Dr Rowan English
@rowane.bsky.social
Archaeologist, PhD on the ivory trade in late antiquity. Also interested in early medieval northwest Europe, circular economies, funerary archaeology, and long-distance interactions of all kinds.
I was transfixed in the Petrie museum yesterday by these seated lion playing pieces. True works of art in Ivory!
May 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
I was transfixed in the Petrie museum yesterday by these seated lion playing pieces. True works of art in Ivory!
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May 25: Feast of Bede (673-735), priest of Gyruum (Jarrow), biblical scholar. Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. When news of his death reached missionaries, Boniface wrote ‘the candle of the Church, lit by the Holy Spirit, was extinguished’. Originally May 26. #medievalsky
May 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
May 25: Feast of Bede (673-735), priest of Gyruum (Jarrow), biblical scholar. Wrote Ecclesiastical History of the English People. When news of his death reached missionaries, Boniface wrote ‘the candle of the Church, lit by the Holy Spirit, was extinguished’. Originally May 26. #medievalsky
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I wrote something for @jonnelledge.bsky.social's excellent newsletter on meritocracy, linking the current US government, the British empire, the obsession with Rome, and what I think we're missing:
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Rhiannon Garth Jones on lessons from Rome – and why they’re bad
A guest post from the author of "All Roads Lead to Rome: Why we think of the Roman Empire daily’.
jonn.substack.com
May 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I wrote something for @jonnelledge.bsky.social's excellent newsletter on meritocracy, linking the current US government, the British empire, the obsession with Rome, and what I think we're missing:
jonn.substack.com/p/rhiannon-g...
jonn.substack.com/p/rhiannon-g...
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Okay since people are now reading my book(!!!), I am going to remind myself of the lovely things the early reviewers said when they read it. And maybe also encourage more of you to order a copy and read for yourselves!
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
All Roads Lead to Rome: Why we think about the Roman Empire daily by Rhiannon Garth Jones
Pre-order your copy now
geni.us
May 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Okay since people are now reading my book(!!!), I am going to remind myself of the lovely things the early reviewers said when they read it. And maybe also encourage more of you to order a copy and read for yourselves!
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
geni.us/AllRoadsLead...
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A little spoonful of some of our favourite ancient utensils! 🥄
You can find the dog and duck spoons on display in Galleries 22 and 19.
🐕🥄 Spoon of carved hippopotamus ivory, Egypt, around 3325–3125 BCE. AN1895.902
You can find the dog and duck spoons on display in Galleries 22 and 19.
🐕🥄 Spoon of carved hippopotamus ivory, Egypt, around 3325–3125 BCE. AN1895.902
May 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A little spoonful of some of our favourite ancient utensils! 🥄
You can find the dog and duck spoons on display in Galleries 22 and 19.
🐕🥄 Spoon of carved hippopotamus ivory, Egypt, around 3325–3125 BCE. AN1895.902
You can find the dog and duck spoons on display in Galleries 22 and 19.
🐕🥄 Spoon of carved hippopotamus ivory, Egypt, around 3325–3125 BCE. AN1895.902
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#FindsFriday
One of most evocative #Roman London finds ever: leopard as ivory knife handle.
Tiny little thing <6cm long was buried 3-4 C in Southwark w 14 year old girl who originated from southern med.
Inspired @carolawrence.bsky.social time travelling kids' book. 🏺
📷 @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social
One of most evocative #Roman London finds ever: leopard as ivory knife handle.
Tiny little thing <6cm long was buried 3-4 C in Southwark w 14 year old girl who originated from southern med.
Inspired @carolawrence.bsky.social time travelling kids' book. 🏺
📷 @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
#FindsFriday
One of most evocative #Roman London finds ever: leopard as ivory knife handle.
Tiny little thing <6cm long was buried 3-4 C in Southwark w 14 year old girl who originated from southern med.
Inspired @carolawrence.bsky.social time travelling kids' book. 🏺
📷 @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social
One of most evocative #Roman London finds ever: leopard as ivory knife handle.
