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Lara Band

@laraband.bsky.social
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I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I think I've changed several times since then // archaeologist, likes scapes: sea, land, film, sound

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New report from @naturalengland.bsky.social: "... the ecological value of heritage sites & their potential for delivering co-benefits in relationship to the ecosystem services arising ... alongside their heritage significance & cultural capital." H/t: @laraband.bsky.social tinyurl.com/42wzdak9
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Co-benefits of heritage sites for natural capital - NECR703
This report examines how marine and coastal heritage assets can be managed to enhance their ability to deliver natural capital benefits while preserving their historic significance. Commissioned by Na...
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Maritime Archaeology! Built Heritage! Trees! All together = perfect! Nice work here from @dendrorodbale.bsky.social
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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology
Sampling timber for tree-ring datingDendrochronology sample Ship’s floor reused as lintel
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Wishing my colleagues from ButCH Sef Penrose, @laraband.bsky.social & @angelapiccini.bsky.social a fabulous Gullfest more than human art and heritage FTW www.plymouthherald.co.uk/whats-on/wha...
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Plymouth to celebrate its 'majestic' seagull population
'Gullfest honours them all'
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
For #LondonRiversWeek I'm sharing a photo of the Channelsea, much culverted but where it emerges is a lovely marshy spot, cared for by #SurgeCollective #BlancSceol and the site, recently, for #LeakyInstruments workshops on how we can live ethically with rivers #RiverCommons
A glimpse through the fine branches of a tree at tidal marshland with a narrow river running through itA sample tube for microbial waters lies on a printed historic map, and a piece of paper with prompts for poems on marsh mud
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck for the 2nd week, and the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social has brought in a new model! This one is a scaled model of The Admiralty Dockyard. Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!
Scale model of The Admiralty Dockyard and the ships it built.
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social · 06/05/2025
This is well worth a go! Have you seen it @lornarichardson.bsky.social ?
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Super 2 days teaching building recording & talking sound w/ @bbkhistorical.bsky.social #ThamesThroughTime BA & MA fieldschool students. We all discovered much more about this GII wall than the List description! Thx so much @lesleymcf.bsky.social @drclaireharris.bsky.social for the invite!
A close up of bricks in a wall. One of the bricks has three holes in it, where someone picked up the brick while it was still wet.A grey plastic soldier tucked in a gap in brick work
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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Thames through Time @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and an archaeology of sound with @laraband.bsky.social and @drclaireharris.bsky.social!
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
@lornemacleod.bsky.social
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
"This database provides the locations of 575 NBS projects distributed across 55 countries." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Launched Friday - World Heritage Day - the latest @citiesandmemory.bsky.social project Sonic Heritage - the sounds of #UNESCO Designated sites : citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
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Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019. We love finding bridges
A photo of a group of women in a fallen log in a forest in early spring. The log is creating a bridge. Three women are standing, one is sitting with one foot up on the log. The ground is covered with brown leaves and mossy branches.
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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Like Section 28 in the UK, the 'promotion' of DEI is defined as any representation of diversity, showing anything other than cis, white, straight, able bodied men. And lazy implementation takes 'don't say gay' to ridiculous new heights
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Yellow #DistanceDrift for spring and (nearly) St David's Day. Fun to be joining in again with @soniaoverall.bsky.social longstanding remote and communal wander, felt just the weather for it!
Four images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - a curve of a yellow line road marking making a rainbow with a triple row of sets and the curb: 529 sprayed in yellow on a green wheelie bin, a square plastic plate in the pavement saying GAS; yellow lichen on a green metal gateFour images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - catkins in the sunlight, yellow plastic blocks for weighting down temporary fencing, a daisy with a yellow center, a bright yellow dandelionFour images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - a yellow.sign saying BE AWARE! Thieves operate in this area; 146 written in chalk on a green lampost; yellow plastic temporary fencing by the side of a road; the shadows of a fence cast on the pavement giving a grey and yellow patternA yellow daffodil not fully open, next to a golden crocus
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Sonia Overall @soniaoverall.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Morning! We haven't had a colour #DistanceDrift for a long while & today's proximity to St David's Day tells me it's once again time to follow yellow. Wherever you wander, indoors or out, be led by yellow objects & flashes. Share finds as you go or at the end - bonus cheers for daffodils!
