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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It's in Wales, but happy to share the link - it's part of the Welsh Newspapers Online free collection available from @librarywales.bsky.social . I absolutely love this resource and spend so much time disappearing down the most random research rabbit holes

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The newspaper also ran a full report on how clever the pig was especially at escaping and how it could unlatch doors. The pig broke into the hotel dairy the month before Christmas and ate huge amounts of the hotel food stores! They immortalised him in a poem 😂

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm afraid it's not ancient but I am working on a building recording of a hotel and in 1905 the local newspaper ran an article about the owners prize performing pig who it named 'Mr Grunter Longsnout'. I can't be sure whether it is a name the paper made up or the pigs actual name 😂.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thanks, that's what I am hoping too!

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Trying to remember where I put my TAG one from Chester 😂

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Jazzing up my Iron Age dialogues tote bag - got a few more coats to go but love it so far. Let's hope the internet didn't lie and ironing acrylic markers fixes the colour!! #ironage #archaeology

Cream tote bag from Iron Age dialogues conference. First layer of colour added

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Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is why you don't just dig things up. Look at the amazing info we've got now: We know how it was all placed in ground & we have all of it, none damaged & conservation possible both as excavated & after. We can also look at the soil, for organics, pollen etc. #Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure 🏺

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Spontaneous human combustion or vanishing on the spot thanks to our junior school library having far too many books on 'the unknown' and paranormal

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

South Wales in the late 80s and 90s there was definitely a lot of socialist thinking in our school, although sadly I don't think that my girls have covered any of these topics under the current curriculum

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It's similar to Scotland in Wales, although probably less in the communal consciousness. Although I don't think that we focus enough on how recent it happened and the continued power and wealth the families who essentially stole the collective wealth of the poor still hold

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

We studied it in school, together with the Rebecca Riots and the Chartists and I am as furious at 45 as I was at primary school

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Currently working on a project where a key element of the site history is the seizure of the plot as part of the massive land grab that was the Enclosure Acts. I will never cease to be amazed about how normalised this massive theft of the communal resources by the rich is!

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I have a lot of family support x

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thanks so much, definitely carrying on with these im loving it as way to express ideas. Shout out to AHRC CDP scheme we got to do art workshops as part of their training opportunities

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I wish 🤣, kids to feed and bills to pay! But at least one less thing I haven't done done

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Only the final page was missing after all! Back cover and different zine sizes

Back page, sky and rainbow as background. Text reads "Sweet embrace became midnight sky, On the edge of venturing into the unknown, We learned how to celebrate the healing after the stormy weather, Wish you were here".

A5 and A6 zine with assotiated envelope of stickers

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

While I appreciate journalists' giving space to criticize incidents of racism, I wish they didn't just ask questions to the ppl who were the targets of racism. Ask Messi about the racist behavior of Argentine fans. Does he approve of fans' monkey gestures or the vice-president's comments? Ask him!

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thanks so much x yeah I am feeling so restless at the moment - super excited to be moving forward (well as long as the viva goes well), but also absolutely terrified at what is happening to jobs/departments etc

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Aww thank you so much! It was my way to try and figure out what I was trying to say with all the chapters

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

PhD thesis submitted at the end of last month and now feeling weirdly flat and restless. Sharing a little zine I made at the end of the project as a nod to hopefully doing more creative things in archaeology soon! Last few pages to follow

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

It's absolutely ridiculous the size of cars now!

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Amazing news xxx XX you'll do great

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Distracting myself ahead of looming PhD deadline -so making requests from the Pokémon obsessed kids 🤣. Currently working out how to turn an old Frozen bag they have grown out of, an old cushion cover and a pair of old jeans into a Psyduck shoulder bag! Looking so cute so far

Partially finished Psyduck bag. Yellow face and brown beak made from fabric scraps

Bag with Olaf from frozen on front, yellow cushion and fabric ahead of my 'upcycling' project.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Self employed sucks for a lot of things but I am so relieved to be in control of what outdoors work gets done and when!

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Yeah there's going to be a lot more Mandelson fallout to come I think

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

5 Muslim's were injured yesterday in a racist attack by a man wielding an axe It has barely been mentioned A couple of months ago 4 empty ambulances were burned, no one was injured but they talked about it for weeks and had a COBR meeting. The racism in the UK is systematic

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

This was the one that made me look least unhinged 😂

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Looking back over my notes, there are days when I seriously wonder how I get anything written up from these 😂.

Notebook page from my PhD looking at child burial. It's an absolute mess but also somehow seems to make sense to me 😂

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 18/05/2026

An NHS campaigner reveals how spy-tech giant Palantir tried to secretly hire influencers to smear Good Law Project 👀 🎧 Listen to The Shadow Contract👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'm pretty sure that this is the authors obituary. Cross referenced it with some other online snippets and he was a collector of historical rescue medals. Maybe you can see if he put a copy in the local Edmonton archives or if you can reach out to someone who knew him through the groups mentioned

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Phil Clifford @philclifford.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Would dearly like to buy (or borrow) a copy of this book. Private publication so rare! Does anyone have a copy lurking on their shelves please?

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Our utmost respect and solidarity to Dr @zenakamash.bsky.social and Dr Marianne Moen, whose principled actions are an example to us all.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I'm so sorry it has come to this but I have nothing but admiration for you and your principled stance. The society is nothing without its members and if it will not respect their clear wishes then who does the society represent? Solidarity

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Zena Kamash @zenakamash.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It is with deep sadness that Dr Marianne Moen and I resigned our positions as Editor-in-Chief and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Archaeology this morning. What follows is the letter we sent to the EAA's executive board, outlining the reasons for our resignation 1/n

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Id love to see the Greens throwing absolutely everything into taking the Manchester mayor role instead

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This story needs way more attention. Farage and his acolytes have repeatedly claimed his home was "firebombed", to justify the £5m secret donation given to the Reform leader by crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne But the police report of the incident is a burglary. There's no record of arson

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Questions raised about ‘security risk’ to Farage in row o...

The claimed reason for Christopher Harborne’s unprecedented and undeclared donation to the Reform leader is facing scrutiny

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Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

English media analysis of recent seismic changes don’t really grasp the very different forms of nationalism in the other nations. Whereas English is negatively based on Imperial nostalgia the others are formed by their negative experiences of British colonialism. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘Seismic change’: how election wins for nationalists in Celtic nations could reshape UK

With polls suggesting Plaid Cymru, the SNP and Sinn Féin could be in power after May vote, constitutional challenges may lie ahead

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