Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
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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...
Now available here: doi.org/10.30861/978...
I couldn't be happier to be publishing this with BAR Publishing! Please feel free to ask your library to order a copy!!
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I've reviewed another kid's book... it was tough.
'Gross facts about the Middle Ages' (2017)
You can read the review here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/b...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie...
'Gross facts about the Middle Ages' (2017)
You can read the review here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/b...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie...
Book review: ‘Gross facts about the Middle Ages’ (2017)
This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Let’s review a kid…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I've reviewed another kid's book... it was tough.
'Gross facts about the Middle Ages' (2017)
You can read the review here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/b...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie...
'Gross facts about the Middle Ages' (2017)
You can read the review here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/b...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie...
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is believed to be where St Kentigern, also known as Mungo, established his cell and performed baptisms in the waters of the Molendinar Burn below. The natural well was later incorporated into the walls of Glasgow Cathedral, forming the heart of the Kentigern Shrine.
It is believed to be where St Kentigern, also known as Mungo, established his cell and performed baptisms in the waters of the Molendinar Burn below. The natural well was later incorporated into the walls of Glasgow Cathedral, forming the heart of the Kentigern Shrine.
Hidden well in Glasgow Cathedral crypt shines blue with mosaic
A forgotten section of the crypt at Glasgow Cathedral has been reimagined for public viewing for the first time in living memory.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It is believed to be where St Kentigern, also known as Mungo, established his cell and performed baptisms in the waters of the Molendinar Burn below. The natural well was later incorporated into the walls of Glasgow Cathedral, forming the heart of the Kentigern Shrine.
It is believed to be where St Kentigern, also known as Mungo, established his cell and performed baptisms in the waters of the Molendinar Burn below. The natural well was later incorporated into the walls of Glasgow Cathedral, forming the heart of the Kentigern Shrine.
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Ok folks, I've got a task I need help with.
I need to know about high money value detector finds found since 2019 (not including tudor heart or Chew Valley hoard) from news reports, social media posts etc.
England & Wales only.
Please share, thank you 😊
#Archaeology 🏺 #Treasure #Detecting
I need to know about high money value detector finds found since 2019 (not including tudor heart or Chew Valley hoard) from news reports, social media posts etc.
England & Wales only.
Please share, thank you 😊
#Archaeology 🏺 #Treasure #Detecting
November 30, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Ok folks, I've got a task I need help with.
I need to know about high money value detector finds found since 2019 (not including tudor heart or Chew Valley hoard) from news reports, social media posts etc.
England & Wales only.
Please share, thank you 😊
#Archaeology 🏺 #Treasure #Detecting
I need to know about high money value detector finds found since 2019 (not including tudor heart or Chew Valley hoard) from news reports, social media posts etc.
England & Wales only.
Please share, thank you 😊
#Archaeology 🏺 #Treasure #Detecting
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I am delighted to have received a copy of the brilliant new @stoneclub.bsky.social, particularly as it includes some of my artwork!
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
I am delighted to have received a copy of the brilliant new @stoneclub.bsky.social, particularly as it includes some of my artwork!
#StandingStoneSunday
#StandingStoneSunday
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The beautiful cover art for a tourist booklet, Tynedale and the Roman Wall, produced by British Railways (the Railway Executive N.E. Region) in 1950.
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The beautiful cover art for a tourist booklet, Tynedale and the Roman Wall, produced by British Railways (the Railway Executive N.E. Region) in 1950.
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
It lies on a copy of the 1964 edition of the OS map of Hadrian’s Wall.
#RomanFortThursday
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Stamped Dressel 20 amphora handle, dated early 3rd C AD. It was found in Carpow Roman Fortress, a legionary base on the confluence of the rivers Tay and Earn, Scotland.
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Stamped Dressel 20 amphora handle, dated early 3rd C AD. It was found in Carpow Roman Fortress, a legionary base on the confluence of the rivers Tay and Earn, Scotland.
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
The Scimnianii produced olive oil in Roman Baetica, southern Hispania.
📸 my own, Dundee.
#FindsFriday
#RomanBritain
#Archaeology
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This is a somewhat squashed Roman penannular brooch. This distribution of this type of brooch focuses on Roman military sites & by towns. The use of humped pins is concentrated in the north of Britain. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
November 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
This is a somewhat squashed Roman penannular brooch. This distribution of this type of brooch focuses on Roman military sites & by towns. The use of humped pins is concentrated in the north of Britain. #FindsFriday finds.org.uk/database/art...
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Oh. My. Goodness.
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
November 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Oh. My. Goodness.
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
It is really real. Museum theft advent calendar!!
www.playmobil.com/en-gb/advent...
#Archaeology 🏺
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🏺 Archaeology = materiality, connection, deep-time relevance to present & future
New landmark research out today: We've just launched Trowel and Error, the most in-depth look in 25 years at how audiences want to engage with archaeology. The findings are clear: people want human, accessible, story-led archaeology.
Read the report here 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
Read the report here 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...
