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Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

📣 I'd like to start a project on #Emotions in the #HistoryofArchaeology I think of archaeology as a practice, as a discipline and as a voluntary or involuntary experience. How do we feel as archaeologists, to read about it, watch it on TV or see objects in a museum or be forced to excavate? 🧵

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 9h

Quite so. You wouldn't write the next chapter of a book without having read the previous chapters. Archaeology is the toolbox that helps us read those previous chapters to help make sense of now and the future.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

History and heritage don’t belong to nations, political ideologies or people who claim to be more “authentically” English than others. They belong to everyone, whether your family has been here for a thousand years or ten minutes. You are part of the story.

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What a farce. As farmers fail to access funds to support sustainable farming, this will undoubtedly mean valuable wildlife habitat (recently created or much older) will be destroyed, as farmers feel they have no option but to intensify their farming systems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours

Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We've decided to start a discussion series. Lunchtimes once a month, to remember why we 'do heritage' all welcome, please share with students and networks.

Poster for a discussion series. Text reads:

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Bureau for the Contemporary & Historic

Bureau Bites!

JOIN US AT THE BUREAU FOR A MONTHLY LUNCHTIME BITE

13.15-14.00

Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/353204848682706?p=kTQLxkqUay7odEGmUi

Meeting ID: 353 204 848 682 706

Passcode: 72My9df2

Start your week with us in the Bureau for our new series, Bureau Bites. These informal, 45min online gatherings are open to all, whether you're a postgraduate student, a heritage manager or a senior consultant. Keep an eye on our LinkedIn account where we'll post a link to a short text (30 min read) the week before we meet. We understand how dynamic, energetic and enterprising (ie busy) we all are so please join the conversation even you haven't been able to make time to read and reflect in advance. Readings will be a mix of websites, blogs, reports, excerpts from academic papers.

The aim is to reconnect us with our communities of practice and to create space for the kind of thinking we might not be able to do on the daily grind. We invite participants to start a light-touch reflective journal to help document these conversations, which you may find useful in your work.

These gatherings also mark the start of ButCH's journey towards being a business partnership and launch of our redesigned website https://37looestreet.org/home/butch/

Monday, 12 October: Does heritage really matter?

Monday, 9 November: When loss is more!

Monday, 7 December: Beyond engagement? Art, heritage and placemaking

Monday, 11 January: Strategies, frameworks and plans why have them?

Monday, 8 February: Nothing ages faster than the future

Monday, 8 March: Place, land and more-than-human interve

Monday, 5 April: 'No, I don't want to do workshops with NEETs! Beyond instrumentalising heritage

Monday, 10 May: Not another toolkit! Working with creative approaches to unblock cross-sector heritage research, management and policy

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Internet Archaeology @internetarchaeology.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Who tells your story? Diversifying narratives of the past through storytelling as an archaeological method by Hanna Steyne and Milica Rajić doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.16 In this paper the authors address the urgent need for diversity in archaeology and propose storytelling as one of the […]

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YAC @yac-cba.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

For over 2000 young people, YAC is a place to discover the heritage on their doorstep, meet friends who share their interests and try something new. It’s where young people build confidence and social skills, discover what they’re capable of and simply feel like they can be themselves. 🧵1/2

A photo of a group of young people of varying ages. Text over the image says: The Young Archaeologist Club provides opportunities for young people to participate in archaeology. Today it has 80 clubs, 500 volunteers, 2000 members."

A young person wearing a high vis vest leaning against a concrete wall. Text over the image says: "YAC has enabled him to access learning about a subject he enjoys without feeling that he is failing or that he is not good at it. Parent/carer."

A young person smiling and holding a paper plate containing a square piece of clay on which is carved a horse, in the style of a medieval tile. Text over the image says: "I feel like I can be me - YAC member. 85% of members feel more confident working with young people since they joined."

Three young people and one adult sat at a table in a classroom. Text over the image says: "It's amazing, I love having a community where I feel like I belong."

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Central Dartmoor Landscape Recovery vision demonstrates some of the participatory process undertaken with stakeholders for future visioning. There's a landscape biography to contextualise proposed future changes, and I'd love to know more about how this was used to inform the final outputs.

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think there's distinct disadvantages with combining all of these ambitions in a single static image. It doesn't recognise the uncertainty and complexity of adaptive pathways, and the likely trade-offs.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

🌳 UKCEH has secured funding from The National Archives' Archives Revealed Scoping Grant Fund to explore preserving and digitising 70 years of woodland & land-use records. Read more: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... #WoodlandResearch #EnvironmentalScience

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I feel strangely nostalgic about battling with the old Heritage Gateway but there’s no denying this is a vast improvement!

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I've had a small part to play in applying for and delivering projects in the archaeology sector with the £9.2 billion invested by the National Lottery Heritage Fund over the years. So, I've just completed this consultation on National Lottery Good Causes funding, have you?

