Upcoming conference from the Society for Church Archaeology. Why not join the society? I'm chair of this society, and we're always looking for new members. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/society-fo...

Society for Church Archaeology Annual Conference and AGM 2026

Join us as we celebrate the latest developments in church archaeology in the city of Chester

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This is such a sorry & infuriating tale. Via @davidpetts1.bsky.social from another place. www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

How can films designed for audiences in the past be made accessible to viewers today? Our new blogpost reflects on our ongoing project to restore, digitise, and share a collection of 1,800 films depicting historic farming life. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Beyond nostalgia

How do we help audiences of today encounter films from the past?

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www.inrap.fr/l-inrap-aux-... France is celebrating this w-e the European Heritage Days. @davidpetts1.bsky.social @prehistorian.bsky.social @peterreavill.bsky.social @archeodgarcia.bsky.social @jwhoopes2.bsky.social @flintdibble.bsky.social In the UK, European Heritage Days 2026 are marked by⬇️

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears...

As @sundersays.bsky.social just pointed out, these “costumes” are really uniforms, banned under the Public Order Act 1936

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Black-clad Dover protesters condemned for ‘dressing up in costumes’ by minister

Somewhere in England, a tired man turns off Channel 4 news and wearily puts on a bin.

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.

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Cherish the flame that is Penda's Fen, repeated on BBC Four on Wednesday 9 September

Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social

Sign the Petition

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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👍“The British electorate are now overwhelmingly pro-remain. And yet the europhobes still argue the votes of the dead count for more than the views of the young…the combined impact of demographics and changed minds is…an 8.1 million majority for rejoining…” #JoinEU archive.ph/2025.12.09-1...

one of the funny traits of the Heterodox Thinkers is they're mostly exactly the same as they were when I was a teenager

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 3mo ago

Oh now Thiel is talking about the "reproducibility crisis" in science, amazing Wait these guys are all myna birds, aren't they. They hear a few words said by someone else and they just grab them and repeat them without understanding. Now I see why they love LLMs so much.

Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."

President Emmanuel Macron of France on Tuesday is set to elevate Marc Bloch, a pioneering French historian and Jewish World War II resistance fighter who was executed by the Gestapo in 1944, to the Panthéon.

Soldier, Scholar and Symbol: Marc Bloch Is Elevated to France’s Panthéon

French politicians, including those on the far right, are embracing a Jewish Resistance fighter murdered by the Gestapo in 1944.

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A shot in the dark, but is anyone out there working on early medieval Brittany?

For historians who are endlessly organising workshops on the "material turn" - please remember that archaeology is an entire discipline predicated on material culture and we might just have something to contribute #disciplinarymyopia

started reading this and was like, 'why are the left against this! it sounds great!' and then I continued and was like, ah yes ok, never mind as you were www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France's 'patriotic' banquets rile hard left

The feasting phenomenon run by Le Canon Français has become a hot political issue.

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Les sanglots longs Des violons De l'automne Blessent mon cœur D'une langueur Monotone 6/6/44

There's strong competition, but Jenkins is a very strong front-runner for the award "Biggest C*nt at the Grauniad". Obviously, he's VERY posh, so listen up, peasants, Sir Simon is talking and he knows more about everything than you.

New rare discoveries at Kirkby Thore are transforming our understanding of early medieval Cumbria Read Our Latest Blog: 👉🔗 tr.ee/EyFFnP These discoveries represent some of the first evidence of post-Roman life — the so called 'Dark-Ages' in Cumbrian history.

Stripping back Early Medieval Cumbria

OCA archaeologists are once again stripping back the landscape. Building on discoveries first made in Autumn 2025, the latest work aims to expand our understanding of a site that has already begun to…

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I've been really impressed by the team dismantling the organ at our local church - they've really pulled out all the stops.

Can someone explain to Trump how caps-lock works?!

I thought a blockade meant that you *stopped* ships going through the Straits. They should set up a web-cam so people can watch Trump be humiliated in real time

Does anyone really think that Trump has a scooby who Neville Chamberlain was?

Just sent my paper on early medieval sculpture in Brittany off to the editors. Curious - is anyone else working on early medieval archaeology in Brittany - particularly ecclesiastical stuff?

Working with my colleague Alexander Jansen to record the eroding gravestones at the abandoned Jewish cemetery at Ayres Quay, Sunderland

The opinion I have held since I first heard anything about Bob Dylan, which is that Bob Dylan is a wanker, remains unchallenged

Consequence@consequence.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Bob Dylan has quietly launched a new Patreon project, Lectures from the Grave, featuring AI-generated monologues, fictional letters, and short stories attributed to historical figures—raising big questions about creativity, authenticity, and the role of artists in an AI-driven future.

We have a PhD studentship available in History or Archaeology at CCCU www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f... - deadline 22 May. #skystorians 1/

Great to see @davidpetts1.bsky.social will be giving the next Deerhurst Lecture.