My brilliant former PhD student Isabel Gilbert (now Lecturer at Worcester) is doing a research project on what good collaboration between academics and heritage sector orgs/professionals looks like - please do fill in if you do this sort of work 😊 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ucw/herita...
Tours Cathedral
Tours Cathedral- magnificent. Took from 1170 to 1547 to build..
And you might have imagined the consequences…not so so lightly to be considered…
Hmm! Extraordinary items to see close up - let alone waiting for them to be opened to see the surprise inside!
As mentioned elsewhere I had to oversee the installation of two Fabergé eggs for an exhibition. Security was intense! What was the mindset here???
Hmm! When I had to oversee the installation of two Fabergé eggs in an exhibition, it was a serious security supervised operation. Dumbfounded that someone would have one in a handbag in a pub!
Attended a Roman feast recently courtesy of the Hellenic Society. I have to say that the Garum was gross…
Little gecko on his daily route!
Little gecko on his daily route…
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Lovely biscuits….enjoying them at the moment!
One can only speculate. However children dying young with signs of heavy labour reveals a great deal!
Akhenaten’s beautiful Amarna was built on the work of children among others. Look at the relatively recent cemetery evidence from the non-noble sites at Amarna! Made me rethink my views of Akhenaten.
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Rural France….
It is a lovely device to see…
Lovely museum and they do a great afternoon tea in this orangerie.
Discovered by the late, great Prof Paul Astrom!
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Cheap and cheerful and easy to cook- somehow fits the current mood…
Lovely Claudian Roman amphitheatre, Saintes.
Sunrise at St Malo….
Turneresque sunset….
Beautiful blossoms….
Middle Kingdom princess’s diadem
I would have wanted more information on where all the objects were found as this was not always given although I was delighted to see the Middle Kingdom Princesses’ jewellery properly attributed/labelled.
Objects loaned from The Egyptian Museum were spectacular!
Gorgeous Bronze Age 'dress fastener' needs our help so that it can be bought by Potteries Museum in Stoke.
If we can't, it will be handed back to finder/landowner & likely sold at auction... 😭
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Lovely visit to Cambridge today….
Not keen on shouty, aggressive questioning plus constant interruptions….
Materials library
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Or Ramses II smiting his enemies!