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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️

@graveyardarch.bsky.social

Adjunct prof, PhD in Historical Archaeology ✨️ Mortuary Archaeologist & Museum Educator. I like graves, the C17th, landscapes, & protective magic. I preserve gravestones, write books, & paint pictures (she/her) https://linktr.ee/RLacy

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The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

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Image of Mark Carney looking absolutely overjoyed in Hollander’s team canada fleece

Image of Mark Carney looking absolutely overjoyed in Hollander’s team canada fleece

All of Canada when Bad Bunny yelled CANADAAAA

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King George, 1782:

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Cadaver brass depicting Richard Howard (d.1499) and his wife, Cicely: Aylsham, St Michael, north Norfolk #norfolk #churches #mortality #monentomori #funeraryart #brasses #funerarybrasses #history #heritage #memory #medieval #latemedieval #tudor #death #deathshroud #materialculture

08.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 16    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade

Join us on Wednesday for Philippa Hellawell (The National Archives), 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade', at the Institute of Historical Research, London and on Zoom, 11 February, 5:30 pm. Free and open to the public. Booking link below.

08.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 14    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

I think it is! Mine is bog butter though 👀

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The Cows are by the Windbreak
Peter Shostak
1986

07.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 163    🔁 40    💬 0    📌 0

Noooo, what? I'd say it should be puzzlee, collecting stuff..etc. cozy game style!

07.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm so sad it doesn't sound good! It would be so fun!

07.02.2026 18:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
An ancient yew tree in a churchyard

An ancient yew tree in a churchyard

It's not too late to join Love Your Yew Week!
If you have an ancient or veteran yew in your burial ground - or even a younger one - visit www.caringforgodsacre.org.uk/love-your-yew-week/ to find FAQs about removing detritus from under your yew & register before & after photos.
#CFGA #yew #ancientyew

07.02.2026 08:40 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

What fantastic news amongst the chaos!!

07.02.2026 01:41 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

It's really rough out here

06.02.2026 19:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
2025/26 Speaker Series: At-risk Ecocultural Archives of Western Canada with Dr. Robin Woywitka

Good news - our first Speaker Series event of 2026 is coming this month! Join us Feb 24th, 11:30 am (MT), to learn about ecocultural archives from Dr. Robin Woywitka. Free to attend in person or online, registration for online is required. Learn more at the webpage we've linked! 🏺

04.02.2026 18:11 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Poster advertising the call for paper and poster abstracts for the upcoming CAA conference. Abstracts are due on march 31st, 2026.

Poster advertising the call for paper and poster abstracts for the upcoming CAA conference. Abstracts are due on march 31st, 2026.

Don't forget, our call for paper and poster abstracts is open for submissions! Head over to the conference page on the CAA website to submit your abstracts before March 31st! 🎉
#archaeology #conference

canadianarchaeology.com/caa/annual-m...

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Guys!!!!

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We will be in touch! 👀

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Winter Moon
Christopher Pratt
1987

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Jobs - The University of York

Digital Archives Assistant vacancy at ADS jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/digi...

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In other news, I just sent in my manuscript to my editors!!
Here we go!! ✨️🎉
#graveyard #amwriting

01.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Haha love it! A bit of yelling to your future self!

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Eggs in an Egg Crate
Mary Pratt
1975

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It's just so easy to find right!! And thank you! 🥰

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Ooo how does that work? I've never done it!

01.02.2026 11:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much!! We're hoping to get it out this year! The wheels of non-academic publishing turn a bit faster apparently 👀

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The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology is celebrating LGBTQ+ history month. Lower right: Honouring past and present stories in the continued fight for equality & love. A painted rainbow is shown in the background from the lower elftt to the upper right corner. In the bottom middle of the image, the SPMA logo (an early miner with a pickaxe and backpack in the style of a pilgrim's badge) is shown.

The Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology is celebrating LGBTQ+ history month. Lower right: Honouring past and present stories in the continued fight for equality & love. A painted rainbow is shown in the background from the lower elftt to the upper right corner. In the bottom middle of the image, the SPMA logo (an early miner with a pickaxe and backpack in the style of a pilgrim's badge) is shown.

This February, we will be sharing & highlighting relevant exhibitions in galleries & museums as part of #LGBTQplusHM to honour stories from the past & present in the continued fight for equality & love!

01.02.2026 11:19 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

That's what the find all is for! It will save us 🫡

01.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's so good right?? I would neeeever find highlighting or similar!

01.02.2026 02:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One of my writing techniques is to put XXX in the text when I need to come back to something, so I can ctrl F & clear them all after.

I just cleared them all from my graveyard guidebook!! 🎉

#amwriting #cemetery #gravestone

01.02.2026 01:12 — 👍 31    🔁 1    💬 5    📌 1
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a woman holding a cup of coffee with the word exactly below her Alt: Moira Rose with blonde hair, wearing a black top with black feathered shoulders and black gloves, pointing to the camera saying 'exactly' while holding a red floral cup.
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I gasped aloud reading this news in my boss' office minutes ago. What awful news, she was a legend 🫡

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