Tiny little thing <6cm long was buried 3-4 C in Southwark w 14 year old girl who originated from southern med.
Inspired @carolawrence.bsky.social time travelling kids' book. 🏺
📷 @pcaarchaeology.bsky.social
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Today, I'm highlighting some of the historical people that feature in my book – that might give more a flavour than "not just Rome!"
Let's kick off with Constantine the Great, founder of New Rome (Nea Rhome in Greek, Nova Roma in Latin). More commonly known as Constantinople, or Constantine's city.
Let's kick off with Constantine the Great, founder of New Rome (Nea Rhome in Greek, Nova Roma in Latin). More commonly known as Constantinople, or Constantine's city.
May 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Today, I'm highlighting some of the historical people that feature in my book – that might give more a flavour than "not just Rome!"
Let's kick off with Constantine the Great, founder of New Rome (Nea Rhome in Greek, Nova Roma in Latin). More commonly known as Constantinople, or Constantine's city.
Let's kick off with Constantine the Great, founder of New Rome (Nea Rhome in Greek, Nova Roma in Latin). More commonly known as Constantinople, or Constantine's city.
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Data are everywhere…
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
Dive into our latest issue!🌊
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/issue/S0960-...
On the cover:Yangtze porpoises in troubled waters🐬 by Yaoyao Zhang and colleagues www.cell.com/current-biol...
May 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Data are everywhere…
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
“Here, we examine an unusual source of information: classic Chinese poetry. From 724 ancient poems containing references to the Yangtze finless porpoise (N. asiaeorientalis), we infer that the range of this subspecies has contracted by at least 65% over the past 1400 years.”
I am thrilled to have successfully defended my PhD thesis on Wednesday last week. It was wonderful to be able to celebrate and share this experience with friends & colleagues in Aarhus and beyond. If you'd be interested in reading about ivory & long-distance trade in late antiquity, get in touch.
April 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I am thrilled to have successfully defended my PhD thesis on Wednesday last week. It was wonderful to be able to celebrate and share this experience with friends & colleagues in Aarhus and beyond. If you'd be interested in reading about ivory & long-distance trade in late antiquity, get in touch.
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Because you have two homes?
April 13, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Because you have two homes?
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A new Linear A inscription just changed the game: long, ritual-rich, and no numerals—unlike the usual admin tablets. But the handle? Full of numbers. Ceremony meets record-keeping in one Bronze Age artifact. 🌀📜🪔 #LinearA #MinoanMysteries #Archaeology
Longest Known Inscription in the Undeciphered Linear A Script of Minoan civilization, Found on an Ivory Scepter in Knossos
A team of archaeologists has discovered in Knossos, on the Greek island of Crete, the longest Linear A inscription found to date. The script appears on a circular ivory object with an attached…
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April 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
A new Linear A inscription just changed the game: long, ritual-rich, and no numerals—unlike the usual admin tablets. But the handle? Full of numbers. Ceremony meets record-keeping in one Bronze Age artifact. 🌀📜🪔 #LinearA #MinoanMysteries #Archaeology
My PhD defence is happening two weeks today!
April 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My PhD defence is happening two weeks today!
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🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?
No...
Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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April 9, 2025 at 6:04 AM
🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?
No...
Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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No...
Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Nitin Sekar says mammoth “de-extinction” is bad for conservation.
He’s the former lead for elephant conservation at WWF India and member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
He’s the former lead for elephant conservation at WWF India and member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation
Ecosystems are inconveniently complex, and elephants won’t make good surrogates.
arstechnica.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Nitin Sekar says mammoth “de-extinction” is bad for conservation.
He’s the former lead for elephant conservation at WWF India and member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
He’s the former lead for elephant conservation at WWF India and member of the Asian Elephant Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
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PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’ at University of London
At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’. Explore our d...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international
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History and Archives in Practice 25 Summer Seminars!
We join the TNA & @royalhistsoc.org in 3 online sessions across May, June & July celebrating VE Day 80, Romanian family photograph archives, & memory-making through photography in South Asia.
