Caroline Barron

This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.

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Thank you!!

Thank you Jammy 🥰

Thank you!!! 😘

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Thank you, tesoro mio!! I am so pleased!

Thank you!!

Thank you, Liz! I’m very pleased!

Thank you!

Thank you!!

I’ve had a rotten couple of months with various things not going particularly well. But today I have been promoted to Associate Professor @durhamclassics.bsky.social, which is very exciting and the mark of a new chapter! Better things ahead!

Excellent display!!

Thank you for coming! I’m so pleased you got to see the work the @arcdurham.bsky.social students produced!

My lovely students from the Pompeii module are exhibiting their visual reconstruction projects today in @durhamclassics.bsky.social! They’ve produced some excellent work and I am very proud of them.

Poster by Eleanor Paxton 😊

I hear you. I’m in the middle of an insomnia wave and it’s debilitating. Getting out is a great plan. Solidarity love x

📚 Congratulations to @carolinebarron.bsky.social on the publication of 'Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Etchings from the Research Collections of the British School at Rome'!

🖼️ This book follows a 2021–4 exhibition at @bsrome.bsky.social co-curated by Dr Clare Hornsby and Dr Caroline Barron

Solidarity like. It’s so depressing. We’ve lost our funding at Roman Statutes 2.0 (Chicago) too…

On my way to St Andrew’s today to give a paper in the School of Classics’ research seminar series. Excited to catch up with lots of good people there, and to see the beach!

I (co)-wrote a book! The catalogue for the Piranesi Print Project I co-curated at the British School at Rome has been published, and I am very proud of it! The research for this project was so interesting, and there’s still work to do! Thank you to everyone who was involved, my heart is full ❤️

And so begins another Monday! This week’s Research To Do List task: finish the revisions to a talk on the Diaspora Revolts in Cyrene under Trajan that I’m giving in St Andrew’s next week.

And some marking…

Revisions are done and the article is submitted! I don't know if I actually achieved Clever Writing in the end, but it's better than it was before and most importantly it is DONE! Onto the next one...

V much want to write back with “but I tried to be clever the first time, don’t make me do it agaaaiiiiin”

HARD agree. And also….aaahhhh.

Article revisions are sooo nearly finished, but the last recommendation require Clever Writing and I DON’T WANT TO.

Working on the final revisions to a little article about some Latino-Punic inscriptions in Libya today! Quite pleased with how it's going, and hopeful that I'll be ticking it off the Overdue Research Things To Do List by Friday...hold me accountable please.

A decorative strap junction from the iron age Melsonby hoard. It's a 20cm long figure of eight shape with openwork decorations and fragmentary coral beads all across its surface.

It's been so great to finally talk about the Melsonby Hoard. The important message missing from some of the press is the #YorkshireMuseum needs support to secure and conserve it!

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Easing my way into Research Leave by finishing an overdue book review, which is proving to be more satisfying than anticipated.

Iron Age Hoard Discovery Alters Our Understanding of Life in Britain 2,000 Years Ago | Historic England The Melsonby Hoard, a vast deposit of more than 800 items, provides an archaeological time capsule from the Iron Age around 2,000 years ago.

The Historic England press release gives a more detailed overview of the finds and their significance: historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/ne...

(And pictures of @proftommoore.bsky.social doing some excellent CT scan pointing.)

Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago

Fabulous work here from our friends in @arcdurham.bsky.social! What an amazing find!

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