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Steffan Ellis

@gwentydd.bsky.social
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Man of Gwent. Museum learning facilitator. Gwentydd. Dehonglydd addysgu amgueddfa. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇪🇺

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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 29/05/2025
Eisteddfod yr Urdd Casnewydd 2027: “Grêt ein gweld ni’n cael ein cydnabod” Fel yr unig ysgol uwchradd cyfrwng Cymraeg yn y sir, mae’n “fraint” i Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed hyrwyddo’r ŵyl dros y ddwy flynedd nesaf, medden nhw ✍️ Efa Ceiri
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Eisteddfod yr Urdd Casnewydd 2027: “Grêt ein gweld ni’n cael ein cydnabod”
Fel yr unig ysgol uwchradd cyfrwng Cymraeg yn y sir, mae’n “fraint” i Ysgol Gyfun Gwent Is Coed hyrwyddo’r ŵyl dros y ddwy flynedd nesaf, medden nhw
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Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
“A Dark Saint David’s Day" In the early hours of 01 March 1927, an underground gas explosion at Marine Colliery, Cwm, killed 52 men. Rescue teams from Abertillery, Abercarn, Crumlin, Six Bells and more came to assist. The cause of the explosion was never found. Ref: D6108
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
A 2,000 year-old Roman blue glass drinking cup found in Trier, Germany. Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a Roman Rippenschale (ribbed) blue glass drinking cup with a rounded body and slightly flaring rim. There is some breakage to the rim. The ribs run vertically around the body of the cup, with horizontal bands of white trail decoration around the cup. At the rear of the museum display case, part of a larger ribbed dark blue glass bowl can be seen.
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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
So excited to get this online! Merch for my upcoming Valleys show in Clwb Ffoto, Newport (launch event March the 6th)- definitely as a print, and hopefully as a tea towel! All the colours are picked from my own actual photos, and as such are part of the fabric of the Valleys!
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
More footage- Student led peaceful protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania. The police chief showed up in plain clothing and assaulted two students.
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Barlands Farm boat which dates from the 3rdC AD belongs to a "Romano-Celtic' tradition. With its mast step confirming propulsion by sail, this relatively sophisticated vessel may owe more to late #IronAge traditions. #Archaeology #RomanBritain #FindsFriday #History #Sailing
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
FFS #ancientbluesky #archaeology
countytimes.co.uk
Police investigate damage at castle from unauthorised metal detecting
Police investigate 59 holes at Aberystwyth Castle in suspected illegal metal detecting, a potential heritage crime.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Many congratulations to Dr Alex Langlands & team from Swansea for this stunning new discovery from Margam Park in south Wales 😮🥳. The coastal belt in south Wales is very heavily ploughed, but it sounds like this villa complex has been preserved below old parkland 👌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'
The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.
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Kris Hughes @krishughes.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
For any friends who don't know, Simon Rodway is a leading scholar in this field.
theconversation.com
How Celtic languages spread across Britain and Ireland: why we need to reconsider the early story
New insights from archaeology, genetics and early inscriptions are helping to uncover the story of Celtic languages in Britain and Ireland.
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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Farage's protégés, colleagues & close friends. Not sure shouting "Bernard Manning" like a closing time drunk will help much here.
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I'm assuming this incredible book is on everybody's shelves (or devices) - & if not it's on your Christmas list🎄🧐 Brilliantly written & includes the best description of the frenetic & brutal attack on Ynys Môn/ Anglesey by the Romans in AD60 ⚔️👌
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Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Yesterday, a chance for me to take an image I've had in mind for months- Matthew and Michael in homage to Richard and Dic Bach An incredible end to an incredible tour. Back to where it all started in Pontrhydyfen, Burton's birthplace- incredible stuff from Matthew Rhys as Burton
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’ Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
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Kate Sheehan-Finn @katesfwriter.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Butrint, a UNESCO #WHS, is slowly sinking due to the natural geography of its site in Southern #Albania. This niche is part of a Temple complex dedicated to Roman god of medicine, Aesclepius. Modern walkways keep visitors’ feet dry. #RomanSiteSaturday #Archaeology #AncientBlueSky 📸 my own.