Register today via: www.history.ac.uk/search-event...
We join the TNA & @royalhistsoc.org in 3 online sessions across May, June & July celebrating VE Day 80, Romanian family photograph archives, & memory-making through photography in South Asia.
Register today via: www.history.ac.uk/search-event...
April 3, 2025 at 10:09 AM
History and Archives in Practice 25 Summer Seminars!
We join the TNA & @royalhistsoc.org in 3 online sessions across May, June & July celebrating VE Day 80, Romanian family photograph archives, & memory-making through photography in South Asia.
Register today via: www.history.ac.uk/search-event...
We join the TNA & @royalhistsoc.org in 3 online sessions across May, June & July celebrating VE Day 80, Romanian family photograph archives, & memory-making through photography in South Asia.
Register today via: www.history.ac.uk/search-event...
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The ‘Shell Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. Dating from the mid-third century AD, the mosaic depicts two scallop shells either side of the central panel. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Fishbourne
March 31, 2025 at 5:25 AM
The ‘Shell Mosaic’ from Fishbourne Roman Palace in West Sussex. Dating from the mid-third century AD, the mosaic depicts two scallop shells either side of the central panel. 📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain #RomanArchaeology #Fishbourne
I am very happy to say that my PhD thesis has been accepted for defence! It feels very good to hold the bound copy in my hand and feel the weight of my (sometimes) toil. The public defence will be in late April and available on zoom 😬
March 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I am very happy to say that my PhD thesis has been accepted for defence! It feels very good to hold the bound copy in my hand and feel the weight of my (sometimes) toil. The public defence will be in late April and available on zoom 😬
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For example, a supposed surge in economic inactivity has generated a long and often agonised political debate over getting people into work, but it may be a mirage, a statistical phantom driven by bad survey data. How many other things are we seeing wrongly or not at all? www.ft.com/content/f800...
Faulty data overstates surge in UK economic inactivity, finds report
Problems with ONS labour market survey have given ‘overly pessimistic picture’, says Resolution Foundation
www.ft.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
For example, a supposed surge in economic inactivity has generated a long and often agonised political debate over getting people into work, but it may be a mirage, a statistical phantom driven by bad survey data. How many other things are we seeing wrongly or not at all? www.ft.com/content/f800...
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Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
March 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
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The CBI has found that the net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy and grew by 10% in 2024, and generated £83bn in gross value added. The net zero economy is widely distributed around the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
www.theguardian.com
February 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The CBI has found that the net zero sector is growing three times faster than the overall UK economy and grew by 10% in 2024, and generated £83bn in gross value added. The net zero economy is widely distributed around the UK.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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He could at least pretend to understand how coalitions work!
I have just, seriously, heard Nick Robinson on Radio 4 ask if Germany can seriously call itself a democracy if the CDU/CSU continue to refuse to include the AFD from consideration for power.
What. The. Actual....
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At around 8:23:00 am
What. The. Actual....
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At around 8:23:00 am
Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
www.bbc.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 8:34 AM
He could at least pretend to understand how coalitions work!
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‘The truth’ was her declaring that all LGBT+ people want to sexually assault children, something never once mentioned in this glowing profile and a belief that the tribunal directly refused to take prima facie as the common meaning of what she said, considering it mere hyperbole
February 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘The truth’ was her declaring that all LGBT+ people want to sexually assault children, something never once mentioned in this glowing profile and a belief that the tribunal directly refused to take prima facie as the common meaning of what she said, considering it mere hyperbole
Another wonderful position to work as an osteologist at UrbNet au.career.emply.com/ad/postdocto... on two very exciting new projects!
Postdoctoral position in human osteology and isotopic analyses at the Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) / the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, School of Culture and Society, ...
UrbNet and the Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, School of Culture and Society, Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University invite applications for a 24 months fixed-term postdoctoral position in
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February 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Another wonderful position to work as an osteologist at UrbNet au.career.emply.com/ad/postdocto... on two very exciting new projects!