Moulded pot from Corbridge showing a smith (god?) at work

View of the site at Corbridge, with the museum building in the background

Durham and English Heritage are now recruiting for a fully-funded PhD on Roman Corbridge 🥳🥳🥳

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on one of our most important and understudied finds assemblages from Roman Britain. Deadline 1st June. Please share widely!

www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

I watched a 30 year old tv programme at the weekend and the budding writer got almost the same advance as me for latest book last year. He was off to get a flat and live off it while he wrote his next book....

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Good luck with the p/t work/writing arrangement. Sounds like it's working well.

That's a great piece and one I can really identify with.

On (not) quitting the day job The risk-averse writer's guide to going part-time.

While in transit to and from London yesterday, I wrote a long essay about the decision to go part-time and spend a full day each week on my writing.
www.davidgoodman.net/on-not-quitt...

Popped in to the V&A East Store to see the amazing way they've presented the place and a peek at the David Bowie Archive

I had a quick flick through it and it definitely looked like it was worth reading properly.

Spotted in the wild, or rather in London. Always a huge thrill as an author to see your books out there. Even saw someone looking at one of them

Had a Snickers for first time in ages. Much smaller than it used to be, lacked flavour but had an odd aftertaste. Wish they wouldn't tinker with things for the sake of their own profit margins. And why add palm fat 🤦‍♂️ 🤢

Ooh almost as controversial as your views on Mona Graupius 😜

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It feels like a lot of projects that don't add anything to the understanding and experience of HW. There's an unhealthy obsession with the tree or in the words of one Romanist - Wall Weed!

A colourful painting on rough-edged paper with a cluster of standing stones inside a circular ditch below a stylised sun with a face.

I want to make space for new works in my Etsy shop, so everything on there is now 20% off - including this watercolour on recycled cotton rag paper entitled 'Sun Henge' and paintings of ancient monuments in Brittany and Britain. Check it out here: shorturl.at/HDzSI
#StandingStoneSunday

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

34 month PDRA position on my Roman Britannia: Mobility and Society project, based with fab project co-lead Dr Sophy Charlton at @york-bioarch.bsky.social - come join our interdisciplinary Cardiff-York team and reshape narratives of the Roman period in Britannia.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...

Replica of the gatehouse from the Roman fort at Manchester. Bit of a hidden site and worth exploring.

A lovely bit of Roman glass from Koblenz, Germany

The Porta Nigra in Trier, Germany. The best surviving example of a Roma gatehouse.

Pancakes for all

Research break from the new book. Archie discovers Roman good-luck charms weren’t subtle. Chesters fort, Hadrian’s Wall.

Buggered up my knee and now in a relationship with lots of painkillers. Fluffy hot water bottle helping. Annoyingly writing on hold for a few days 😩

A recreated Roman watchtower from Burgsalach on the German frontier. Similar structures existed across the Gask Ridge in Perthshire

A close up detail from the Warren Cup in the British Museum. Dating to around first century, it depicts a Greek scene of gay sex with this room attendant watching on. The cup features in my new book.

Ancient Roman altars to go on display in Edinburgh Two Mithraic Roman altars are to be displayed as a part of an upcoming exhibition after being acquired for the nation.

Been waiting a long time to see these in person. Can't wait to get to the NMS in November www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Off to London in a few weeks. Looked at taking the sleeper - £500 for two of us one way. Costs more than the hotel I'm staying in! A one way flight for two will be <£200 This is what politicians need to sort!

Wrong on so many levels

And it's 26 CofE bishops passing laws that affect the rest of the UK directly and indirectly.

A schematic plan in of the Roman fort at Ardoch with drawings of two Roman Inscriptions next to it.

This is the first printed plan of Ardoch Roman fort in Scotland, produced by antiquarian Robert Sibbald in 1695. Thirty years later, Alexander Gordon described it as 'the most entire and best-preserved of any Roman antiquity of that kind in Britain', which still holds true today! #RomanFortThursday

Disappointing to see @scottishwater.bsky.social blocking a public footpath with unnecessary fencing in Newport @willierennie.bsky.social @wendychambld.bsky.social

Switched on Digging for Britain and saw the brilliant Roman site near Sunderland appearing. May have gotten a bit muddy when I visited there a few years ago with Garry Bankhead