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Charlotte Walker

@staysleeping.bsky.social
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Historic Environment Record Officer for Northamptonshire. Local government archaeologist and runner. ❤️ art, music, science and kind fools🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Northampton Ghosts of Industry project is looking for more volunteers across Northamptonshire to record painted advertising signs. All the records will be added to the Historic Environment Record
bbc.co.uk
Northampton volunteers record more than 60 shop 'ghost signs'
Recruits are now wanted to record more faded signs across Northamptonshire.
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
'I wish I was pesto pasta'. Carved by my eldest www.instagram.com/greshdesign?...
Mostly eaten red apple with the words 'I wish I was pesto pasta' carved into it
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Enjoying the column last April...
Trajan's column and other old stuff...Close up of Trajan's Column
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Hitting all the middle age clichés, but the swifts have returned and I heard a nightingale for the very first time this morning and that is all I need to make this the best day.
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"We have a handful of years until our carbon budget is exhausted. To waste what little bandwidth we have left – when 750 million people worldwide lack access to electricity – assisting some of the richest men ever to hone their plagiarism bots would be a historic idiocy...."
theguardian.com
Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions
Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Our cherry blossom giving 110% this spring
Masses of pink blossom against blue skyView of pink blossom through an arch
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Mighty indeed!
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Day FOUR of #Glass-tonbury, our experiment @butserancientfarm.co.uk where we try to recreate Roman window glass. 🔥🍷 We have a parallel experiment running where we try to find out how many near-identical pictures of hot things we can post on Bluesky before we get complaints. 😬😳 Let's see.... 🧵👇
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Back to #Glass-tonbury, our project to recreate Roman window glass today. We emptied 4 buckets of hot embers from yesterday's firing (in which we baked a couple of potatoes for an excellent lunch). The furnace still had 200 degrees worth of residual heat when we re-lit it.
A replica roman glace furnace, freshly lit, and with flames leaping from the chimney.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
St. Botolph's Church at Boston in Lincolnshire. The main body of the church dates to the C14th, while the magnificent west tower (the ‘Boston Stump) was largely constructed during the C15th. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #Boston #Lincolnshire
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Mythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Oh the indignity wrought by the Victorians! Cast off, hidden and ignored after the church was rebuilt, the original Romanesque font at All Saints, Braunston, Northamptonshire shows signs of a church of great antiquity now all but lost to the world. #FontsOnFriday
Much damaged circular tub font hidden behind a piano and wedged into a corner between a radiator and two fire extinguishers in a church.
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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Will archaeological data ever be FAIR? 🌐💻 Nicholson et al. explore why so much data remains hard to find and reuse. They advocate for the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) to improve stewardship as open science becomes the standard. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
cambridge.org
Will It Ever Be FAIR? | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge Core
Will It Ever Be FAIR? - Volume 11 Issue 1
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Disregarding the fact that he's cos playing as some of home counties Tory, just caught my husband pouring melted chocolate over a pile of tennis balls....
A pink-trousered man casually pouring chocolate over a pyramid of tennis balls
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"integrate AI into your workflow..." buddy, given half a chance I'd be scratching on vellum with oak gall ink in a nice dark clochán on Skellig Michael. I have no interest in generative AI at all, I wish they would stop trying to crowbar it into *everything*. Sometimes the effort is the point.
One of the drystone clochans on Skellig Michael, it is a dome shaped structure with a doorway facing the photographer
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Dave @astronomydave.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I hope I continue to always be amazed at the images a mere $500 telescope can capture from my backyard in just a few hours of time. Set up my Seestar sometime after 8:30 pm last night. Carefully levelled, aligned, etc. Aimed at M42. Let it capture 1.5 hrs of data. A few editing tweaks & "Voila!"
The Great Orion Nebula (M42 & M43) taken with a Seestar S50 telescope. 90 minutes of data. Processed on a Google Pixel 7 pro.
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Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 03/12/2023
Using this as a start: what are your favorite examples of unconscious/unforced dad-or-mom shade about your musical tastes? Just something said immediately or off the cuff. Spill all your secrets!
