Lesley McFadyen
@lesleymcf.bsky.social
archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer
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Lesley McFadyen
@lesleymcf.bsky.social
· Oct 23
Out today, and open access, 'The melody that's sweetly played in tune', my photo essay with @alexanderboyd.bsky.social in @landscaperesearch.bsky.social journal! Ardeer, and an archaeology of photography, they're important!! doi.org/10.1080/0142...
‘Atween the shaw-field and the field
o new-sown winter wheat
a snell edge tae the wind
nae cranreuch
jist the hindmaist leaves, clingin
tae the hospice o the rodden tree
black-poxt, birlin on a twig
longin tae be lowsed
longin tae be lat gane
intae the least o daiths,
waitin, and tholin some mair’
o new-sown winter wheat
a snell edge tae the wind
nae cranreuch
jist the hindmaist leaves, clingin
tae the hospice o the rodden tree
black-poxt, birlin on a twig
longin tae be lowsed
longin tae be lat gane
intae the least o daiths,
waitin, and tholin some mair’
November 22, 2025 at 10:36 AM
‘Atween the shaw-field and the field
o new-sown winter wheat
a snell edge tae the wind
nae cranreuch
jist the hindmaist leaves, clingin
tae the hospice o the rodden tree
black-poxt, birlin on a twig
longin tae be lowsed
longin tae be lat gane
intae the least o daiths,
waitin, and tholin some mair’
o new-sown winter wheat
a snell edge tae the wind
nae cranreuch
jist the hindmaist leaves, clingin
tae the hospice o the rodden tree
black-poxt, birlin on a twig
longin tae be lowsed
longin tae be lat gane
intae the least o daiths,
waitin, and tholin some mair’
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Beech masts, late autumn in a north Dorset woodland.
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Beech masts, late autumn in a north Dorset woodland.
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social first year students channelling their Keiller energy and love of the Neolithic today at Avebury! Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk!!
November 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social first year students channelling their Keiller energy and love of the Neolithic today at Avebury! Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk!!
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Photo 5: Lucia Speariett, Petra Jones and Iona Robinson-Zeki at breaktime in a reconstructed Iron Age Roundhouse, Flag Fen 2021 (Credit: David Matzliach/CAU)
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Photo 5: Lucia Speariett, Petra Jones and Iona Robinson-Zeki at breaktime in a reconstructed Iron Age Roundhouse, Flag Fen 2021 (Credit: David Matzliach/CAU)
Must Farm log boats on display at Flag Fen, and Iona Robinson Zeki in the Guardian ⭐️
Rare bronze and iron age log boats reveal details of Cambridgeshire prehistory
Well-preserved oak and maple boats used for transport and fishing to be displayed in Peterborough
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Must Farm log boats on display at Flag Fen, and Iona Robinson Zeki in the Guardian ⭐️
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Our researcher @tmcasimiro.bsky.social just co-authored a paper on women's emotions in industrial places. Take a look
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Capturing emotions in the factory: an archaeological analysis of women’s lives through industrial photographs in Portugal
Studying emotions in archaeology poses significant challenges, particularly in varying chronologies and contexts. The emotions of women working in industrial sites, often overlooked and disregarded...
www.tandfonline.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Our researcher @tmcasimiro.bsky.social just co-authored a paper on women's emotions in industrial places. Take a look
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...
People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
People and time in nature: Positioning archaeology in an ecoclimate crisis
doi.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Anwen Cooper & Tina Roushannafas @ox.ac.uk have just published a beautiful piece in Archaeological Dialogues @universitypress.cambridge.org on how archaeological work can realign to meet the needs of pressing environmental agendas and be part of #nature #recovery projects. doi.org/10.1017/S138...
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Glasgow glasshouse - look up!
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Glasgow glasshouse - look up!
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Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Submerged forest #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
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Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Proper treat yesterday listening to Dr Ana Vale of Uni of Porto speaking on her incredible research into social lives in Late Prehistory. Thank you to @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @lesleymcf.bsky.social for the invitation, the Carena Institute for Sustainable Archaeologies is up and running 🌟
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Speaking about my/Adnan Almohamad’s work in Greenwich tomorrow evening if you’d like to come along
📢 Event coming up at the PEF!
