Janet Wade

View looking down onto station platforms that are partly below ground level and lead into a tunnel. Above them are some peachy-coloured buildings ranging from two two to six stories high. The sky is partly blue but some grey clouds are coming in.

A reminder that THE ROADS TO ROME is still on Kindle sale. Three years ago I was in Genoa, thinking about the arrival of the train and how it changed the experience of travelling to Rome.

I hope you can join us for this History Now presentation as part of the exciting program for @historynsw.bsky.social #HistoryWeek2025

Screenshot of the first page of a journal article in Current Opinion in Food Sciences, entitled Advancement and innovation in ancient wine research

🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

We were invited to write for Current Opinion in Food Sciences to review major advancements in #ancient #wine research and the big research questions these methods are helping us to understand 🍷 🏺 w/ @divali.bsky.social

Read open access here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Landscape Archaeology, Photography, and Friendship: Dora and Agnes Bulwer, Thomas Ashby, and Rodolfo Lanciani In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the talented British photographers Dora and Agnes Bulwer travelled to sites of historical significance throughout Italy. Their photographs reve...

My new OA article ⚡ 📸
Landscape Archaeology, Photography, and Friendship: Dora and Agnes Bulwer, Thomas Ashby, and Rodolfo Lanciani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks @bsrome.bsky.social & @thejohnrylands.bsky.social for access to your amazing Bulwer & Captain Kennedy archival collections!

Their old people sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it's found For years, researchers have been trying to find ancient artefacts sitting on the ocean floor. Now they have brought in Indigenous rangers to help.

This is very cool 👇

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

An image of the mountains of Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, with the Chinese proverb "The wind sweeping through the tower heralds a storm rising in the mountains"

The deadline for abstract submission for our annual conference has been extended by two weeks, out to August 1!

We're looking for papers dealing with "Tempestuous Times", whether real, imagined, or allegorical - see our CfP for details here: aema.org.au/2025-confere...

Work, wages and apprenticeships: sifting for clues about the lives of girls in ancient Egypt Evidence of textile workshops demonstrates that girls’ labour was valued enough to be documented in administrative records alongside adult workers.

Fab. piece from Macquarie's own @julia-hamilton.bsky.social deriving from teaching in AHIS3201: Women and Gender in the Ancient World. @awaws.org @resaustrales.bsky.social
Work, wages & apprenticeships: sifting for clues about the lives of girls in ancient Egypt theconversation.com/work-wages-a...

We are delighted to announce that beginning in 2026, the Papers of the British School at Rome will appear fully open access with Open Book Publishers. See more at this link: buff.ly/KXFnyD7

Painting by Joe Whyte, who was William Fletcher Foundation Fellow at the BSR in 2024.

Women transcending boundaries Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes

Look out for our digital history of women archaeologists, ‘Women Transcending Boundaries: Over a century of scholarship, fieldwork and friendship across the British International Research Institutes’, on display at the BA Summer Showcase, 20 & 21 June
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YouTube video by British School at Rome What is the British School at Rome? | Pt. 1

🎥 What is the British School at Rome?

It’s hard to sum up in a single sentence — so this week, we’ll take you behind the scenes. Meet our Director, Professor Abigail Brundin, and members of our research team as they introduce you to our spaces, projects, and community.

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Week 2 in Falerii Novi! Digging, documenting and drawing contexts inside the BSR/ICS trench ☀️

Thomas Ashby Abroad: A Photographic Record of the 1914 Journey - a new virtual exhibition on the BSR website - bsr.ac.uk Discover the new virtual exhibition “Thomas Ashby and the other side of the world” on our digital platform: https://virtualexhibitions.bsr.ac.uk/omeka-s/s/thomas-ashby-and-the-other-side-of-the-world/...

bsr.ac.uk/thomas-ashby...

Second BSR/Early Medieval Europe Fellowship - bsr.ac.uk In partnership with the journal Early Medieval Europe, the British School at Rome is pleased to announce the second BSR/EME Fellowship.    Aimed at early career researchers (defined as current PhD stu...

Delighted to announce the 2nd British School at Rome/Early Medieval Europe visiting fellowship, offering early career scholars a month in Rome: bsr.ac.uk/second-bsr-e...

Our logo, with the text "Australian Early Medieval Association", and a stylised image of bird

G'day to our new followers! There's been an influx of new users, so we thought we should reintroduce ourselves!

