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Brodhie Molloy
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(she/her) | PhD deconstructing attitudes towards homelessness, accessible heritages and community engagement | Brummie archaeologist | 🐶🐱| Free Palestine 🇵🇸| views my own
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Brodhie Molloy @bromolloy.bsky.social · Jul 28
Psst…👉there’s still time to submit for our @tag2025york.bsky.social session:
✨In theory, it was a great idea💡!✨
Me and my dear friend @tmcasimiro.bsky.social hope you’ll join the convo around the untold challenges of public-facing, community-engaging and real life archaeology projects! Cya there😎
Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 Conference in York, 17th - 19th December. Submit your abstract for “In theory, it was a great idea”: The Challenges of Practical Archaeological Action in the Real World by 1st August 2025 to Brodhie Molloy at bmim2@leicester.ac.uk or Tânia Casimiro at tania.casimiro@stir.ac.uk . Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 Conference in York, 17th - 19th December. Submit your abstract for “In theory, it was a great idea”: The Challenges of Practical Archaeological Action in the Real World to Brodhie Molloy at bmim2@leicester.ac.uk or Tânia Casimiro at tania.casimiro@stir.ac.uk . Session description: It’s time! You successfully got the grant you spent months applying for. The project is planned down to timings and toilet breaks. Connections with people and organisations are made. You are ready to deliver and… Crash! Bang! Oh no! Something has gone wrong. Our projects often have things that go wrong or do not work out. But as practitioners we seldom admit this, especially not in official forums like a conference. However, this is a very normal thing to occur. Humans are messy. Messy things often require messy responses. This session looks to open a conversation on our ‘failings’ in projects and how we can look at these, and to each other, for future solutions. We invite papers and discussants to join us in this conversation about the reality of archaeological projects in the contemporary world. We welcome discussions on the challenges faced in a wide range of archaeological projects, including social, ecological, and community-driven initiatives, as well as those involving heritage management, digital archaeology, education, and policy-driven work, among others. We will foster a space to network with others working in the fields of community and public-based engagement, offering comfort in the fact that we are not alone in this sector, and its associated struggles (funding, access, needs etc.). We are hoping this session will provide an opportunity for learning where we can exchange tips, tools and a sense of camaraderie. As organisers, we are not afraid to admit that our projects, at times, have failed. We hope you won’t be afraid too!
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Elliott Mahony @thestrangeblood.bsky.social · Apr 16
Taken by the sea in Horsey.

#photography #ruins #bythesea #mine #edit
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Brodhie Molloy @bromolloy.bsky.social · Jul 28
Psst…👉there’s still time to submit for our @tag2025york.bsky.social session:
✨In theory, it was a great idea💡!✨
Me and my dear friend @tmcasimiro.bsky.social hope you’ll join the convo around the untold challenges of public-facing, community-engaging and real life archaeology projects! Cya there😎
Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 Conference in York, 17th - 19th December. Submit your abstract for “In theory, it was a great idea”: The Challenges of Practical Archaeological Action in the Real World by 1st August 2025 to Brodhie Molloy at bmim2@leicester.ac.uk or Tânia Casimiro at tania.casimiro@stir.ac.uk . Theoretical Archaeology Group 2025 Conference in York, 17th - 19th December. Submit your abstract for “In theory, it was a great idea”: The Challenges of Practical Archaeological Action in the Real World to Brodhie Molloy at bmim2@leicester.ac.uk or Tânia Casimiro at tania.casimiro@stir.ac.uk . Session description: It’s time! You successfully got the grant you spent months applying for. The project is planned down to timings and toilet breaks. Connections with people and organisations are made. You are ready to deliver and… Crash! Bang! Oh no! Something has gone wrong. Our projects often have things that go wrong or do not work out. But as practitioners we seldom admit this, especially not in official forums like a conference. However, this is a very normal thing to occur. Humans are messy. Messy things often require messy responses. This session looks to open a conversation on our ‘failings’ in projects and how we can look at these, and to each other, for future solutions. We invite papers and discussants to join us in this conversation about the reality of archaeological projects in the contemporary world. We welcome discussions on the challenges faced in a wide range of archaeological projects, including social, ecological, and community-driven initiatives, as well as those involving heritage management, digital archaeology, education, and policy-driven work, among others. We will foster a space to network with others working in the fields of community and public-based engagement, offering comfort in the fact that we are not alone in this sector, and its associated struggles (funding, access, needs etc.). We are hoping this session will provide an opportunity for learning where we can exchange tips, tools and a sense of camaraderie. As organisers, we are not afraid to admit that our projects, at times, have failed. We hope you won’t be afraid too!
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Jun 3
The call for papers for @tag2025york.bsky.social‬ is now OPEN!! 🏺

Abstracts for all sessions are available at
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/call-for-...

Contact individual session organisers to submit your paper abstract by AUGUST 1st!

