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Rewriting archaeology, @durham_uni Land/seascapes- old music/books - folk traditions - early med/ post med Britain / Armorica - views own - incorrigibly plural - Pleasant Green; Dept of Works

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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 23h
Upcoming conference from the Society for Church Archaeology. Why not join the society? I'm chair of this society, and we're always looking for new members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...
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Society for Church Archaeology Annual Conference and AGM 2026
Join us as we celebrate the latest developments in church archaeology in the city of Chester
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is such a sorry & infuriating tale. Via @davidpetts1.bsky.social from another place. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How can films designed for audiences in the past be made accessible to viewers today? Our new blogpost reflects on our ongoing project to restore, digitise, and share a collection of 1,800 films depicting historic farming life. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
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Beyond nostalgia
How do we help audiences of today encounter films from the past?
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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.inrap.fr/l-inrap-aux-... France is celebrating this w-e the European Heritage Days. @davidpetts1.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @peterreavill.bsky.social @archeodgarcia.bsky.social @jwhoopes2.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social In the UK, European Heritage Days 2026 are marked by⬇️
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears...
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
As @sundersays.bsky.social just pointed out, these “costumes” are really uniforms, banned under the Public Order Act 1936
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Chris Addison @mrchrisaddison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Tom Pullin @tom-pullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September
Shot from the BBC Play for Today Penda's Fen, in which the boy Stephen in his school uniform sits pensively at the edge of a reed-filled river, gazing into its reflection. A bit behind him, a golden angel watches him.
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Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social
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Sign the Petition
Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 27/06/2026
👍“The British electorate are now overwhelmingly pro-remain. And yet the europhobes still argue the votes of the dead count for more than the views of the young…the combined impact of demographics and changed minds is…an 8.1 million majority for rejoining…” #JoinEU archive.ph/2025.12.09-1...
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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
one of the funny traits of the Heterodox Thinkers is they're mostly exactly the same as they were when I was a teenager
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026
Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2026
President Emmanuel Macron of France on Tuesday is set to elevate Marc Bloch, a pioneering French historian and Jewish World War II resistance fighter who was executed by the Gestapo in 1944, to the Panthéon.
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Soldier, Scholar and Symbol: Marc Bloch Is Elevated to France’s Panthéon
French politicians, including those on the far right, are embracing a Jewish Resistance fighter murdered by the Gestapo in 1944.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
A shot in the dark, but is anyone out there working on early medieval Brittany?
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
For historians who are endlessly organising workshops on the "material turn" - please remember that archaeology is an entire discipline predicated on material culture and we might just have something to contribute #disciplinarymyopia
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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 06/06/2026
started reading this and was like, 'why are the left against this! it sounds great!' and then I continued and was like, ah yes ok, never mind as you were www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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France's 'patriotic' banquets rile hard left
The feasting phenomenon run by Le Canon Français has become a hot political issue.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Les sanglots longs Des violons De l'automne Blessent mon cœur D'une langueur Monotone 6/6/44
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
There's strong competition, but Jenkins is a very strong front-runner for the award "Biggest C*nt at the Grauniad". Obviously, he's VERY posh, so listen up, peasants, Sir Simon is talking and he knows more about everything than you.
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Oxford Archaeology @oxfordarchaeology.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
New rare discoveries at Kirkby Thore are transforming our understanding of early medieval Cumbria Read Our Latest Blog: 👉🔗 tr.ee/EyFFnP These discoveries represent some of the first evidence of post-Roman life — the so called 'Dark-Ages' in Cumbrian history.
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Stripping back Early Medieval Cumbria
OCA archaeologists are once again stripping back the landscape. Building on discoveries first made in Autumn 2025, the latest work aims to expand our understanding of a site that has already begun to…
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I've been really impressed by the team dismantling the organ at our local church - they've really pulled out all the stops.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Can someone explain to Trump how caps-lock works?!
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I thought a blockade meant that you *stopped* ships going through the Straits. They should set up a web-cam so people can watch Trump be humiliated in real time
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Does anyone really think that Trump has a scooby who Neville Chamberlain was?
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Just sent my paper on early medieval sculpture in Brittany off to the editors. Curious - is anyone else working on early medieval archaeology in Brittany - particularly ecclesiastical stuff?