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Celebrations at Caerleon, marking the 175th anniversary of the opening of the National Roman Legion Museum. Over 800 visitors came to activities at the amphitheatre, the church, the neighbouring school and the museum itself. #RomanCaerleon #amgueddfacymru #Caerleon #ancientbluesky #museum
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
There was a racist pogrom in Ulster literally weeks ago. An actual violent pogrom. People fled their homes in terror. www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...
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Scotch Whisky Truths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @specialscot.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Labour are now MORE Tory, than the Conservatives are!
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The Time Team visit to Isca (Caerleon, Newport) is now up on YouTube. #Isca #caerleon #caerllion #TimeTeam #cardiffuniversity #romancaerleon youtu.be/pAaV0x9WOv8?...
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Rome’s Wild West (Full Episode!) | S19 EP9 | Time Team (Caerleon, South Wales)
YouTube video by Time Team Classics
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Simply this.
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
There is some very good advice here from HE. If you are interested in this area, especially in developing awareness and training in #HeritageCrime it is worth having a word with Mark Harrison, HE's subject lead, who has really driven this area of their work.
historicengland.org.uk
Local Authorities: Dealing with Heritage Crime | Historic England
This page provides information for organisations, particularly local authorities, who deal with heritage crime and the consequences of crime.
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Simon Bralee @simonbralee.com · 03/05/2025
In Belfast, so went to see the statue of Big Jim Larkin, leader of the Dublin lock-out. His great rousing lines are more pertinent than ever: “The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise."
A statue of a man, whose arms are raised in exhortation and mouth is open as in speech. The statue is placed before a mural showing various union banners.
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tiberius Flavius Postumius Varus is thanked for restoring the Temple of Diana at Caerleon. A pity nobody thought to mention where the temple might be. #epigraphytuesday #caerleon #Isca #nationalromanlegionmuseum #amgueddfacymru
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Venus with mirror. From the floor of Palazzo Gioia in Rimini,restored and conserved by students at Bologna University. Now displayed in the Rimini Museum. #mosaicmonday
Venere
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
A few years ago I had the good fortunate to l handle this Caerwent find, usually displayed at Newport Museum, when it returned 'home' on a day trip for a S4C TV programme. Celtic? British? Romano-British? #stoneheadsunday
Caerwent head
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Much of the remains of the forum basilica of Roman Bologna, built in the first century BCE, lie beneath the floor of the Sala Borsa library at Piazza Nettuno. #romansitesaturday #Bologna
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
This is utterly horrifying
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Musk is enabling election interference against political parties he dislikes. He will keep doing it until governments stop him.
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
25 April in Bologna. 80th anniversary of liberation from fascism. #Liberazione80 #bellaciao #viadelpratello #Bologna
Bella Ciao Via del Pratello Bologna
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/04/2025
Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.
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The Last Hospitals in Gaza
In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Pope Francis dedicated his life to the marginalised, displaced and dispossessed. A rare voice for humanity, he spent his final days on this earth calling for peace. Let his enduring legacy — of empathy, courage and kindness — inspire us to build a more humane world for all.
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Part of a mosaic floor discovered in Bologna 1831. Context unknown it has been dated to the late 2nd century and depicts Triton. Now displayed at Museo Civico Archeologico Bologna . 📷 lamiafoto #mosaicmonday #Bologna
Bologna mosaic
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 20/04/2025
Welsh language theatre company Cwmni Theatr Maldwyn is bringing its acclaimed musical Pum Diwrnod o Ryddid (‘Five Days of Freedom’) about a Chartist uprising to Newport this spring, as part of a short national tour
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Welsh language musical launches national spring tour
Welsh language theatre company Cwmni Theatr Maldwyn is bringing its acclaimed musical Pum Diwrnod o Ryddid (‘Five Days of Freedom’) about a Chartist uprising to Newport this spring as part of a short…
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
#StoneHeadSunday, anyone? This the Bryn y Môr head on display at the wonderful Oriel Môn, Anglesey. Found on the farm of the same name near Valley in the 1950s. As with many heads, it is difficult to date, & suggestions range from prehistoric to medieval. Coarse sandstone 32kg. #StandingStoneSunday
Human head carved from sandstone.
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Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
#OTD 1791 • Rev Dr Richard Price died aged 68. He was an influential Welsh moral philosopher and theologian, well-known for his influence on both the French and American Revolutions 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 hellohistoria.substack.com/p/a-friend-o... #Wales #History
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Prof Naomi Fulop @profnaomifulop.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My mum died of covid in January 2021 because her wonderful carers had inadequate PPE. The VIP lane led to £3.8bn being spent on unusable PPE and 1000's of deaths. Thank you @russellscott1.bsky.social for exposing. Suppliers and buyers need to be brought to justice. @cbffjuk.bsky.social
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
A late second century statuette of Asclepius, heavily restored in the eighteenth century on display at Ferrara's Palazzo Schifanoia. #museoschifanoia #asclepio
Asclepio. Museo Schifanoia
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
A never-spoken-a-truer-word article. Idiotic raid of a Quaker Meeting House by the @metpolice.bsky.social And now nonviolent @youthdemand.bsky.social is famous and will be followed by many more, exactly what the police probably don't want. And yes, Labour must repeal the repressive Tory legislation
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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
He literally tweeted: This is a great time to BUY! Just hours ago. And then he paused tariffs. He’s literally committing crimes in front of the entire world. 😳
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 09/04/2025
A mammoth auction of Welsh art is to go under the hammer in Cardiff this Sunday featuring original works from some of Wales' most celebrated artists including Kyffin Williams, Ernest Zobole, Claudia Williams and Gwilym Prichard
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
'About 40% of the teachers who responded also said they felt ill-equipped to handle such conduct.' Also a rising, largely unacknowledged problem in UK universities with especially obvious impacts for female students & staff, of much more immediate concern than often concocted threats to free speech.
bbc.co.uk
A third of teachers reported pupil misogyny last week - survey
Teachers also told a survey commissioned by BBC News they feel ill-equipped to tackle the issue.
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Cambrian Archaeological Association @cambriansarch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
📢 Announcing #Cambrians Walks and Talks 2025! We have an amazing lineup of walks (free, led by experts) including Dinefwr (10 May), upland Blaenau Gwent (15 June), Llangollen Denbighshire (29 June), Hillfort at Moel Fenlli (9 Aug), and historic Bangor (16 Aug)! 😀 Info and booking: bit.ly/4ckpOAy
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
March's addiitions to the Ellis library.
Books latest acquisitions
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Beneath Pret a Manger in Chester, where Deva's principia once stood. #romanfortthursday #deva
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 25/03/2025
'What a liar. What an almighty, irredeemable, hideous liar.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts as Donald Trump claims ignorance over the White House leaking war plans.
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Mosaic of the first quarter of the twenty-first Century, Villa Ventorum, Somerset. #mosaicmonday #villaventorum #thenewtinsomerset 📷myphoto
Modern mosaic
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A feature from a mid second century mosaic now in Rimini Museum. #mosaicmonday #rimini 📷 My photo
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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
#C19th #Chartism Mary Ann Walker in her own words. I’ve updated the biog and transcribed the speeches and talks given by Chartist lecturer Mary Ann Walker. www.chartistancestors.co.uk/mary-ann-wal...
Front page of PDF document titled Mary Ann Walker in her own words.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Putin & Netanyahu are not politely waiting for Europe to step up to the plate vacated by Trump’s USA. Those who thought they were already acting with impunity are enduring a rude awakening.
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Steffan Ellis @gwentydd.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Beware the Ides of March.
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