Catherine Roberts
@alwaystotheside.bsky.social
I like ponies🐎, books📚, archaeology🏺. Mediocre rider, unfocused reader and currently studying for MA Archaeology at University of Reading.
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Also @adventuresintheoutback on Insta and @woman_much_missed on Insta(Bookstagram)
Not on X. No.
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Also @adventuresintheoutback on Insta and @woman_much_missed on Insta(Bookstagram)
Not on X. No.
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Check out this fine #Pleistocene-themed wall art photographed by my buddy Paul Stewart in Kennington, Oxford
November 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Check out this fine #Pleistocene-themed wall art photographed by my buddy Paul Stewart in Kennington, Oxford
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 2, 2025 at 2:40 PM
When we cross into a stone circle, we not only journey into the Long Neolithic, we walk into ritual, into a continuing sense of sacred. We mustn't look at it as a completed story. It is ongoing. Our being there only adds a new chapter to it. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
It was a long night...
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 AM
It was a long night...
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Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Minority representation on TV causes outrage
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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What a Zoom call might have been like in 1878. The telephone and the phonograph were recent inventions at this time, so George du Maurier imagined this is what Edison might have invented next. A sort of "Victorian Zoom." The Telephonoscope!
October 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM
What a Zoom call might have been like in 1878. The telephone and the phonograph were recent inventions at this time, so George du Maurier imagined this is what Edison might have invented next. A sort of "Victorian Zoom." The Telephonoscope!
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We're doing a conference on the Early Medieval Period and demand that you buy tickets and then share this post immediately.
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
The Sussex Archaeological Society Conference - Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record - Sussex Past
The Sussex Archaeological Society's Annual Conference: Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record on Saturday 8 November at University of Sussex.
sussexpast.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We're doing a conference on the Early Medieval Period and demand that you buy tickets and then share this post immediately.
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...
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Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390
September 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Hare riding a hound with a trained snail of prey
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390
Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390
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English, Anthropology, Sociology... removing these options for the majority would of course help the class war substantially, by preventing most people from learning more in understanding and appreciating the real diversity of humanity, culture and its communication
October 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
English, Anthropology, Sociology... removing these options for the majority would of course help the class war substantially, by preventing most people from learning more in understanding and appreciating the real diversity of humanity, culture and its communication
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
www.cambridge.org
September 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
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Cannot mention Arthurian Legend without linking my favorite retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight EVER
the-toast.archive.town/2015/06/03/s...
the-toast.archive.town/2015/06/03/s...
Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
Come over for dinner, it'll be fun.
the-toast.archive.town
September 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Cannot mention Arthurian Legend without linking my favorite retelling of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight EVER
the-toast.archive.town/2015/06/03/s...
the-toast.archive.town/2015/06/03/s...
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Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
September 23, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just to be clear:
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
- Paracetamol does not cause autism.
- Sadiq Khan is not introducing Sharia law in the UK
- We do not have a massive free speech problem here.
- Britain is not on the verge of civil war.
These are not controversial subjects or contested, they're just not true.
I did it DIY. No agents, no pluggers, no management. I spoke to existing contacts, I booked a few venues myself, I asked friends to help out with bookings and contacts, I put the word out online that I was looking for gigs. Ended up with 110 dates over an 18 month period.
September 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Have they tried just turning off the Large Hadron Collider?
Like, for an afternoon?
Just to see if all of this dreadful stuff stops.
Like, for an afternoon?
Just to see if all of this dreadful stuff stops.
September 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Have they tried just turning off the Large Hadron Collider?
Like, for an afternoon?
Just to see if all of this dreadful stuff stops.
Like, for an afternoon?
Just to see if all of this dreadful stuff stops.
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I am filled with that ache that comes with the last Bank Holiday in August. A knowing of dying days. The last sighing of summer told in the English need to head for the beach or the pub. Collective rituals to mark the rush into the nseason of bonefire smoke incense and dead leaf ghosts. - #MattAdams
August 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I am filled with that ache that comes with the last Bank Holiday in August. A knowing of dying days. The last sighing of summer told in the English need to head for the beach or the pub. Collective rituals to mark the rush into the nseason of bonefire smoke incense and dead leaf ghosts. - #MattAdams
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If you don't follow @themerl.bsky.social then you're dead to me ✋️
We're 300 followers away from 70,000. 300 more would be really nice. But you know what would be even better? 300 plus 30,000.
Bluesky: help a museum out
Bluesky: help a museum out
August 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
If you don't follow @themerl.bsky.social then you're dead to me ✋️
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I do legit forget that I'm an adult sometimes.
Kinda sad sometimes.
I still wanna think about what I want to be when I grow up.
Kinda sad sometimes.
I still wanna think about what I want to be when I grow up.
July 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I do legit forget that I'm an adult sometimes.
Kinda sad sometimes.
I still wanna think about what I want to be when I grow up.
Kinda sad sometimes.
I still wanna think about what I want to be when I grow up.
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Come for the heritage. Stay because you forgot where you parked…
July 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Come for the heritage. Stay because you forgot where you parked…
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Oh this is. Oh I had not realised this but BINGO. That’s it. I would read a couple thousand words of somebody exploring the connection between labour (and the USA republicans tbf) focusing on ‘saving’ manufacturing, mining, etc because of gender implications
Once again it’s amazing that the government intervenes about 1,300 jobs at risk at Lotus cars who sold a piffling 12k cars to rich people last year but is happy to let the Higher Education sector with 400,000 employees die on its arse. Labour intervene when MANLY jobs are at risk you see
July 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Oh this is. Oh I had not realised this but BINGO. That’s it. I would read a couple thousand words of somebody exploring the connection between labour (and the USA republicans tbf) focusing on ‘saving’ manufacturing, mining, etc because of gender implications
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Once again it’s amazing that the government intervenes about 1,300 jobs at risk at Lotus cars who sold a piffling 12k cars to rich people last year but is happy to let the Higher Education sector with 400,000 employees die on its arse. Labour intervene when MANLY jobs are at risk you see
July 5, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Once again it’s amazing that the government intervenes about 1,300 jobs at risk at Lotus cars who sold a piffling 12k cars to rich people last year but is happy to let the Higher Education sector with 400,000 employees die on its arse. Labour intervene when MANLY jobs are at risk you see