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Because social media threads can be messy, I'm turning more of them into online articles.
You can now read my review of the 2024 tv show 'Time Bandits' here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/t...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/tv-review-...
You can now read my review of the 2024 tv show 'Time Bandits' here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/t...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/tv-review-...
TV review: Time Bandits (2024)
A remake of Time Bandits? That film I loved so much when I was a kid? I probably shouldn’t watch this, being a grumpy old fake history hunter. But do I ever listen to myself, no, never. IR…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Because social media threads can be messy, I'm turning more of them into online articles.
You can now read my review of the 2024 tv show 'Time Bandits' here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/t...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/tv-review-...
You can now read my review of the 2024 tv show 'Time Bandits' here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/t...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/tv-review-...
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The jackhammer approach to renovating historic buildings in Washington.
The HE #BuildingsAtRisk Register 2025.
How the Lost King defamation decision might not have been what some archaeologists wanted it to be,
& a double dose of #Stonehenge for you to
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The HE #BuildingsAtRisk Register 2025.
How the Lost King defamation decision might not have been what some archaeologists wanted it to be,
& a double dose of #Stonehenge for you to
Like, Share & Subscribe in #WatchingBrief
The White House, Stonehenge, Law, Protest and Change - What’s the Role of Archaeology?
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November 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
The jackhammer approach to renovating historic buildings in Washington.
The HE #BuildingsAtRisk Register 2025.
How the Lost King defamation decision might not have been what some archaeologists wanted it to be,
& a double dose of #Stonehenge for you to
Like, Share & Subscribe in #WatchingBrief
The HE #BuildingsAtRisk Register 2025.
How the Lost King defamation decision might not have been what some archaeologists wanted it to be,
& a double dose of #Stonehenge for you to
Like, Share & Subscribe in #WatchingBrief
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November 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
For the history, heritage and archaeology enthusiasts, I have 25% off over fifty niche items in my Etsy right now!
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Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1K...
Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli
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November 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1K...
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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England.
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...
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November 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
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𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦
Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.
www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlm...
Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.
www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlm...
Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s I Professor Richard Bradley
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November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦
Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.
www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlm...
Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.
www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlm...
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𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries.
Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries.
Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...
Dissertation prizes
The Institute awards a dissertation prize each year for either an undergraduate (the Tony Baggs Undergraduate Dissertation Prize) or Master's dissertation on an alternating basis. The prize goes to th...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries.
Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries.
Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...
The Royal Archaeological Institute serves the archaeological community by providing some really great small grants for research. Check them out!: www.royalarchinst.org/grants
Grants
Each year the Royal Archaeological Institute offers funds for research. Find out more about eligibility criteria and our different funding opportunities.
www.royalarchinst.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
The Royal Archaeological Institute serves the archaeological community by providing some really great small grants for research. Check them out!: www.royalarchinst.org/grants
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Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/
Congratulations on all our graduating students today at the University of Chester. Sadly, I have teaching, tutorials and a wider workload that doesn't allow me to attend the ceremony in person, but I'm there in spirit!
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Congratulations on all our graduating students today at the University of Chester. Sadly, I have teaching, tutorials and a wider workload that doesn't allow me to attend the ceremony in person, but I'm there in spirit!
I don't do blog-posts to time with series releases, but if you are interested in The Witcher, check out my 4 blog-posts on the Netflix series 1-3 and the spin-off Blood Origin howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/category/arc...
The Witcher – Archaeo𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥
Posts about The Witcher written by Prof. Howard M. R. Williams
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November 6, 2025 at 8:14 AM
I don't do blog-posts to time with series releases, but if you are interested in The Witcher, check out my 4 blog-posts on the Netflix series 1-3 and the spin-off Blood Origin howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/category/arc...
Archaeologists: we should not be uncritically accepting the authority and courts of self-styled 'benign dictators'.
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Archaeologists: we should not be uncritically accepting the authority and courts of self-styled 'benign dictators'.
