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The TARDIS and Stonehenge

A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

And of course I persist with weekly YouTube videos and 5 posts per month on my Archaeodeath WordPress blog!

Sharing a landmark TikTok moment for my Archaeodeath public education and engagement project. After 5-and-a-half years posting daily videos, I've just hit 150k followers!

Brassey in Bronze: The Thomas Brassey Statue at Chester Railway Station For much of last year I entered Chester and departed from work each day from the University’s back entrance onto the Millennium Greenway. Therefore, I missed the installation of a new statue …

Brassey in Bronze: The Thomas Brassey Statue at Chester Railway Station: //howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/brassey-in-bronze-the-thomas-brassey-statue-at-chester-railway-station/

Aber Zombie Gravestones The dislocation and careful reuse of historic gravestones renders then ‘undead’ – still discernible, still featured, still active in the funerary space, and thus far from ‘d…

Aber Zombie Gravestones howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/a...

Swords in Rock at Hafrsfjord Contemporary Vikingisms take many forms, including public monuments. Here, my interests in Viking archaeology, contemporary archaeology and public archaeology in Public Viking Research coincide per…

Swords in Rock at Hafrsfjord howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/s...

Purging Memories: Cleaning up the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree Let us return to the contemporary material cultures of memory in the landscape. Here, we reflect on the cumulative assemblages of memorial material culture on the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree, and i…

Purging Memories: Cleaning up the Hope Mountain Hawthorn Tree howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/p...

The Archaeology of Skeleton Crew part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cuU...
For context, check out my Archaeodeath blog-post:
howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/h...

TV review: Time Bandits (2024) A remake of Time Bandits? That film I loved so much when I was a kid? I probably shouldn’t watch this, being a grumpy old fake history hunter. But do I ever listen to myself, no, never. I&#82…

Because social media threads can be messy, I'm turning more of them into online articles.

You can now read my review of the 2024 tv show 'Time Bandits' here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/12/t...
Or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/tv-review-...

YouTube video by The Watching Brief The White House, Stonehenge, Law, Protest and Change - What’s the Role of Archaeology?

The jackhammer approach to renovating historic buildings in Washington.

The HE #BuildingsAtRisk Register 2025.

How the Lost King defamation decision might not have been what some archaeologists wanted it to be,

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YouTube video by Archaeodeath Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli

Viking Art Today with Luciano Pezzoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK1K...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place An A-level pupil found the lost grave of the Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano’s daughter, revealing a story of love and solidarity in 18th-century rural England. Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, escaped enslavement to become a celebrated author and campaigner in Georgian England. His memoir, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, was a bestseller. Continue reading...

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s I Professor Richard Bradley YouTube video by Royal Archaeological Institute

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝟏𝟐 𝐍𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦
Professor Richard Bradley will be presenting our next lecture on 'Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s: King Arthur's Round Table then, and its interpretation today'.

www.youtube.com/live/xPtQIlm...

𝐑𝐀𝐈 𝐌𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐙𝐄
𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟭𝟬 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

The MA Dissertation Prize will be for the best dissertation written in 2024 or 2025 on the archaeology or architectural history of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other countries.

Details at www.royalarchinst.org/grants/disse...

The Royal Archaeological Institute serves the archaeological community by providing some really great small grants for research. Check them out!: www.royalarchinst.org/grants

Compulsory team teaching on every module is perhaps the biggest ever threat to the quality of teaching in UK universities.

It causes chaos on the ground for timetabling, ruins course coherence and turns lecturers into permanent supply teachers. It is pedagogically incoherent… 1/

Congratulations on all our graduating students today at the University of Chester. Sadly, I have teaching, tutorials and a wider workload that doesn't allow me to attend the ceremony in person, but I'm there in spirit!

The Witcher – Archaeo𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥 Posts about The Witcher written by Prof. Howard M. R. Williams

I don't do blog-posts to time with series releases, but if you are interested in The Witcher, check out my 4 blog-posts on the Netflix series 1-3 and the spin-off Blood Origin howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/category/arc...

Archaeologists: we should not be uncritically accepting the authority and courts of self-styled 'benign dictators'.

YouTube video by Archaeodeath The Archaeology of Other Planets - Andor series 2

Every week at 6pm Wednesday, I release a new Archaeodeath YouTube video. This week, the final review of Andor series 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ljO...

For the linked blog-post: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/a...

COLD IS GOD'S WAY OF TELLING US TO BONFIRE MORE BILLIONAIRES

I'll be at TAG this year for the first time in... umm... 30 years? I still have my "EuroTAG" teeshirt from Southampton and one from Lampeter. Neither are in a fit state to wear but I'm loath to bin them.

Programme - TAG 2025

The best conference session in the history of TAG will take place on Monday 15th December at the University of York called 'Time-Layered Narratives: Engaging Non-Specialists with Temporally Complex Sites'
tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/programme/

I'm not paying to watch the film to evaluate it, but nothing he says makes sense to me. My TikTok video is more about the amateur underdog trope and the reality that archaeological institutions & individuals do act the way Coogan claims (not in this instance maybe)

My Archaeodeath review for October 2025 is now out on Patreon. You can follow me there for FREE for monthly updates! www.patreon.com/posts/octobe...

fwiw, I'm just posting a TikTok about this latest development. But I won't share on here since I can't be arsed arguing with fellow archaeos.

I've done a TikTok for what it is worth but I don't feel anyone listens to me beyond that.

Sorry but can I just drown Steve out with my loud academic voice while he is writing columns in The Guardian?

“We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”