Culmination of our family trip to Bournemouth was Adam Ant at the BIC. Cracking show!

A lovely family trip to Bournemouth the other day and a long overdue visit to the Russel-Coates Museum

A wonderful day celebrating our students’ achievements today. A real highlight of the year @uniwinchester.bsky.social

Just realised that today is the 36th anniversary of my first day on an archaeological dig - a school work experience fortnight at #Wroxeter 🙂 🪏 ❤️ 🏺

Wasn’t sure how best to post these images, but while I always love seeing Tbilisi, it’s not possible to avoid mentioning the current difficult situation in #Georgia. I was struck by the images of the current protest in close proximity to both the 1956 and 1989 memorials.

The final trowel back of Trench F yesterday, ready for drone photography, and then this morning we covered the trench up again ready for next year. It was a shorter season this year but everyone worked really hard and we achieved some good results. #Nokalakevi

On Monday night our colleagues from the University of Milan treated us all to bruschetta and bolognaise, and some wonderful local wine #Nokalakevi #Georgia

Delighted to welcome Gareth Ward, British Ambassador to Georgia, and to show him the results of our Anglo-Georgian collaboration, now in it’s 25th season and still bringing Georgian and British specialists and students together to shed light on this amazing site #Nokalakevi #Anglo-Georgian

On Saturday we enjoyed our day off - a trip to the wonderful museum at Vani, and then on to Bagrati Cathedral and modern Kutaisi #NOK25 #Georgia

On Friday the Federation for Chidaoba held a competition in #Nokalakevi. A great opportunity for the team to enjoy watching Georgian traditional wrestling - named on the UNESCO list of global intangible heritage

Day 5: still making good progress across the trench, resolving some of the wall lines of the 6th/5th century BC buildings

Day Four: continuing our work to better understand some of the key areas of the trench #Nokalakevi #Georgia

Day Three: After a stunning Colchian thunderstorm first thing, we were back on site and excavating #Nokalakevi #Georgia

Day Two: the big ‘trowel back’ of Trench F. The sweet sound of trowel on archaeology! #Nokalakevi #Georgia #Anglo-GeorgianExpeditionToNokalakevi

First day on site. Trench F covered in plastic sheet and plants after a year, now looking more like an archaeological trench again!

The team arrived in Nokalakevi yesterday. Today we have a site tour and team briefing, and preparing to start work properly tomorrow

Gearing up for our 25th season in #Nokalakevi with some special team shirts

This was meant to be a treat for the boys, and now we’re all off to destroy the Jedi order…

Recently published with @karenburnell.bsky.social: a new study seeking to understand “Wellbeing Archaeology” Excavating the Past and (Re)Finding Myself: Exploring Veterans’ and Providers’ Experiences of Wellbeing Archaeology | Journal of Veterans Studies journal-veterans-studies.org/articles/10....

Excavating the Past and (Re)Finding Myself: Exploring Veterans’ and Providers’ Experiences of Wellbeing Archaeology | Journal of Veterans Studies

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Happy HESA student data publication day to those that celebrate. As ever, it’s best to start with the footnotes. A university returned 470 first years as living in St Barts - a volcanic island in the Caribbean with a population less than 10,000. www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-ana...

My colleague was dismissed from Tbilisi State University after eight years of teaching. The regime is purging critics from the education system.

Publika.ge@publikage.bsky.social · last yr.

Another lecturer from the TSU Law Faculty, Tamar Tatanashvili, has been dismissed for supporting protests. She is the 3rd lecturer to be dismissed from TSU in the past five days for this reason. Giorgi Tsertsvadze and Irina Kherkheulidze were also dismissed. 📸 rfe/rl

Or to put it another way - President Putin has said no to the US-led unconditional ceasefire that Ukraine has agreed to

Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes but…. President Putin says he agrees fighting in Ukraine must end but says any plan must lead to 'enduring peace' and ‘ and remove the underlying causes of this crisis"

An interesting article on the role of #universities in the current struggle for democracy in Georgia 🇬🇪 www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Universities at the centre of national democracy struggles

Georgia’s universities stand at a crossroads. If the government succeeds in suppressing the current wave of student-led protests, control over unive...

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Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

"Dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone," Polish Prime Minister Tusk said after Zelensky's conversation with Donald Trump.

I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.

Musa Okwonga@okwonga.bsky.social · last yr.

Zelenskyy went into that nest of vipers and roasted them all. Good. They all exposed themselves, they demeaned themselves in a way that was undeniable. Perfect.

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

Just finished my lecture to the Ukrainian Association of Archaeologists, via a translator, and seemed to go very well. Слава Україні!