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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Just discovered that the Scottish Wildlife Trust publish downloadable snorkel trails! #tinyjoys scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do...
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Snorkel Trails
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Well that was a great day, thinking about silence as presence and ways of 'noising', socially engaged practice and the ethics of tech plus the ASR captioning providing a theme fitting accidental aural misguide. Fantastic conversations on and of stage #ListeningTogether #CRiSAP
The cover of the symposium programme which says ual: creative research in sound arts practice - Listening Together- practices for community centred listening, in black and neon orange
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Weather great nice site we've got a sex maniac one side and a Russian spy on the other.
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Waiting for the #CRiSAP Listening Together: Practices for Community Centred Listening symposium to start at UAL: www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/lis... A full house and super excited chatting and laughing going on for what should be a fantastic day with a stellar line up!
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Listening Together: Practices for Community-Centred Listening
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Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Thinking of a PgT qualification? Come chat to me about MSc Heritage at UoS Open Day. Innovative course, leading experts, key theoretical & practical issues (eg identity, community, museums/collections, intangible cultural heritage, nature/culture, & more!) www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-...
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Postgraduate Open Day | Study | University of Stirling
By attending our Postgraduate Open Day, you’ll be able to explore our stunning campus, learn more about our diverse range of Masters courses and PhD opportunities
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Jonathan Last @johnnythin.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Oliver Rackham died 10 years ago today; there’s so much in these books to inform a more ecologically minded archaeology that is relevant to current conversations about landscape and nature…
Photo of two books by Oliver Rackham: ‘The History of the Countryside’ and ‘Woodlands’
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Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre @lrfheritage.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We are looking for 8 Female Harbour Pilots for a new programme: SHE_SEES HER VOICE📸 A participatory photography programme to encourage more women to share their own stories. Get involved👉🔗https://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/rewriting-women-into-maritime-history-enters-a-new-international-phase
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Wave Debb @wavedebb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Out today folks. emerge.bandcamp.com/album/the-st... #wavedebb #attenuationcurcuit
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The Storm Before The Calm, by Wave Debb
16 track album
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Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology (SPMA) @postmedarch.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
If you would like your work to feature in our series this month you can send us details via socialmedia@spma.org.uk or our DMs (50-100 words, 1-10 photos) 2/2 #gbtqhistorymonth
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I am composing my overture, and I am thinking about how the asteroids were formed.
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Hanna Steyne (she/they) @hlsteyne.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I am delighted to share that the SPMA is celebrating #LGBTQHistoryMonth with a series of features on LGBTQ+ post-medieval archaeological research being carried out by our members & trustees.
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Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Something cheery for the weekend! Delighted to see that my guest episode on Bonkers About Beach Huts podcast is now live! I chat with host Natalie about historical research, #seaside history & of course #BeachHuts! #LocalHistory #SeasideHistory #UKCoast omny.fm/shows/bonker...
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Behind the Beach Hut: Insights into Historical Research and the Evolution of Coastal Leisure - Bonkers About Beach Huts
In this episode, Natalie sits down with historian and research consultant Karen Averby, who shares her passion for seaside heritage and beach huts. With a rich background in historical research, Karen...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 06/02/2025
Sámi archaeology for #SamiNationalDay Trees were seen by the Sámi as mediators between people and deities, and were likely engraved with crosses whilst offerings were made. Intensive forestry is destroying culturally modified trees at an alarming rate. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.184
Reindeer herder Peter Sjaggo standing next to a tree marked with crosses and geometric patterns.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 26/01/2025
For more than ten years I’ve kept loose batteries in a metal tin, and yesterday evening I opened it and two of them were red hot, and I thought oh dear, that’s not good, and I looked up whether you should keep batteries in a metal tin, and let’s say I’m glad that I’m not long dead in a house fire.
