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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺

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Archaeologist and writer. Once-upon-a-time a diplomat. Rural. https://clairemillington.com (She/her)

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · Feb 24

I couldn't be happier to be publishing this with BAR Publishing! Please feel free to ask your library to order a copy!!

BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social · Feb 24

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Military Households of Roman Auxiliary Commanders in Western Europe and North Africa by @clairemillington.bsky.social!🏺

Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 12m

Thomas Keyes demonstrating how manuscripts like the Book of Kells and Lindisfarne Gospels were made. Videos from a Lottery funded project based at the Tarbat Discovery Centre. Thanks to @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social for the link www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSJd...

Stories on Skins: Calligraphy

YouTube video by Tarbat Discovery Centre

www.youtube.com

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 50m

‘The idea is to write it so people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.’
— Maya Angelou
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 8h

I visited the magnificent Porta Nigra in Trier yesterday! It’s the best preserved Roman city gate north of the Alps! 🤩

I’m here for a few days with my museum buddy @drnwillburger.bsky.social Today we’re going to the State Exhibition ‘Marcus Aurelius’.

#Archaeology

A photo of me standing in front of the huge Roman city gate known as the ‘Porta Nigra’ in Trier yesterday. The afternoon sun is shining through an upper window.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 2h

After a day at the games, little Flavius was thrilled when his father bought him a souvenir lamp with a man being devoured alive by lions. Just like it happened in the amphitheater! Such fun. 😳 🏺

Roman, 1-50 CE. #BritishMuseum #ancientbluesky
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Mold-made terracotta lamp. The central disk on the top has a relief scene with a man on his back being attacked and devoured by a thin lion. Another lion stands up, watching to the right.

British Museum (1977,1203.6)

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Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social · 55m

"People tend to select from history what pleases them, and I think that the historians' job is to remind them that the rest of it exists." -- me

Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1h

At a conference last year a prominent senior political scientist told me he was "disturbed" that I was using settler colonialism as a frame in my book on US migration & citizenship history because I should "give the MAGA people something to be proud of in their history." 1/

Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 2h

Let me state this as clearly as I can:

It is not the job of a historian to make you feel good about your nation’s past.

We need to print this on t-shirts and bumper stickers.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 55m

Going to this University of Kent lecture on Britain's Last Roman hoards that is tonight - and IT'S ONLINE SO I CAN #TinyJoys

(Can't find a link - it's by research.kent.ac.uk/late-antique...)

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 7h

Latin word of the day: cumba, cumbae f. A small boat or skiff; specifically the type of boat used by Charon, the ferryman of the underworld.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 10h

What’s that Jeremy? Your private healthcare couldn’t save your life but the NHS could?

People need to think long and hard about voting for Reform, Farage openly says we need insurance based healthcare, but what about people who can’t afford it?

They die. It’s simple.

Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 1d

Embarrassing Jeremy Clarkson u-turns on his criticism of the NHS after receiving urgent treatment his private care couldn’t provide.

Jeremy Clarkson reneges on NHS criticism after needing urgent treatment

Presenter, who called service ‘a creaking monster’, says he’s ‘eternally grateful’ to medics who aided him

www.independent.co.uk

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 6h

Bus services are vital - I live in an Oxfordshire village and it's my main way out getting out and about. Lots of people use them - college students, commuters, pensioners, mums. They keep cars off the road - they are social and economic infrastructure and shouldn't need to be profitable.

Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 6h

New arrangements for running the county’s buses will be on the table at next week’s Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting. Council officers have recommended closer engagement with bus companies (Enhanced Partnership+) but Labour wants the council to set routes/timetables itself (franchising).

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Dr Wendy Morrison @hillfortian.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah it's only matter of time before they decide archaeology is the reason for the housing crisis, too.

Build baby build until we have no past, no future... What a present.

Debbie Tann MBE @debbietann.bsky.social · 1d

We are being sold a false story that nature is the enemy. That newts, bats, snails and spiders are somehow responsible for the so-called housing crisis and a blocker to economic growth. This is a deliberate lie - using a cynically chosen group of species that could be found in a witches cauldron.

