Mel Roxby-Mackey

Aren’t these medieval floor tiles from Abbey Dore, Herefordshire things of beauty. Thank you for sharing @kpw1453.bsky.social

Operation Nightingale is a brilliant project supporting veterans. Any donations are so welcome

Clearly, the past matters in our turbulent present. Good news on the ticket sales demographics too with significant sales attributed to the under 35s.

30 years of Lara Croft with another outing scheduled for 2027. “Perhaps this one will tell Lara’s true origin story: how she rose to prominence not because of her prominent chest, or past traumas, but because she was the cool, enigmatic star of a bloody great game.”

Actually, @jonathanmorris.bsky.social and I have been having a serious chat about how AI struggles with prehistory. As a daft aside, maybe archaeology can save us from our AI overlords by presenting them with ‘OK, gave a go at making sense of this, then. . .’ Boom 😂

I'm a big fan of Tom Williamson's work. This latest volume in the Reflections series from @oxbowbooks.bsky.social promises to be a real treat for anyone with an interest in why the English countryside in particular looks the way it does today www.scriptbooks.co.uk/archaeology/...

On a more positive note than the earlier AI post. Proof, in the form of Lime Bike medieval-themed jousts, that our descent into an AI-slop driven future is not inevitable. Take that globalist tech bros 😂

Absolutely this from @kaffeehaus.bsky.social. Do we really want this to be our generation’s legacy? To be the era when future archaeologists and historians try and fail to make any sense of this massive self- and planetary wanton destruction? WTF were they thinking can be their only conclusion.

“Five of Wales’s largest new and proposed datacentres will consume more electricity than all Welsh homes put together.”

I've very much enjoyed reading the latest instalment of Genius Loci Digest from @fotofacade.bsky.social "In the fabric of a village church, another history is playing out - one of ordinary people getting on with the business of living, making, maintaining and passing things on."

Thank you to @inkcapjournal.bsky.social for the link to this good news from the Woodland Trust on the Wentwood ancient woodland between Newport and Chepstow, returning to mostly native broadleaf after two decades of dedicated management www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/press-centre...

There has been so much excitement around the #Bayeux tapestry, but other major developments are also underway elsewhere, not least at The Museum of the Viking Age in Oslo. In advance of their new museum opening they have undertaken a major upgrade of their website and it's excellent

I always thought the character of Robin was absolute genius. Why do ghosts always seem to come from historic periods? I’ll be clutching my popcorn on Friday for some top-class, feel good, ghostly giddiness for sure

Remains of a Roman bathhouse, added to the interior of Caernarfon (SEGONTIVM) Roman auxiliary fort #Gwynedd in the 3rd century AD Excavated by Mortimer and Tessa Verney Wheeler between 1921-23 Sadly missed by most modern visitors to the town 📷 Aug 2008 #RomanFortThursday

The best seasonal after dark attractions featuring Slimbridge wetland centre, Gloucestershire

The latest English Heritage magazine is out and includes a feature on the amazing digital reconstructions of the painted chapel walls at Chester castle with reflections from @willwyeth.bsky.social

Indeed. Likewise at Leicester founded to 'create a living memorial for all local people who made sacrifices during the First World War.' So many of the careers of current university senior leadership are literally built on the legacy of the sacrifices of the working class.

Congratulations to @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social on this video on the reveal of the identity of the actual oldest pub in England passing half a million views. Deservedly so too. It takes a lot of skill to pack so much information into such a short format.

The Rev Simon Lockett writing his country diary from the beautiful Golden Valley in Herefordshire

Not archaeology or the Anglo-Cymric borderland, but I had the opportunity to see the stage play and it was wonderful. Hoping to see the film soon.

A perfect opportunity for anyone interested in a career in heritage hosted at the beautiful @worcestercathedral.bsky.social 21st October

Speaking of the significance of folklore. . .

An absolute must read. Thank you @christopher-hervez.bsky.social

For anyone who cares about what we can do to improve the state of our rivers, lakes and seas the @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social have an open letter to write to your MP to share your opinions on what should be happening next action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/200835/...

“We can deliver content at the speed of culture.” No you absolutely cannot.

"Hayes was inspired by poet and storyteller Hugh Lupton’s idea of “restorying the landscape” Thank you to @inkcapjournal.bsky.social for the link through to this @theguardian.com article on Nick Hayes' new book and inspiration for the future from the Hardwick estate in Oxfordshire

Thank you to @scriptbooks.bsky.social for this recent blog post from Derek Hurst on the the discoveries from The New Library Excavation at Hereford Cathedral including insights into some fishy dating results. . .

Interested in the archaeology of the Anglo-Cymric borderland? Want to learn more? The latest issue of Brit Arch from @archaeologyuk.bsky.social includes updates on Rossett Roman villa near Wrexham and Chester’s medieval castle. The region often features in the magazine that comes with membership 👇

Yet another way water companies are putting profit over the health of our rivers

We believe that the techbros should accept some bad things happening to their bank balances for the benefits to the rest of humanity and the whole of the planet, in fact.

Folkloric shivers from @hookland.bsky.social and the locations it’s bound up with are so often hidden in plain sight

Oh no. Bad news from the wonderful @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social (who I have only just found on here). No new Free Thinking content to listen to when I can’t sleep. The archives are great though.

I’m a big fan of Alex’s writing. This blatant copy can indeed just f**k right off 🤬🤬🤬

Environmental protest inspiration from Norway “The fjord is bigger than us. It has given us food and income and meaning and music and fish and birds for thousands of years. Now it gives us the energy to keep fighting.”

The lovely people at Worcester Community Garden (located in the city centre adjacent to the Pitchcroft) are looking for new trustees. For anyone tempted, more details are at worcestercommunitygarden.org.uk/post/could-y...

Jane Dunford writing in @theguardian.com rightly waxing lyrical about the beautiful county of Shropshire - created, allegedly, by the free hand of Aziraphale archaeoborders.wordpress.com/2023/10/22/g...

Good news

Supermarket profits-led policies are driving the expansion of polluting 'mega-dairies' - a bad deal for farmers, nature and especially our rivers. Our rivers have formed how we have inhabited our world over millennia. As their current custodians we need to do better for future generations

Thank you to @inkcapjournal.bsky.social for the link to the news that Elmore Court in Gloucestershire is set to become home to the UK's largest beaver enclosure

And here’s the brief online tour for a quick introduction to the Offa’s Dyke Centre’s bilingual exhibition youtu.be/orWoc6FQakA?...

Just saying. . . The trail starts in Knighton, home of the Offa’s Dyke Centre! Why not drop in and enjoy some excellent coffee and cake whilst perusing our updated bilingual exhibition on the early medieval Anglo-Cymric borderland.

Huge congratulations to @theduncanmackay.bsky.social on Echolands hitting the best seller spot 👏👏👏

What a thing of beauty ❤️

Open source, people-powered tree watering anyone? There was lots of running around with people watering the immature trees in our local park during the heatwave. Thankfully, they appear to have made it through. This app would be a real boon.