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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This week, we discussed how we can achieve “good growth in every postcode” with the North York Moors Association: 🌿 Make it easier for landowners to restore and rewet peat. 🏡 Use the Protected Landscapes Duty for communities to influence change. 🚌 Devolution presents a major opportunity.

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One year on from starting my PhD research looking at how evidence of past landscape change informs and influences visions for the future of the North York Moors, how have my ideas changed? #moorviews

A woman wearing a purple knitted hat and a black anorak in the foreground. A moorland landscape on an overcast day in the background.
Text reads: One year on... How have my ideas about my PhD research changed?

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NEYEDC @teamneyedc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Over the last few months we've had Elizabeth, Language and Linguistic Science PhD student at the University of York, join us to investigate how place-names can strengthen the evidence base for Ancient Woodland designation, using her expertise on place-names in the medieval period. 1/2 🌳

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

6 - this morning's nurdle quota from a scan of the beach at North Shields. It's sad to see so many still washing up, but the local voluntary clean up effort continues.

A small round plastic nurdle in the centre of a palm in the foreground. Sunlight reflects off the sea in the background.

A palm holds 6 plastic nurdles in front of a bin drop off point for depositing the nurdles.

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Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT) @ect-uk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Submit your abstract by 30 September! If you are working on a project for people & nature, then we want to hear from you. Join the Resilient Landscapes & Seas Symposium to share your research & experience on designing #LandscapeScale projects for impact. bit.ly/488EYcd #RLASSymposium 🌏

Designing Landscape Projects for Impact: Developing, monitoring and defining outcomes at scale. King’s House, Manchester. 3-4 February 2027. Call for Submissions. Deadline: 30 September. Photo showing a pond with vegetation in it and surrounding it.

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The funding is secured, the visitor attraction will be revitalised and the archaeology will be beter understood and appreciated, yes. But not 'saved' as the organic remains are drying out with dropping water levels and excavation is a destructive process. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Bronze Age site near Peterborough could be saved thanks to funds

The government is investing nearly £700,000 into Flag Fen near Peterborough.

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Exactly. Archaeology can be useful in helping think about the pattern of land use that can help. It's how we can understand interactions between people and natural processes over time, and learn from that for our future.

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Pete M 🌳 @pete-m.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You often hear that the Welsh uplands are naturally treeless — too high, too wet, too exposed — and that the evidence for it is upland tree cover declining from the late Mesolithic, before farming even arrived. In Eryri, the pollen record shows the opposite. 1/🧵

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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Knepp itself (see thread) shows this nicely. The Weald is often seen as largely impenetrable forest till medieval times but there were significant variations in tree cover throughout (pre)history & much continuity in routes & boundaries. Archaeology offers a range of scenarios to inform the future.

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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We not only need more woodland, we need more heath, flower-rich grassland & other diverse habitats Another problem with the wild wood obsession is that other habitats are seen as less important

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We do need more trees, and fast, as part of a package of effort to get us through the next century to stand a fighting chance of minimising the climate crisis. For me the argument for needing those trees is not that we used to have trees everywhere but to set out why we need them now.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Well said. The old 'a squirrel could have travelled from Lands End to John O'Groats without touching the ground' fantasy still exists. It's not helpful.

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Dr Hannah Fluck @hannahfluck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

This thread explains some helpful facts re historic tree cover. We don't need to perpetuate inaccuracy to justify increasing tree cover now. Current & future environments & needs are different. Better to explain why than keep pretending we can return to some halcyon days to fix the mess we've made.

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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I just went to see the one in Reading, where women signed the sections they embroidered (and put some pants on some very naughty boys)

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Tapestry of trees or tapestry of unease on display at the British Museum? The arrival of the Normans temporarily regenerated English woodland but at enormous human cost www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/... 1/

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Tapestry of trees

This installation by garden designer Andy Sturgeon uses trees and textiles to evoke the natural landscape depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

'Most of Britain was covered with wild, sprawling forest' is a common misconception about the time of the Norman Conquest. Usborne history books were an important part of my early obsession with archaeology but it's disappointing to see such a huge inaccuracy still being published.

Flap in an illustrated children's book reading 'Most of Brian was covered with wild, sprawling forest.'

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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Less than 1% of England’s population owns nearly half its land. So who holds landowners accountable for what happens to nature? In this talk @guyshrubsole.bsky.social asks whether land “stewardship” is genuine or greenwash & explores land reform, transparency & practical routes to nature recovery.

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Ill fares the land? Holding large landowners to account for nature destruction - and restoration

Nature is in crisis in England, where less than 1% of the population owns nearly half the land. In this talk, environmental campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole explores a crucial question for nature…

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Spat out my tea reading this review of The Uprising. The what of what now? Popular understanding of medieval history has taken a hell of a pounding in recent weeks. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...

