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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · May 20

The SAAH Wednesday Seminar Team would like to invite everyone to our talk this Wednesday 21st May. Our speaker will be Dr Heather Keeble presenting ‘How to Get Ahead in Archaeology: Using Book Reviews to Build Communities and Careers in Nineteenth-Century British Archaeology’.

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · May 13

📚SAAH's BODY-POLITICS project have just published the first interdisciplinary study on pregnancy in the Viking Age.

Check it out here:
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · May 13

📢Join us for our seminar on Wed 14th May at 5pm when Gabrielle Russo will be presenting: '"He brought justice to al-Shām after a stretch of corruption”: Local Leadership and Revitalisation in al-Buhturī’s (d.897) Poems for Khumārawayh (d.896)’. eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · May 6

👩‍🎓Ever wondered what you can do with a degree in Ancient History?

🎥Check out this YouTube video from one of our graduates Claire Jackson which explores how her degree helped her discover a passion for sharing history in innovative and accessible ways.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8t...

From Ancient History to digital audience development: Claire's career journey

YouTube video by Uni of Leicester

www.youtube.com

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Apr 30

👨‍🎓Join us for our research seminar at 4pm today, given by Dr Andriy Danylenko of Pace University, New York on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrīqīyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium'.

💻To join online: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Apr 22

📢We’re delighted to announce the Term 3 programme for the hybrid Wednesday Research Seminars at 5pm each week.

👇 We'll post the Teams link here before each seminar.

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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · Apr 8

*PUBLIC LECTURE*

On 30 April, Prof Andriy Danylenko (Pace University, NY) will be giving a public lecture on 'The Slavic Slaves in al-Andalus & Ifrīqīyah: A Case of Linguistic Hybridization in the Late First Millennium', hosted by the DoSSE project & the University of Leicester.

Details below ⬇️

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Apr 2

📻Tune in to hear our very own Dr Kathryn Tempest discuss the Gracchi and the fall of the Roman Republic on #BBC #Radio4 programme 'In Our Time' tomorrow morning: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Gracchi

Why two brothers became linked to the fall of the Roman Republic and rise of the emperors.

www.bbc.co.uk

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Apr 1

📢NEWSFLASH! We've joined forces with #TimeTeam @timeteam.bsky.social to profile student experience on their first fieldschool excavating a #Roman #villa in #Leicestershire.

🎥Tune in on Saturday at 7pm when the episode will air on Time Team's YouTube channel. (www.youtube.com/c/TimeTeamOf...).

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Edinburgh Archaeology @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thurs 3 April 16:15 in the Meadows LT for our ArchSoc/OneHealth Archaeology seminar is @thehem.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social ‘Body-politics: Untold stories of broken bodies from Iron & Viking-age Scandinavia’ #medievalsky #Vikings #EdinArch #archaeology 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social ⚔️☠️

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 31

👩‍🎓Last week, our very own Dr Laura Basell gave a keynote lecture about the exciting fieldwork she directs on #Dartmoor Tor enclosures at the ‘Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies’ conference at #Kiel University, Germany. #archaeology #neolithic #tors

School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 27

🍰Yesterday was the annual Great Greek Monument Bake Off featuring edibles based on the content of Janie Masséglia's third-year module AH3082 Great Greek Monuments.

🏆Star Baker was Gen, with lemon & poppy seed 'Soul Cakes' inspired by the images of human souls on white ground lekythoi. Great work!

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 26

👑"...Since then people just know where Leicester is..." 👑

📆This week marks ten years since Richard III's reinterment at #Leicester Cathedral.

📰Read more about the Richard III effect in this #BBC article:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#archaeology #richardiii #universityofleicester

Richard III's final path to rest in Leicester 10 years on

The reinterment of the last of the Plantagenets marked a unique moment in British history.

www.bbc.co.uk

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 25

👨‍🎓Our very own Prof. Ben Jervis gave the keynote at a conference called 'Looking at things differently. New Materialist approaches in Archaeology' in Mainz, Germany last week.

