Tim Gollins

Roman wooden water pipe unearthed beneath the Belgian city of Leuven Archaeologists working in Leuven, Belgium, unearthed a Roman wooden water pipe that was remarkably preserved from the Roman imperial period

Archaeologists in Leuven, Belgium, just uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman wooden water pipe—remarkably preserved in marshy soil. Proof that ancient Romans knew a thing or two about plumbing! #RomanEngineering #Archaeology #Leuven #AncientInfrastructure #HistoryUncovered

A pair of bronze foot guards with anatomically detailed toes, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes. Laid side by side on a beige display surface. toe-shaped bronze foot armor, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes.

A pair of bronze foot-guards, found in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. Dating 520-480 BC.
Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose.

On display at British Museum.

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🏺 ancientbluesky #archaeology

Thanks for buying #Burningtheboons hope you enjoy it!

Giant cat in the searchroom alert!

sorry I can't make it to #bdcm25 this week but liking that there's a BlueSky feed emerging from the delegates. Like happier times on the other place. Thanks all! #digitalpreservation #dpc

This week I'm at my old haunt, Senate House, for the already excellent #BDCAM25. So far today: new ontologies for the archived Web; LLM-enabled-metadata-generation-as-a-service, and more besides. And it's only day one.

And the badges look like this #bdcam25

Image of the podcast for BBC History extra, special issue on Funding cuts and culture wars.

In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today bit.ly/4cwSiaJ

Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2

Tech Life - Jamming and spoofing - BBC Sounds UN agencies are worried about rising cases of satellite navigation signal interference.

One of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture.

Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.

The building that inspired Orwell | Charles Saumarez Smith | The Critic Magazine London was subject to a whole series of neoclassical plans for its development from the 1870s onwards.

Now I know 😀 @davidunderdown.bsky.social sent me the link to the University's history page for the Senate House, as well as this excellent article thecritic.co.uk/issues/april...

It was the Ministry of Information where Orwell’s wife worked! We even have a room 101.

University of London's Senate House Building in London, UK

Sunny spring day in London for the start of the #BDCAM25 Born Digital Collections, Archives & Memory conference www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
(I don't know why, but from the very first time I saw it years ago University of London's Senate House Building made me think of Orwell's Ministry of Truth)

Born-digital collections, archives and memory

So looking forward to the first day of #BDCAM25 tomorrow. We have things to celebrate even in difficult times.

Also yes these are beyond excellent #bdcam25

Born Digital Collections, Archives & Memory 2025 conference badge on a floppy disk

Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 (Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory) Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres

Bird eats bird: White-throated toucan of Suriname, gently (surely!) holding another small bird in its beak. Protective! By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose day is today.

Working in Winchester.

Book shelf with books on top with library stickers with call numbers on it. Shelf has blue painter's tape over it and the phrase "Carpe the fuck out of this diem" written on it.

Wooden shelf or table with the phrase "I want sleep and chiken tenders" written on it and then "tenders" has been crossed out and replaced with "nugs"

Side of a shelf in a library with book stacks in the distance. Someone has drawn a heart with an infinity symbol over it.

A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations and you can browse all 3000+ of them.

daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...

Feet in brown boots on pavement with long early morning shadows stretching away

Street tree full of white blossom

Pink magnolia against blue sky. The petals are now very open and green leaves showing. Won't be flowers on here for much longer.

Commuter #UnconfinedWalks. Still some splendid blossom out.

I think this is really important.
Lockdown has changed us.
And I wonder whether this will just go away by itself.

Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.

Born on this day in 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

Medical historians! Any ideas in how common the use of Greek notation Phi Theta is to indicate TB?
Not seen it much before but it's in every record our researcher is looking at

Look who's joined @bsky.app 👇

Give them a follow for lots of interesting #HistoryOfMedicine stuff.

Bexley Local Studies #ArchiveBeginnings came in 1972 when records of the predecessor authorities of the new London Borough of Bexley were brought together in the new Library Service HQ at Hall Place Bexley. We stayed there until moving to Bexleyheath in 2000. #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

New Zooarchaeology Resource Pack - Archaeology for you Zooarchaeologist, Clare Rainsford, and Michelle Feider from the University of York, have created a bumper resource pack of activity ideas based on zooarchaeology on behalf of the Young Archaeologistsr...

Absolutely blooming stoked to announce that the zooarchaeology resource pack that I wrote with Dr Michelle Feider for YAC has been published! Aimed at kids 8-16yo, four activities for learning about bones in the past with no skeles needed. Except your own.

www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...

The NEH does a lot of important work, but my favorite program is their Preservation Assistance Grants, which provide $10K to small humanities collections like local history museums and archives to care for their collections.

Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Conference

We have a big conference this week and the weather is going to be gorgeous. The University of London Senate House looks amazing in the sunshine.

Trying to come up with the words to say.

I'm terrified for our students.

We just received an email that an international grad student at UMN has been detained. Minnesota has laws stating police are not required to provide info to ICE. Admin claims no info was given.

How can we protect our people?

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy would have been a lot quicker if Control had just thought to check who had added Karla to the group chat...