Reminder if you are not Phoenician do not say cheeky Nando's
Gabe Moshenska
@gabemoshenska.bsky.social
I want Ken Railings to walk in here right now and say 'Pam Shortt's broken both her legs and I wanna dance with you’
Historic England outsourced their digital image provision to a third-party company. Then the company went bust and now all their images are inaccessible. Tell me again how outsourcing to the private sector is sustainable?
Tim Daw@timdaw.bsky.social · 2d agoHistoric England vanishing archive - details of why it is broken : www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...
When at the end of 1939 Walter Benjamin was advised to get out of Paris, he instead renewed his library card. He died #OnThisDay in 1940, fleeing from the Nazis. He was one of the great cultural critics of the 20th century
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 3d ago#OtD 26 Sep 1940 German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist, Walter Benjamin died in Portbou at the French-Spanish border while attempting to escape from invading Nazi forces. The most likely cause of death was suicide stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9870...
We're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)! Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
#OtD 25 Sep 2003 noted Palestinian intellectual Edward Said died. A founding father of postcolonial theory, he wrote extensively on the Middle East and Palestine, and how Western culture has been moulded by imperialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9791...
Temptation to close the box, tape it up, and FedEx this little sod somewhere dreadful
Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano
Every archaeology headline is like "oafs from Ghent Anthropological School of Dipshits stumble upon prehistoric temple and are left baffled" and then the actual story is like two guys with 14 PhDs between them doing 10 yrs of cutting edge research that changes our understanding of the Mediterranean.
Artists: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Mathematicians: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it. Economists: LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY, AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES!
literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action
Willard Foxton@willardfoxton.bsky.social · last wk.I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
We've decided to start a discussion series. Lunchtimes once a month, to remember why we 'do heritage' all welcome, please share with students and networks.
Who tells your story? Diversifying narratives of the past through storytelling as an archaeological 🏺 method by @hlsteyne.bsky.social and Milica Rajić doi.org/10.11141/ia.... #archaeology #method #storytelling #socialjustice #diversity #inclusion #narrative
1/2 We have vastly improved data now on British slave-owners (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/search/) and slave-traders (britishslavetraders.org). Wonderful that this research has persisted despite all the fury of the nationalist right wing backlash.
The Register of British Slave-Traders
The Register of British Slave-traders compiles and presents information on all known slave-traders in Britain who invested in the trafficking of captive Africans from 1563 to 1807.
britishslavetraders.org
Back from Lapland dig with post-fieldwork blues, itchy mosquito bites, and some Vital Supplies.
Our Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar this year is "Activating/Excavating Archives", and we're thrilled that @clmorgan.bsky.social will be kicking it off with Archives as Playworlds: The Avebury Papers and Digital Creativity All welcome! Abstract and sign-up linked below!
Exploring WW2 archaeology in a gorgeous forest in Lapland with lovely friends. Life is good.
Okay, HUGE NEWS from Uggi. Presented to you in a picture thread.
if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2w ago'The University and College Union (UCU)’s Edinburgh branch said staff had been called into “informal meetings at less than 24 hours' notice” and told not to bring union representatives.'
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
*5 seconds later* we regret to inform you that the museum is racist
Brosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover@joparkerbear.bsky.social · 2w agoMuseums are so cool. “Wanna go see some old stuff?” Fuck yeah I do
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
Look, it's one thing to believe in "sovereign nations" and "borders" as a child, but eventually you're supposed to grow up and become an anarchist.
Archaeologists Discover More Old Shit That Sucks https://theonion.com/archaeologists-discover-more-old-shit-that-sucks-1848400846/
Memes are fucking disgusting and won't exist under anarcho-primitivism