❓He explored how the application of innovative theory can destabilise our perceptions of urban life in medieval England.

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 25

📢On 26th March at 5pm Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’. Join online with the following link: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/ap/t-59584e8...

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 25

📢Check out PhD student Kayt Hawkin's article on the function of a range of vessels traditional identified as Roman infant feeding bottles in the journal 'Childhood in the Past'.

📷Image credit: Colchester & Ipswich Museums
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 24

📢This week Prof. Cyprian Broodbank will deliver our Wednesday seminar on ‘Oued Beht (Morocco): New light on the later prehistoric dynamics of Mediterranean Africa’.

🍰There will be cake at 4.30pm & the hybrid seminar will start at 5pm. Check out our Facebook page for the Teams link!

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Herodotus Helpline @herodotushelpline.bsky.social · Mar 21

The Herodotus Helpline is delighted to share details of its spring/summer 2025 edition of talks! All talks are freely open to everybody. Just register at [email protected] #Herodotus @classicsforall.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

Programme of talks for the April-June 2025 Herodotus Helpline series:
2 April Tom Harrison (British Museum)
Divinity and History – 25 years on

30 April Ian Oliver (Regis)
Audiences of Herodotus

14 May Round-table: Teaching Herodotus

28 May Matteo Zaccarini (Bologna/Ravenna)
Herodotus’ women

11 June Rosalind Thomas (Balliol College, Oxford)
Herodotus in Context – 25 years on

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 19

🎉🎉🎉Congratulations to SAAH doctoral student Kai Francis who passed his piratical #PhD this month with minor corrections.

👨‍🎓His thesis explores how real campaigns against #pirates turned into the stuff of rhetoric within the discourse of Rome's emerging imperial power. 🎉🎉🎉

#romanpirates

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 18

📢The #Heritage Hub’s #Celebration of Heritage Event will take place on Sat. 22 March 2025 11am-4pm at Students’ Union (Percy Gee Building), University of #Leicester.

🏛Explore our campus heritage and collections and discover and celebrate the rich history and heritage of our city and region!

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EAMENA @eamena.bsky.social · Mar 17

📣 Our work with Palestinian colleagues in monitoring heritage damage in #Gaza is mentioned as part of an article out in @theguardian.com:👇🏻
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

@unioxarchaeology.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

The Pasha Palace seen in 2022 and again on 5 January 2024. Getty Images

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 17

🎉We've just heard that the School have been ranked 40th in the world for Archaeology in the QS World University Rankings by Subject for 2025. Not only that, we've climbed 10 places in the rankings since last year! Well done everyone!🎉

www.topuniversities.com/university-s...

QS World University Rankings for Archaeology 2025

Discover the world's top universities for Archaeology 2025. Explore the QS World University Rankings by Subject in various disciplines.

www.topuniversities.com

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 11

🎥For those of you who couldn't make it on the day, we've now uploaded a video to YouTube of the ceremony which renamed the home of Archaeology, Ancient History and Museum Studies as the Kathleen Kenyon Building. Check it out here: youtu.be/MzZRQTno2C0

Kathleen Kenyon Building Naming Ceremony

YouTube video by School of Archaeology & Ancient History, Leicester

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 11

📢Register now for an exciting workshop on the Global Levant during the Middle Ages to be held at UoL on 27th-28th March. The workshop is organised by Dr Carmen Ting in collaboration with the Council for British Research in the Levant.

💻For more information, visit: www.cbrl.ac.uk/event/global...

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School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social · Mar 10

📢Our speaker at this week's Wednesday seminar will be Dr Gwendoline Maurer presenting ‘Reassessing Kura-Araxes pastoral practices and mobility in the Levant & Caucasus using zooarchaeology, ZooMS & stable isotope analysis’.

📚12th March @ 5pm George Porter LT A or online. See Facebook for the link!

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