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If you have any cunning bear projects that might be suitable for an MSCA postdoc - do get in touch. Nottingham’s a nice city and we’re a friendly department! 🐻

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The Marsh family is back with an absolute belter — “Puppets on a Kremlin string?”

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The Council for British Archaeology South East has joined Bluesky! We are a charity & grant giving organisation covering archaeology in the South East of England. Learn more about us and our work here: www.cbasouth-east.org #archaeology #communityarchaeology #archaeologists 🏺

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Hello Bluesky - it's good to be here! Do follow us if you're interested in vernacular architecture and buildings archaeology.

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Watching egrets catching their breakfast in the Gulf of Papagayo, Costa Rica this morning as the sun came up was magical.

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Exciting to see our Box Office Bears paper on @antiquityj.bsky.social today! 🎉 How might one know whether an historical site hosted bear-baiting? We look at possibilities based off our work on Bankside & across early modern England, uniting archaeology & archives. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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NEW EPISODE: When the site of the Curtain theater was excavated, they uncovered foundations that changed the way we view early modern playhouses. Now, there's plans to make these discoveries center stage at a new Museum of Shakespeare later this year. Find out more https://buff.ly/3P01j0L

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Thomas Paine Legacy is a new org I'm proud to be a Director of. They are based in Lewes & committed to celebrating Paine’s legacy by using history to empower present and future citizens. Support them next week as they open Thomas' home, Bull House. thomaspainelegacy.org/home/visit-b...

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Major Roman discovery in the City of London sparks plans for a new museum ianvisits.co.uk/articles/maj... London could soon have a new museum of Roman history after the remains of its first “City Hall” were uncovered near Leadenhall Market during recent archaeological investigations.

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The King’s School, Canterbury. #ADoorableThursday

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Happy 800th birthday, Magna Carta! Our 1225 Magna Carta is a third reissue of the document, with the Charter of the Forest. The Magna Carta is a document that established the rule of law and limited the power of the king in England.

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"On the third attempt, digging between the filing cabinets, they struck lucky..." This is mega exciting as the Basilica is one of the most important missing pieces of Roman London!

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Remains of an Anglo-Saxon cross incorporated into the external wall of St. Gregory’s Minster at Kirkdale in North Yorkshire. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #SundayStonework

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“This project demonstrates that culture too can create jobs, can encourage skills development and in addition can make those involved feel part of something meaningful” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Huge congratulations to all of our newly elected Fellows for January! www.sal.org.uk/2025/01/jan2...

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Come and join us this Saturday onsite at The Rose. This is your chance to take part in an on-your-feet 90 minute unrehearsed reading of Anthony Munday's retelling of the Robin Hood legend, a fast-paced adventure performed at The Rose in 1598 – no experience is necessary. Or you can just watch!

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Two panels of 16th and 17th century glass fragments salvaged from Amsterdam and Antwerp by Edward Spencer Curling and presented to the Canterbury Philosophical and Literary Institution Museum in 1829. The devil sowing seed while the farm workers slumber is delightful. #StainedGlassSunday

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While in Canterbury today called in to The Beany (Canterbury’s museum) to take a look at The Smallfilms Gallery and found Bagpuss, the Clangers and Noggin the Nog (and his flying machine). Peter Firmin and Oliver Postgate created Smallfilms from their studio in Blean, Kent.

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One of London's oldest thatched roofs is being restored on a 15th-century tithe barn www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/one... One of London's largest and oldest thatched roofs, on a 15th-century Tithe Barn, is currently being removed and replaced with fresh thatching as part of a large...

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Another boar’s head - this one is on the door to the church of St Peter and St Paul, Ospringe, Kent #adoorableThursday

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Queen Anne, Jane Poley and Mary Phillips at the Boar’s Head playhouse in Aldgate. They are in the windows of Hayloft Point that now stands on the site. @ianvisits.co.uk wrote an article about Hayloft Point in 2023 www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/at-...

