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Today’s blustery walk along muddy lanes, wearing muddier boots, under fluffy clouds. Never take it for granted. #Northumberland

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Today we need to remember what happened on February 24th 2022, and not ignore what’s happening now. #StandWithUkraine #SlavaUkraini

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They fled Syria’s Assad regime, settled in Reims after a journey involving a small boat, made careers as actors and playwrights, contributed, and now have home in France and Syria where they are touring with their play about exile. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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Ominous sunset? #SundayWeather 📸 mine

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#AncientBluesky #RomanHistory #History #Skystorians Did the Romans have a postal system? If so, how did it work? How long did it take to send a letter to your aunt in Gaul? Time to find out! Once you've read the article, please remember to subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/jamescov...

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These days it is difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake. It’s worrying how the false narratives are circulating and eroding our trust in all sources, even trustworthy ones. Staying grounded is the thing. Here’s something real for #StandingStoneSunday 📸 mine, #Stonehenge

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This is the only AI message Keir Starmer needs to hear! Don’t gift our work to AI billionaires: Mark Haddon, Michal Rosen and other creatives urge government www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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These days it is difficult to know what’s real and what’s fake. It’s worrying how the false narratives are circulating and eroding our trust in all sources, even trustworthy ones. Staying grounded is the thing. Here’s something real for #StandingStoneSunday 📸 mine, #Stonehenge

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I am planning to run online writing retreats - this is for access because so many people don’t get to participate otherwise - later this year. Tell me what you’d like to cover? Things you’d like to see and do and have on offer. 💙📚#writingcommunity #amwriting #booksky #writing

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My writing friend, Maple, is giving me the ‘it’s time for a snack’ look. #WritingLife #WritingCommunity

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A military diploma for Tertius of the Treveri Tribe granting him Roman citizenship and the right of marriage. The diploma was issued by the Emperor Vespasian, dated 15 April 78 AD. Now part of the collections at the Neues Museum in Berlin. 📸 My own. #RomanHistory

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Bronze pennanular brooch with inlaid terminals, circa AD 450-550, was the latest object deposited in the Spring at Bath. Late Roman, probably made in Ireland; birds and fish on the terminals might be associated with the goddess Sulis Minerva. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #AncientSky 📸 mine

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Does this papyrus letter suggest some military corruption in #Roman Egypt? Written in AD 37 by a scribe, it assures the recipient that the scribe does not know of anyone in his village being subject to extortion by a soldier or his agents - so, enquiries were being made..? AncientBlueSky

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Bronze pennanular brooch with inlaid terminals, circa AD 450-550, was the latest object deposited in the Spring at Bath. Late Roman, probably made in Ireland; birds and fish on the terminals might be associated with the goddess Sulis Minerva. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #AncientSky 📸 mine

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‘These are the days of days.’ Howard Carter said when uncovering Tutankhamen’s tomb just over 100 years ago. The same applies as another pharaoh’s tomb is excavated in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. #Archaeology First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's www.bbc.com/news/article...

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1. Vindolanda fort and vicus a decade ago. It’s a Stanegate fort. Earlier forts lie beneath the later fort of the Coh IV Gallorum (from the 3rd C AD). 2. Housesteads fort on #HadriansWall, constructed first phase between AD 122-130. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology 📸 mine

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trying to feel a peaceful existence in a world full of negative energy

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I’m thrilled to be working on the materials for Week 1 of @cbcreative.bsky.social 6 week course, Writing A Psychological Thriller. It feels great to be challenging myself to write a story in a genre that’s relatively new to me. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritingLife

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Please share :)

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A read for the weekend. Related to something - well, two things really - that I'm writing at the mo. More to come soon, but in the meantime, here's the prequel!! 🤣🤣 #Archaeology #Torcs #Gold #Snettisham #IronAge ⚱️ bigbookoftorcs.com/2020/09/22/t...

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1. Vindolanda fort and vicus a decade ago. It’s a Stanegate fort. Earlier forts lie beneath the later fort of the Coh IV Gallorum (from the 3rd C AD). 2. Housesteads fort on #HadriansWall, constructed first phase between AD 122-130. #RomanFortThursday #RomanBritain #Archaeology 📸 mine

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‘So I want peace, Vladimir. Like now.’ Putin shrugs. ‘It costs, you know. Tell everyone my truth. You know how to make yourself heard.’ ‘I tell more truth than anyone has ever told in history, like ever.’ Putin pushes a page towards Trump. Trump says, ‘It’ll be the bestest peace ever made.’

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Trump’s latest Truth Social post is reactionary, angry, and deranged, threatening, because Ukraine’s president politely says no to Trump’s false narratives. Telling Zelensky he will soon have no country. For goodness sake, America, you’ve put a toxic narcissist in the White House. Twice!

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Great thread 🧵 for #ReliefWednesday about the dangers of making assumptions that the ‘Roman Army’ was this monolithic thing and that soldiers always stuck to one way of doing things. From @equipmentroman.bsky.social #AncientSky

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Roman gravestone of an optio, name unknown. An optio was second in command to a centurion, commander of a century. 1st C AD. From Roman Bath. The optio was in charge of communications. He carries a scroll and his official staff. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #AncientSky 📸 my own

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We erect altars at places where great streams burst suddenly from hidden sources; we adore springs of hot water as divine, and consecrate certain pools because of their dark waters or their immeasurable depth. Words by Seneca, Epistulae Morales Ad Lucilium, XLI. 📸 my own, Bath. #RomanBritain

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Absolutely this! We need better protection of our cultural heritage. Digging below the plough zone while metal detecting is an act of cultural vandalism. Detectorists, please stick to permitted land; don’t ferret beyond the plough zone; report your finds; share in making the archaeological record.

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When this pair of narcissists fall out of love with one another it’s going to bring them both crashing down to earth with a bang. Such alliances of enormous egos never last, and don’t end well.

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I'm delighted to share my latest publication. Thanks to the Hillforts Atlas team for publishing their data as open data and making this work possible and thanks to all who have helped me on the way. journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.... #hillforts #archaeology

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I’m sorry I have not begun reading #PoeticJustice yet by @fionawriter.bsky.social - my husband has stolen it and is about half way through the book already. I must wait until he’s finished. 🤷‍♀️ #Books #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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