#TAG2025
#tag2025_york
#YorTAG
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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · May 28
This shows how archaeological data has been manipulated to promote racist politics & how archaeological expertise can be mobilized in service of ‘genetic indigenisation’. It highlights archaeology’s vulnerability to misuse & challenges assumptions about anti-expert discourse in far-right spaces
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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · May 28
Out this morning & Open Access! 📢 My new article in Public Archaeology on the entanglement of archaeology, the far right and ancient genetic studies, using the British National Party as a case study: ‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity'
‘In Our Blood’: Archaeology and ‘Indigeneity’ in the British National Party’s Magazine Identity
This paper presents the first diachronic analysis of the appropriation of archaeological themes in British far-right politics, focusing on the British National Party’s publication Identity from 200...
www.tandfonline.com
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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · May 28
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · May 29
More information will follow 👀
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · May 23
And it's gone... (not until after somebody had clearly filled in the prior removed part with pen mind you!)

I only hope whomever put it there in the first place can come and replace it...
Picture of a few scraps of sticker left adhered to a door
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Owen Exie Hurcum 💜🤍💙🍉 @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social · May 7
I, and several others, have written an open letter to the UK's largest archaeological organisations requesting they take a stand and publicly affirm their support for the trans community. This open letter was signed by over 700 archaeologists before it was sent today. Read it in full below 👇
For screen readable text please use this link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vsIDUSSv8S8i9GwT1cVH-HQod_GakDCZ2lqt_zJCDNs/edit?tab=t.0
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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · Apr 16
You can show your support for striking workers with proceeds of sales going to Brum bin strike fund.

Workers facing pay cut, some up to £8g a year, support the strike.

Get ‘em here tufac.bigcartel.com
Cartoon of Oscar the Grouch from Sesame St children’s TV show, the green loveable grump, emerges from a rubbish bin with a bin lid on his head and a clenched fist. The slogan reads ‘I support the brum bin strike’ Model wearing a whiter shirt with a circular image in middle of shirt. Cartoon of Oscar the Grouch from Sesame St children’s TV show, the green loveable grump, emerges from a rubbish bin with a bin lid on his head and a clenched fist. The slogan reads ‘I support the brum bin strike’
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Community Archaeology North CIC @cancic.bsky.social · Mar 31
Announcing our plans for a new #community #archaeology project in #Hexham
A poster announcing a new community archaeology project based in Hexham
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Andy J. Rogers @ajrogers1.bsky.social · Apr 1
Call for papers 🗣️
Excited to announce our themed issue for #PublicHumanities
‘The World Beyond the Trowel’🌏
Exploring creative approaches to community and archaeology beyond inclusion in excavation practice.
CfP closes 31 August 2025 🗓️ Learn more here: tinyurl.com/Beyondthetro...
Poster for themed issue of Public Humanities, titled: The World Beyond the Trowel: Radical Encounters between Archaeology and Community. The background is a rock art panel of stenciled hands from the Cueva de las Manos, Argentina
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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 7
📢Today, the home of our Schools of #Archaeology & Ancient History & Museum Studies has been renamed the Kathleen Kenyon Building, the first academic building on campus to be named after a woman.

🏛️ le.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...

📷 UCL Institute of Archaeology, CC BY 4.0

#InternationalWomensDay
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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Dec 11
🎉And here's Brodhie Molloy's winning #TRAC poster, fully deserving of the Lisa Lodwick award.

🏆Congratulations!
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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Dec 11
🎉🎉🎉Massive congratulations to SAAH's Brodhie Molloy who has been awarded the Lisa Lodwick Award for the best poster presented at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference for her poster ‘Bodies in and out of archaeology’.🎉🎉🎉
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Brodhie Molloy @bromolloy.bsky.social · Dec 16
Had the best time working with my mate on this paper and contributing to such an impactful session! Thanks to all involved 🥰
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Ron @ronkilljoy.bsky.social · Dec 16
Had a grand time @tag45.bsky.social, and especially enjoyed collaborating with @bromolloy.bsky.social for @owenexiehurcum.bsky.social and Niamh’s session! See y’all next year!
Two folks (Brodhie and Ron) happily presenting with a PowerPoint that reads, “MATES (make space for yourself, and others, try redefining resilience, embrace authenticity, shout about it)”. A visual illustrated interpretation of a conference session, Ancestor? We hardly know her. Drawing from a conference session exploring archaeologies of vegetal becoming.
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tag45.bsky.social @tag45.bsky.social · Dec 16
A highly of course is that we are delighted to announce this year's TAG prize winner is Rachel Crellin from the University of Leicester. Huge congratulations, very well deserved!
Rachel Crellin of the University of Leicester accepting her TAG prize
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Dr Jonny Graham @jonnyflint997.bsky.social · Dec 14
Amazing artist rendition of my own TAG session from my good friend Ron
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Dr Jonny Graham @jonnyflint997.bsky.social · Dec 14
Great second day at @tag45.bsky.social
Fantastic session from @rachelcrellin.bsky.social @ojth.bsky.social and Julian Thomas looking at the work of Chris Tilley and the many directions we can take it. Here are a few of my favourites from Roy, @bromolloy.bsky.social, Galmés Alba, and Collar.
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