vickyannand.bsky.social
@vickyannand.bsky.social
Photographer, licensed Thames mudlark, volunteer, occasional percussionist. Loves creative choral projects.
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Join us for our 2026 #SummerSchool focusing on 'Sickness & Health' with @ihr.bsky.social! We'll have trips, #archive visits, and lectures exploring everything from medieval medicine to public health throughout #London 's #history. Sign up early for a 10% discount: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
November 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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One of the most beautiful bits of english eccentricity and glorious design is coming back to Sotheby’s and should be bought by a musuem (or me) for THE NATION. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Jewelled golden hare that sparked national treasure hunt set for auction
Artist and author Kit Williams hid a golden hare with clues to its precise location given in his 1979 book
www.independent.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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A great life, ended too soon.
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Harp, one of the ice instruments played by the Terje Isungset Quartet. A beautiful, haunting concert at Kings Place last night.
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Gorgeous iridescent clouds over the sea at Scarborough this afternoon 🥰 #birds #photography #nature
November 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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More than 600 homes and a 17-storey tower will now replace the derelict Leegate shopping centre – but the developer got a ticking-off from Lewisham councillors for branding the scheme “Blackheath Gate”.
Taller Leegate tower approved - but developer sorry for Blackheath branding - The Greenwich Wire
More than 600 homes and a 17-storey tower will now replace the derelict Leegate shopping centre – but the developer got a ticking-off from Lewisham councillors for branding the scheme “Blackheath…
greenwichwire.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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*Archaeological find of national significance broken up and dispersed overseas*

There, fixed that headline for you

www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/2562811...
Roman coin find in Dorset field sells for over £16,000
A hoard of 97 Roman coins found in Dorset by metal detectorist Trenton Oliver sold for £16,625 at Noonans Mayfair auction, exceeding estimates.
www.dorsetecho.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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St Mary le Strand’s ‘shimmering’ art screen turns out to be painted fabric over scaffolding

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/st-...
St Mary le Strand’s ‘shimmering’ art screen turns out to be painted fabric over scaffolding
The 300 year old St Mary le Strand church has been partially covered in a shimmering screen that is part functional cladding and part artwork.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Tess doing doing such good work on mining PAS data for the stories they fail to tell about the impact of unregulated metal detecting. The figures on exports are staggering and hidden in sight.

The system is broken and overdue significant reform
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Tried to get this published but no luck, so might as well ‘publish’ it here so it’s not a complete waste!

➡️ Stripping rights from refugees today endangers us all tomorrow

#asylum #Mahmood #history #humanrights
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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They come across fresh on every encounter. I never knew until now of @thegentleauthor.bsky.social's role in saving them.
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Dorothy Annan’s Murals At The Barbican spitalfieldslife.com/2025/11/17/d...
November 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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"Detectors now can pretty much tell you what it is before you dig it. You can tell what shape it is, you've got IDs so you know what type of metal it is"

From BBC article in my last post.

#Archaeology 🏺

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November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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If you’re feeling a bit sad it might help a little to know that this painting exists. It’s called Dynamism of a dog on a leash, by Giacomo Galla, 1912:
November 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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More than 50 trees on Woolwich Common that were set to be chopped down have been given a reprieve - at least for now - after an application to widen a road was taken off a planning committee’s agenda.

Plans for a new cycle lane had received over 500 objections.

greenwichwire.co.uk/2025/11/14/w...
Reprieve for Woolwich Common trees after cycle lane plans halted - The Greenwich Wire
More than 50 trees on Woolwich Common that were set to be chopped down have been given a reprieve after an application to widen a road was taken off a planning committee’s agenda.
greenwichwire.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This is why you should not eat nuts on a plane. A friends child went into anaphylaxis because of it.
November 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍

Berthoud Pass, CO last night
November 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Several minute piece on the BBC.
Lots of detectorists.
No archaeologists.
No-one from PAS.
No-one from museums.
No discussion of the costs or responsibilities involved.

😡

#Archaeology #Detecting #Treasure #BBC #News
November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Guess what I've spent the morning doing??

TLDR it's all getting worse: number of Treasure finds up, number of donations and acquisitions down.

#Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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...and still there are no figures for how much this is costing museums, us, you and me!

It's appalling...

#Archaeology
OK. These are the new, updated, figures for 2023.

Utterly miserable reading -

"1,343 #treasure finds reported in 2023 (1,091 object cases and 252 coin cases). Of these cases:

❌️328 (24%) were acquired by museums (260 object cases, 68 coin cases)"❌️

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#Archaeology 🏺

www.gov.uk/government/s...
Reported Treasure Finds 2023 and 2024 Statistical Release
www.gov.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Around this time of year and around Richmond town centre, the usually wide and deep River Thames shrinks to the width of a modest stream.

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bir...
Birds feast and boats rest as the Thames is lowered for the annual Richmond Draw-Off
Around this time of year and around Richmond town centre, the usually wide and deep River Thames shrinks to the width of a modest stream.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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London's enormously delayed new Docklands Light Railway (DLR) trains have been immediately withdrawn because of issues one of them had with stopping in the rain.
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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You may have missed this gem yesterday. From which we learn that:

1. Betting shops are really good for the mental health of isolated people.
2. Most drug-takers are not a problem.
3. Kids put tuppence in slot machines in the hope of getting rich.
4. Farage probably has a gambling industry donor.
November 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Swan family resting in the reflections of Canary Wharf
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓

itiner-e.org

We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

www.thesocialpost.it/2025/11/02/f...
November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM