Ulla Rajala
@ullamr.bsky.social
An archaeologist who loves Eurovision and popular tv. Sharing content on heritage, politics and entertainment.
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And people I would like to have more money:
Everyone who is struggling (globally)
People who care for other people
Artists & everyone that brings joy or makes people think or feel more deeply
People who care for the planet
Everyone who is struggling (globally)
People who care for other people
Artists & everyone that brings joy or makes people think or feel more deeply
People who care for the planet
November 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
And people I would like to have more money:
Everyone who is struggling (globally)
People who care for other people
Artists & everyone that brings joy or makes people think or feel more deeply
People who care for the planet
Everyone who is struggling (globally)
People who care for other people
Artists & everyone that brings joy or makes people think or feel more deeply
People who care for the planet
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Here is a partial list of people I want to have less money. It would be great if their loss meant more tax money to spend on things we need, but I'd also be happy for them just to have less:
Billionaires
And these businesses:
Tobacco
Fossil fuel
Vapes
Gambling
Weapons
Amazon
LLMs
Billionaires
And these businesses:
Tobacco
Fossil fuel
Vapes
Gambling
Weapons
Amazon
LLMs
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Here is a partial list of people I want to have less money. It would be great if their loss meant more tax money to spend on things we need, but I'd also be happy for them just to have less:
Billionaires
And these businesses:
Tobacco
Fossil fuel
Vapes
Gambling
Weapons
Amazon
LLMs
Billionaires
And these businesses:
Tobacco
Fossil fuel
Vapes
Gambling
Weapons
Amazon
LLMs
I got up early today for the 7.30am GMT start of the Finnish #Archaeology days. The theme: archaeology now and then.
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I got up early today for the 7.30am GMT start of the Finnish #Archaeology days. The theme: archaeology now and then.
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Very happy to have received confirmation that I've been awarded Associate Fellowship Of Higher Education.
November 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Very happy to have received confirmation that I've been awarded Associate Fellowship Of Higher Education.
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Net migration to UK plummets by two-thirds to 204,000 on.ft.com/4a0WmRl
Net migration to UK plummets by two-thirds to 204,000
Immigration falls sharply alongside a slight rise in people leaving
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Net migration to UK plummets by two-thirds to 204,000 on.ft.com/4a0WmRl
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🇲🇪 The 15 songs competing in Montesong 2025 are now available on RTCG's OTT platform MNE Play.
Listen here (registration required): mneplay.me/en/search
Listen here (registration required): mneplay.me/en/search
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
🇲🇪 The 15 songs competing in Montesong 2025 are now available on RTCG's OTT platform MNE Play.
Listen here (registration required): mneplay.me/en/search
Listen here (registration required): mneplay.me/en/search
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To celebrate the looming release of my next book, LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, I thought I’d do an A-Z!
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...
LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025
As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)
Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵
LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025
As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)
Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵
Little Kingdoms
Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…
www.pen-and-sword.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
To celebrate the looming release of my next book, LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, I thought I’d do an A-Z!
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
1 letter per day, 26 days to go!
A stands for Aechse, the first ‘kingdom’ from my book, mentioned in the Life of St Cuthbert….
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Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
#WomensArt
November 24, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Delia Derbyshire (1937- 2001) UK musician/composer, pioneer of electronic music, working at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop 1960s, she created the arrangement of the theme music for UK science-fiction TV series #DoctorWho
#WomensArt
#WomensArt
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Bedtime got away from us a bit last night, and it started so well.
7 pm: Baby fell asleep instantly when I placed her in the cot.
10 pm: Baby is wide awake, not in bed and armed.
7 pm: Baby fell asleep instantly when I placed her in the cot.
10 pm: Baby is wide awake, not in bed and armed.
November 27, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Bedtime got away from us a bit last night, and it started so well.
7 pm: Baby fell asleep instantly when I placed her in the cot.
10 pm: Baby is wide awake, not in bed and armed.
7 pm: Baby fell asleep instantly when I placed her in the cot.
10 pm: Baby is wide awake, not in bed and armed.
El Deir fortress (El Munira monastery), Roman fortress in Kharga oasis, Egypt. It was built at the very end of the third century AD. It is surrounded by a Roman cemetery. #RomanFortThursday
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
El Deir fortress (El Munira monastery), Roman fortress in Kharga oasis, Egypt. It was built at the very end of the third century AD. It is surrounded by a Roman cemetery. #RomanFortThursday
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🇮🇸 #Iceland: RÚV Board Calls for EBU to Remove Israel from #Eurovision 2026 eurovoix.com/2025/11/26/i...
🇮🇸 Iceland: RÚV Board Calls for EBU to Remove Israel from Eurovision 2026 - Eurovoix
The board of the Icelandic broadcaster RÚV has approved a recommendation calling on the European Broadcasting Union to ban Israel from competing in Eurovision 2026.
eurovoix.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
🇮🇸 #Iceland: RÚV Board Calls for EBU to Remove Israel from #Eurovision 2026 eurovoix.com/2025/11/26/i...
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President Donald Trump’s personal travel routine has generated an estimated $70.8M in taxpayer costs this year, and projections based on federal audit data show the total could exceed $300M if the pattern continues.
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Trump’s Golf-Related Travel Costs Are Outpacing His First-Term Levels, Hitting $70.8 Million in 2025
Federal records show presidential golf travel consuming tens of millions in public funds at a pace unmatched in modern administrations.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
President Donald Trump’s personal travel routine has generated an estimated $70.8M in taxpayer costs this year, and projections based on federal audit data show the total could exceed $300M if the pattern continues.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-gol...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trumps-gol...
