Tim C
@drtimclack.bsky.social
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Anthropologist interested in (nearly) all facets of the human condition, in particular culture, heritage, conflict (and its drivers), and response to climate change. Past, present and future of all that, too.
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Had the chance to see a bit of Budapest last week. The visit was linked to a forthcoming exhibition on the Museum of Ethnography’s Africa collection which I’m very excited to be involved with. More to follow.
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White stork - surprisingly graceful when airborne.
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Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire from the weekend. I always think certain heritage buildings photograph well in black and white. Maybe it speaks to the dimension of time.
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Unexpected collision of climate change, culture & heritage. Bakewell tart, invented in the 1800s & quintessentially British. Bakers report disruption to almond supply & unstable prices. Extreme heat & declining water in California (= 80% of the global harvest)

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/08...
Climate change ‘could kill off the traditional Bakewell tart’
Californian heatwaves and droughts threaten global almond supply
www.telegraph.co.uk
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A couple of shots whilst recharging - near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales
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The trees have eyes…
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A few years ago, a friend visiting from Ethiopia said to me about the British countryside, ‘I did not know there were so many greens’. Great words and, despite trying, I can do no better.
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Pleased with this shot of a Welsh puffin from a few weeks back.
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Oil painting by Winston Churchill, 1916 entitled 'Plug Street' (the British Army's nickname for Ploegsteert, in Flanders). The painting shows the building at Lawrence Farm where Churchill and other officers were billeted.
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Interesting. As the author notes, knowledge is not the same as understanding. However, the prospects of digital decipherment and the technologies that underpin it are huge.

www.thetimes.com/article/88ea...
Digital archaeology is thrilling but does it bring past closer?
There is a risk, surely, that the more efficient the retrieval, the less meaningful the encounter
www.thetimes.com
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Tattoos are everywhere these days. (One student joked to me a few months ago that they weren’t getting one to be a bit different!) Research reminds us tattoos have been with us a long, long time.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...
Scientists reconstruct the tattoos of a 2,000-year-old Siberian ice mummy
New imaging technology has allowed scientists to decipher the tattoos of an Iron Age mummy—and study them like never before.
www.nationalgeographic.com
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A photo from Parliament on Monday. Elizabeth I in the House of Commons: “With this ring I was wedded to the realm”. (The picture depicts her being petitioned by the Commons to marry.)
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Fascinating day yesterday at Oxford University’s Endangered Cultural Heritage in the Global South (ECHGS) Hub’s Digital Heritage and the Global South conference. See link for more info on the hub and events
www.arch.ox.ac.uk/echgs-hub-0
ECHGS Hub conference, 15 Nov 2023 (online)
www.arch.ox.ac.uk