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I've created a 'Medieval Historians of UK & Europe' starter pack of historians, researchers, and institutions. If anyone suited would like to be included, please let me know. #medieval #historian #history #uk #britain #europe #medievalist go.bsky.app/FCtPe35

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Stone #fishweirs are part of the #maritime #culturallandscapeof #FrenchPolynesia. Archaeology analyses show large pelagic fish, Scombridae and Carangidae, sea turtles and sea mammals were part of the diet in prehistory. #coastalhistory #maritimeheritage 1/4

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Both of these gilded silver cups were used as containers for Viking Age hoards. The one from Balmaghie (left) was made in the area of modern day Iran and the Harrogate cup (right) is from Continental Europe. Their beautiful designs & utility were appreciated #medievalsky #museum #silkroads #vikings

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Cornwall was especially renowned for pictorial bellringers boards This onw is from Fowey (pronounced Foy).

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Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

Shout out to the Roman officers' wives Claudia Severa and Sulpicia Lepidina whose correspondence at Hadrian's Wall sparked my interest and led to my book. #RomanFortThursday romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Really excited that my book 'Roman military households' is now published! Available from BAR Publishing (below) or from all good archaeology libraries.

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Kind of appropriate that it came out on #RomanFortThursday - my book 'Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa' is now published! www.barpublishing.com/military-hou...

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Feeling quite downcast. Don’t we care enough even to make time for this important gesture of solidarity whilst Trump sells Ukrainians down the river. If the shoe was on the other foot & Putin had invaded the UK what would you want other countries to do?

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

Oh. My. Goodness. This is TRULY stunning! A Bronze Age goldworker's hoard.... and will you look at that anvil!!! 😍 finds.org.uk/database/art... (P.S. Well done to the detectorist who stopped immediately, called the specialists, which meant the whole hoard was lifted in a block) #Archaeology

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

1. Quick 🧵 on the change to policy that, on the face of it, bans refugees from ever acquiring British citizenship. @sonial77.bsky.social has published a short article on Free Movement: freemovement.org.uk/good-charact... And I've done a follow up on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/wewanted...

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

New sharp and inspiring study out from @drsueoosthuizen.bsky.social on #collective governance and #landscapes.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

How do ancient #traditions of #collective governance help societies weather unpredictable change? 🎺Just published! 🎺 'Panarchy & #commons across the longue durée’ Open access via heathland.place/panarchy-and.... 📷 Minchinhampton Common (c) Geoff March, Stroud Times, 12.5.2023

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Cuts to the Arts and Humanities have been going on for years in the UK. Several great departments were closed down. But in most places, the erosion was more gradual. /1

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This is ghoulish from Labour. Using people's suffering to try and appease Reform, which is something no-one will ever go far enough for. Labour has the potential to actually be doing something to reduce hostility. Instead they are stoking anti-migrant attitudes just like the Conservatives did.

submitted 22 days ago • 62 comments

Another corker of an article has appeared in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours: Rebecca Thomas on 'The Naming of the Welsh in the Early Middle Ages'. Open Access too! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The final program for our #ERC_ANTHEA conference 'A Place for the Heathlands?' is now out on events.au.dk/heathland/pr... with keynote speakers Kenneth Olwig, Kari Hjelle and Doyle McKey. Still a few days to sign up. @au.dk @cc.au.dk

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Opening lecture by professor Kenneth Olwig on the extensive practices and infrastructures enabling grazing ecologies in DK and GB. events.au.dk/heathland/co... The lecture will be followed by our opening reception and book launch. Everything taking place at Aarhus University & Moesgaard, Denmark.

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Archaeologists using 3D mapping in the Amazon are uncovering the remains of thousands of green metropolises with composted gardens, fisheries, and forests groomed into orchards. 🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺 #archaeology #Amazon www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

(Re)discovering Natural History. A symposium with historians, archivists, curators & artists to discuss ways of finding and telling the best stories in special collections www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/symposium-...

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The AI Opportunities Action Plan (Matt Clifford report), trailed in today’s morning news is now out in full. I’ve read it, and here’s a few observations 1/10 Link to full report assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6784eb...

submitted 48 days ago • 7 comments

The bronze Corinthian helmet found two centuries ago at the Baux-de-Provence, probably in a funerary context, constitutes a unique discovery in the Provence area. Its typology allows one to date it from the sixth century B.C. : books.openedition.org/pccj/3901

submitted 50 days ago • 3 comments

Interesting study on the impact of fishing on North Sea and Baltic herring from early medieval to recent. #DNA #fish #archaeology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

submitted 58 days ago • 10 comments

How to do with books, and paper, in #earlymodern Europe? This is a 🧵 for #paperhistory and #bookhistory experts and #skystorians in general. The thread is about storing objects in a paper consuming culture. So follow me and this thread to investigate what do we see here in this printed image?

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

Absolutely love this work! With my participation hat on: so much conservation work arouses ire because it's not well explained. Telling people what you're doing & why = a chance to engage new publics with nature. (Some might just become future volunteers) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

“Unfortunately, the latest data out today makes it clear that we are in a flu wave close to the very large wave of 2022/23, and it hasn’t peaked yet.”

submitted 57 days ago • 6 comments

The article 👇 incl. drone footage of 200 large dinosaur footprints walking across Oxfordshire, making trackways up to 150m long. They're from 2 types of dinosaur: (herbivorous) cetiosaurus & (carnivorous) megalosaurus. And the excavation's still incomplete... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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#HillfortsWednesday Blwyddyn Newydd Dda/Happy New Year 🎉🎉. Bringing in 2025 with a Carnyx - or Iron Age war horn - at Castell Henllys hillfort, #Pembrokeshire trumpet 🎺 📷 My own

submitted 60 days ago • 16 comments