Dr Rachel Pope
@prehistorian.bsky.social
Rankin Reader in European Prehistory • Vice President, The Prehistoric Society • on research leave ✍️
Resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • digs hillforts & Celts
Personal account #NUFC 🇵🇸
Resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • digs hillforts & Celts
Personal account #NUFC 🇵🇸
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Dr Rachel Pope
@prehistorian.bsky.social
· Sep 26
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core
Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology
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New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#openaccess✅
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#openaccess✅
I should think so. 23,000 folk unnecessarily dead and tens of thousands of us disabled, some permanently. Dereliction of duty in government office must have consequences. #LongCovid
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I should think so. 23,000 folk unnecessarily dead and tens of thousands of us disabled, some permanently. Dereliction of duty in government office must have consequences. #LongCovid
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The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
November 26, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The more of these other #TasTepeler sites in SE #Türkiye is coming to light, the more fascinating the early #Neolithic of the region gets:
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
arkeonews.net/a-stunning-t...
Have a look at this just announced sculpture from #Sayburc, emphasized ribs already hinting at death, but there's more ... 🏺💀
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Every child, no matter their background, deserves to have a good start in life. Ethnic minority children were disproportionately impacted by the two child limit which widens ethnic disparities in child poverty rates.
Scrapping this cruel policy to lift 450000 children out of poverty is a huge win!
Scrapping this cruel policy to lift 450000 children out of poverty is a huge win!
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Every child, no matter their background, deserves to have a good start in life. Ethnic minority children were disproportionately impacted by the two child limit which widens ethnic disparities in child poverty rates.
Scrapping this cruel policy to lift 450000 children out of poverty is a huge win!
Scrapping this cruel policy to lift 450000 children out of poverty is a huge win!
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💼 The Chancellor made a number of bold, important interventions in the Budget today:
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
💼 The Chancellor made a number of bold, important interventions in the Budget today:
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
- Scrapping the two-child limit in Universal Credit
- Lowering energy bills
- Holding down transport costs
- Increasing the minimum wage
These will all assist families struggling to get by.
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Fascinating thread! Always interested to read more on gendered labor in archaeology—check out this @trowelblazers.bsky.social post on Irene Mound, or these three recent BHA publications (#OpenAccess, as always!)
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November 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Fascinating thread! Always interested to read more on gendered labor in archaeology—check out this @trowelblazers.bsky.social post on Irene Mound, or these three recent BHA publications (#OpenAccess, as always!)
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New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui.
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
Three more ex-pupils at school with Nigel Farage reject ‘banter’ claims
Exclusive: Dulwich college contemporaries ‘rubbish’ Reform UK leader’s suggestion alleged racist taunts not intended to hurt
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New: Three new ex-pupils come forward, on the record, to say Farage's racism as a teenager was targeted, persistent and nasty. Farage has denied targeting any individuals - but two of the men tell us they recall Farage abusing Peter Ettedgui.
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
w/ Dan Boffey, @drblacklock.bsky.social
Anyone else broken and scoffed some Xmas chocs already 🙋♀️
November 25, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Anyone else broken and scoffed some Xmas chocs already 🙋♀️
Imagine rape victims seeing trial by expert and experience, rather than by a random selection of gut feelings. Might even lead to a world where 99% of cases aren’t dropped.
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases on.ft.com/3LY1Ceq
Jury trials in England and Wales to be scrapped except for most serious cases
Proposed changes unlikely to apply for trials of serious offences such as rape and murder
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Imagine rape victims seeing trial by expert and experience, rather than by a random selection of gut feelings. Might even lead to a world where 99% of cases aren’t dropped.
Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.
Ooh, ooh:
New open access publication: Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place: Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? Current Anthropology.
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Thanks to Wenner Gren for funding the workshop it emerged from!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Moving to Stay in (a Woman’s) Place : Was Patrilocality the Dominant Mode of Postmarital Residence across Later European Prehistory? | Current Anthropology
This paper questions whether forms of female mobility and their relation to kinship were uniform throughout later European prehistory. Patrilocality has become the primary way in which sex-based diffe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Ooh, ooh:
First Scouse of the season.
November 24, 2025 at 5:40 PM
First Scouse of the season.
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The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
Jimmy Cliff - Guns of Brixton
YouTube video by ReggaeNeration
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November 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The last of reggae's founding fathers. Rest in Power, Jimmy Cliff. youtu.be/ck1ZiRXmRN4?...
Very pleased and proud to announce 📣 that we have another prehistorian in our midst! Dr Sally Longworth passed her viva today with very minor corrections. Her thesis, a contextual study of Bronze Age Farming in Scotland, will be submitted for publication (once she’s had a rest)!
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Very pleased and proud to announce 📣 that we have another prehistorian in our midst! Dr Sally Longworth passed her viva today with very minor corrections. Her thesis, a contextual study of Bronze Age Farming in Scotland, will be submitted for publication (once she’s had a rest)!
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My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
My hot take is that over the next 10 years, we're going to see more emphasis on and investment in the humanities at Ivy League and other fancy schools just as state schools and small privates continue to decimate and even eliminate the humanities.
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"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Pitt Rivers really did not excel at hillforts.
November 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Pitt Rivers really did not excel at hillforts.
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I was hoping to have gotten set up for Christmas markets and with a website but it's been a rough year! Mari Lwyd and other keyrings/bag charms inspired by iron age/Romano-British artefacts). £15 each or two for £25 (UK postage only im afraid). Let me know below if you are interested.
November 20, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I was hoping to have gotten set up for Christmas markets and with a website but it's been a rough year! Mari Lwyd and other keyrings/bag charms inspired by iron age/Romano-British artefacts). £15 each or two for £25 (UK postage only im afraid). Let me know below if you are interested.
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1/ The Covid Inquiry's Module 2 report confirms critical failures at the highest levels of government, failures that have left millions with Long Covid and inadequate support.
We've drafted a press release in response:
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
We've drafted a press release in response:
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
Long Covid Support
To learn more visit LongCovid.org
www.longcovid.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:21 PM
1/ The Covid Inquiry's Module 2 report confirms critical failures at the highest levels of government, failures that have left millions with Long Covid and inadequate support.
We've drafted a press release in response:
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
We've drafted a press release in response:
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
Lunch today with the sponsors of PhD student, Jess Hornby, who is working to timeslice the Yorkshire cemeteries, and build an understanding of Iron Age identity through time.
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Lunch today with the sponsors of PhD student, Jess Hornby, who is working to timeslice the Yorkshire cemeteries, and build an understanding of Iron Age identity through time.
Any other #LongCovid sufferers excited to see just how ignored we’ll be by the #CovidEnquiry outcomes today.
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Any other #LongCovid sufferers excited to see just how ignored we’ll be by the #CovidEnquiry outcomes today.
Well, I know more about Bronze Age horses than I did a few days ago. Thank you @ansoc-erc.bsky.social 👌🏼
November 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Well, I know more about Bronze Age horses than I did a few days ago. Thank you @ansoc-erc.bsky.social 👌🏼