Rachel King
@rachelking.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at UCL
History in/of archaeological thought, disorder, 🇱🇸🗻🇿🇦, mobility: https://tinyurl.com/4rb3av9n
Neoliberalism + heritage: https://tinyurl.com/5bedkshr
Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies: https://tinyurl.com/92rmc887
History in/of archaeological thought, disorder, 🇱🇸🗻🇿🇦, mobility: https://tinyurl.com/4rb3av9n
Neoliberalism + heritage: https://tinyurl.com/5bedkshr
Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies: https://tinyurl.com/92rmc887
It’s historical archaeology! Its heritage! It came out 24 hours before my first child! Not my most recent book but maybe my most obscure (and beloved) for the above reasons
Unformatted open access version on my UCL Profiles page
Unformatted open access version on my UCL Profiles page
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 AM
It’s historical archaeology! Its heritage! It came out 24 hours before my first child! Not my most recent book but maybe my most obscure (and beloved) for the above reasons
Unformatted open access version on my UCL Profiles page
Unformatted open access version on my UCL Profiles page
My children have complementary approaches to birthday cake
July 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
My children have complementary approaches to birthday cake
Cape Town, in which I rotate workspaces based on how Table Mountain looks at different times of day.
May 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Cape Town, in which I rotate workspaces based on how Table Mountain looks at different times of day.
My mother tried to guilt me into making my kids do something by saying ‘it’s part of their heritage’. An interesting (and unfortunate) strategy … 👀
April 2, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My mother tried to guilt me into making my kids do something by saying ‘it’s part of their heritage’. An interesting (and unfortunate) strategy … 👀
Got the kids a pretend plasters kit for Christmas and the commitment to gore is really something
December 31, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Got the kids a pretend plasters kit for Christmas and the commitment to gore is really something
Festive horrors from the 2yo
December 31, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Festive horrors from the 2yo
Not the most picturesque snowfall in the world but I’ll take it! 🌨️❄️
November 19, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Not the most picturesque snowfall in the world but I’ll take it! 🌨️❄️
Died a little when I read this. From Andrew O’Hagan, ‘Caledonian Road’, 2024.
July 13, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Died a little when I read this. From Andrew O’Hagan, ‘Caledonian Road’, 2024.
🥳🏺Finally I get to announce that our textbook Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies will be out this summer #OpenAccess!
March 11, 2024 at 2:09 PM
🥳🏺Finally I get to announce that our textbook Methods and Methodologies in Heritage Studies will be out this summer #OpenAccess!
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January 5, 2024 at 7:20 PM
advertise your account with one image
Cape Town’s alright, I guess
November 5, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Cape Town’s alright, I guess
Johannesburg looks its best during jacaranda season, I think
November 2, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Johannesburg looks its best during jacaranda season, I think
In assembling the Great Zim exhibition in 1930, ethnologist Wilhelm Maund insisted that the soapstone ‘hawks’ were really phalluses. Spoiler: they’re birds
October 19, 2023 at 9:27 AM
In assembling the Great Zim exhibition in 1930, ethnologist Wilhelm Maund insisted that the soapstone ‘hawks’ were really phalluses. Spoiler: they’re birds
🏺Today’s archaeology archives: Gertrude Caton-Thompson’s 1929 expedition to Great Zimbabwe, with this note about her team including Kathleen Kenyon
October 19, 2023 at 7:44 AM
🏺Today’s archaeology archives: Gertrude Caton-Thompson’s 1929 expedition to Great Zimbabwe, with this note about her team including Kathleen Kenyon
I’ve been channeling Christine Baranski in Addams Family Values all day
September 26, 2023 at 9:59 AM
I’ve been channeling Christine Baranski in Addams Family Values all day
Truly and without a hint of irony considering this as a Halloween costume
(Post brought to you by Day 1 of undergraduate inductions)
(Post brought to you by Day 1 of undergraduate inductions)
September 25, 2023 at 10:11 AM
Truly and without a hint of irony considering this as a Halloween costume
(Post brought to you by Day 1 of undergraduate inductions)
(Post brought to you by Day 1 of undergraduate inductions)