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We are Enrichment Through Archaeology. We provide school workshops, manage community heritage projects and offer guided tours of the Peak District. Interested in Neolithic, museums & religion and rapidly learning about early medieval agriculture!

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 2d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 12h

Would he settle for Emperor?

Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 1d

Duly ignored.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 1d

a man with a mustache wearing a military uniform and beret

ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a military uniform and beret

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 1d

For this week's offering for #TombTuesday is this tomb of an unknown priest probably dating to the 15th century CE. Situated in a recess in the north wall of the nave of St Peter & St Blaise, Somersal Herbert.
#Derbyshire

Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, BBS is probably the way to go.

Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 2d

They rarely do.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 3d

This poll in The Times is still open.

Go to —> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/ti...

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 3d

Succinct is the key. Slipping into the zone is your enemy.

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Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy

My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 3d

The old phone box in Marston Montgomery is now a little library. Looking like it's leaning towards the grit box due to the weight of books. 🤔 #PhoneBox #CommunityLibrary #Derbyshire

An old red phone box is leaning towards the yellow grit box to the right of it. Behind is a mixed species hedge and in front cut grass.

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Poor Frank Raw @handle.invalid · 4d

DUTCH AUCTION in support of salivaryglandcancer.uk

In my shop, this piece is priced at £165. At noon every day (BST) the price drops by £10, until it sells.

First DM gets it. UK shipping only.

Half of what you pay will go to SGC UK.

Please repost for widest coverage. Thank you :)

Hand carved #lettering on Hopton Wood limestone. I AM WHAT I AM.

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 3d

Back on the bike after a month off with arthritis in left hip went berserk. A little creaky getting on/off and used lower gear generally. Stuck to base route and time was pretty much the same. Pleased with that. ☺️

Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 3d

For this week’s offering for #StandingStoneSunday here’s An upright stone or orthostat covered in lichen. Part of the Iron Age settlement of Carn Euny in #Cornwall.

An upright stone or orthostat covered in lichen. Part of the Iron Age settlement of Carn Euny in Cornwall.

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Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 4d

Mooched about the countryside today. Looking at and that. Included Somersall Herbert Hall.
#Derbyshire #Heritage

Colour image of a medieval timber framed hall includes the modern gates.

Colour image of a medieval timber framed wall.

Colour image of a medieval timber framed hall.

Enricharch @enricharch.bsky.social · 4d

*checks today's cultural bingo card*

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St Albans Museums @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social · 4d

☕ Swing by the Courtroom Café at St Albans Museum + Gallery this weekend for a cosy coffee break. Great coffee, friendly faces, and a perfect spot to unwind.

#StAlbans #StAlbansMuseums #Cafe #Coffee