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Working with my colleague Alexander Jansen to record the eroding gravestones at the abandoned Jewish cemetery at Ayres Quay, Sunderland
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The opinion I have held since I first heard anything about Bob Dylan, which is that Bob Dylan is a wanker, remains unchallenged
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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We have a PhD studentship available in History or Archaeology at CCCU www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f... - deadline 22 May. #skystorians 1/
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CCCU History and Archaeology PhD Scholarship
Find out about the CCCU History and Archaeology PhD Scholarship which will support a student looking to explore a modern historical topic.
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Great to see @davidpetts1.bsky.social will be giving the next Deerhurst Lecture.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/03/2026
OTD in 2020, the UK's first COVID-19 lockdown began. In this article from the archives, Jesse Olszynko-Gryn and caitjan.bsky.social explore how familiar debates about the use of face masks shaped responses to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918.
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Mask Ambivalence in the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
To mask, or not to mask, that is the question. Jesse Olszynko-Gryn and Caitjan Gainty explore the instructive history of an embattled technology.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Has anyone done any research on ADHD and the ability to engage/read Ebooks?
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Michael Marshall @michael-marshall.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I know enough lawyers to understand that this ruling is lawyer-speak for “you absolute bunch of fucking clowns”
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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...
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Job losses at research-intensive universities double in two years - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Scale of redundancies revealed branded a “disaster” for UK research capacity
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ChesterArchSoc @chesterarchsoc.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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@DurhamIAS.bsky.social @durhamias.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Come along to our next IAS lecture on 5 Feb, 6pm in the Saltwell Building. Ben Raffield (Uppsala) rethinks Viking Age warfare, revealing complex warrior identities and a more human, realistic picture of conflict in the early medieval North @arcdurham.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 31/01/2026
I am really disappointed that the new version of EThOS at the British Library (the service for getting PhD theses) will be metadata-only. I really think we should use such resources, even if they are not books. They are still contributions to knowledge. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...
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‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged
Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Mongooses or Mongeese?
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David Evans-Powell @davidep82.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
@paulcornell.bsky.social @nicholaspegg.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social @williampurkis.bsky.social @quiteamess.bsky.social Hi all! I know there's a LOT of Doctor Who podcasts out there, but what's one more eh? 😉 Please do listen, like, follow and share if you fancy 🙂
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Here comes the video analysis: - Pretti was shot 10 times after they took his gun - He never "brandished" the gun, assaulted an agent - They repeatedly pepper sprayed him at point blank range and beat him when he was down - He was attempting to help a woman who an agent threw to the ground (battery)
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
UK users of Ancestry - how easy is to search census data by settlement/street rather than individual? Seems all set up for family history- but I need the data for a place study. Don't want to pay for access if I can't get the info I need
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Talking about map projections with the students today - what's the betting that Trump is looking at Greenland on the Mercator projection....
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I find myself in Reading tonight... anywhere good [and cheapish] to eat? Been years since I was here....
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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Northern Picts: the citadel project, rescue and research-led investigations at a Viking age power centre | Thu 21 May, Cardiff www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
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The Northern Picts: the citadel project, rescue and research-led investigations at a Viking age power centre
This lecture explores major advances in Pictish archaeology arising from the University of Aberdeen’s Northern Picts project, shedding new light on a people long obscured by limited historical and arc...
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Sheffield merely the latest university to claim that legally withdrawing your labour should actually be postponing your labour, and punishing people further. Here’s how strikes work: 1. You legally stop working for a period of time. You don’t get paid. 2. Win or lose you go back to work.
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David Petts @davidpetts1.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Whittlesey Straw Bear :-)
Whittlesey Straw Bear and Little BeaeWhittlesey Straw Bear and Little Bear 🐻 Whittlesey Straw Bear and Thrales RapperWhittlesey Straw Bear and his keeper
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SanMarcos 🍒🚤⚓ Meme thief @sanmarcos.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
⚡️In Iran, protesters have already taken control of the city Abdana The police laid down their weapons and sided with them. Protesters are setting fire to cars, and there are fierce clashes in other cities. ZSU Insider Tg
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Morangles @morangles.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
@archeodgarcia.bsky.social @davidpetts1.bsky.social @peterreavill.bsky.social
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
He ys ridinge a horse He ys emerald and svelte He will get reallye weirde If you lie about beltes The Greene Knighte Ys Cominge To Toun
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