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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
#FingerpostFriday
An old-fashioned three-way signpost at Barnwell in Northamptonshire, with a lichen-covered, zebra-like post and writing in stern black capital letters. There are directions to Oundle, Thrapston, Armston, Polebrook, Thurning and Hemington.
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Jeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
#AdoorableThursday Canons Ashby
The double doors to the priory church at Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire. The doors are brown wood with four magnificently flamboyant black metal hinges. There are many stone columns on either side supporting a many-layered gothic stone arch above.
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Did you know that there are over 80 Historic Environment Records (HERs) in England? Most of them are available online. Learn more on www.heritagegateway.org.uk/gateway/chr/... #sharedhistory #historicenvirommentrecords #algao #sharedhistory #culturalheritage
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public
The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Two brand new films highlighting the work of Historic Environment Records will be released next week. We can't wait to share them with you! Have you ever looked really looked at where you live? Here's where you get started lnkd.in/ewYiJCPg #historicengland #historicenvironmentrecord
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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #openaccess✅
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Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 16/03/2026
My latest online offering presents the bloody history behind the word ‘shibboleth’, with the point to make that a story about death brings its people to life. Naturally, it accompanies that point with references to Monty Python, German accents, fossils, and Stalin. dannybate.com/2026/03/16/f...
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Fatal Pronunciation: The Shibboleth Story
The Bible can make for a gruesome read. An effortless observation (which has led to much reasonable criticism) is that, for a collection of texts which many people take as foundational for life, it…
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Most of us walk across layers of history every day without realising it. Not just famous landmarks, but ordinary places. Fields. Streets. What stories do these places hold? Who or what was here before us? The answer is out there, sometimes all it takes is knowing where to look.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is cool. The Government is set to allow plug-in solar, low cost solar panels that families can buy at supermarkets and put on their balconies or outdoor space. "In Germany over a million have been sold, helping households with energy costs and reducing dependence on fossil fuels."
gov.uk
Government to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secure
The Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure.
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Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
In 1290, Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I & mother of his 14 kids, died in Nottinghamshire. The places where her body rested during the journey to its tomb in Westminster were marked by stone crosses. One of these still stands at Geddington, Northants, & I took these pics there this p.m.
A photo of the Eleanor Cross at Geddington.A photo of the altar inside the mediaeval church at Geddington. A photo of a stained glass window inside Geddington church. A photo of a mediaeval arch and wooden screen inside Geddington church.
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My new needy sheep friends
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Saxon doorway from the south side of the tower of All Saints’ Church at Brixworth in Northamptonshire. Using recycled Roman tiles, the doorway was originally an internal door leading to a now demolished cell. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursdsy #Brixworth #Northamptonshire
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I've been going down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding lead 'pigs' for a piece of work I'm doing on silver. Some were marked 'ex arg' ('of the silver mines') which suggests there may have been some de-silvering going on in Britain. A lead thread 🧵 😉 #Archaeology 🏺
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Ammoniting on cold damp English beaches=pure joy
The result of two hours of searching on a North Yorkshire beach- five slightly rubbish ammonites
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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
This is just the tip of the iceberg: bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/t...
bigbookoftorcs.com
‘That belongs in a museum’: The true ‘cost’ of detecting in England and Wales.
By Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] ‘My members don’t want to be quasi-archaeologists, they want to go out on a Sunday, dig around, get dirty, find …
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Spend a little time learning how monumentally broken our heritage protection frameworks are. Thank you @tessmachling.bsky.social for doing the hard work our sector organisations should be leading on. 🏺
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Visit to the early 19th-century Ordnance Depot for coffee and sun (and a little light nerdery) Find out about the site here her.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Monument/MNN...
