bump, jolt and thrill of the journey? 🛤️🚶Dr Alun Withey’s research looks at the embodied realities of travel between 1650 and 1900, exploring how people sensed, described and coped with motion, discomfort, and danger🌍✋ 👉 tiktok.com/@dralunwithey

Such a lovely story this 😍 Jan Oke is an Exeter Archaeology alumnus and Fairlynch Museum’s Curator of Archaeology. She is a former recipient of the Angela and Tony Colmer prize 🏆 herself and was part of the team who awarded it to Phoebe Holland today ♻️ for outstanding Fieldwork in Local Archaeology👇

Celebrating a major achievement for our department! 🎉 Dr Eve Worth has been appointed to the DWP’s Methods Advisory Group, bringing her expertise in modern British social history to influence national policy. Demonstrating how our research shapes society! 🏛️📚 👉 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

How have human-animal relationships shaped our world across centuries? 🐇🐎 Dr Carly Ameen’s research uses bioarchaeology and digital imaging to find the stories written in animal bones, from rabbit domestication to the lives of medieval warhorses. 👉https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/27196-carly-ameen

📢Great new will of the month from @emilymayvine.bsky.social just out📢 Emily explores the will of a more humble testator, a servant whose will is one of the only records of her life left behind. What can it tell us? sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️ @uoearchhist.bsky.social

Some of our staff and students are currently out in Kazakhstan, excavating at Borly, an early Neolithic site. The site director is Alan Outram, thanks to him for these photos. We think the location looks pretty idyllic!

Thanks to all the lovely visitors who dropped into our mini exhibition about our excavations at Columbjohn, Killerton over the weekend! We had a great time sharing our finds and discoveries with over 320 of you @nattrustarch.bsky.social #FestivalOfArchaeology

This weekend, as part of the CBA Festival of Archaeology, we'll be hosting an exhibition at Killerton with @nattrustarch.bsky.social. Come along to find out about our discoveries at Columbjohn Elizabethan manor house, and see some of our finds! Sat 26th & Sun 27th July, 10-3pm

📢OUR TRANSCRIBATHON IS TODAY!📢 Online registration has now closed, but if you missed out then DM me and I can provide a workaround ... we wouldn't want anyone to miss the chance to read some lovely wills! #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

See how the day-to-day lives of ordinary people influenced economic change in England, 1250–1800! 📜🏺 Prof Jane Whittle’s research highlights the stories of gender, work, and household economies through manuscript analysis and digital tools. What can possessions and family life say about the past?

🐴 “My kingdom for a horse!” From kings to conquests, horses changed the course of battles. August's BBC History Magazine shows how warhorses played a starring role in five pivotal moments - including the Battle of Hastings, where they helped decide the fate of England itself ⚔️📜

Join us on 23 July 2025 for an inspiring workshop reimagining the University of Exeter’s Streatham campus as a space of botanical heritage. 🌸 Guided tour 🌍 Talks from garden experts & researchers 🎨 Creative tools & sensory walks 📍Digital Maker Space, The Forum All welcome! 🌾 👇 More info below!

What if ancient DNA could change everything we know about Neolithic Ireland? 🧬 Dr @suegreaney.bsky.social eaney.bsky.social uncovers new stories—unraveling kinship, tomb rituals, and ancient power. 🏺🪦 Read more 👇 #NeolithicIreland #AncientDNA

St Nicholas Priory in Exeter is hosting an exciting series of events for #FestivalOfArchaeology (19 July - 2 Aug) Including free open days, children's archaeology workshops, a talk on Roman Exeter by John Salvatore and even a chance to research medieval tiles. More info: nicholaspriory.com/events/

Today we celebrate with our superb Class of 2025! Well done to all our archaeology and history students who have passed their degrees. It was a pleasure to celebrate with you!

Friday 25 July - Careers in Forensics day! Join us for a day of networking and talks about careers paths in forensics; open to all of our students. Limited places - to book head to docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🐉Dragons, prophecies, and gender-bending magic: Dr Jennifer Farrell uncovers how the supernatural shaped medieval identities and myths! ✨ Did you know dragons in medieval legends weren’t just monsters but symbolised nations, people and the battle between good and evil? 👉@exetermedieval on Insta