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Dr Anna Reeve

@cypriotartleeds.bsky.social
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Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies and Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Views my own.

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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Off to the National Archives to settle an argument from 1878.
The view from the train - fields, sunshine breaking through clouds.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For #NationalCoffeeDay, a coffee cup and saucer by F & H Pratt in their ‘Cyprus’ design, registered 1878.
Coffee cup and sauced with design of cones and flowers Registration mark for ‘Cyprus’ design
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Autumnal visitor.
Fox asleep in the back garden
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Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies series makes an important case for the value of research in languages and cultures in tackling today’s most pressing challenges - we are actively inviting new book proposals for the series: uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... @ilcs.bsky.social
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Understanding Languages, Cultures and Societies Archives - University of London Press
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, my morning is immeasurably brightened by To My Ships' marketing material tomyships.com/pages/introd...
'To My Ships is inspired by The Iliad and clean armpits.'
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Analysing the evaluation forms, and just so happy that everyone enjoyed thinking about ancient Cypriot collections and working with objects as much as I did.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What a beautiful day to be at the British Museum for the Classical Collections Network’s Ancient Cypriot Collections Workshop!
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Stylish and practical.
RNLI bag with crossed flagsSide view of stylish RNLI bagBag with 'RNLI' in white on red
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mine.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Authentic representation of the research experience at the National Art Library at the V&A www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJkn...
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Love That M&S Autumn 26
YouTube video by Creative Salon
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
How does Roman glass get those iridescent flakes? Nanolamellae. Basically, as the glass ages in alternatingly damp and dry soil, the silica in it precipitates out, then re-deposits in incredibly thin layers, which act as photonic crystal “mirrors” and result in the incredible colors.
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Photonic crystals built by time in ancient Roman glass | PNAS
Ancient glass objects typically show distinctive effects of deterioration as a result of environmentally induced physicochemical transformations of...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Hot Take Saturday: I think we are on the cusp of a MASSIVE humanities revival. I’m talking handmade, craftsmanship, maximalism, art collection for everyday folks, rich music, unfettered written masterpieces, deep thought experiments…all in rejection of AI and our corporate overlords.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Ruskin’s study at Brantwood, with antiquities - such a story behind this collection, I can’t wait to tell it.
John Ruskin’s study at Brantwood
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Day 2 of my Lake District expedition and I’m off to Ruskin’s home at Brantwood. By ferry, hopefully not rowing myself…
Boat on Coniston Water
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The Lake District is beautiful in the rain (from a bus).
Blurry bus photo of Coniston Water
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And now it’s raining, but I’m on a bus 🥰
Rain over Coniston
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Arrived at the Ruskin Museum, Coniston, to meet a mystery pot. Looks Roman to me, plausibly Cypriot sigillata?
Roman amphoraRuskin Museum, Coniston
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yep, that’s the Lake District.
Coniston
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Had a coffee, writing on the train, and it’s not raining yet 👍 #amwriting
The view from the train
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Off on an adventure to track down some of John Ruskin’s ancient Cypriot collection in the Lake District, via bus, train, train, bus and ferry. Not quite the sunny summer trip I’d anticipated, but the rain won’t put me off!
Catalogue of The Ruskin Museum, ConistonRainy weather forecast
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Still one of my favourite memes... Get you a woman who can do it all 😉
The 'Dolly' meme from 2020.The 'Dolly' meme staged by ancient Cypriot Base Ring figurines.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Laura Pye: 'Imagine ... if every museum committed to the simple but powerful goal of 100% inventory-level documentation. Imagine the research opportunities, the increased public access and the ability to share collections nationally and internationally' www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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Getting to grips with our collections - Museums Association
Museums must commit to 100% inventory-level documentation ahead of their next NPO applications, says Laura Pye
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Mine.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Fox contemplating a game of swingball in the garden this morning.
Fox and swingball set in garden
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Week 3 of the school holidays, and the conflicting needs to meet academic commitments/show the kids a good time are not getting easier to reconcile.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is a wonderful article, not least in finishing with Louis MacNeice’s poem ‘Snow’, probably the most important touchstone for my own research and writing.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Swifts in the blue sky.
Two swifts silhouetted against the deep blue sky.
