Photo of a man with curly brown hair and glasses, looking at a close up of a ceramic thin section on a computer screen. The thin section itself is lying on a circular stage on a black digital microscope in front of him.

Huge thanks to Jordan & Evident Microscopy who custom designed our new DSX2000 digital microscope, developing a whole new interchangable rotating stage to meet our requirements.

We can now run a whole suite of analysis on items including ancient coins, ceramics, metals and bone objects. 🏺🔬🧪

📣 #JobAlert

Postdoc opportunity for a specialist in #Roman material culture to reanalyse finds from Housesteads and Corbridge as part of the Connective Frontiers project led by Dr Anna Walas. #archaeology #RomanBritain 🏺

More info here 👇

www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

From SW Asia to NW Europe, Palaeolithic to Modern, and 3D scanners to MicroCT, we’ve got lots to offer! #archaeology #classics #roman #AncientGreece #ArchaeologicalScience 3/3

www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/d...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

…Centres continued:

3) Centre for Sparta & Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS) 🏺

4) Centre for Ancient Myth & its Reception (CAMRE) 🎭

5) Nottingham Materials & Environmental Science for Heritage Laboratories (N-MESH) 🧪🔬

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Lego model of the Trent Building on University Park Campus, university of Nottingham. It is a white stone Neoclassical building with a large clock tower.

📣postdocs! If you’re looking for a host for your MSCA, British Academy or Leverhulme Trust Fellowship applications, then do get in touch with us at #Nottingham.

We have five research clusters:
1) Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (CLABS)

2)The Roman World - East to West

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From SW Asia to NW Europe, Palaeolithic to Modern, and 3D scanners to MicroCT, we’ve got lots to offer! #archaeology #classics #roman #AncientGreece #ArchaeologicalScience 3/3

www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/d...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary ...

…Centres continued:

3) Centre for Sparta & Peloponnesian Studies (CSPS) 🏺

4) Centre for Ancient Myth & its Reception (CAMRE) 🎭

5) Nottingham Materials & Environmental Science for Heritage Laboratories (N-MESH) 🧪🔬

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Lego model of the Trent Building on University Park Campus, university of Nottingham. It is a white stone Neoclassical building with a large clock tower.

📣postdocs! If you’re looking for a host for your MSCA, British Academy or Leverhulme Trust Fellowship applications, then do get in touch with us at #Nottingham.

We have five research clusters:
1) Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies (CLABS)

2)The Roman World - East to West

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Applications close soon for an extraordinary PhD placement opportunity supporting the development and curation of our major exhibition on the Norman Conquest.

Apply by Monday 6 April.
Find out more here: link.bl.uk/dnv

📣 #JobAlert Research Associate/Fellow in Digital Curation and Analysis (Part-time, Fixed term)
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Join Prof Alex Mullen’s AHRC-funded project on Voices of Britain under and after Rome. 🏺#digitalhumanities 1/2

Deadline 14 April 2026

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

At beautiful Vindolanda near Hadrian's Wall this week working with the amazing team here and studying the precious writing tablets. The new museum display looks fabulous, and it is exciting to see our recent work on display. @vindolandatrust.bsky.social @uonclassarch.bsky.social

Some of the birthday invitations for Lepidina in ROMAN CURSIVE SCRIPT that the Ash Class at St Andrews made. 😍They picked Roman names too. They were not impressed, however, that she didn't know anything about football parties or ice-cream! @vindolandatrust.bsky.social @uonclassarch.bsky.social

And here's Lepidina's office. The dice tower (original from Vettweiss-Froitzheim) came in very handy when she had to let Fortuna decide on which birthday invitation to pick. Activity inspired by: romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions... @vindolandatrust.bsky.social @uonclassarch.bsky.social

Cerialis (AKA Janie Masseglia) and his wife Lepidina (AKA Alex Mullen) from the Roman fort at Vindolanda setting up at St Andrews School in North Kilworth for their Roman Day last week. The Year 3-4 Ash Class were simply brilliant! @uonclassarch.bsky.social @archanchistleic.bsky.social

The Voices project is starting in October! We are seeking a Research Fellow (with PhD)/Research Associate (without) in digital curation & analysis. Post is advertised at 0.5 for 4 yrs but shorter at higher FTE available (subject to approvals). Pls email alex.mullen@nottingham.ac.uk if you have qs.

