You have one week left to submit abstracts for the 2026 @postmedarch.bsky.social Congress! The conference is in May next year, hosted at Reading University, UK. Share your fascinating research with international delegates!

Your replies are so lovely! Let’s collect any new ones here: #handwriteyourpost

With #Halloween & bonfire night fast approaching, it's vital that we remember the effect #SpookySeason has on our wildlife and natural landscapes. 🎃🦔 Here are our 3 tips for staying nature friendly over the next week or so. Please share to spread the word. 🙏 #Cumbria #LakeDistrict

The trees are on fire.

#LandscapeArchaeology 🏺 | projektwald.hypotheses.org/527

We have a very exciting and rewarding opportunity for a Project Officer to join us to help create England's highest nature reserve - Skiddaw Forest 🌳🌳 Apply below ⬇️ www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/skiddaw-forest-project-officer #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #ConservationCareers #SkiddawForest

Broch-tastic news. Taking experimental #archaeology to the extreme! Such a fantastic project, great news for #Caithness and Scottish archaeology. #IronAge #Broch #Scotland www.northern-times.co.uk/news/scotlan...

@artefactual.bsky.social A smidge further east, but maybe today’s mystery hollow was made by a larger one of these…? 🤔😉

Even if you can’t make the event, this is a nice little checklist of people doing interesting things

Sheffield-based @longbarrowpress.bsky.social has been exploring the intersections of landscape, history and memory since 2006; recent titles include Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey's 'To the End of the Land'. You can find them at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct smallpublishersfair.co.uk

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

day 8 of #archInk: stratigraphy I reworked an older drawing from when the prompt was “written”. And here the trowel still “writes” the site’s stratigraphy in a way: layer by layer, deposit by deposit and interface by interface. #archaeology

The most beautifully bound, curated and delivered poetry books from Longbarrow Press. Treat yourself or a dear one a some treasure 📚✨ #Booksky @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Five book sales in nineteen days. "The books go to their readers, one by one, at times quickly, at times slowly, halfway around the world or halfway across the city. There is no supply chain, not as such, only the postal network, irregular events, direct sales to bookshops, and local distribution."

Well that settles tonight’s bedtime re-read 😢 #JaneGoodall

NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social! Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR). View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5

NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social! Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR). View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5

The bees have discovered Brutalism

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

Here's a great thread where @amandatuke.bsky.social tells us about her #PlantBased journey & how she got a #FISC level 5! Find out more about Field Identification Skills Certificates (FISCs) here: bsbi.org/field-skills Dates for FISCs in 2026 will go live in March.

Today I learned something amazingly new to me. Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲 Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo

New #Skystorians job alert! The impressive VCH Herefordshire project have been fundraising hard for some time and are now able to advertise two contributing editor roles which will work towards completing work histories of Ledbury and the Malvern Hills. Details in the link below. 1/2

Back at my printing night class (in-depth etching this time) and I will repeat my advice to academics: get a hobby. Preferably get a hobby that you can fail at and it doesn't matter. In facts it only makes it better.

3/9/25 - nocturn

Last few hours to stick your hat in the ring for this. Applications close at midnight today (1st Sept, 23:59 BST). ⬇️ #LandscapeArchaeology job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.

Deadline extended until 1st Sep! #LandscapeArchaeology job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.

An owl made from one paper plate. No leftovers, no waste, just 'pure making'. The full length video, plus photos and instructions are on the 'news' link at www.darrellwakelam.com 🙂 #sculpture #3Dart #recycle #artideas #edusky

Deadline extended until 1st Sep! #LandscapeArchaeology job ⬇️ Cambridge + hybrid, UK.

Have you seen this @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social ? Some #UrbanPrehistory for chain stores - The Lost Stones of ASDA…

The latest edition of our journal, Yorkshire Buildings No 51, is now available - now in bigger A4 format! Articles on Wakefield, Doncaster, Todmorden, Calverley Old Hall, oval windows, medieval aisled houses, and much more. Only £6 plus p&p - full details at www.yvbsg.org.uk/yorkshire-bu....

Come work in our team? Just over a week until applications close! Details below ⤵️ #LandscapeArchaeology at Historic England: app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?! Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience. Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

Treat yourself or a friend! ⤵️ The poetry volumes from @longbarrowpress.bsky.social are beyond beautiful. I highly recommend them ✨ #BookSky #Poetry #SmallJoys

When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!

Save the date for York Printmakers Print Fair. 20 & 21 Sept at #York Cemetery. An exhibition by 25 local printmakers. Meet the artists & find out how our prints are made. #NorthYorkshire #printmaking #buyart #artforsale #contemporaryart #originalprint

JOB ALERT: amazing 4-year post in postwar British history and refugee studies at @uniofreading.bsky.social Humanities! A post perfectly suited for someone working on political and social histories of race and migration in late 20c. Deadline 5 September. jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

🚨 JOB ALERT - come work in my team?! Vacancy for an Archaeological Investigator with #LandscapeArchaeology experience. Full time, fixed-term contract until 31 March 2026, based in Cambridge with hybrid working. Apply by 26th Aug 👉 app.beapplied.com/apply/pbdaw6...

RIP and thank you, Allan Ahlberg.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social @archaeologyuk.bsky.social @askanarchaeologist.bsky.social @nattrustarch.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @trisnorton.bsky.social you think we could combine #WildFlowerHour with #AskAnArchaeologist? What is your favourite plant related archaeological find? #Archaeobotany

Calling all curious minds! Today is #AskAnArchaeologistDay, your chance to ask anything you’ve ever wanted to know about archaeology! 📱 Join the conversation on X, BlueSky, TikTok, and Instagram, just use the hashtag #AskAnArchaeologist or ask your question in the comments to get involved.

A great site! But can indeed be tricky to follow the stony ramparts through the thick vegetation. I had an enjoyable day investigating up there with colleagues who subsequently produced this nice archaeological survey report: historicengland.org.uk/research/res... #HillfortsWednesday

I used to find this picture - and the whole concept - of a flooded valley quite haunting. Actually, I still do Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Our Land in the Making, 1966)

Submit your resource to the #FestivalOfArchaeology & get it hosted online 24/7, 365, reach new audiences, showcase your work & inspire others 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/festival/org... Need inspo? 👀 Check out this year’s resources 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/festival/fes...

Chef’s kiss for this thread 😘 👌

Write your own caption stamps should definitely be a thing! 😄🐸💌

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things. Knife-sharpened pencils Artist: Harry Wingfield, Second Picture Book, 1970 (And yes, it is a painting)

Just because you all need more archaeological finds and sites in your feed. One of the most numerous and visible archaeological sites on Jæren, South-western Norway are the visible remains of late Iron Age farmsteads dottered around the area. Main source of income for these farms were wool.