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Alex Rowson

@alexrowson.bsky.social

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Producer & Historian Posting about archaeology and history 🏛️ History by the Pint Podcast 🎙️ Author of The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great 📖

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New podcast alert! Museum Muse-ings Pt. 1 Blockbuster Exhibitions

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

The Barber and Crawford cups in the British Museum (50-100 AD). Carved from fluorite, they are believed to be the only surviving examples of luxury Murrhine ware to have survived from antiquity. #roman #museum #treasure

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Snippet of History by the Pint’s latest podcast - Notes From Rome 2024. Dr Chris Siwicki chats about the recently reopened Via Triumphalis necropolis.

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The hulk of MA James on the Torridge foreshore, N.Devon. The schooner was built in 1900 for the Newfoundland cod trade. It was later used for coastal trade around Britain and, finally, to tether barrage balloons during WWII. #archaeology #tidal #maritime

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Bideford Bay at the end of the rainbow. #devon #estuary #photography

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Sandy Brown’s studio in Appledore, North Devon. #art #ceramics #devon

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The East Okement River, fresh from Dartmoor.

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

The jewels of the Mughal emperors - currently on display at the V&A, London. #gems #treasure #thegreatmughals

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A few snaps from Hew Locke’s thought-provoking BM exhibition - What have we here? A frank and honest conversation starter on colonial artefacts in museums and how we address questions of empire, ownership, and identity. #britishmuseum #empire #history

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

#antiquesroadshow just featured a fantastic chat about Boudicca’s destruction of Colchester. If you’d like to learn more listen here 🎧👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

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First Blood Boudicca

Podcast Episode · History by the Pint · 14/09/2024 · 21m

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

The Kingsteignton Figure - an Iron Age oak idol (or toy?) dating to between 420-350 BC. Discovered in 1867 by quarrymen digging for clay at Kingsteignton, Devon. One of the treasures of the RAMM in Exeter.

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Alex Rowson @alexrowson.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The reconstructed cell of Lady Julian of Norwich at St Julian’s Church, Norwich. In this cell, soon after 1373, the anchoress wrote her Revelations of Divine Love - the earliest known work written in English by a woman. ‘All shall be well’.

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