Picture of a female cup-bearer offering a glass of red wine before a red-robed person sitting on a throne. The title says ‘why Plato was right about Tyranny. Edmund Stewart, The University of Nottingham’

Live tonight at Hampstead Classical Society: Dr Edmund Stewart talking on ‘Why Plato was right about Tyranny’. www.hampsteadclassicalsociety.co.uk/about-3 (more info here, but note the date is incorrect on the website) 🏺

Tonight at 7.30pm GMT online!

Professor David McInnis from the University of Melbourne, and founder of the Lost Plays Database, explores how plays become lost, and what we can still learn from them.

Can't make it? Buy a ticket and you can ask for a catch-up link to a recording of the talk.

Find out more about the project here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/researc...

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📣 #JobAlert Research Associate/Fellow in Digital Curation and Analysis (Part-time, Fixed term)
@uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Join Prof Alex Mullen’s AHRC-funded project on Voices of Britain under and after Rome. 🏺#digitalhumanities 1/2

Deadline 14 April 2026

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

@uonclassarch.bsky.social @uonhumanities.bsky.social We had so much fun discussing the script with Joe. It’s really exciting to see classical myth reception at the coal face.

Bears and maps - today! 😊

Webinar Tomorrow - March 16th. #skystorians #medievalsky

Poster for the WELHMA series from the Institute for Medieval Research, university of Nottingham. There’s a manuscript drawing of a rather shy looking bear gazing leftwards with lovely claws visible on its feet. The abstract mentions the Box Office Bears project and understanding early modern routeways using data based on where and when bearwards were present around England.

📣 Webinar next Monday!

Dr Anna Bloxam (University of Nottingham), will be presenting

A bear’s-eye-view of England: reconstructing routeways and travel from archival records

16 March 2026, 17:00

Use the QR code on the poster to book your piace. #earlymodern #history #routeways #bears 🏺🐻

Screenshot from New Scientist website. It says ‘how our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history. Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in shaping civilisation’ by Benjamin Taub. 10 March 2026

Good to see Prof Hannah O’Regan quoted in a recent New Scientist article on the role of fungi in human diets.
🍄‍🟫🍄🏺🧪🔬

You can find the article on stable isotopes that started the convo here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Poster for the WELHMA series from the Institute for Medieval Research, university of Nottingham. There’s a manuscript drawing of a rather shy looking bear gazing leftwards with lovely claws visible on its feet. The abstract mentions the Box Office Bears project and understanding early modern routeways using data based on where and when bearwards were present around England.

📣 Webinar next Monday!

Dr Anna Bloxam (University of Nottingham), will be presenting

A bear’s-eye-view of England: reconstructing routeways and travel from archival records

16 March 2026, 17:00

Use the QR code on the poster to book your piace. #earlymodern #history #routeways #bears 🏺🐻

Screenshot from New Scientist website. It says ‘how our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history. Mushrooms have been used by ancient humans for millennia, but archaeologists have only just uncovered their pivotal role in shaping civilisation’ by Benjamin Taub. 10 March 2026

Good to see Prof Hannah O’Regan quoted in a recent New Scientist article on the role of fungi in human diets.
🍄‍🟫🍄🏺🧪🔬

You can find the article on stable isotopes that started the convo here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#FindsFriday shiny things and ivory (bag) rings from #Nottinghamshire

The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Broughton Lodge, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds Discover the pioneering 1960s archaeology, displayed together for the first time since excavation in this free exhibition.

The display takes a fresh look at a range of fantastic and intriguing finds from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery, revealing new insights into the connectivity and identity of the people buried there. 🏺🐘⭐️💀

Free exhibition open Thurs-Sun, 12-4pm. More details here: www.lakesidearts.org.uk/exhibition/t...

Image of the front cover of Current Archaeology. There is an Anglo-Saxon gold brooch on the cover and the title ‘Broughton Lodge: exploring evidence of prosperity and plague in 6th-century Nottinghamshire’

We are thrilled to see Chris Loveluck, Ann Inscker, and Clare Pickersgill featured in the latest issue of Current #Archaeology which explores the work at Broughton Lodge and their new exhibition at the UoN Museum. 🏺1/2

Books fill 2 shelves in a book shop display. The carpet is textured and grey, the shelves are solid and a dark wood painted black

Had time to waste, so I popped into @waterstones.bsky.social in Manchester and signed a few of my books. Had a nice chat with a bookseller, who did classics at @uonclassarch.bsky.social and loved it.