Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Didn't know about this! Great resource and loving the interactive map 👏 110
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The 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 Recordbbc.co.ukNorthampton volunteers record more than 60 shop 'ghost signs'Recruits are now wanted to record more faded signs across Northamptonshire. 031
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 02/06/2026'I wish I was pesto pasta'. Carved by my eldest www.instagram.com/greshdesign?... 030
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 09/05/2026static.klipy.comHomer Simpson's Classic D'oh MomentALT: Homer Simpson's Classic D'oh Moment 020
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Well that's rubbish🥺 hope 'The Man' has a change of heart 010
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Hitting 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. 010
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.comOfficials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissionsRevised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency 000
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Pretend the dog needs walking in different parts of my town for *her* mental health, but actually it's an excuse to find different bird songs on the merlin app 000
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Our cherry blossom giving 110% this spring 010
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerFishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Day 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.... 🧵👇 314021
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerFishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Back 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. 416826
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 28/03/2026St. 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 2499
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerMythical Britain @mythicalbritain.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Oh 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 515418
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerAdvances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Will 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.orgWill It Ever Be FAIR? | Advances in Archaeological Practice | Cambridge CoreWill It Ever Be FAIR? - Volume 11 Issue 1 042
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Disregarding 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.... 181
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerNeil 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. 939885
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerDave @astronomydave.bsky.social · 22/03/2026I 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!" 431343118
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerNed Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 03/12/2023Using 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! 43235833
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerJeremy Benson @jembenson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026#AdoorableThursday Canons Ashby 0745
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Did 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 0102
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/03/2026This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukWorld's longest coastal path opens in England to the publicThe King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time. 922236536
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Two 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 062
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerRachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 26/09/2025New 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✅cambridge.orgDocumenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge CoreDocumenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology 2025495
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerDr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 16/03/2026My 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...dannybate.comFatal Pronunciation: The Shibboleth StoryThe 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… 55315
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Learn more at her.northamptonshire.gov.ukher.northamptonshire.gov.ukHomeNorthamptonshire’s Historic Environment Record 010
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Most 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. 12810
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 15/03/2026This 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.ukGovernment to go “further and faster” in becoming energy secureThe Energy Secretary outlines measures to protect consumers and make Britain energy secure. 10752283
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerAdrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social · 12/03/2026In 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. 1337241
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Almost forgotten what hope felt like! Congratulations 💚💚💚💚 000
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerKevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The 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 0665
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 25/02/2026I'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 🏺 99732
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Ammoniting on cold damp English beaches=pure joy 051
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerDr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 15/02/2026This 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 … 0153
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerDr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Spend 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. 🏺 1218
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Visit 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... 011
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 14/02/2026One of my favourite images! If you haven't seen it before The Farthest, a documentary about the Voyager spacecraft, is on BBC on Monday- 👌 020
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerMartin D-E 🔶️FBPE @martinpde.bsky.social · 14/02/202636 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. 615033
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social · 14/02/2026theguardian.com‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and ReformShe 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 000
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerDr 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. 🏺 613876
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerSimon 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 1275
Reposted by Charlotte WalkerDuncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Roman 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 511317