"Oral Histories at the Archaeological Site of Dura Europos, Syria," with Jen Baird
🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | 🕕 6pm
📍 Greenwich SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]
#Archaeology #Syria #Palestine #PEF
"Oral Histories at the Archaeological Site of Dura Europos, Syria," with Jen Baird
🗓️ 6 Nov 2025 | 🕕 6pm
📍 Greenwich SE10 9FP
✍️ RSVP: [email protected]
#Archaeology #Syria #Palestine #PEF
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Speaking about my/Adnan Almohamad’s work in Greenwich tomorrow evening if you’d like to come along
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
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@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology
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November 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future / Lisa Brody, Anne Hunnell Chen (eds) #openaccess @brepols.net
www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
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@julietsamsonconlon.bsky.social @jenbaird.bsky.social
@lrbrody.bsky.social
Cracking poster by Ana Vale and Lidia Baptista on studies of care and kinship #NSGKinship. I miss the attentive archaeologies of these amazing Portuguese colleagues, and here they are in London!
November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Cracking poster by Ana Vale and Lidia Baptista on studies of care and kinship #NSGKinship. I miss the attentive archaeologies of these amazing Portuguese colleagues, and here they are in London!
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It was a real joy to write this paper with @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social - in many ways an overdue love letter to my colleagues in the trenches over the years.
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️
So happy to see this article out!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3...
In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TYFU3...
In this ethnography of the relationship between archaeologists and construction, we explore how both disciplines communicate, and how concepts such as risk, incommensurability, uncertainty and translation..
www.tandfonline.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It was a real joy to write this paper with @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social - in many ways an overdue love letter to my colleagues in the trenches over the years.
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️
Huge thanks to those who spoke to G, their job is hard and #archaeology is only the half of it! 🏺👷🏻♀️
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Friday morning flint - fresh out of the buried soil #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
October 31, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Friday morning flint - fresh out of the buried soil #FlagFenBasin #Fenland
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Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
October 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Congratulations to Professor Chantal Conneller, Professor of Early Prehistory for receiving the Grahame Clark Medal from the British Academy! 🏅🦕
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
Find out more⬇️
https://bit.ly/43ivms8.
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University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
University Archaeology Day is at the @britishacademy.bsky.social this year! Here with @lesleymcf.bsky.social and lots of premium Birkbeck owl swag!
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Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for - our panel sessions for University Archaeology Day #UAD25! Our expert panels will be answering questions from YOU in the audience @britishacademy.bsky.social or at home - come along to ask everything you've ever wanted to ask about archaeology!
October 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Finally, the moment you've all been waiting for - our panel sessions for University Archaeology Day #UAD25! Our expert panels will be answering questions from YOU in the audience @britishacademy.bsky.social or at home - come along to ask everything you've ever wanted to ask about archaeology!
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October 21, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Counterpoint, from W.H. Auden (1940)
The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.
But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
#everynightapoem #fragment
The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.
But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
#everynightapoem #fragment
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Counterpoint, from W.H. Auden (1940)
The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.
But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
#everynightapoem #fragment
The years shall run like rabbits,
For in my arms I hold
The Flower of the Ages,
And the first love of the world.
But all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
'O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time.
#everynightapoem #fragment
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October 21, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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One week to go!! Still a few in-person spaces available at University Archaeology Day #UAD25, or sign up for the online livestream of the panel sessions: linktr.ee/University_A...
Looking forward to welcoming you, and all these departments, to @britishacademy.bsky.social on Monday 27th October 11am!
Looking forward to welcoming you, and all these departments, to @britishacademy.bsky.social on Monday 27th October 11am!
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
One week to go!! Still a few in-person spaces available at University Archaeology Day #UAD25, or sign up for the online livestream of the panel sessions: linktr.ee/University_A...
Looking forward to welcoming you, and all these departments, to @britishacademy.bsky.social on Monday 27th October 11am!
Looking forward to welcoming you, and all these departments, to @britishacademy.bsky.social on Monday 27th October 11am!
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Also represented at University Archaeology Day #UAD25 @britishacademy.bsky.social on 27th October will be Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Check out our Linktree linktr.ee/University_A... for links to book tickets for in-person and online attendance to chat to them and many others!
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Also represented at University Archaeology Day #UAD25 @britishacademy.bsky.social on 27th October will be Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Check out our Linktree linktr.ee/University_A... for links to book tickets for in-person and online attendance to chat to them and many others!
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bow to our varmint queen
Katharine Hepburn, photographed by American fashion photographer George Platt Lynes (1946)
October 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
bow to our varmint queen
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October 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM