Sarah Lidwell-Durnin
@sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social
History of archaeology, Knossos, archives, gaming, wine
Ancient History PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & Minoans🏺💀 Volunteering @ Griffith Institute
In Oxford/From Dublin
Reading: The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Ancient History PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & Minoans🏺💀 Volunteering @ Griffith Institute
In Oxford/From Dublin
Reading: The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Pinned
Join us on the 27th of November for the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR group online conference, happening from 2-6pm (UK time)!
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
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Hi all,
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair
www.cambridge.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hi all,
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A modest proposal on the contours and future of Decolonial Archaeology (open access). Grateful to all who inspired the ideas! I would welcome all feedback and critique.
A decolonial archaeology of refusal, care and repair | Antiquity | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you @blackwelloxford.bsky.social at 5.30pm 📗 #Economica #womenwealthpower
I’ll be back in #Oxford on Monday to talk about my new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - at Blackwells bookshop. If you’re free at 5.30pm, it would be lovely to see you there. Tickets are still available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victoria-b... #EconHist #womenwealthpower
Victoria Bateman ECONOMICA
Economica rewrites our understanding of women's role in the economy, and tells a more accurate economic history of us all.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
If you’re in Oxford TODAY, it will be lovely to see you @blackwelloxford.bsky.social at 5.30pm 📗 #Economica #womenwealthpower
Had the pleasure of using the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive in my teaching today! tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
Explore Tutankhamun's tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s
tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Had the pleasure of using the new Tutankhamun Spatial Archive in my teaching today! tutankhamun.griffith.ox.ac.uk @griffithinstitute.bsky.social
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📢 Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee
Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee to serve for four years from 1 April 2026.
Check out our website to find out more! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/07/v...
Deadline: Friday 19 December
Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee to serve for four years from 1 April 2026.
Check out our website to find out more! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/07/v...
Deadline: Friday 19 December
British School at Athens :
Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee
Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee (https://www.bsa.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Annexe-A_ToR_Oct-2025.pdf) to serve for four years from ...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
📢 Vacancy on the Crete Subcommittee
Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee to serve for four years from 1 April 2026.
Check out our website to find out more! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/07/v...
Deadline: Friday 19 December
Applications are invited from those interested in becoming a member of the Crete Subcommittee to serve for four years from 1 April 2026.
Check out our website to find out more! www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/11/07/v...
Deadline: Friday 19 December
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Interested in getting some hands on experience with our collections?
We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens.
Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email [email protected] for the full role description.
We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens.
Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email [email protected] for the full role description.
November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Interested in getting some hands on experience with our collections?
We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens.
Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email [email protected] for the full role description.
We're looking for volunteers to help catalogue and research our collection of 17th-century tokens.
Volunteering will usually take place on a Thursday, 2 hours per week. Email [email protected] for the full role description.
I'm a fan of volunteering as a way to gain valuable cv-friendly experience, which can be tricky, but I don't think volunteers should be load-bearing in any way like project manager, compared to "helps at coin-handling sessions 2 Saturdays a month" or data entry. But I just saw a volunteering opp 1/3
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I'm a fan of volunteering as a way to gain valuable cv-friendly experience, which can be tricky, but I don't think volunteers should be load-bearing in any way like project manager, compared to "helps at coin-handling sessions 2 Saturdays a month" or data entry. But I just saw a volunteering opp 1/3
Join us on the 27th of November for the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR group online conference, happening from 2-6pm (UK time)!
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Join us on the 27th of November for the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR group online conference, happening from 2-6pm (UK time)!
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
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Preparations continue for the MultakaOxford 'With These Hands: Crafting a Shared Humanity' gallery trail, being launched at this Friday's Late Night event. Here we see details of beautiful embroidery on a Ukranian vyshyvanka which we are excited to welcome into the collection and to share with you!
November 4, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Preparations continue for the MultakaOxford 'With These Hands: Crafting a Shared Humanity' gallery trail, being launched at this Friday's Late Night event. Here we see details of beautiful embroidery on a Ukranian vyshyvanka which we are excited to welcome into the collection and to share with you!
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What is there to look forward to on these miserable grey Autumn days?
Why not join Manchester Ancient Egypt Society's online study day exploring the landscape of ancient Egypt and the effects of geology and climate change on society, economics, politics and wildlife.
Why not join Manchester Ancient Egypt Society's online study day exploring the landscape of ancient Egypt and the effects of geology and climate change on society, economics, politics and wildlife.
October 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
What is there to look forward to on these miserable grey Autumn days?
Why not join Manchester Ancient Egypt Society's online study day exploring the landscape of ancient Egypt and the effects of geology and climate change on society, economics, politics and wildlife.
Why not join Manchester Ancient Egypt Society's online study day exploring the landscape of ancient Egypt and the effects of geology and climate change on society, economics, politics and wildlife.
If you or anyone you know is a PGR or ECR working on the Aeagan LBA/EIA, come to this online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) on the 27th of Nov. Proposals on any topic within the remit of the group are v welcome - forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
If you or anyone you know is a PGR or ECR working on the Aeagan LBA/EIA, come to this online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) on the 27th of Nov. Proposals on any topic within the remit of the group are v welcome - forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
Suddenly, when I have to leave the library to go to a seminar (which will be fun! and have fizz, for some reason too!) I am filled with The Spirit of Productiveness. Great. Thanks.
October 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Suddenly, when I have to leave the library to go to a seminar (which will be fun! and have fizz, for some reason too!) I am filled with The Spirit of Productiveness. Great. Thanks.
I wonder what the Mantel effect has been on A-level answers about the Tudors, compared to 20 years ago? My 16 year old is encountering Cromwell for the first time, and we're watching Wolf Hall together, so naturally she adores him. When she reads the book her conversion will be complete.
October 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I wonder what the Mantel effect has been on A-level answers about the Tudors, compared to 20 years ago? My 16 year old is encountering Cromwell for the first time, and we're watching Wolf Hall together, so naturally she adores him. When she reads the book her conversion will be complete.
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🏺🗃️ 🤗 very excited to be at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social conference this week to talk abou the #HistoriansOfArchaeology online support group
You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link:
forms.gle/KptYbPZ641Z8...
You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link:
forms.gle/KptYbPZ641Z8...
Historians of Archaeology - Online Support Group
Welcome to the Historians of Archaeology (HoA) Online Support Group!
Please use this form to join the group and to join our mailing list. Membership to the group is free, all meetings will be hosted ...
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October 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🏺🗃️ 🤗 very excited to be at the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social conference this week to talk abou the #HistoriansOfArchaeology online support group
You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link:
forms.gle/KptYbPZ641Z8...
You can sign up to join our meetings, co-working sessions, reading group and #Discord server anytime via this link:
forms.gle/KptYbPZ641Z8...
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We're hiring! 🔬
The BSA is currently seeking a Fitch Laboratory Scientific Research Officer, full-time, fixed-term appointment (5 years).
Check out the full job advert on our website for further information and the application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/04/f...
The BSA is currently seeking a Fitch Laboratory Scientific Research Officer, full-time, fixed-term appointment (5 years).
Check out the full job advert on our website for further information and the application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/04/f...
September 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We're hiring! 🔬
The BSA is currently seeking a Fitch Laboratory Scientific Research Officer, full-time, fixed-term appointment (5 years).
Check out the full job advert on our website for further information and the application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/04/f...
The BSA is currently seeking a Fitch Laboratory Scientific Research Officer, full-time, fixed-term appointment (5 years).
Check out the full job advert on our website for further information and the application form: www.bsa.ac.uk/2025/09/04/f...
My fab art history seminar group spent today's session designing and pitching an exhibition on iconoclasm for an imaginary job interview to be a gallery curator. I love that one group selected this sculpture by Esther Strauß to be their exhibition's finale:
October 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My fab art history seminar group spent today's session designing and pitching an exhibition on iconoclasm for an imaginary job interview to be a gallery curator. I love that one group selected this sculpture by Esther Strauß to be their exhibition's finale:
It's not often I succumb to Kickstarter, but this was irresistible: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dux...
Endearment
Fall in love in Endearment: the ultimate Jane Austen game for 1 to 4 romantics.
www.kickstarter.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It's not often I succumb to Kickstarter, but this was irresistible: www.kickstarter.com/projects/dux...
Gave a paper at the Bristol Classics Seminar yesterday on Arthur Evans & skulls. Great fun to share the Dark Truths (TM) with a brand new audience. Got to stop miming Charles Hawes being lowered down into a TOWER OF SKULLS to see how many he can grab like a claw machine (it was 26 - he was pleased).
October 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Gave a paper at the Bristol Classics Seminar yesterday on Arthur Evans & skulls. Great fun to share the Dark Truths (TM) with a brand new audience. Got to stop miming Charles Hawes being lowered down into a TOWER OF SKULLS to see how many he can grab like a claw machine (it was 26 - he was pleased).
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We've launched a podcast: #AwayWithThePharaohs!
Listen now for an introduction to @theees.bsky.social and the #podcast itself. Make sure you follow to never miss our monthly episodes (starting tomorrow), bringing Egypt to life in ways you’ve never heard before! #InternationalPodcastDay
Listen now for an introduction to @theees.bsky.social and the #podcast itself. Make sure you follow to never miss our monthly episodes (starting tomorrow), bringing Egypt to life in ways you’ve never heard before! #InternationalPodcastDay
September 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We've launched a podcast: #AwayWithThePharaohs!
Listen now for an introduction to @theees.bsky.social and the #podcast itself. Make sure you follow to never miss our monthly episodes (starting tomorrow), bringing Egypt to life in ways you’ve never heard before! #InternationalPodcastDay
Listen now for an introduction to @theees.bsky.social and the #podcast itself. Make sure you follow to never miss our monthly episodes (starting tomorrow), bringing Egypt to life in ways you’ve never heard before! #InternationalPodcastDay
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Here is the direct zoom registration link: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
VIEWS Autumn Seminars 2025
We have three seminars this term, each beginning at 16.30 and ending at approximately 18.00 UK time (please note the change from BST to GMT for the 3rd seminar).
8th Octob...
cam-ac-uk.zoom.us
September 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Here is the direct zoom registration link: cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
CPF: the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR Group online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) is on the 27th of Nov. We welcome proposals on any topic within the remit of the group - an ideal place to test out a chapter, article idea or presentation. forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC...
Please share!
Please share!
LBA/EIA Aegean ECR Group Online Conference
The seventh mini-conference of the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Aegean Early Career Research Group will take place online on the afternoon of Thursday the 27th of November, and is being organised by...
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September 29, 2025 at 8:14 AM
CPF: the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR Group online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) is on the 27th of Nov. We welcome proposals on any topic within the remit of the group - an ideal place to test out a chapter, article idea or presentation. forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC...
Please share!
Please share!
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The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery.
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Late night library find: a pamphlet written by the archaeologist John Evans with a note on the front cover that appears to be in his hand, dedicating it to his son, Arthur Evans (of Knossos fame).
Any experts on Evan's handwriting out there?
Any experts on Evan's handwriting out there?
September 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Late night library find: a pamphlet written by the archaeologist John Evans with a note on the front cover that appears to be in his hand, dedicating it to his son, Arthur Evans (of Knossos fame).
Any experts on Evan's handwriting out there?
Any experts on Evan's handwriting out there?
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the 16th colloquium on Mycenaean studies (basically Aegean scripts) begins in two days in Madrid: www.uned.es/universidad/...
Mostrar noticia de la facultad
Noticias de la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - UNED
www.uned.es
September 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
the 16th colloquium on Mycenaean studies (basically Aegean scripts) begins in two days in Madrid: www.uned.es/universidad/...
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Did Marco Polo’s dad abscond with an ancient Chinese tomb statue? Lead isotope analysis suggests that might be how the Lion of Venice got to Italy in the 13th century. 🏺🧪
(Study published today in @antiquity.ac.uk.)
(Study published today in @antiquity.ac.uk.)
Iconic winged lion statue in Venice may actually be from China's Tang dynasty, study finds
A new study of the trace amounts of lead in Venice's famous winged lion statue suggests that its metal originated in China — and Marco Polo's family may have brought it over.
www.livescience.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Did Marco Polo’s dad abscond with an ancient Chinese tomb statue? Lead isotope analysis suggests that might be how the Lion of Venice got to Italy in the 13th century. 🏺🧪
(Study published today in @antiquity.ac.uk.)
(Study published today in @antiquity.ac.uk.)