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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Wonderful news for Wilderlands, which has been longlisted for this year's @wainwrightprize.bsky.social for Conservation Writing. Congratulations to @eloi.se! 🌿 #WainwrightPrize #StoriesThatConnect

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

If you're thinking about coming to @chalkefestival.bsky.social, book now, tix £ increase tomorrow! Masses of fantastic talks inc me chatting to @emmasouthon.bsky.social; @prehistorian.bsky.social & Mel Giles; @eloi.se, plus experimental #archaeology, living history & music! www.chalkefestival.com

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 15/04/2026

So here is a thing, I'm going on a tour to witter about my book to real people! The first few are nice and local, before I get to go hang out with @catjarman.bsky.social at Althorp Lit Fest. Come and say hi!

A poster for the book 'Widerlands'. It is a dark grey graphic of an irregularly coursed stone wall, with a green engraving of a stag peering around it. The text says: Wilderlands, on tour with Eloise Kane. There is a picture of me in the bottom right hand corner, I have brown curly hair. Anyway the dates for the tour are listed on the poster: 22 April Corsham Bookshop, Wiltshire; 24 April Folde Bookshop, Dorset; 28 April Waterstones, Bath; 5 May Heron Books, Bristol; 8 May Althorp Literary Festival; 14 May Hatchards, Cheltenham; 16 May Restoring Nature Literary Festival; 28 May Wild Fungarium, Edinburgh; 29 May The Book Nook, Stirling; 25 June Chalke History Festival; 9 September Script Haven, Worcester; + more dates to be announced.

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

'Beautiful, deep and grounded... With this wonderful evocation of the changing landscape through time, archaeologist Eloise Kane reveals how humans need not be set against nature, and suggests how we may re-weave ourselves into it.' Alice Roberts on Wilderlands by @eloi.se, out 23 April 🦌

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 08/04/2026

This is coming out quite soon! I loved writing it. I still mean to do some posts talking about it and how it came about. I will!

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 16/03/2026

So I'm off out for the eve, to an event with booksellers and publishers and authors, and as far as I can work out it's a free bar, free pizza, and loads of people who just want to stand around talking about books. And this is my job now? Winning! 📚 #booksky

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 13/03/2026

I recorded the audio version of my book recently. It was fun! Great way to just engage with the book before publication. Except for the peppering of errors we found that are too late to correct, including one where I'd creatively renamed Fatsia japonica to something entirely random. Oops 😬 #booksky

An iPad sits on a lectern in a sound-proof room, a microphone and mic shield hangs above it. In the background is the glass panel looking through to where the producer would sit. The iPad has the title page for chapter six on it. It simply says '6 Protection (1800-Present)'.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 11/02/2026

Off to London today to see if I'm allowed to read the audio version of my book 📖 Will I speak waaaay too fast? Do I *actually* know how to pronounce all the words I've written? The answer to one of those is yes, the other is no. #booksky

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 15/01/2026

I saw an actual copy of my book in book form yesterday. I wasn't allowed to keep it though, it went to a lovely bookshop owner as a preview! Deep in the very last tiny edits now, hoping I've caught everything 🫣

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

These are apparently facial reconstructions of a 2,300-year-old Pazyryk Scythian male and female from the same kurgan in Berel, Kazakhstan and not - as I first thought - that couple I met at a Spiral Tribe soundsystem in 1992 who sold me E that turned out to be paracetamol.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 09/12/2025

Some news! 🥳 This book has been in the works for a long time, and to see its birthday now approaching is so exciting. So grateful to the team at Faber for making this dream a reality 🌳🦌🐇 When I've got more time I have so much to say, but for now it can be preordered here! linktr.ee/wilderlandsb...

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 04/12/2025

Is there a phase of life called 'candles'? I think I'm in it.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 27/11/2025

Surely this is my birthday and Christmas present in one @mk.gg

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 17/10/2025

Going through proofreader's queries and I can almost feel their relief when they have managed to read a whole page without finding anything wrong.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 01/09/2025

For anyone looking to live out their best witchy life in a little cottage with lots of garden for fantastical herbs and strange looking poultry: www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

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Check out this 2 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

2 bedroom detached house for sale in Horton, Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10 for £375,000. Marketed by Jones Robinson, Devizes

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 15/08/2025

Slovenia might actually be the most beautiful place I've ever visited.

A crystal clear, wide but shallow river with a light blue hue curves from the foreground to the right and into a valley. The sides of the valley are mostly coniferous, a dark green, with some lighter green trees. The shore of the river is covered in white rock. In the background, a craggy mountain rises, grey and bare of trees along the top.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 15/07/2025

Peak folk horror season is loading 👏

Close up shot of pale ears of wheat in a field soon to be harvested. All creams and beige, some stooping over.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 15/07/2025

Nailing the book proposal is much harder than writing the actual book 🫠 By the time the whole thing has a proper shape it sort of writes itself (but this time next year I'll definitely whinge about having to finish another whole book, if anyone wants to publish this one 👀)

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 14/07/2025

The independent researcher joy continues. How can I get access to bits of AM Digital without doing another PhD?

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 05/07/2025

It rained today, lit the spooky season candles to celebrate 🙌

An orange pumpkin-shaped candle on a wooden table, two other lit candles in the background

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 05/07/2025

Must have been a good year for crop marks, right? Or was the dry too late?

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 06/06/2025

Once again, may I suggest to my future self and anyone else who would benefit from this sage advice: Don't leave adding in your references to the very end 🫠

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 25/05/2025

JADE for empress of everything.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 05/01/2025

Cocktails and one of the girls' Christmas presents, like DnD-lite!

A table of candles and printed maps, an open book with quest info on it. A man in the background is looking through a big book. An orange cocktail in a small glass sits in the foreground.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 28/12/2024

I know teens spending hours in the bathroom is a thing but also HOW?!

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 20/12/2024

My home for the weekend is a late medieval manor with detached kitchen, set around a courtyard with a little-altered pentice 🥰 Happy birthday/Christmas to meeeeeee! I've told my 10yo it's not haunted but it definitely is 😬👻

A very dark scene with an old house with windows glowing orange in the night, with a stone porch.

A medieval dining room with long oak table and benches, looking down the table towards an unlit stone fireplace with wood floor joists above and a flagstone floor.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 05/12/2024

Why am I seeing so many people have finished their Christmas shopping? What is going on there?

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 28/11/2024

My sister has hundreds and still watches them all. My parents have to be creative in sourcing new ones for her at Christmas nowadays 📼

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 26/11/2024

It was a perfect day to view things through the ears of a big cob.

The photo is taken from on top of a horse. The camera looks down the horse's neck with very long white mane to between two black ears. Beyond is a grass and mud country track with hedges either side and bare twisty oak branches sticking out. It is sunny and the sky is a bright but pale blue.

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Bob Muckle @bobmuckle.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Foundation of an oforu (Japanese bathhouse) from early 20th c Japanese settlement in Canada. Very cool site. No historical documents mention it. Very little arch visibility on surface. Excavations revealed evidence of about a 14 small houses, a garden, and a shrine. Sudden abandonment.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 21/11/2024

I'm giving the annual Clarendon lecture tonight and then I'm not really working at all between now and Christmas which is an absolute win after this year. Other than a chat with my agent about another book.. but that's not really work.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 19/11/2024

Spoilers! A series of small walls.

A black and white plan of the footprint of medieval buildings at Clarendon Palace. There are two courtyards evident as black spaces and a range of buildings. Superimposed are the outlines of two archaeological trenches and just visible are the outlines, in red, of some buried features that were uncovered. Some of these line up with the plan, indicating buildings that were previously unknown.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 19/11/2024

Is Wiltshire the only place without snow? 😢

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 18/11/2024

Tracing loads of things on a PowerPoint slide and animating them with nice colours will make it look like I know what I'm talking about, right?

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Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

ANOTHER ridiculously cool PhD opportunity in Oslo. A call for projects on glacial archaeology - the stuff the Secrets of the Ice team work with. Applicants need a masters in archaeology, to be fluent in English, and literate in a Scandinavian language. Go for it! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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PhD Research Fellow in Glacial Archaeology (268820) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Glacial Archaeology (268820), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, January 5, 2025

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 17/11/2024

No trip to Bath is complete without visiting the Temple of Books that is Toppings 😍

Two children and a woman from behind approaching a 19th century building with columns that looks like a classical temple. There are blue rimmed black signs advertising events attached to black metal railings and a blue door is open.

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 16/11/2024

A real and very special place!

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 16/11/2024

There are so many massive birds of prey lining the fields filled with long barrows and battle dead that this long walk over the hills does feel a bit like I'm in the beginning of a horror film. ☠️

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 15/11/2024

I am doing what I'm supposed to be doing; here is some 900-year-old charred hazelnut shell from Clarendon Palace that we had dated to the 11th or early 12th century, probably pre-dating the bulk of palace buildings 🏰

The corner and two sides of a square black plastic scale with notches indicating millimetres and centimetres, on a white background. On the inner edge is a fragment of charred hazelnut shell, measuring around 6mm by 5mm,

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 15/11/2024

Please someone give me the strength to work on what I urgently should be working on instead of the thing that is more fun but can be done any time 🙏

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 13/11/2024

It's nice to open an app like this without the accompanying creeping dread, isn't it?

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 12/11/2024

I didn't have sipping wine from a box at the Royal Albert Hall on my 2024 bingo card but thanks to lovely friends that has been this evening. What a venue!

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 12/11/2024

A vague aside to something I'm researching is that this guy wrote a short story in which the only vowel was the letter E. Why? Who knows. It's a headache to look at but I admire he commitment! www.futilitycloset.com/2011/08/03/e...

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"Eve's Legend" - Futility Closet

Henry Vassall-Fox, Lord Holland, contrived this jeu d’esprit in 1824 “on reading five Spanish Novels, each omitting throughout one vowel in the alphabet, and a sixth containing one vowel only”: Men we...

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 12/11/2024

The best thing about having an academic affiliation back is without a doubt regaining access to my beloved Digimap 🗺️🥰

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 11/11/2024

Moving here like everyone else! I've been largely off for a year while writing a book, but I'm still not allowed to talk about it so pretend you don't know. Otherwise, I research/write about wild things, landscapes, and people. And I may or may not contribute things to a podcast in secret🤫

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 05/09/2024

The transition into autumn 🍁 Kids back at school, project to finish!

An open MacBook on a wooden table with a cream and speckled pumpkin-shaped mug and an orange lot candle behind it. Glass doors in the background look onto a very wet garden!

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 18/03/2024

I'm the least prepared for a two week trip abroad than I've ever been, and we leave for Japan in like 11 days 😭

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 25/02/2024

Can any prehistorians point me to any papers discussing perceptions of Neolithic cultivation and those who cultivated - was it considered specialist knowledge, or just part of the every day? 🌾

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 01/02/2024

I'm actually going to start using my face on things soon, as I had some professional headshots taken today. I assumed it would be torment, but I'm still alive!

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Eloise Kane @eloi.se · 30/10/2023

One of my greatest pleasures is coming back to something I've written and /not/ thinking it's shit. What a feeling!

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