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Terracotta floor tile - Pigeon c. 14th-15th centuries CE Cathédrale Saint-André de Bordeaux Now Musée d'Aquitaine #TilesOnTuesday

Louie nails the vibe here. Get it! 😍 uk.bookshop.org/a/2422/97817...

She is gilded to within an inch of her life, the black wool highlighting the surfeit of gold dripping from Schiaparelli’s late #1930s evening jacket. Part couched goldwork, part rhinestone studs, all the sparkles @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Shout if you're a historian potentially interested in coming on for this one. i want to cover the discussions on repatriation, changes to headstones and Anglican ritual, and post-war grave tourism and grave photography services. @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social your wheelhouse maybe?

This removes from view the subjects most UK undergraduates and taught postgraduates study, subjects that by the government's own data outperform STEM subjects internationally (www.gov.uk/government/p... ) and that top many QS rankings. Our infrastructure is under attack, if only we could see it.

The real unfair competition women are being forced into with men is having women's sports constantly separated off as a distinct event which is made to compete commercially with much better funded and socially and institutionally enfranchised men's sporting events & found inadequate by that standard

Women help raise one runestone in four, but only one in thirty is raised for a woman. Were women the vanguard of Christianity, as is often said? Our figures point to inheritance instead. #runestones #runology #MedievalSky #EarlyMedieval

Prince Maurice's grave is interesting, because it was a good example of the conflicting thoughts families had. Princess Beatrice refused repatriation of the body. She felt he belonged with his men. But she fought for years for the right to spend her own money on a custom headstone. This was blocked

Super interesting! I love watching crafts and see how things are made. 🏺

Might be a good time to get back down to Oxford… 🧐

As a published researcher, I do not want to submit my unpublished work to a company that is going to run it through an AI. If I’ve spent months working on it, a peer reviewer can do me the courtesy of spending half an hour reading it. Anyone else feel the same?

Your astonishing artifact this week is a Bronze Age “cape” found in a woman’s burial at Goblins’ Hill in Wales. 🏺🧪

I am advertising for 2 PhD positions in my Research Council of Finland -funded project 'Trees and the travels of knowledge' at the University of Eastern Finland! Selected candidates will work on the internationalisation of Nordic forestry in the interwar period. Deadline 15 November, see link below.

finally threw away the tatty old cardboard box the Tortie had colonised in our living room. we had to provide an alternative, but thankfully it has been deemed acceptable.

This whole thread about the Brazilian election but I'm boggling - a whatsapp group with 10 million people on it

I mean, what’s better than this?

The deadline to apply as the new Mammal Curator at the Natural History Museum Denmark is coming up soon (2 November 2026)!! Get your application in, or forward the ad to someone you know who dreams of being a curator in a historical and important collection! 🧪

❤️‍🩹 Request for donations, any amount will help! This project is with Operation Nightingale, a UK MOD initiative to assist the recovery of wounded, injured and sick military personnel and veterans by getting them involved in archaeological investigations. www.gofundme.com/f/build-a-ch...

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 The Astreiant Series is a glorious read! Just saying. :-)

That’s the common theme in what I’m writing I think. White mid-upper class academic men are allowed to have flaws, allowed to do (actually terrible) things, and have them forgiven/forgotten. But for w-class men (Bill Varley), women (Maud Cunnington), MOC (Arday) one mistake or flaw is unforgivable.

"Hollands worked with Prof Caroline Jackson, a leading Roman glass expert, in conducting the initial research. Then came the challenge of embedding into glass nanoparticles of gold and silver – each a thousand times smaller than a grain of sand." www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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I don't think that it's been sufficiently advertised, so I'll draw attention to a nice little display of Psalters in the public area, Blackwell Hall, of the Bodleian's Weston Library. Manuscripts and printed books (incl. a Bay Psalm Book), in Hebrew, Latin, Middle English, English ...

A cool model of the theatre of Clunia Sulpicia in northern Spain, one half as it once looked and the other as it was before excavation in the early 20th century 📍 Burgos Museum, Spain 📸 Me 🏺 #RomanSiteSaturday #archaeology

Cats — Shou Xin shop.shouxin-art.com

Looking back upon a very successful @rmoudheden.bsky.social #strandstruindag / beach combing day. In between the storm window of Austen and Boelo over 200 people came looking for prehistoric #Doggerland

Buildings archaeologist James Wright stirring the 'Engand's oldest pub' pot with - gasp - scientific/historic/documentary evidence! Top job James. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Trying to raise funds for veterans to build an Iron Age chariot at @butserancientfarm.co.uk with the superb @timeteam.bsky.social covering it. All funds hugely appreciated gofund.me/6ecd8eeb1

Recommend having a good scroll through the quote-posts of this. We know that only consuming negative media and not intentionally working to disrupt negative thinking can have a huge long-term impact on your outlook, mood, and health. It's cheesy, but to combat the bad, you do need to see the good.

On Friday 30th October at 12:15pm UK time, I'm giving an overview of my PhD thesis (on women's work in 17th century English alehouses) for the @drinkingstudies.bsky.social Women and Alcohol cluster! All welcome. Here's the link bristol-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/99416738495?pwd=Ri4fabBO0hQwXVRbYV7avA27bW8hmi.1

The next online lecture for the Combined Hertfordshire Archaeological Societies is Kelly Clarke-Neish, "Reassessing Britain's 'last' Roman hoards". The results from this project are great, so come along. Tickets are free. 2nd Nov., 7.45pm, on zoom. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2003826362...

May the happy bats bring you much joy this weekend. Oh and for those who’ve not seen it, there’s a post below with many more of our flying friends. 🦇 👇

Dirty vs Cleaned archaeology artefacts

Here with an awesome little #FindsFriday Our FLO first thought this might be Iron Age as this is a very typical haircut seen for that period. However the parallels found for it are more Medieval in date. Read the record and its reference to let us know what you think! OXON-81B858

Final week to help secure the huge Rothbury Estate for the future, for #NatureRecovery, wildlife, heritage & public benefit. To stop parts being broken up & sold off. Well over £28million donated so far, very close to @northwildlife.bsky.social‘s goal. ➡️ www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...

Are you a postgraduate student? Next week, join us for a free online workshop introducing how you can use museums and collections in your study and research. Students from all universities are welcome. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...

Inviting me to give a talk to a male-only club which charges its hundreds of members $100-250/month, and then saying you have no budget to pay me and instead I should be grateful for access to this community of "well-known entrepreneurs and leaders" is more than grift bullshit, it's insulting

A bit late posting this, but it was great to work on this perspective piece with @kstsosie.bsky.social and Mehmet Somel, in which we explore what’s at stake when we talk about “kinship” in ancient DNA studies and who gets to define human connections across time. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

English Heritage are looking for a sports historian for their Blue Plaque panel. I have the same role on the Historic England National Blue Plaque Panel, and I encourage anyone with a bit of spare time and a passion for heritage to take a look at the post. Details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/english...

Happy new year 6030 to those who follow the Ussherian dating of the divine creation of the world #onthisday in 4004 BCE.