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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 · 12/12/2025
Thank you! It was a great day, and...we'll...an amazing course to graduate from!
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Congratulations!
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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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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Very nice! I know @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social also likes a bit definitively identified reused ship's timber in building!
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
ah I missed this, looks.good!
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Yes but mmm only ?2 days ago, and it shot straight to the top of my reading list!
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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
That's so cool! What a fab piece of work
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Looks fab!
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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 · 02/05/2025
Great to have been part of it! Loved how on the hoof conversations with the students around the GII Listed Royal Dockyard wall created and filled and created gaps in its history, love how you always end up with more questions than you started with Standing Buildings Recording!
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Their loss - and another good reason to buy nice biscuits! Thats a good idea- except it scuppers my plan to turn up without having booked!
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Def not you! I had a 100% no show once, unusual, though up to ~60% wasn't - that was pre-COVID. I think everyone who drops out thinks they're the only one. Plus side, it's made me realise if a free or v. cheap ticketed event is sold out it's worth turning up to get on!
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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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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
You're welcome, I loved your thread and am skipping over to order your book Sonic Pasts rn as I've just seen that @routledgehistory.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social have 20% off over April!
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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
For a dive into really interesting research on the treatment of sound within #UNESCO World Heritage Lists, see the work of @marianajlopez.bsky.social - in this super thread bsky.app/profile/mari...
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
On the #CitiesAndMemory map you can find my field recording of castells building (ICH) recorded in Tarragona on Catalunya's national day 2022 and my remix of Madeira's Levada do Rey, reflecting their part in Madeira's sugar industry and its blue print for plantation enslavement.
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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 · 05/03/2025
Love it!
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Super! See ypu next month!
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Lovely to be back! Is #Distance drift every Sunday still?
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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Caught it just as I was wandering home from waving my sister off on the tube, super timing :)
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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
#listeningtogether
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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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