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Sarah Tarlow

@sarahtarlow1.bsky.social
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Archaeologist, writer, wino, cheese-lover. Author of memoir The Archaeology of Loss (Picador)

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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I love my Island of Strangers. Strangers care for my mother. Strangers taught my children. Strangers cured my cancer. A Stranger shares my bed. Strangers show me a better world. Because of them, our lives are richer and more vivid. What kind of impoverished and tiny spirit wants to keep them out?
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Had the most thrilling encounter yesterday. I spent 40 minutes following this otter up and down the river in Wyndham park, Grantham
Otter swimming in a river
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Druid's Temple, near Masham, Yorkshire, is one of my favourite places. Constructed around 1800, a product of the vogue for all things 'druidic', it is full of its own idiosyncratic symbolism
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Very proud of my PhD student @jrosantos.bsky.social who has published a brilliant paper on the archaeology of loneliness in the Journal of Social Archaeology. All the lonely people: where do they all come from? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It's passed!
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This morning 's rally in support of assisted dying. I got interviewed by the BBC, so should be on the 1 o'clock news. Now just defrosting my feet and waiting for the result of the vote
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just been interviewed. Might be on the BBC 1 o'clock news...
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
On my way to London to demonstrate in favour of the Assisted Dying bill. Hope the pretty sky is a good omen
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Really excellent, considered guide to this issue. I am esp interested in mental health contexts, re: legitimate concerns over Canada situation, but also the striking benefit that simply having access to AD can have for terminally ill people, apparently acting as a form of palliative relief.
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/w... And a feature in today's New York Times
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Britain’s Emotional Debate Over Assisted Dying
As lawmakers prepare to vote on legalizing assisted suicide for the terminally ill in England and Wales, an intense public discussion has unfolded.
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The Guardian published my letter: www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Dying people deserve a choice. Let them make it | Letters
Letters: Readers who believe the assisted dying bill should be passed into law in England and Wales respond to Guardian coverage
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
To protect me from prosecution, my husband, bedridden, in constant discomfort, his senses failing, ended his own life alone and unsupported. it's too late for him, but we can still make it possible for others to have a choice in how they die. I am campaigning for change on Friday.
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I'm being interviewed this morning by the New York Times who are going to run a feature on the Assisted Dying bill. Do I have views? You bet I do! I want to tell them that nobody should have to face their death alone because they don't want a long, painful, wretched tail to their life
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 19/11/2024
NEW Ethical treatment of human remains is a key issue in archaeology. How can we move beyond ideas of Indigenous vs Western, science vs spirituality etc. to ensure all remains are properly cared for? 🆓 buff.ly/40JSTBQ
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Ethical entanglements: human remains, museums and ethics in a European perspective | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Ethical entanglements: human remains, museums and ethics in a European perspective
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Sarah Tarlow @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Hooray! This is the village just now!
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Liv Nilsson Stutz @livnstutz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
An analysis of laws, guidelines, and the practices of handling human remains in collections, leads to the conclusion that what we need is not an "ethics check list, but a shared professional process that recognises the complexity of old human remains. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research
Collections of old human remains in museums are currently under increased scrutiny and pressure. On the one hand they are problematised from a post-colonial and human rights point of view as the ma...
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Mandy Mellor @mandymellor.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Today’s twofer - @sarahwardcrime.bsky.social @sarahtarlow1.bsky.social and two great reads. Buried Secrets: Archeology in Crime Fiction and Memoir. Fascinating conversation and insights. Thanks’ @DerbyBookFestival.bsky.social
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