Every week at 6pm Wednesday, I release a new Archaeodeath YouTube video. This week, the final review of Andor series 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ljO...
For the linked blog-post: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a...
For the linked blog-post: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a...
The Archaeology of Other Planets - Andor series 2
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November 5, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Every week at 6pm Wednesday, I release a new Archaeodeath YouTube video. This week, the final review of Andor series 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ljO...
For the linked blog-post: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a...
For the linked blog-post: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a...
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I'll be at TAG this year for the first time in... umm... 30 years? I still have my "EuroTAG" teeshirt from Southampton and one from Lampeter. Neither are in a fit state to wear but I'm loath to bin them.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I'll be at TAG this year for the first time in... umm... 30 years? I still have my "EuroTAG" teeshirt from Southampton and one from Lampeter. Neither are in a fit state to wear but I'm loath to bin them.
The best conference session in the history of TAG will take place on Monday 15th December at the University of York called 'Time-Layered Narratives: Engaging Non-Specialists with Temporally Complex Sites'
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
Programme - TAG 2025
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 8:51 PM
The best conference session in the history of TAG will take place on Monday 15th December at the University of York called 'Time-Layered Narratives: Engaging Non-Specialists with Temporally Complex Sites'
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/
My Archaeodeath review for October 2025 is now out on Patreon. You can follow me there for FREE for monthly updates! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
My Archaeodeath review for October 2025 is now out on Patreon. You can follow me there for FREE for monthly updates! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...
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“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
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November 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”
For long-format videos exploring the archaeology and heritage of death and memory, check out my Archaeodeath YouTube channel where there are new videos posted every week. www.youtube.com/@archaeodeath
Archaeodeath
The Archaeology and Heritage of Death and Memory - Past & Present
Professor Howard Williams shares public lectures, interviews, chats and more!
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November 1, 2025 at 11:05 AM
For long-format videos exploring the archaeology and heritage of death and memory, check out my Archaeodeath YouTube channel where there are new videos posted every week. www.youtube.com/@archaeodeath
Archaeology and the Senses – Reconsidering Viking Age Mortuary Practice howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/a...
Archaeology and the Senses – Reconsidering Viking Age Mortuary Practice
How can we develop approaches to mortuary archaeology and the senses? Despite passing references to the vivid spectacles of past open-air early medieval funerals involving the inhumation or cremati…
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Archaeology and the Senses – Reconsidering Viking Age Mortuary Practice howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/a...
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Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW0n...
Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli
YouTube video by Archaeodeath
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October 29, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW0n...
I was delighted to speak at the 8th National Monuments Service Annual Archaeology Conference at Trinity College Dublin on 18 October, presenting on 'Dykes as Deeds'. More on my Archaeodeath blog: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w...
Within/Without: The Archaeology of Partitions
Walls bring people together and render communities asunder. They create and recreate mobilities and identities. The role of partitions, and how they constitute and reproduce social and political id…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I was delighted to speak at the 8th National Monuments Service Annual Archaeology Conference at Trinity College Dublin on 18 October, presenting on 'Dykes as Deeds'. More on my Archaeodeath blog: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w...
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Just a reposting of the most impactful Finnish archaeological article ever. #TombTuesday
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A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland | European Journal of Archaeology | Cambridge Core
A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland - Volume 25 Issue 1
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October 28, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a reposting of the most impactful Finnish archaeological article ever. #TombTuesday
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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As the #EAA works out what to do after the debacle over its policy towards Israel/Gaza at its annual meeting a further challenge as the Government of Israel is accused of trying to extend its control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
As the #EAA works out what to do after the debacle over its policy towards Israel/Gaza at its annual meeting a further challenge as the Government of Israel is accused of trying to extend its control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank.
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The University of Leicester with a series of statements after the announcement of an out of court settlement in the Lost King defamation case.
Richard Taylor wins major settlement against Steve Coogan and Pathe Productions in landmark defamation case | News | University of Leicester
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October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The University of Leicester with a series of statements after the announcement of an out of court settlement in the Lost King defamation case.