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Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA
Aʀᴄʜᴀᴇᴏ𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍 Blogger & Vlogger
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Howard M. R. Williams is a British archaeologist and academic who is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester in England. His research focuses on the study of death, burial and memory in Early Medieval Britain. .. more

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7h
The site has information boards identifying the monuments and providing a brief description. The monuments lie within the saddle or dip between Moel Llanfair and Moel Y Plas these summits are part of the Clwydian Range 📷 TAlanJones More: http://www.megalithi...
Llanarmon Yn Lal Burial Mounds
Round Barrow(s) in Denbighshire, Wales
www.megalithic.co.uk

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The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 7h
Llanarmon Yn Lal Burial Mounds: Prof. Howard Williams visits these Prehistoric Monuments on the Offa’s Dyke Path: Moel y Plâs and Bwlch y Parc, Llanarmon-yn-Iâl. Situated at the end of a narrow country lane that is popular with photographers and walkers, and easily reached by car.

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Damien Huffer @damienhuffer.bsky.social · 18h
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Immediate Withdrawal Request – Vanuatu Ancestral Human Remains | RM*[restitution matters]
In an email, in the hands of RM*, to the Vendue Huis in The Hague, the Netherlands, the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (VKS) and the National Museum of Vanuatu, the national authorities responsible for the s...
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 2d
And of course I persist with weekly YouTube videos and 5 posts per month on my Archaeodeath WordPress blog!

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 2d
Sharing a landmark TikTok moment for my Archaeodeath public education and engagement project. After 5-and-a-half years posting daily videos, I've just hit 150k followers!

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Kenny Brophy @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social · 2d
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
The TARDIS and Stonehenge

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 2d
Brassey in Bronze: The Thomas Brassey Statue at Chester Railway Station: //howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/brassey-in-bronze-the-thomas-brassey-statue-at-chester-railway-station/
Brassey in Bronze: The Thomas Brassey Statue at Chester Railway Station
For much of last year I entered Chester and departed from work each day from the University’s back entrance onto the Millennium Greenway. Therefore, I missed the installation of a new statue …
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 3d
Aber Zombie Gravestones howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/a...
Aber Zombie Gravestones
The dislocation and careful reuse of historic gravestones renders then ‘undead’ – still discernible, still featured, still active in the funerary space, and thus far from ‘d…
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 5d
Swords in Rock at Hafrsfjord howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/s...
Swords in Rock at Hafrsfjord
Contemporary Vikingisms take many forms, including public monuments. Here, my interests in Viking archaeology, contemporary archaeology and public archaeology in Public Viking Research coincide per…
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 6d
Purging Memories: Cleaning up the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/p...
Purging Memories: Cleaning up the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree
Let us return to the contemporary material cultures of memory in the landscape. Here, we reflect on the cumulative assemblages of memorial material culture on the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree, and i…
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 6d
The Archaeology of Skeleton Crew part 1
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For context, check out my Archaeodeath blog-post:
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 13d
Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1K...
Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 13d
Because social media threads can be messy, I'm turning more of them into online articles.

You can now read my review of the 2024 tv show 'Time Bandits' here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/t...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/tv-review-...
TV review: Time Bandits (2024)
A remake of Time Bandits? That film I loved so much when I was a kid? I probably shouldn’t watch this, being a grumpy old fake history hunter. But do I ever listen to myself, no, never. I&#82…
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Dr Aisling Tierney @irishashyt.bsky.social · 13d
For the history, heritage and archaeology enthusiasts, I have 25% off over fifty niche items in my Etsy right now!
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#history #heritage #geology #archaeology #folklore #medieval #archives
Square compilation of 16 photos of archaeology themed ornaments and decorations including fleur de lis, medieval cats and saints and earrings, colourful ogham text ornaments, black goddess pendant necklace, cuneiform pendant nexklace, assyrian human headed bull pendant, articulated skeleton pendant, geology stratography and trowel earrings, and stonehenge pendant

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 13d
The jackhammer approach to renovating historic buildings in Washington.

The HE #BuildingsAtRisk Register 2025.

How the Lost King defamation decision might not have been what some archaeologists wanted it to be,

& a double dose of #Stonehenge for you to

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The White House, Stonehenge, Law, Protest and Change - What’s the Role of Archaeology?
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 17d
The Royal Archaeological Institute serves the archaeological community by providing some really great small grants for research. Check them out!: www.royalarchinst.org/grants
Grants
Each year the Royal Archaeological Institute offers funds for research. Find out more about eligibility criteria and our different funding opportunities.
www.royalarchinst.org

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 18d
Congratulations on all our graduating students today at the University of Chester. Sadly, I have teaching, tutorials and a wider workload that doesn't allow me to attend the ceremony in person, but I'm there in spirit!

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Royal Archaeological Institute @royalarchinst.bsky.social · 19d
𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦
Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.

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Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s I Professor Richard Bradley
YouTube video by Royal Archaeological Institute
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 19d
I don't do blog-posts to time with series releases, but if you are interested in The Witcher, check out my 4 blog-posts on the Netflix series 1-3 and the spin-off Blood Origin howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/category/arc...
The Witcher – Archaeo𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥
Posts about The Witcher written by Prof. Howard M. R. Williams
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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 19d
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.

It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 20d
Archaeologists: we should not be uncritically accepting the authority and courts of self-styled 'benign dictators'.

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 20d
Every week at 6pm Wednesday, I release a new Archaeodeath YouTube video. This week, the final review of Andor series 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ljO...

For the linked blog-post: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a...
The Archaeology of Other Planets - Andor series 2
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 20d
COLD IS GOD'S WAY OF TELLING US TO BONFIRE MORE BILLIONAIRES

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 22d
I'll be at TAG this year for the first time in... umm... 30 years? I still have my "EuroTAG" teeshirt from Southampton and one from Lampeter. Neither are in a fit state to wear but I'm loath to bin them.

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 22d
The best conference session in the history of TAG will take place on Monday 15th December at the University of York called 'Time-Layered Narratives: Engaging Non-Specialists with Temporally Complex Sites'
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
Programme - TAG 2025
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 23d
I'm not paying to watch the film to evaluate it, but nothing he says makes sense to me. My TikTok video is more about the amateur underdog trope and the reality that archaeological institutions & individuals do act the way Coogan claims (not in this instance maybe)

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 23d
My Archaeodeath review for October 2025 is now out on Patreon. You can follow me there for FREE for monthly updates! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 23d
fwiw, I'm just posting a TikTok about this latest development. But I won't share on here since I can't be arsed arguing with fellow archaeos.

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 23d
I've done a TikTok for what it is worth but I don't feel anyone listens to me beyond that.

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 23d
Sorry but can I just drown Steve out with my loud academic voice while he is writing columns in The Guardian?