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Howard Williams BSc MA PhD FSA
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Howard M. R. Williams is a British archaeologist and academic who is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester in England. His research focuses on the study of death, burial and memory in Early Medieval Britain. .. more

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 2d

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

Grants

Each year the Royal Archaeological Institute offers funds for research. Find out more about eligibility criteria and our different funding opportunities.

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 4d

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!

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Royal Archaeological Institute @royalarchinst.bsky.social · 5d

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'.

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Two famous archaeologists excavate a henge in the 1930s I Professor Richard Bradley

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 5d

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...

The Witcher – Archaeo𝔡𝔢𝔞𝔱𝔥

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

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Reposted by Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles West , and 3 more Howard Williams, Elizabeth Stokoe, Charles West, Margot C. Finn, Dolly Jørgensen, Jan R. Boehnke

Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 5d

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/

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 5d

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

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 5d

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...

The Archaeology of Other Planets - Andor series 2

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 5d

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

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 7d

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.

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 7d

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'
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Programme - TAG 2025

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 8d

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)

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 9d

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...

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 9d

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.

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 9d

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

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 9d

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

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Michael Schröder , and 26 more Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Michael Schröder, Peter Thorne, James M. Bullock, Howard Williams, Ian Hall, Rebecca Sear, Oliver Marchart, Mary Corcoran, John Clayton, Laurent Pech, Julia Lynch, Margot C. Finn, Julie Cupples, Dolly Jørgensen, Aurélien Mondon, Karen O’Donnell, Mark Rice, Caterina Froio, Raúl Pacheco-Vega, Niels Keijzer, Juan Ramón, Frederik Dhondt, Klaus Oschema, David McInnis, Aidan O’Sullivan, Esther Peeren, Elisa Freschi

Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 9d

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University

Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 10d

For long-format videos exploring the archaeology and heritage of death and memory, check out my Archaeodeath YouTube channel where there are new videos posted every week. www.youtube.com/@archaeodeath

Archaeodeath

The Archaeology and Heritage of Death and Memory - Past & Present Professor Howard Williams shares public lectures, interviews, chats and more!

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 10d

Archaeology and the Senses – Reconsidering Viking Age Mortuary Practice howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/a...

Archaeology and the Senses – Reconsidering Viking Age Mortuary Practice

How can we develop approaches to mortuary archaeology and the senses? Despite passing references to the vivid spectacles of past open-air early medieval funerals involving the inhumation or cremati…

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Reposted by Howard Williams, Lesley A. Hall, Carolyne Larrington , and 1 more Howard Williams, Lesley A. Hall, Carolyne Larrington, Duncan Bell

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10d

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...

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · 11d

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251027-isr... #🏺

Israel allocates $12 million to expand control over West Bank archaeological sites

The Israeli government has approved more than $12 million in additional funding to expand its control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank, a move critics say is part of an ongoing e…

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 12d

Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW0n...

Viking Art with Luciano Pezzoli

YouTube video by Archaeodeath

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 14d

I was delighted to speak at the 8th National Monuments Service Annual Archaeology Conference at Trinity College Dublin on 18 October, presenting on 'Dykes as Deeds'. More on my Archaeodeath blog: howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/w...

Within/Without: The Archaeology of Partitions

Walls bring people together and render communities asunder. They create and recreate mobilities and identities. The role of partitions, and how they constitute and reproduce social and political id…

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14d

Just a reposting of the most impactful Finnish archaeological article ever. #TombTuesday
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A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland | European Journal of Archaeology | Cambridge Core

A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland - Volume 25 Issue 1

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 14d

As the #EAA works out what to do after the debacle over its policy towards Israel/Gaza at its annual meeting a further challenge as the Government of Israel is accused of trying to extend its control over archaeological sites in the occupied West Bank.

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Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 14d

When an archaeologist is beyond puzzled. And takes his case to court. #Archaeology www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Steve Coogan to pay ‘substantial damages’ to academic defamed in Richard III film

Case had been due to go to trial after judge ruled 2022’s The Lost King, which Coogan co-wrote, portrayed claimant as ‘smug, unduly dismissive and patronising’

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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 14d

The University of Leicester with a series of statements after the announcement of an out of court settlement in the Lost King defamation case.

Richard Taylor wins major settlement against Steve Coogan and Pathe Productions in landmark defamation case | News | University of Leicester

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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 14d

Something specific and in general.

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 15d

Nice to see British archaeology still being directed behind the scenes by a weird informal fraternity of the unemployable and unelectable and this has moved seamlessly to BlueSky. Not for me folks! I'm here to share my perspectives and occasionally call out the BS. Don't get too comfy here.

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Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net · 19d

Why is TikTok obsessed with the idea I want a weighted vest and also why am I living in a time when the government actively hates universities and so I have no financial or emotional stability even though on paper my research career looks great?

Two equally mysterious mysteries.

Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 19d

The Archaeology of Yavin 4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHJA... See also my blog-post howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/01/a...

The Archaeology of Yavin 4: Andor series 2

YouTube video by Archaeodeath

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