David Osborne

Row of portraits of former masters of Jesus College

Portrait of Colin Renfrew, Master of Jesus College, 1986–96

Breakfast in Jesus College, Cambridge, under the watchful eye of Colin Renfrew, Master from 1986–96

Read it earlier: superb reminiscences. Saw him on stage as Hamlet @ Nottingham Playhouse, long before Snape, in seating built on the stage.

Sorry, forgot to add this…
Hill, S. (2010) Howards End is on the Landing. London:Profile Books.
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Book cover of Susan Hill’s ‘Howards End is on the Landing’, showing the title and the subtitle ‘A year of reading from home’ on two gold-embossed book spines.

I’ve just finished my first non-archaeology book since completing my thesis: a book about the books that novelist Susan Hill has in her house.
It’s great to be reading for enjoyment again! (Not that reading archaeology isn’t enjoyable but you know what I mean).

Beaker pot of brown with zig zag patterns . Cracks seen throughout.

To celebrate the centenary of Woodhenge, this #findsfriday we thought we would share something from the site!

This necked beaker, decorated with incised lines and zigzags was found from circle 1, Woodhenge, by Mrs M E Cunnington and Mr B H Cunnington, 1926-8. Now in our Prehistory Galleries!

Out now & #openaccess:
Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...

#LEIZArchaeology #Archaeology #HumanAnimalStudies

Distribution of domesticated cat, from the domestication area in Mesopotamia (before 7500 BC) to Ireland and Northern Europe (900 AD)

It took the cat a millennium to reach Ireland from England

Just want to point out that both the Guardian and the BBC used "man" in their coverage of this research today.

If you want science news that doesn't employ anachronistically gendered language, be sure to read us at @livescience.com. 😘

Needs fabric analysis!

Pen sketch of timber framed buildings on a junction of two narrow streets. Some shoppers or tourists are crossing the road while others look at the shop signs.

Where Little Shambles meets Shambles, York. Number 8 Shambles can be seen, along with a bit of 9 Shambles, between numbers 43, on the left, and number 42 on the right. On the extreme right 1 Little Shambles, one of the few survivors of the street left after the creation of the market.

#drawing

Sign the Petition Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at UoN

Calling all who appreciate plants and what they do for us!

Reconsider the potential suspension of Plant Biology Courses at University of Nottingham (UK) chng.it/Fq67ZRxK via @UKChange
#Botany
#PlantScience

University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning MPs called for the University of Nottingham to immediately pause the suspension of certain courses

University pressing ahead with course closures plan despite 'profound' warning

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...

'It is notable that in the last Research Excellence Framework exercise the Department of American Studies at Nottingham was ranked third in the Area Studies unit of assessment and was one of the top-performing units across the whole of the University of Nottingham.' 1/2

University of Nottingham considers axing language and music degrees Total of 48 degrees could disappear from Russell Group institution, with falling revenues and rising costs blamed

Another day, another round of news articles admonishing the administration for making cuts to our university.

It's clear that faculty, students,. staff and community members are united against course closures. When will the university listen?

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A panoramic photograph of the many people standing on today's picket line.

A photo of two people at our picket line holding signs.

A photo of someone holding up a solidarity fist at our picket line

A photo of a banner that says We Are The University with picketers standing behind it.

An amazing day of solidarity with staff, students, and community members saying NO to compulsory redundancies and unnecessary course closures.

Signed 💪

Horrified by the proposed closure of Modern Languages @uniofnottingham.bsky.social This would end language higher education in the East Midlands & decimate the uni’s research profile. Shortsighted and reckless. #University_of_Little_England #SaveNottinghamLanguages #WeAreUoN

This campaign needs you now SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
c.org/26qjPmffNy

Every time I looked for you, you were in conversation so I didn’t want to interrupt! Yes, hopefully we can catch up soon. Good luck with your research! 😊

In Birmingham for tonight’s concert of Schumann & Stravinsky by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra & Simon Rattle and picked up this flyer about UoN’s dreadful Music Dept plans. Spread the word.

Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.

THREAD: Delighted that Peterborough Museum has received £250k, to further explore the amazing Bronze Age assemblage from Must Farm. One of my favourite projects of the past few years was creating replicas of the pots, to better understand the technology behind them 🏺
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A massive number of our members just got word that the courses they teach on will be "suspended" by the university, effecting out current and future students in every single faculty and school at UoN.

My Deutsch isn’t great but I like the pun! 👍

Me too!

Erratum: in my post yesterday on a recent Guardian article about Bronze Age feasting networks, I linked to a 2023 paper that was all I could find at the time.

I’m grateful to @timdaw.bsky.social for telling me about the now-published paper in iScience, at
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

Of course! Fabulous area… I’ve submitted a book chapter in which the Beckhampton Road long barrow, that wasn’t far from you, plays a leading role.

Thanks for that, Tim — I searched for it unsuccessfully on the iScience site but couldn’t find it and a Google Scholar search could only find the 2023 Frontiers paper.

Me too, I thought it was reporting a new paper from Rich & Angela but even though it’s a couple of years late, it’s still good to raise profile of the research.

Frontiers | Farming and feasting during the Bronze Age–Iron Age transition in Britain (ca. 900–500 bce): multi-isotope evidence for societal change The Late Bronze Age saw the rise of a new site type in southern Britain, commonly termed a midden. These vast monumental mounds, some comprising tens of thou...

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although the paper is in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, rather than iScience, as reported

doi.org/10.3389/fear... for the correct source