OUT NOW! Advances in Digital Archaeology: Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy
Did you know that Salt of the Earth, a film made independently in 1954 due to everyone involved being blacklisted, which tells the story of a strike by Mexican American miners & their wives, many of them played by local miners & their families, is free to watch on YouTube?
Tried and failed to track down sources for an anecdote in a history book. Emailed the author who said lol yes I let my imagination run a bit wild there.
I need to say that (a) this skeet absolutely fixed me when it comes to weaving terminology and (b) i have repeated it in pedagogical settings 3 times since it was posted
Rewatching Whisky Galore! and just reading about James Robertson Justice who plays the doctor. An extraordinary twentieth-century life, even if only half of it's true en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Robertson_Justice
there can't be an ethical public humanities based on unpaid labor. (there also can't be an ethical scholarly humanities based on unpaid labor, but y'all can tilt at that windmill)
It’s nearly time for our national diary day! Every 12th May we ask people to write down what they got up to. This year we’re also really interested in experiences of nature and wellbeing, as well as what else you get up to on the day! #diary#journal#nature#skystorians#write#Archive
Some people spent five years reaching a conclusion that anti-racists have been saying for decades: "an external framework is incapable of overcoming a culture that does not want to change.”
Yes I did visit the frankly astonishing reconstructed Roman Carnuntum, experienced some very strange hypermediation (visited a real fake that looked like the VR fake we made a few years ago), drank some honey and spiced wine and all I had to show for it was a bungled internet joke about tits