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 1d

As the agricultural cycle starts to wind down for the winter, my next post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' looks forward to its resumption in the new year, when...

‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/14/t...

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England III: ‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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University Archaeology Day @uniarchday.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking about Rome again?! Also check out our lovely friends over at the Classical Association classicalassociation.org (they don't seem to be on Bluesky!) for more resources and events on all things Roman, Greek and Egyptian!

Image shows Dr Louise O'Brien, an Egyptologist at the University of Liverpool, sitting in front of a lot of academic books, to advertise the Classical Association's podcast featuring Experts in Residence. The topmost QR code links to the podcast, the lower one to more information on University Archaeology Day on 27/10/25 at the British Library.

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Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social · 2d

Do you work with Roman finds? Got a Cool Thing you want to share with the world? Found something in the ground or in the stores that puzzles you? Looking for parallels? Want to shout about your event, museum or book? Lucerna, the newsletter of the Roman Finds Group, needs you! #roman #archaeology🏺

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Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social · 2d

#AllMetalMonday
Silver bust of #Roman Empress Livia 59BC-AD29, found on shore at Herculaneum, likely taken by fugitive from AD79 eruption.
Divorced 1st husband Nero.
2nd, Octavius, became Emperor Augustus.
A key figure - but vile schemer or faithful adviser?
Said to love Prosecco.🥂
In Antiquarium 🏺

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 2d

New old book to help me think through the fall of decline.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 2d

This is a huge moment in linear broadcast TV. When I began my TV career in 2005, even history documentaries were expected to get 2 million viewers

Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 2d

Last month, something unusual happened in TV - none of the main channels got a million viewers at 9pm. The bigger problem was it happened a 2nd & 3rd time soon after.

Another unwelcome landmark for linear TV & our shrinking shared TV experience.

Does it matter?

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/o...

‘It was a binding experience’: TV producers mourn decline of hot 9pm slot

UK broadcasters used to rely on big audiences at 9pm, but as viewing habits change, figures are falling below the 1m mark

www.theguardian.com

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David Connolly BAJR @bajr-badger.bsky.social · 2d

Dr Büster's research is believed to be the first to focus on the lives and experiences of older adults in prehistoric and Roman Europe and will examine human remains and objects, many from York Museums Trust.

www.bajr.org/york-archaeo...

York archaeologist to uncover forgotten stories of ageing - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources

Age-Old Stories, led by an archaeologist at the University of York, will be the first large-scale study to focus on the lives and experiences of older adults in prehistoric and Roman Europe. By using ...

www.bajr.org

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 2d

Strange what survives. Found this yesterday, memento of Staffordshire County Youth orchestra trip (playing viola).

Orange luggage label 'Adult Education Study Tours' outward trip with flight no, destination Leningrad, holiday address Palace of Youth Hotel, and my name.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 7d

Mosaic of a running boar, from Piazza della Corporazioni, Ostia. Italy. #MosaicMonday

www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Roman Society > Imago > Image Details

Member Login

www.romansociety.org

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The Roman Society @theromansoc.bsky.social · 4d

'Milan, "Women and Ruins": The Luigi Rovati Foundation celebrates the pioneers of archaeological photography'

www.firstonline.info/en/Milan-Wom...

#ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Milan, "Women and Ruins": The Luigi Rovati Foundation celebrates the pioneers of archaeological photography.

Luigi Rovati Foundation is offering a talk titled "Women and Ruins: Archaeology, Photography, and Landscape." Friday, October 3, at 6:00 PM. Palazzo Venezia 52, Milan. Free admission, reservations…

www.firstonline.info

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 2d

Morning telly Riot Women. No notes.

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 3d

"please log onto eduroam"

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 3d

The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.

#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa

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Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺 @clairemillington.bsky.social · 3d

We are watching a bit behind the live show. I feel very much the same about Sweet Child. You can take the song out of the moshpit but.