Mel Roxby-Mackey
@archaeoborders.bsky.social
Archaeologist of borders, Anglo-Welsh borderland and its folklore, digital humanist, University of Birmingham. Archaeologist in Residence, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Big girl pants and get out there - you so deserve to be there!
November 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Big girl pants and get out there - you so deserve to be there!
Ooh thank you @claireboardman.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ooh thank you @claireboardman.bsky.social
Ooh, I haven't, but it sounds like I definitely should. I've been meaning to get round to it, but this will make me do it. Thank you!
November 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ooh, I haven't, but it sounds like I definitely should. I've been meaning to get round to it, but this will make me do it. Thank you!
the general 'enshitification' of everything. Meanwhile, the elites were having a grand time assuming their acquisition of more and more of the Empire's wealth and resource would go on unabated for ever. It's hard not to look at the declining days of Rome and not make readily immediate comparisons.
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
the general 'enshitification' of everything. Meanwhile, the elites were having a grand time assuming their acquisition of more and more of the Empire's wealth and resource would go on unabated for ever. It's hard not to look at the declining days of Rome and not make readily immediate comparisons.
closed around AD 300 and then gutted to maintain their neighbouring smaller rooms and how others must have reflected as they relocated from the countryside into the towns as part of a wider pattern of movement of rural populations across the Empire in response to what we today might refer to as
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
closed around AD 300 and then gutted to maintain their neighbouring smaller rooms and how others must have reflected as they relocated from the countryside into the towns as part of a wider pattern of movement of rural populations across the Empire in response to what we today might refer to as
We despair of the situation in Gaza and hope the peace will hold and lives can be rebuilt. We give to @msf.org to try to help as many people as possible. We hope things get better for you soon
November 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We despair of the situation in Gaza and hope the peace will hold and lives can be rebuilt. We give to @msf.org to try to help as many people as possible. We hope things get better for you soon
It’s so weird how Guardian reviewers will wax lyrical over something and then still give it three stars like they’re rationed, or something?
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It’s so weird how Guardian reviewers will wax lyrical over something and then still give it three stars like they’re rationed, or something?
The situation in Gaza is so horrific. We give to MSF to try to help as many people as possible. We wish you the absolute very best for the future
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The situation in Gaza is so horrific. We give to MSF to try to help as many people as possible. We wish you the absolute very best for the future
Meanwhile, you can guarantee today’s armchair generals will just as successfully avoid the meat grinders of the 21st century battlefields as their predecessors. This film should be on the curriculum. No punches are spared. A poignant lesson in why we really, really need to learn from the past.
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Meanwhile, you can guarantee today’s armchair generals will just as successfully avoid the meat grinders of the 21st century battlefields as their predecessors. This film should be on the curriculum. No punches are spared. A poignant lesson in why we really, really need to learn from the past.
Vaughan undertook much of the logistics to keep the fuel supplies running to get the escaping soldiers to Dunkirk in 1940 and later fought with Montgomery in Africa. A true patriot. Both front line soldiers who were lucky enough to make it back
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Vaughan undertook much of the logistics to keep the fuel supplies running to get the escaping soldiers to Dunkirk in 1940 and later fought with Montgomery in Africa. A true patriot. Both front line soldiers who were lucky enough to make it back
From the perspective of my own family my taid, Owen, in the words of my dad ‘Crawled into a bottle and never came out’ as a result of what he’d been through in WWI. Subsequently, my great uncle, Vaughan in WWII fought so that no other generations would have to slaughter each other
November 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
From the perspective of my own family my taid, Owen, in the words of my dad ‘Crawled into a bottle and never came out’ as a result of what he’d been through in WWI. Subsequently, my great uncle, Vaughan in WWII fought so that no other generations would have to slaughter each other