November 28, 2025 at 2:52 PM
🏺 Archaeology = materiality, connection, deep-time relevance to present & future
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Happy #FindsFriday everyone! 🏺
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
November 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Happy #FindsFriday everyone! 🏺
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
This week we've chosen an Egyptian ring with a small mouse amulet. The amulet is inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III. 🐀
On view at the Met.
Reposted by Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The truth is that the sentence wasn’t inaccurate – it was removed because of legal fears. And that’s exactly the concern my lecture raises: when institutions start censoring themselves out of fear of those in power. /3
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The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
Reposted by Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A stunning late #Roman glass goblet
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Probably made in Egypt around AD 400
Found buried as a grave good at Highdown hillfort West #Sussex and now in Worthing @wtm.uk
📷 May 2024
An inscription around the vessel in Greek reads *use me and good health to you* 🥂
#FindsFriday #FridayFeeling
Reposted by Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
🏺 Two things have become clear in researching #Matriarcha:
1) direct evidence of how dangerous birth is – skeletons with stuck at-term babies inside them – goes back many millennia
2) humans/hominins have likely been obligate social birthers for about as long as they've been obligate tool users
1) direct evidence of how dangerous birth is – skeletons with stuck at-term babies inside them – goes back many millennia
2) humans/hominins have likely been obligate social birthers for about as long as they've been obligate tool users
Point of order: all human births are “natural.” Medical interventions in fertility are a fundamental part of the deep history of our species. Stop mom-shaming women who want and need medicine for being, um, human. Cheers!
November 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
🏺 Two things have become clear in researching #Matriarcha:
1) direct evidence of how dangerous birth is – skeletons with stuck at-term babies inside them – goes back many millennia
2) humans/hominins have likely been obligate social birthers for about as long as they've been obligate tool users
1) direct evidence of how dangerous birth is – skeletons with stuck at-term babies inside them – goes back many millennia
2) humans/hominins have likely been obligate social birthers for about as long as they've been obligate tool users
Why are the trains always perpetually f*cked.
November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Why are the trains always perpetually f*cked.
Pretty but also hurry up bus 🥶
November 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Pretty but also hurry up bus 🥶
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The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The impressive, multivallate Iron Age hillfort of Cadbury Castle encloses a roughly triangular hill above the river Yeo in #Somerset
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
We absolutely love it 😍
📷 © Frances Griffith 1989 / Somerset HER 49223
somersetheritage.org.uk/record/55105
#HillfortsWednesday
WANT
Fancy a #grasshoppers on a ring? The #Romans did.
Between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, grasshoppers seem to have been pretty fashionable amongst the subjects carved on #intaglios.
Between the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD, grasshoppers seem to have been pretty fashionable amongst the subjects carved on #intaglios.
November 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
WANT
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I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me.
Have some.
1/
Have some.
1/
November 23, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I think I’m just going to keep posting pictures of decorative Roman cavalry horse chamfrons from @vindolandatrust.bsky.social and @trimontiumtrust.bsky.social until people start blocking me.
Have some.
1/
Have some.
1/
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We should start calling these babies the Kennedy generation.
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough.
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Pertussis, best prevented with a vaccine, has killed three Kentucky babies in the last 12 months.
kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...
Third unvaccinated Kentucky baby dies of whooping cough • Kentucky Lantern
A third unvaccinated infant in Kentucky has died of pertussis as public health officials urge Kentuckians to get vaccinated against the disease.
kentuckylantern.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We should start calling these babies the Kennedy generation.
Reposted by Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
Soon... impatient for new Waterstones opening in Oxford.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Soon... impatient for new Waterstones opening in Oxford.
Spoilers.
Looking forward to watching this 🍿.
Looking forward to watching this 🍿.
Why was everyone in *Civilisations: Rise and Fall* dressed like they were in a 1950s Hollywood epic?
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
Stilicho looked like Richard Burton in *The Robe* with muscled cuirass and pointless wrist guards rather than in long sleeved tunic and big chonky brooch
Who was the historical advisor on this? 😱😱
November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Spoilers.
Looking forward to watching this 🍿.
Looking forward to watching this 🍿.
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When most online content comes from AI, human writing might become more valuable, not less. A researcher who studies #AI explores what gets lost when writers rely too heavily on language models to do their thinking. buff.ly/dACqbK3
More than half of new articles on the internet are being written by AI – is human writing headed for extinction?
As AI floods the internet with text, it could mean human voices will matter more – not less.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 PM
When most online content comes from AI, human writing might become more valuable, not less. A researcher who studies #AI explores what gets lost when writers rely too heavily on language models to do their thinking. buff.ly/dACqbK3
Reposted by Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
Thinking about UK, misinformation crisis & attempts to sow distrust in expertise...
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thinking about UK, misinformation crisis & attempts to sow distrust in expertise...
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment
#BBC should stop chasing big audiences and offering 24 hr news, and return to what it was long valued for: reliability.
- fact-checked reports vs instant reaction
- grown-up science & research vs. edutainment