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‘linking much-needed support for students to international recruitment – an unstable and overworked income stream - is risky and unsustainable. This measure could further weaken universities’
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
The British Academy's response to the Autumn Budget
The British Academy has responded to the Autumn Budget (26 November 2025)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
‘linking much-needed support for students to international recruitment – an unstable and overworked income stream - is risky and unsustainable. This measure could further weaken universities’
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
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Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers
An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
Zoë Crossland gave an excellent McDonald lecture @cambridgearch.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Zoë Crossland gave an excellent McDonald lecture @cambridgearch.bsky.social
Joseph Lewis I nominated a candidate in the Early Career Category in the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards #Archaeology
It’s nearly time! This Friday, archaeologists from across the UK & Ireland will come together in Belfast for the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards to celebrate the projects, ideas, and community stories shaping archaeology today.
Catch the ceremony live on YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/@CouncilforB...
Catch the ceremony live on YouTube 👉 www.youtube.com/@CouncilforB...
Council for British Archaeology
The Council for British Archaeology is an educational charity that aims to promote engagement and participation in archaeology.
Through its wide-ranging activities across the UK, and in partnership ...
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Joseph Lewis I nominated a candidate in the Early Career Category in the #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards #Archaeology
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Call for Papers: TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference – Prague, 17–18 April 2026.
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
November 26, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Call for Papers: TALKING STONES – OBJECT AND MATERIALITY IN EARLY MODERN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE International Conference – Prague, 17–18 April 2026.
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
See H-Sicily for the full Call for Papers: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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🏺🎄NATALIE HAYNES’ CLASSICIST CHRISTMAS LIST 2025🎄🏺
We’ve got seven pages of gift ideas for the classics enthusiast in your life. First is BOOKS, of course - from your local bookseller, if possible! Which would you pick?
Next up: toys & games…
We’ve got seven pages of gift ideas for the classics enthusiast in your life. First is BOOKS, of course - from your local bookseller, if possible! Which would you pick?
Next up: toys & games…
November 26, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🏺🎄NATALIE HAYNES’ CLASSICIST CHRISTMAS LIST 2025🎄🏺
We’ve got seven pages of gift ideas for the classics enthusiast in your life. First is BOOKS, of course - from your local bookseller, if possible! Which would you pick?
Next up: toys & games…
We’ve got seven pages of gift ideas for the classics enthusiast in your life. First is BOOKS, of course - from your local bookseller, if possible! Which would you pick?
Next up: toys & games…
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URGENT shared survival fund for six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more. Since May, you’ve helped them with food in famine, transportation & shelter during displacement, multiple surgeries, infant needs, and so much more.
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…
chuffed.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
URGENT shared survival fund for six families & a displacement camp of fifteen more. Since May, you’ve helped them with food in famine, transportation & shelter during displacement, multiple surgeries, infant needs, and so much more.
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
Keep hope alive: chuffed.org/project/hope...
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To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
To celebrate #HillfortsWednesday, here's a fantastic recreation of the ramparts of Cadbury Castle in #Somerset under construction in the Iron Age, painted by the late great Victor Ambrus 🤩
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
From the cover of *Drawing Somerset's Past* published by #HistoryPress and @museumofsomerset.bsky.social
At least one country has moral compass: Slovenia boycotts #Eurovision 2026 and doesn't even show it. Let's celebrate! Joker Out is the best 🤩
youtu.be/6y9S9RipcUY?...
youtu.be/6y9S9RipcUY?...
Joker Out - Carpe Diem (Official Video ESC 2023)
YouTube video by Joker Out Official
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November 26, 2025 at 9:28 AM
At least one country has moral compass: Slovenia boycotts #Eurovision 2026 and doesn't even show it. Let's celebrate! Joker Out is the best 🤩
youtu.be/6y9S9RipcUY?...
youtu.be/6y9S9RipcUY?...
#OTD Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn opened #Tutankhamun's tomb on November 26, 1922. Howard Carter said he could see 'wonderful things'. Later he described it 'the most wonderful day of my life', 'everywhere the glint of gold'. #TutVember #Tutankhamun103 #Archaeology #Egyptology
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#OTD Howard Carter, Lord Carnarvon and Lady Evelyn opened #Tutankhamun's tomb on November 26, 1922. Howard Carter said he could see 'wonderful things'. Later he described it 'the most wonderful day of my life', 'everywhere the glint of gold'. #TutVember #Tutankhamun103 #Archaeology #Egyptology
Runsa hillfort lies high above the Lake Mälaren in Uppland in Sweden. During the early Iron Age there was a farm inside the walls. At Runsa are the largest boat setting graves in Sweden. In the photo the excavations in 2015. #HillfortsWednesday
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Runsa hillfort lies high above the Lake Mälaren in Uppland in Sweden. During the early Iron Age there was a farm inside the walls. At Runsa are the largest boat setting graves in Sweden. In the photo the excavations in 2015. #HillfortsWednesday
Small institutions in danger. But the government does not withdraw the levy on international students.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told
Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Small institutions in danger. But the government does not withdraw the levy on international students.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.
Israel, which has obliterated most of Palestine’s archeological and heritage sites, including ancient churches, mosques, and temples, has suddenly discovered an urge to protect one from Palestinian ‘neglect’. It just so happens to be in the West Bank.
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
www.timesofisrael.com/israel-begin...
Israel begins seizing 1,800 dunams of West Bank land to develop archaeological site
Civil Administration says development legal, taking place amid 'neglect' of site by Palestinians; Peace Now: 'Government's lust for dispossession and annexation is insatiable'
www.timesofisrael.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
🏺 Again and again - our discipline has been crucial to genocide. Pretending otherwise is complicity.