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Cat Frampton @catframpton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

“in a world where ‘nature recovery’ has big financial teeth, the story that is told about land matters” What are the stories you are being told? Who’s telling them? And why?

A black and white photo of a bleak bit of Dartmoor

Same place but colour photo. Blue sky, less bleak!

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

📢 We’re hiring! Join the CBA as our new Membership & Network Manager, helping us reimagine membership, strengthen grassroots networks and connect more people with archaeology through our National Lottery Heritage Fund-supported Archaeology Connected project. 👉 tinyurl.com/ArchUK-MNM

Membership and Network Manager

£35,000 per annum, Full time (35 hours per week), Fixed term for 17 months until end of March 2028.

The Membership and Network Manager is responsible for the effective and efficient day-to-day management of the CBA’s membership (individuals, organisations and subscribers) and will project manage our Heritage funded ‘Archaeology Connected’ project and lead work focusing on understanding our current audiences and re-imagining membership and network growth.

Hybrid and home working will be considered for this post depending on proximity to our York office.

Apply by midday, 23rd September

tinyurl.com/ArchUK-MNM

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

One of the more interesting graphs I've seen, something that seems really counter-intuitive until you think about it. England only having about 15 percent forest coverage at the time of the Doomsday book (about half of what France and Germany have today) is wild, isn't it?

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Three Acres And A Cow @threeacresacow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Nearly time for our autumn tour, no sweaty heatwave gigs this time, hopefully? Tickets from threeacresandacow.co.uk/shows/ Join us and be moo-ved!

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/08/2026

As ever I would point out that this is good landscape management and there is nothing 'wild' about it and until we stop calling it 'rewilding' people will continue to operate with the ludicrous romantic assumption that 'nature' is self-healing and that human intervention is bad.

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James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Heading home from York. Looking forward to coming back on my book tour on 20 October to talk about The Buildings Archaeologist, including plenty of case studies drawn from the city and wider area. The event is organised by York Philosophical Society... www.ypsyork.org/events/the-b...

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

For this year’s Festival of Archaeology Haiku Competition, our winners found two very different ways to connect with the past: one through tenderness, grief, and memory held in the earth; the other through a sudden flash of colour, fire, and clay. Congratulations to our winners💚

Under 18's winner:

Child bones, softly placed
Flowers pressed beneath the earth
Grief keeps its promise

- Pranshi Gupta

I think, it’s very poignant, tender and has a great metaphor for preservation of memory in the landscape.

- Raksha Dave, Competition judge

Over 18s winner:
Flash of fire-bright red
Like an ember in the ground -
Earth-born peg tile clay.

- Alexa Wolff

The imagery and metaphors within this poem is fantastic and it perfectly encapsulates the concept and themes of Haiku!

- Raksha Dave, Competition judge

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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The joy of digging at Must Farm is that it is less about orthodox archaeological features (pits, ditches, postholes) & more about old land surfaces, animal tracks, submerged forests, preserved fence lines. Past deposits are intact, articulated, & the distinction between natural & cultural is blurred

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Be inspired by witches, gods, giants, saints and beasts in a new exhibition on #folklore tales from North #Yorkshire by feminist artist collective H.A.G.S. at @northyorkmoors.org.uk 📍Danby Lodge Centre 📅 Open until 13 Sep 🖼️ Hag stones by Alice Grey

A wooden post hung with replica ceramic stones with holes through the middle and hung with string to the post. The hag stones are painted and marked, and are on display in an art gallery.

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This is excellent news. It really feels like the momentum for recognising that our natural and historic built environments are inextricably linked is growing. Something that the Offa’s Dyke Association has advocated for and enacted through our Conservation Fund offasdyke.org.uk

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Offa's Dyke Association

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Check out my latest 'My Archaeology' interview with @lawrence-shaw.bsky.social to coincide with this year's #FestivalofArchaeology nature theme in the new issue of British Archaeology magazine 🌳 @forestryengland.bsky.social @timeteam.bsky.social

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This appears to have gone under the radar... Joint statement on the historic environment of National Parks UK recognising that these are vital landscapes and the product of human interaction with the natural environment. nationalparks.uk/joint-statem...

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Joint Statement on the Historic Environment in the National Parks of England, Scotland and Wales - National Parks

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Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.

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Clemency Cooper @clemencycooper.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Hey, flagging for archaeology 🏺 people too!

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Kate Devlin @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡

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Campaign for National Parks @campaign4parks.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Helping landscapes become resilient to wildfires 🌿 National Parks contain massive areas of peatland, a powerful wildfire defense We're calling for: 💧Rewetting & restoring all peatlands 💧Ban on disposable BBQs 💧Ban on burning as a land management Read the plan 👉 www.cnp.org.uk/.../wildfire...

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