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I finally submitted my PhD thesis on late medieval Scottish dress accessories this week. This is one of the objects featured - a beautiful 'biting beasts' buckle in the form of two dog's heads, from Maxton (Scottish Borders) #FindsFriday #Medieval

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wonderful day discussing all things Augustus with teachers at our Warwick Classics Network Classical Civilisation day, complete with a gift of chocolate Augustus coins! Going to see if we can get instructions posted on the WCN website. ;-)

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Classroom/Library enrollment was down pretty bad in February. National chaos and uncertainly likely has something to do with it. Can you help me make sure that all the educators on bluesky know Skype a Scientist exists and is ready to connect them with scientists? Every RT helps! #EduSky #STEMEd

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Conference CFP: 'Who Owns Heritage? Local Communities and the Fight for Historical Monuments in the 19th and 20th Centuries'. Masaryk University Brno, Czechia, 6 November. Deadline 11 April. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

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Join us for Lady Rachel Fane's May #Masque at Boston Manor on Saturday 8 March. Last performed (we think) in 1627 www.ticketsource.co.uk/boston-manor... #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky #RachelFane #LadyRachelFane #womenwriters

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In @nature.com we show that humans lived in rainforests ~150,000 years ago – over double the previous oldest estimate. Their presence in West Africa’s rainforests demonstrates the spread of early humans and places ecological diversity at the heart of our species. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Happy 10th birthday to the Ea-Nasir complaint tablet meme! A glorious decade of memes, mashups, merchandise, erotic fanfic, real-life copper fraud, and pilgrimages to the British Museum. Thread 🧵:

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Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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It's a year since our 50 Post Medieval and Modern Finds book came out and still glad I argued to include this one. From when an indoor toilet was a grand luxury worthy of decoration. Bonus video: www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou... #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...

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A nice donation by the finder and landowner to Mersea Island Museum (Essex)of this silver Medieval/PM pendant finds.org.uk/database/art... Thank you!

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Looks like an exciting residency, I'm sure they'd want it shared with as many people as possible so Reposted wth alt text (posting images of text is particularly important for alt text, and super easy)

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Popped into Ewenni Priory. Added somewhere else to the list of sites I'd like to live in. Fabulous animal head. Slightly more confused/ worried by this other carving!

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Happy Valentine’s Day from me and my favourite WWI sweetheart pincushions. These were made by recuperating soldiers using beads, embroidery, sequins, and preprinted panels with regimental crests and messages of love. These are from Amgueddfa Cymru, National Army Museum, Sally Antiques, & Invaluable

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I love this Belgian souvenir coin bc it looks like you’ve fainted, and as you start groggily coming to, you open your eyes to find all the architectural gems of Belgium clustered around you & staring down in concern

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Permanent full time Lectureship in Archaeology (Museum Studies) in my lovely department at UCC! Join us! www.ucc.ie/en/future-hu...

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Download a printable version of this card here: www.tomgauld.com/valentine

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Most 17th century tokens with longer inscriptions suggest how they can be used and justify their issuing. Richard Bakewell of Derby felt a bit more whimsical in 1666. Image courtesy of the Brithish Museum #findsfriday #ValentinesDay

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Now here's an attractive CFP: Railway Aesthetics: Experiencing Locomotion across Media and Cultures. Takes place ON THE TRAIN Vienna-Bucharest-Istanbul, 10-13 September 2025. Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/02/...

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Yes, it was so fun to collaborate on these diagrams! At first glance they may look like fairly ordinary "most history books have things like this" diagrams, but a lot of thoughtful & even subversive & progressive choices can go into such diagrams. The politics of diagramming, a thread: 1/?

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Fellowship opportunity. @wadhamcollege.bsky.social in cooperation with the @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social established the Koch History Centre, an Institute of Advanced Studies for History. The first cohort will start on 1 Oct 2025. This year's theme:"Religion and the State". Please consider applying

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Great! These important early-medieval finds have been acquired by @rmoudheden.bsky.social Leiden 🤩

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All I learn from this is that King John's posthumous spin team have performed a blinder.