We are JAEMA (the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association), a peer-reviewed journal of the early medieval world, & we're always open for submissions:

aema.org.au/journal/

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#CFP Australasian Association for #Byzantine Studies 22nd Biennial Conference. Theme: Images of Power in #Byzantium - 7-8 June 2025 - Uni Newcastle AU - Keynote: Dr David Woods (Uni College Cork) - Abstracts by Nov 30. Call: www.facebook.com/aabyzstudies AABS: aabs.org.au

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New issue of Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association Vol. 19, No. 2 (2023) search.informit.org/toc/jaema/19/2

The first in a series of blogs from Macquarie PACE interns - Emily Mifsud reflects on some overly violent scenes from Pompeii. www.manto-myth.org/blog/k3q9acf...

Poster for lecture and wine tasting event entitled: Tastes, Places and Processes of Ancient Winemaking

Looking forward to giving this fundraising lecture and #wine tasting 🍷 in aid of the Hellenic & Roman Societies on 8 May! (@ics.bsky.social)
🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky

It may already be sold out, but if there’s interest perhaps we can make another happen

The Origins of Wine Listen to this episode from The Ancients on Spotify. Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in the world. But its popularity dates back thousands of years. Throughout ancient history, win...

OUT NOW! My chat with Tristan for History Hit’s The Ancients episode: The Origins of #Wine🍷🍇

Covering the earliest #archaeological evidence & new scientific data across the Caucasus, Aegean, Türkiye, Egypt and still left more for next time! 🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky

🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0tNv...

The latest volume of the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association is now live! Volume 19(1) features articles by Gregory I Halfond, Heather Duncan, Edwin Pace, and Geoffrey D Dunn.

You can find it here:

search.informit.org/toc/jaema/19/1

Meeting 2024 | #MAARC2024 The fourth annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC) will take place from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 July 2023 (online via Zoom) hosted by the Department of ...

#CFP (stand-alone & papers in organized panels) for #MAARC Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community - online (& free!) - July 16-19 from Macquarie @mq_dha Abstract deadline April 8th. See: mediterraneanarcha.wixsite.com/maarc/meetin...

Flyer for the Environmental Archaeology Summer School at Falerii Novi with text and an image of excavation in the background

Collaborating with brilliant colleagues Angela Trentacoste & Erica Rowan to host the inaugural #Environmental #Archaeology Summer School in situ at Falerii Novi 🎉🙌

Rare enviro research-led, in-field training w/leading experts! 🏺 🗃️ ClassicsBluesky

Info + Apply: faleriinoviproject.org/opportunities/

#PhD Macquarie/Groningen cotutelle joint PhD - The Development of Roads and Transport Infrastructure in the Hinterland of Rome - 3 years - EOI by April 1st - queries: ray.laurence@mq.edu.au

Jumping onto this for the first time in a while for shameless self promotion! I am working with a truly phenomenal group of artists on a new show, kermeikos! Join us Thur to find out about their practice and how they will spend the next months creating new works 🏺📜🏛
www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats...

Screenshot of a webpage description for an online course in Phoenician language

Screenshot of a webpage description for an Anatolian Languages Summer School

Very excited to be leading @ics.bsky.social collaboration w/ Michele & Oxford on TWO amazing opportunities:

💥 Phoenician Language Course (1-week, FREE, online).

💥 Anatolian Languages Summer School (1-week, in-person).

Bursaries available for the latter! ClassicsBluesky 🏺 🗃️

Visit our Researcher Training page for links to more info and registration for both: ics.sas.ac.uk/study-and-tr...

And for the Anatolian Languages Summer School: www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/anatol...

Meeting 2024 | #MAARC2024 The fourth annual meeting of the Mediterranean Archaeology Australasian Research Community (MAARC) will take place from Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 July 2023 (online via Zoom) hosted by the Department of ...

Extended deadline!! Now Feb 26: *panel* proposals for online Mediterranean Archaeology Australian Research Community (MAARC) Annual Conference, July 16-19 (from Macquarie University) See: mediterraneanarcha.wixsite.com/maarc/meetin... (call for papers to follow)

A group of people standing in front of an ancient Roman city gate and walls. A road continues behind to a farm and church.

Extremely happy to announce that we are once again offering a *FULLY FUNDED* student placement with the @ics.bsky.social/BSR excavations at Falerii Novi.
Thanks to the generosity of the Roman Society! 👏🎉

Happy to answer queries. Pls share.
Info+Eligibility 👉 www.romansociety.org/Grants-Prize...

New website for the Falerii Novi Project launched! 🎉

Check out the five current excavation areas, 3D models, maps, videos, photos, drone footage, site history and much more. 🏺 🗃️ AncientBluesky

Explore here 👉 www.faleriinoviproject.org

New book! Rivers and Waterways in the Roman World: Empire of Water is coming out November 30th. Edited by @andrewtibbs.bsky.social and I, it has wonderful contributions examining rivers in Roman empire. Get 20% with the discount code below! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...