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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺

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Archaeologist and writer. Once-upon-a-time a diplomat. Rural. https://clairemillington.com (She/her)

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · Feb 24

I couldn't be happier to be publishing this with BAR Publishing! Please feel free to ask your library to order a copy!!

BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa by @clairemillington.bsky.social!🏺

Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 11h

We are watching a bit behind the live show. I feel very much the same about Sweet Child. You can take the song out of the moshpit but.

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Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social · 11h

I can't help but be pleased by the reclamation of the frog as an anti-fascist symbol.

Koax koax.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 11h

Looks like an Independent piece from font etc

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 12h

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 12h

They didn't in Stafford in the 80s. We were taught women did nothing much til suffragettes. 😤

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 12h

Founded my home town Stafford among many other things. Boudiwho?

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 1d

Also you can highlight and scribble on your saved pdfs.

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 1d

Today I have mostly been searching online for individual book chapters (in this case conference papers) as a substitute for an academic book costing over 100quid. I got most of them.

Having these means I don't always have to go to a research library.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social · 1d

In celebration of our recent fifth birthday, Peopling the Past is counting down the top 5 of each of our media categories! Today we are giving a shout-out to the top 5 #PeoplingVideo contributions across the years /thread 🧵👇

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MedievalWomenSpeak @medievalwomenspeak.bsky.social · 1d

I have discovered that women are more than capable of undertaking any task which requires physical strength or of learning any discipline which requires discernment and intelligence. Books which say otherwise were definitely not written by women.

- Christine de Pizan, b. 1365

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Chris Seddon @chrisseddon.bsky.social · 1d

There's something quite beautiful about Sir Mortimer Wheeler's box-system excavations at Maiden Castle. Such a fantastic photograph!

Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

#archaeology 🏺 #photography

An historic black & white image of the box excavations at Maiden Castle during Sir Mortimer Wheeler's excavations in 1937. Image Rights: Society of Antiquaries (held at Historic England Archive)

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

Also, if you're "in bed with flu", it's almost certainly Covid.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 1d

Commodus. Not commodius.

Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

The *Commodus Passage reopens*

(Oo-er)

Secret tunnel used by Roman emperors inside Colosseum reopens

It is believed Emperor Commodus survived an assassination attempt while walking through the tunnel

www.independent.co.uk

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · 1d

Quick - we need an empty pot in case of a bowl movement…
@pottedhistory.bsky.social

Frankie Howerd as Lurcio looking surprised - carrying a [replica by Potted History] Samianware bowl containing fruit.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 1d

At the 'but what does it all mean' stage in my research today. This is a frustrating but vital stage.

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Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social · 1d

A little researching and writing about Roman York today, so have a bit of 3rd/4th century Multangular tower Playmobil action.
#PlaymobilInfestation

A group of Playmobil Roman legionaries standing in front of a Roman tower in York.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 3d

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 1d

Without an omelette? Sir, I think you'll find that's not un oeuf.

Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 1d

Arguably there were as many military non-combatants as soldiers

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 1d

Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday

Three ancient roman shoes with pierced decoration displayed on dummy feet.

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 1d

A #Roman copper alloy plaque with Victory carrying a trophy including shields and two trumpets (carnyxes)

Probably commemorating triumph over the poor Silures in the late 1st century AD

From Caerleon © Amgueddfa Cymru — Museum Wales CC BY-SA 4.0

For more see
images.museumwales.ac.uk

#FindsFriday

Bronze plaque with a relief image of a winged female personification of Victory carrying a trophy of armour, shields, trumpets and a helmet fixed to a pole slung over her right shoulder

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 1d

There are hundreds of years of history of women’s scientific accomplishments not being recognised or being minimised (“not notable”). It *still* happens. Many female scientists are only acknowledged on Wikipedia thanks to the efforts of, yes, other female scientists, notably physicist Dr Jess Wade.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

"Four in 10 English universities are now believed to be in financial deficit, according to the Office for Students."
#HigherEd www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thousands more university jobs cut as financial crisis deepens

University workers will vote on national strike action this month over a 1.4% pay offer made in the summer.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 2d

Glasswares ,1st century. #Roman painted pitcher showing gladiatorial scenes.
Found in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt. 👀
#Glass #Art #History #artwork
#FindsFriday

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