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occasionally in the Roman world women acted to sponsor local coinage, as here on a coin of Eumenea in Phrygia, struck by a high priestess named Bassa, daughter of Kleon. The obverse of the coin shows a bust of Agrippina II and the reverse shows the goddess Cybele. rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/1/3151

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Belated #TilesOnTuesday 🧱 📍Pierhead Building • Cardiff #Wales #History

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Sámi archaeology for #SamiNationalDay Trees were seen by the Sámi as mediators between people and deities, and were likely engraved with crosses whilst offerings were made. Intensive forestry is destroying culturally modified trees at an alarming rate. 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.184

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Students: apply to participate in the Faleri Novi excavations with our £1,000 bursary and summer placement! Applications are open to all students registered at a UK university, and must be received by 28 February, 2025. For details see: www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...

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Ah the Iron Age, that fun period where burying wierd things in pits for future archaeologists seems like it was a competitive sport

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Archaeologist (part time) National Trust Salary: £29,297 pa (£36,621 FTE) Closing Date: 16/02/25 Location: Attingham Park, Atcham, Shrewsbury, SY4 4TP www.bajr.org/job-ad/archa...

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#FindsFriday #Archaeology Diversity in a quarry, Bedfordshire, England. Neolithic to Anglo-Saxon to Golf.

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This is a wonderful example of a Roman dragonesque brooch. These brooches are found in quantity in Yorkshire & it's probable they were made here. More variations of the type with stunning decoration are being recovered through metal detecting & recording. #FindsFriday https://buff.ly/40T1SAb

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It is sunny but cold here today and I really want one of those late medieval / post med tile stones. One in this beautiful green border ware, please. Whether in my bedroom like Elizabeth of York or to make the bathroom into a steam room as at Whitehall Palace. #FindsFriday, #winter

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New term, new programme! At the #EarlyModern Europe & the World seminar @ihr.bsky.social we've got gems in store! Trade! Plague! TREASURE TROVES! With @anastruillou.bsky.social, @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social & Allison Stielau All welcome, in person or via zoom! www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur...

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Granny pine with ‘fir candle’ scars at Abernethy National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC. #ThickTrunkTuesday

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In two weeks! Come on out, if you're in Toronto! arthistory.utoronto.ca/events/peter...

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#mosaicmonday An intricate 6th-cent. mosaic of the Three Magi in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna. 💙📚 Notice the Phrygian cap? Here is an excellent essay about its convoluted history: ideasroadshow.com/the-wanderin... 🗃️ #arthistory 🏺 #ancientbluesky #skystorians #epiphany #church

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#HappyChristmas #12thNight #Epiphany Lots of Medieval rings have the names of the three Kings on them, for protection, but this beautiful ring has their picture with a romantic inscription. finds.org.uk/database/art...

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The German Maritime Museum invites applications for 3-9 month-long fellowships to work on interdisciplinary object-based research focussing on the cultural & political significance of the relationship between humans and the sea. Deadline 31 January 2025. More info: www.museumsbund.de/stellenangeb...

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#MosaicMonday #RomanHistory #AncientBluesky Easily my favourite Roman mosaic, from the Bardo in Tunisia. Five gladiators sit around a table in the shape of a stylised arena, feasting wildly the night before meeting their fate. The servants admonish them - Shh! Let the bulls sleep!

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Lucky to be married to someone who was as almost as excited to receive @findsorguk.bsky.social Dobble as I was to gift it, #Christmas #Twixmas

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Peter Binoit, Still Life with Letter Cookies, c. 1615 (Groninger Museum) #earlymodern #foodhistory

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A word not used nearly enough about standing stones is 'conversation'. For it is clear that they are often in conversation with each other and always in conversation with both the land and us. The Long Neolithic is never not talking to the now. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday

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#Solstice #Sundial. These cheap pocket sundial were a way everyone could buy into the 18th century fashion for scientific measurement and 'control' of time. Shortening days are visible in the close spacing of the winter month letters, and only 8 hours on the winter line. finds.org.uk/database/art...

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