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Hello to Bluesky! If you work on early modern law and literature, or any aspect of early modern studies that involves the Inns of Court, follow us, look at our website and come to our online seminars. See mappinginns.wordpress.com

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Play highlights history of lost Tudor fortress Play highlights history of lost Tudor fortress www.bbc.com/news/article... #Hull #theatre #tudor #skystorians

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There’s still time to join us for our online talk on 22 Jan 25 with Matthew Vaughan, Practice Director at Donald Insall Associate! Don’t miss this opportunity to hear about the restoration of the Lord Leycester Hospital. 👉

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This year’s #BSA2025 in York is shaping up to be a fantastic conference for lovers of all things #shakespeare & #performance. Click to join the conversation here: www.britishshakespeare.ws/call-for-par... then we can all go hit up the snickelways in June!

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archaeology.co.uk/vote?fbclid=... Really pleased to see that MOLA’s Holborn Viaduct site has been nominated for “Rescue Project of the Year 2025” in the Current Archaeology awards. The team did an amazing job excavating Roman oak coffins and what may be Britain’s first complete Roman funerary bed.🏺

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In London (Holborn) Roman remains in wooden coffins and cremations are revealed by MOLA - a really muddy site. With a magnificent oil lamp depicting a gladiator #diggingforbritain #drawingdiggingforbritain #archaeology

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Hello Bluesky! We are a quarterly magazine publishing the latest on #London’s #archaeology, history and heritage. ⚱️ You can subscribe here: www.londonarchaeologist.org.uk/subscribe.html

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One of the loveliest drawings out there. Anonymous, French, 16th century, Interior with a Man Writing on a Long Table, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray and brown wash, over faint sketch in graphite, 19.2 x 14.9 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) #earlymodern #skystorians

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Another form of #BoxOfficeBears

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First post! Looking for my Shakespeare actors, practitioners, academics! Looking for my stage fighters! Looking for my digital theatre creators! Looking for theatre journalists! Looking for SCOTTISH THEATRE! Find me here. Hoping for the best now Threads is dead. #shakespeare #theatre

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Whittlesey straw bear Jan 11th 2024

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Well this sucks. Museum caves in in response to a hostile article in the local press written by a former Restore Trust director. If you’re gonna have these initiatives at your museum, you need to have some backbone too. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Medieval crowns and royal treasures hidden in Vilnius Cathedral during WWII have finally been found after 80 years! What a discovery! Thank goodness these were tucked away! 👑 #History #Archaeology #MedievalTreasures #Vilnius

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A fine door at Exeter Guildhall An Exeter joiner named Nicholas Baggett was paid £4 10s for his work on this door in 1594. Katherine Raleigh died in April of the same year. #AdoorableThursday #exeter #elizabethan

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Carved post of the 16th century screen to Penshurst Place Great Hall, with faded remnants of its former coloured decorative scheme. #archaeology #history #Kent #colour #timber #medievalcolour

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London, 9. Jan 1625 The masque -The Fortunate Isles and Their Union- (the vision of a unified British kingdom under the guidance of a wise king) was first performed on January 9, 1625 written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, Figures of Mary Ambree, Elinor Rumming, ...

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Two 16th century doors at Horton Court, Gloucestershire which was home to William Knight, Secretary of State to Henry VIII and later Bishop of Bath and Wells. #ADoorableThursday heritagerecords.nationaltrust.org.uk/HBSMR/MonRec...

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Sat 1 Feb, 12pm & 3pm Onsite at The Rose Join The Friends of The Rose for an unrehearsed, script-in-hand 90 minute reading of Anthony Munday’s hit play about Robin Hood – 'The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington' (1598). Just watch, or take part – roles drawn from a hat! Book: bit.ly/40mv5U0

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Hi @roystephenson.bsky.social 👋 If you haven’t found it already @drchrisc.bsky.social has created a London Archaeology and Heritage starter pack.

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Do come along and hear all about the different types of sheep! www.sal.org.uk/event/st-kil... 🐑

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