🏺🗃️ Not sure why this is getting more attention today, but happy to see it shared again! And thrilled that Yusra will of course be part of our #ExcavatingGarrod project, re-examining archives for new insights on Garrod's work on #Neanderthals, and her collaborations & wider networks with women.

The Bartmann Goes Global project team have launched their website bartmanngoesglobal.org If you or someone you know has found a Bartmann jug during an excavation / have one in your archive or collection etc, wherever you are in the world, you can add it to their digital collection. Please share!

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'One contemporary writer, Henry Peacham, described the style as “an unnaturall or unorderly composition for delight sake, of men, beasts, birds, fishes, flowers &c without (as wee say) Rime or reason.”'

🚨Hidden hedgehog alert🚨

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

Do I know any teachers who happen to have taught the OCR Migration module at GCSE who might be able to answer a couple of questions? cc. @histassoc.bsky.social

My brilliant MOLA colleagues are back with another Pint of Archaeology! Join them at The Roebuck in Southwark next Monday (10th March) @5:30pm. There may even be a new set of our Pint of Archaeology beermats to snap up if your home or office needs some new (and very educational) coasters 👀👀

Caveat, I am only on episode 5 so if it doesn't end well I may retract this!

Apple TV has been trying to force me to watch Prime Target by starting the episode as soon as I finish anything else I am watching. If they'd just made the trailer actually representative of the show I would have watched it willingly... As it turns out it is a RIOT & I recommend it 😂

Thanks for all donations and shares, it really has made a huge difference.

Reliquary box containing skull and bones found to be from same period as Orkney saint news.stv.tv/highlands-is...

This is cool! A state school has defeated Eton to reach the finals of the International History Bowl & Bee in Vienna. They’re former winners, and are sending two young teams to compete again They need help with travel costs, can you help these young historians? www.gofundme.com/f/send-the-f...

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🌍 Explore our recently published archives from the A14 Road Improvement Scheme! The release of the archive and monograph is a significant achievement in what is possible to produce via large infrastructure projects! 👉 To read our news post about A14 visit: https://buff.ly/4hzx8tT

Apparently it was #NationalSnowdropDay yesterday! Please accept this slightly belated but (I feel) suitable moody photo.

Still time to get a (free) ticket for this evening's talk.

Spotted this rather bizarre comment in a Guardian article about supermarkets. I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion but I rather hope that he doesn't pass that attitude onto his children (and who knows if one or both of them are girls!)

🗃️📜 #CFP for histories of empire at Kedleston Hall - a National Trust property that is actively and openly addressing its colonial and imperial history.

Aren’t we all Winter on the Four Seasons Mosaic from Caerwent today? #MosaicMonday peoplescollection.wales/items/1544656

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Looking forward to the new series, especially seeing a couple of MOLA projects I've worked on and finding out what everyone else has been up to!

What do I do at work? Oh you know... design some beermats with my talented colleagues!

Are you an #archaeologist wanting to learn #QGIS for #archaeology? I have an entire course on YouTube, check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTY...

Devastated to discover I've been knocked off my perch as one of Christ Church's "notable alumni" (according to Google) by one @medievaljews.bsky.social probably not a loss to the world as no one was sure how I'd got there in the first place...

Petition against the closure of English Literature at CCCU.

📣The current round of our BME Small Grants Fund ends 29th November 2024! Supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social; EHS; History UK; @historywo.bsky.social, RHS; @sslh.bsky.social and Women’s History Network! 👉More info here: socialhistory.org.uk/funding/bme-... 📣Please share widely!

A prestigious essay prize for postgraduate and historians working on the northern counties of England and their connections with the wider world - should interest museums and heritage scholars, too! 🗃️ 📜 royalhistsoc.org/calendar/gor...

Work begins on the Ness of Brodgar Neolithic animal bone assemblage - mostly cattle, and quite a few corvids! 🏺🦴

Open access article about Alice Mustian, a #17thC Salisbury woman 'who built a theatre in her backyard and charged an audience admission to watch a group of children perform a play that she had written about some salacious neighbourhood gossip'. Draws on unexplored ecclesiastical court records. 🗃️

New proposal to destroy hard copies of key historical documents (unless they relate to 'notable individuals' such as 'Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens and Diana, Princess of Wales'. Please read, reality check & respond. Consultation ends 23 Feb 2024 www.gov.uk/government/n...

One for @lvhicks.bsky.social, spotted by @gwenofmonmouth.bsky.social. Brilliant!

Who is going to TAG this year? I am not (😭) but one of my colleagues is & I'd love to put her in touch with people!

Just a small amount of snow today but exactly the correct vibes for the winter market at the mill!

This is Sainsbury's serving suggestion for yellow split peas... But what is it? I'm intrigued 🤔 I see tagliatelle - is this a real dish? Can I make it?

My latest #embroidery, in a little 4inch hoop 🥰

My phone camera isn't doing the autumn colours at Longshaw any favours but in person they were ✨✨✨

Working on my spooky embroidery now we're officially in October 🍂

Please RT if you are interested in history/heritage! I need to find my people 🖤

First post has to be my latest embroidery! A Hobbit house 🥰