Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her)

I’ve been inside Silbury Hill.

Last few days for our 3-hardbacks-for-£32 offer. Three 'watery' books: Steve Ely's 'Eely' (the Sargasso Sea to the English fens); Fay Musselwhite's 'Contraflow' (Sheffield's river valleys); Matthew Clegg's 'The Navigators' (the Lake District to the North Sea).

Enjoy your gently glowing time, hope you can make the room dark enough for sun ray effects spilling onto the table tops!

I need to plan a proper trip to take in the National Museum and Kilmartin would be fabulous, also need to visit Kirsty in Uist!

3rd IRAAR Conference 'Quarries and rock-cut sites through the lens of archaeology' | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology The 3rd International ReseArch group on quArries and Rock-cut sites (IRAAR) conference will take place 14-15 May, 2026.

IRAAR26 is in Edinburgh this year! hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-even...

Excellent bit of #DailySarsen ⬇️

Building for the Atomic Age | Home An industrial archaeology of the United Kingdom’s nuclear industry

Studies by our members: ‘Building for the Atomic Age: An industrial #archaeology of the United Kingdom’s nuclear industry’ by Wayne Cocroft. This new book @livunipress.bsky.social by Historic England presents a heavily illustrated overview of the UK’s nuclear industry 1/3

Ta!

Do you have any instructions on how to, please?

Well that I’m not sure about, but certainly well-travelled.

Cool!

Photo of a bit of census return recording that Jack Turner had no address and was sleeping near Tarrants Farm in 1921.

In 1921 Jack Turner aged 69 was tramping, he ‘sometimes sells clothes pegs’.

Photo of a bit of census return sheet showing William aged 43 born in Cornwall, a lorry driver, his wife Rose aged 42 born in Hampshire, an elementary school teacher, and their 13 year old son Lionel born on Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Getting distracted in the 1921 census… am supposed to be looking for the last few #sarsen stone cutters working between the wars, but now I need to know the story of William, Rose and Lionel Truscott.

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Thank you!

Yeah your comment prompted my writing that piece!

Thank you!

Stonehenge, ancient DNA, ancestry, and art This is a guest post by Katy Whitaker. Katy was looking to create a longer form version of a Twitter thread she created and I offered up my blog as a platform for her to use. All credit for this in…

Here it is dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/s...

I wrote a blog post about that New Scientist article art work!

Photo of part of a census return page showing occupation’Sausage skin dresser’ employed on own account.

Today is brought to you by Le Vent du Nord and the 1921 census…

We need a photo!

SPMA Undergraduate Dissertation Award has been awarded to Edwin Lam @york.ac.uk for the dissertation, 'Feminism, Fabrics & Legislation: Material Culture Study of Female Sex Workers in Victorian England' which offers a rich discussion of women's social & political identities in Victorian England 1/3

And thanks to @gabemoshenska.bsky.social

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A poster for the walk titled ‘Geology & building stones in the city of London’. It shows a montage of photos which depicts London’s Guildhall, a fossil ammonite and some pink granite. It also includes the time of the walk - 2.30 pm - and the meeting place for this particular walk which is bank station exit 1. Full details are at the link in the main post.

I’ve added four more walks to my London Walks schedule this year. You can find them all at this link www.walks.com/guides/ruth-1/

Things I love about Allan’s drawings include the evocation of texture and the tiny details. Note the inclusion even of the metal inspection cover in the street and tie plates in the distant walls.

Yes I was watching #PotteryThrowdown and yes I do mean two fingers to the defunding of music education in schools and the winnowing of humanities departments in universities and snooty disregard paid to crafts and trades and drama and all the other makings that make life worth living.

‘some actor I hadn’t heard of but I think is quite famous’ is usually my line!

‘Discovering yourself through making’

Yes. Precisely that. Whatever you are making, music, art, literature, whatever - you grow, and other people experiencing your making and what you make grow too.

Wasn’t it Lion that made that Stonehenge doc about 8 or 10 years ago? I took them to Piggledene and did some sarsen dressing at North Farm.