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The Open University @openuniversity.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
You did it! 🎓✨ Congratulations to every OU student getting their results this week. Whatever your journey looked like, you should be incredibly proud of how far you've come 💙 #OUfamily
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Swallows in action on the North Norfolk coast.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I love the way the goats are smiling, clearly in on the plot.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The mood has somewhat turned in Leeds city centre.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Ensconced in my own study carrel at Senate House Library. So much writing is going to happen here…
Study carrel with desk and shelvesGoal is to find out what all these switches do.Complex window system with which I shall not be messing.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
*David Attenborough‘s voice* As the sun rises on this early July morning hundreds of medievalists begin their annual migration to Leeds. Scientists have not fully understood this ritual but it seems to be crucial for the survival of the whole species. Intensive days of medievaling will follow.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@rammuseum.bsky.social is fantastic, and this is just one of the reasons why.
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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Repatriation of a Cypriot antiquity from the United Kingdom, 1 July 2026 - Gov.cy www.gov.cy/en/culture/r...
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Κυβερνητική Πύλη - Gov.cy
Βρείτε την πληροφόρηση που ψάχνετε για τις υπηρεσίες και τις ιστοσελίδες του κράτους
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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Six key messages from Exeter UCU. The upshot is that these proposed cuts are unnecessary and damaging. We must stop them. Please amplify these messages if you can!
Exeter Uni’s finances are strong. We’ve large cash reserves (£200m in 24/25). Never had a budget deficit. This ‘crisis’ is manufactured.
Executive pay at Exeter is out of control. If just the 16 highest-paid execs capped their salary at £120k, we’d save more money than all the cuts to Archeology & History!
No meaningful consultation, but a confused mess: faulty and insufficient data, no real discussion, and an impossible, anxiety-inducing and unreasonable timetable to push this through over the summer.
An all-staff meeting of 600 staff resoundingly voted no confidence in Vice Chancellor Lisa Roberts (whose pay and benefits are pushing £400k). We believe this is the biggest single vote by any uni staff in the history of UK HE.
Redundancies are a management choice, not a financial necessity. They even have alternative costed plans with no cuts, but think it’s easier to go for job losses.
Exeter is a fantastic uni, with world-class research, creative and inspiring teaching, and a caring, thoughtful and imaginative community of staff and students. Let’s keep it that way.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A good choice on a hot afternoon… some refreshing Greek tragedy (Medea) at the lovely Leeds City Varieties.
The stage awaiting the tragedy.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Ancient and modern... an ancient Cypriot pig from Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery meets a modern pig created by @pottedhistory.bsky.social @potsofhistory.bsky.social
Pig rattle made by Potted History, and ancient pig rattle from Cyprus in the collection of Portsmouth Museum and Gallery.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
At Warwick University, and what do I see…
Ancient Cypriot oenochoe from the Warwick Classics collection Detail of painted decoration on oenochoe
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
So gorgeous!
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
I ain't got nothing but marking, babe Seven days a week.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
More joyful lunacy from 'To My Ships'. You too can answer the question 'What do you smell of?' with 'Incessant anxiety'.
Fragrance inexplicably labelled 'The Incessant Anxiety'.'Unsubscribe if you must - we'll respect your decision'. Well yes, it's called data protection law.
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
TIL that the poet Arthur Rimbaud spent time in Cyprus as a young man and worked on the construction of the Governor’s summer residence in the Troodos mountains. For more see ‘Cyprus at the Louvre’ - a fantastic free catalogue is available to download for those who, like me, can’t make it in person 😢
Ophélie by RimbaudCyprus at the Louvre web page
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
😍
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Dr Craig Barker @drcraigb.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
‘Ancient Cypriot vase repatriated from Canada’ #archaeologynews cyprus-mail.com/2026/06/09/a...
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Ancient Cypriot vase repatriated from Canada
A Cypriot ceramic vase nearly 4,000 years old was returned to Cyprus from Canada on Tuesday, after it had been listed for sale at an online auction. The Department of Antiquities said the artefact, a ...
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Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This is the best griffin I’ve seen. Forget the monstrous depictions of them as ogres and flesh devouring beasts of nightmares. I much prefer this startled, well meaning individual with his kind and sad face and enormous hat. 🕰️c1250BC 📍 Cyprus 🏛️ BM 📷 mine
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is a really interesting blog post which concludes that in the end, the process relies on human intelligence to make decisions and apply judgement - as with so many aspects of museum records.
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Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
When your 2500 yr old ceramics are still fashionable
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Aw it’s another ‘Curator Kat looking lovingly at an ancient artefact’ post ❤️
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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
I love collectors of Cypriot antiquities who were in the Royal Navy, because you know exactly where they went and when.
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