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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.eurosky.social · 23/01/2025
Well, now it’s out I have thoughts. For now, I just want to ask… 🏺 #archaeology 🧵 1/
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🚦🎧 How do you turn the simple clicking of a pedestrian crossing into an epic full-band composition? Listen to this incredible piece from Matsya, who have transformed a set of traffic lights in Athens, Greece, using the metronomic pulse of the crossing as the rhythmic backbone of their track.
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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s Wednesday, so time for a thread on ‘Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes’ for anybody interested 😊 Today I’ll focus on my analysis of mentions/lack of mentions of sound within #UNESCO World Heritage Lists, and highlighting some of the case studies #heritage #soundscapes
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Cities and Memory @citiesandmemory.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Less than 5️⃣0️⃣ sounds remaining in our Sonic Heritage project! Join the open call for artists and reimagine the sounds from one of the world's most famous sights, as we explore the soundscapes of UNESCO World Heritage sites. Find out more and get involved: citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
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Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Instagram alternatives anyone? This looks interesting, but open to any suggestions: gizmodo.com/bluesky-is-g...
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Bluesky Is Getting Its Own Instagram Alternative Called Flashes
Instagram users not enthused about Mark Zuckerberg's pivot to MAGA have a new refuge.
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Marcy Rockman @liftingrocks.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I was one of the federal climate scientists pushed out under Trump 1. It's important to remember such pressures came not only from above but from career staff within, and scientific integrity measures only work when they are upheld & enforced. www.nytimes.com/2020/06/15/c...
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A War Against Climate Science, Waged by Washington’s Rank and File (Published 2020)
Efforts to block research on climate change don’t just come from the Trump political appointees on top. Lower managers in government are taking their cues, and running with them.
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Wave Debb @wavedebb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
In case you missed last night's show, here it is for your listening pleasure: www.mixcloud.com/New_River_Br... #newriverstudios #newriverbroadcastingcompany #wavedebb #experimentalelectronic #thewavedebbshow
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The Wave Debb Show - 17.01.25
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Mairéad Nic Craith @maireadnc.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
This is anazing theconversation.com/why-has-this...
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Why has this marine research institute made the ocean a member of its board? Expert Q&A
The Scottish Association for Marine Science wants to better consider how its research could affect the ocean.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
There are lots of sheep and cows just outside the hotel window.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally all we need is a UK asylum processing centre in Calais, which the French have offered many times. That would reduce dangerous crossings instantly. And a process for applying online. You know what else would help? <waves generally in the direction of Brexit> rejoining the Dublin protocol.
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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
A big part of my book ‘Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes’ is a reflection on the concept of intangible cultural heritage in the context of the #UNESCO #ICHConvention. Here's a short thread on some of the #ICHConvention listings I analyse on sound beyond music
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Into sound? Into heritage? Wrap your ears around these field recordings and/or get involved by reimagining them! My field recording of Catalonian castells is there, as is a @wavedebb.bsky.social recording from Suomenlinna. Another fab project from #citiesandmemory #sound #heritage #unesco #WHS #ICH
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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...
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Print Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice Press
What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?&nbsp; We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...
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University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
📣 Applications for the 2025-26 Caird Fellowships programme at Royal Museums Greenwich are now open 📣 Information webinar Thursday 9 January, 17.30-18.30 Deadline 29 January 2025 More information about the programme including application guidelines available here: www.rmg.co.uk/collections/...
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Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Just listened to the last #ShortCuts on #BBC #Radio4 featuring, among others the fantastic @swavecollective.bsky.social I'm sad such an aurally engaging programme is going, time to mine their archives for previous adventures in sound www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Short Cuts - Midnight - BBC Sounds
Josie Long presents short documentaries as the clock slips closer to midnight.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I lost the first card in the bog.
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