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Maxine Beuret @maxinebeuret.bsky.social · 12h

Are you interested in local history? @vch-home.bsky.social @hackney-society.bsky.social @history.dulwichsociety.com

In this free workshop, you will be taught how to produce a short video from the material you have collected to share the stories you are uncovering. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8h

Five book sales in nineteen days. "The books go to their readers, one by one, at times quickly, at times slowly, halfway around the world or halfway across the city. There is no supply chain, not as such, only the postal network, irregular events, direct sales to bookshops, and local distribution."

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

Update: two book sales in eighteen days. "The end of the work is the possibility of connection, that the book, if it has been made well, might become 'a site of exchange', that it might have use and value to others, whether the others are many or few."

Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 2d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 4d

💚 There are far fewer of us than there used to be, and of course we have Welsh & Scottish counterparts.

Mark Bowden wrote a short history of the English archaeological field investigators for LSG website ➡️ landscapesurvey.org/wp-content/u... |

@landscaperesearch.bsky.social

landscapesurvey.org

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 8d

One year I will be brave and make time to take part myself, but not this year.
Still, I really love following the #ArchInk posts, so thank you for running it again! ✏️💖

#ArchInk2025 #Inktober
#Inktober2025

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you - I may well do a little sleuthing! The one you have shared looks lovely

EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, how interesting! Thanks for replying.
Were over 40 adapted in 2001 for landscape art then? I really must look this up and head out for a stomp!

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 8d

Well that settles tonight’s bedtime re-read 😢
#JaneGoodall

Colour photo of a book (graphic novel):
Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Birute Galdikas.
Written by Jim Ottavaviani and illustrated by comics artist Maris Wicks.

It has a green cover showing cartoon drawings of a procession of three women and three wild primates (a chimpanzee, a mountain gorilla, and an orangutan)

Page 18 of a colour cartoon/graphic novel.
Four image boxes each show a young blond woman (Jane Goodall) working outdoors, each with different weather conditions. The text reads:
Many scientists did feel threatened by me, though, for oh-so-many reasons - | First, my sponsor, Louis, was controversial. Second, I didn’t look like most of them. | And I had no academic credentials. | Habituating animals to human presence also wasn’t common. | And worst of all, I started naming the chimps.

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 8d

Oh how glorious!
I am intrigued to know whether there is any on-site info so that those passing know it is a combo of historic structure + lovely ‘new’ art?

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 9d

NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social!

Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR).

View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5

Colour screengrab of magazine’s contents page, 1 of 2:

Page 6 – Early Railways in England.
Page 11 – A Brief Overview of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
Page 16 – An Aerial Perspective of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
Page 24 – Exploring New Shildon, England’s First Modern Railway Town.
Page 32 – The Stockton & Darlington Railway’s Coal Drops at Shildon.
Page 39 – Protecting Railway Heritage: One of England’s Early Goods Depots.

Colour screengrab of magazine’s contents page, 2 of 2:

Page 47 – The S&DR Darlington Lime Depot.
Page 53 – Early Bridges of the Stockton & Darlington Railway.
Page 59 – The Bridges of the Bishop Auckland & Weardale Railway.
Page 66 – Transforming a Historic Market Town: impact of the railways at Bishop Auckland.
Page 74 – Curzon Street Station, Birmingham: Past, Present and Future.
Page 82 – Roundup of our Railway Related Reports, Publications and Guidance.

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 9d

Contents page info on the attached images, and in their alt-text.

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 9d

NEW special #Railway200 issue of Historic England Research magazine, incl. beautiful drawings by @allantadams.bsky.social!

Issue 29 commemorates 200 years of railway heritage and the bicentenary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway (S&DR).

View the full magazine ➡️ t.co/zin6WfdPS5

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you! Hmmm, the issue of keeping them clean hadn’t occurred to me - that is useful!

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 9d

Where this is, please?
I love this type of subtle but effective on-site interpretation.
I have seen it used well several times for recreating landscapes or buildings, but never on water. Great example!

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 10d

Hmm, I doubt ‘with healthy respect and a robust risk assessment’ would quite wow your crowd…
In my work, the truth is probably ‘with my trouser hems tucked into my socks’ (ticks 🚫)!

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 10d

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 12d

Nature is healing

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 13d

Hecking well done, both of you, such important work 💪 Bx

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 16d

What a great project!
If/when the Bishop Auckland entries get input, there is quite a bit of relevant detail on past & present sports sites within our (HE’s) detailed Historic Area Assessment report:
historicengland.org.uk/research/res...

Bishop Auckland, County Durham: Historic Area Assessment | Historic England

Research Report for Bishop Auckland, County Durham: Historic Area Assessment

historicengland.org.uk

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 17d

Bliss 💚

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 18d

“Drat,” said Toad.

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 19d

Fantastic!
👀 Seen this ⬆️ @palaeolou.bsky.social ?

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 19d

Perfect, love these! 👌

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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 21d

I used to love borrowing the badge-machine from Brownies as a child, very satisfying! No idea where all my ‘makes’ ended up…

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 25d

There’s an interesting series of 5 free online paleobotany lectures via the Oxford University Botanic Garden this autumn. You can book all 5 lectures here (scroll down webpage to ‘Get your tickets now’ button) www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/dr-san... #paleobotany

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BSBI Botany @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 25d

Here's a great thread where @amandatuke.bsky.social tells us about her #PlantBased journey & how she got a #FISC level 5!
Find out more about Field Identification Skills Certificates (FISCs) here: bsbi.org/field-skills
Dates for FISCs in 2026 will go live in March.

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 28d

Today I learned something amazingly new to me.
Lightning strikes visible in magnetometry ⚡⚡⚡😲

Great presentation from Archaeological Management Solutions on work near Sligo

Presentation slide showing results of survey

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