WW2 Nissen type hut, Ordnance Depot, WeedonRail track uncovered during building work at the Ordnance Depot, Weedon
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
One of my favourite images! If you haven't seen it before The Farthest, a documentary about the Voyager spacecraft, is on BBC on Monday- 👌
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Martin D-E 🔶️FBPE @martinpde.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
36 years ago today, the Pale Blue Dot picture was taken by Voyager 1, from an unprecedented distance of over 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU). The Earth appears as less than a pixel; just a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight refracted by the camera lens.
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
theguardian.com
‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform
She scandalised the art world in the 1990s with her unmade bed, partied hard in the 2000s – then a brush with death turned the artist’s life upside down. Now she’s as frank as ever
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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
🚨 We have heard that the County Archaeologist for Hampshire is being made redundant, with no plans to replace him. 🚨 If you live in Hampshire please write to your MP and Councillors. If you live elsewhere treasure and support your County Archaeologists, and stand by to protect them. 🏺
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
'The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots' by Robert Herdman, 1867 in Kelvingrove At Gallery, Glasgow. She was beheaded #OTD 8 February 1587 at Fotheringhay Castle, Northamptonshire. The execution was reportedly a messy one, several strokes being required to remove her head. 1/3
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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Roman penknife with gladiator handle found at Piddington, 3rd century AD, portraying a secutor, beside a modern reproduction. Oh, for a museum shop that sold the replica… British Museum #FindsFriday
Original Roman penknife with gladiator handle and blade folded and rusted in place, with shiny modern reproduction with knife open.
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"What is most alarming is that a staggering nearly nine in 10 women [affected] are facing mental health struggles but feel the need to hide it." Perhaps because we don't have the energy to fight health professionals for help. Just saying...
theguardian.com
Survey of over-50s women finds almost two in three struggle with mental health
Of those affected by midlife challenges such as menopause, nine in 10 do not seek help, therapists’ organisation says
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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-8... 🏺 Archaeological metadata in studies of aDNA can be a bit of a pain to navigate given there's no set way of doing it and so the details can be wildly variable both within and between papers. This paper sets out a standardised minimum which should be included.
researchsquare.com
Gaps in archaeological metadata reporting: a meta-analysis of human paleogenomic studies in Western Eurasia
Paleogeneomic research has dramatically increased our understanding of past demographic and adaptive processes, but has also been criticized for a perceived disconnect between geneticists and other pa...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Might not be as pretty as a carnyx, but fantastic find nevertheless!
theguardian.com
Archaeologists discover signs of Roman industrial hub at site in Sunderland
Discovery of more than 800 whetstones, used to sharpen weapons, seen as one of the most significant finds in northern England for a century
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Kate Wong @katewong.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
This is such a cool finding--the oldest direct evidence of poisoned arrows. Poisoned hunting weapons were a game-changing innovation for our ancestors. Absolutely incredible that researchers found traces of plant toxins on these tiny arrowheads from 60,000 ago 🤯🏹 🧪
scientificamerican.com
Humans Made Poisoned Arrowheads Thousands of Years Earlier Than Previously Thought
The use of poison on arrows marked a revolution in human hunting technology—new evidence suggests it happened tens of thousands of years earlier than previously known
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Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Best thing about those early winter dog walks? Unsullied snow
Urban street with a light covering of  snow
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Pestilence @pestilence4all.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The more you know. We are all chimeras at a very small level. You likely have cells in your body from your mother and your siblings that were born before you. How this chimerism influences your immune system is beginning to be unraveled. #Science #ScienceSunday
nature.com
Some of your cells are not genetically yours — what can they tell us about life and death?
A tiny population of cells that are passed across the placenta between mother and baby challenge basic tenets of human immunology.
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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
A bronze head of Marcus Aurelius which was found in 1976 when ploughing at Steane, near Brackley in Northamptonshire. The head is now part of the collections at the Ashmolean in Oxford. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday #RomanBritain #Ashmolean
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
It's New Year, so time to look back and forward. These are 10 things I think we need to recognise in 2026. It’s a response to what I think are profoundly damaging mistaken assumptions I’ve heard and read from practitioners, journalists, and analysts in 2025. Warning: very long🧵
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