Clemency Cooper
@clemencycooper.bsky.social
Landscape Archaeologist, Engagement Practitioner | PhD @york.ac.uk @anthropocenebio.bsky.social | Trustee @archaeologyuk.bsky.social | Palaeoecology and perceptions of natural and cultural heritage in the North York Moors | Views own
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Thinking about volunteering in archaeology or heritage?
We’ve just launched our brand new Volunteering page, bringing together placements, digs, and volunteering roles in heritage from across the UK. And the best part? Search by region to find opportunities near you! 👉
We’ve just launched our brand new Volunteering page, bringing together placements, digs, and volunteering roles in heritage from across the UK. And the best part? Search by region to find opportunities near you! 👉
Volunteering
We keep you up to date with what is happening in British archaeology, whether you are looking to participate in a dig or volunteer.
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August 30, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Thinking about volunteering in archaeology or heritage?
We’ve just launched our brand new Volunteering page, bringing together placements, digs, and volunteering roles in heritage from across the UK. And the best part? Search by region to find opportunities near you! 👉
We’ve just launched our brand new Volunteering page, bringing together placements, digs, and volunteering roles in heritage from across the UK. And the best part? Search by region to find opportunities near you! 👉
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🏆 Nominations are open for the @ArchaeologyUK #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards!
Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT
Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT
Archaeological Achievement Awards
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August 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🏆 Nominations are open for the @ArchaeologyUK #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards!
Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT
Do you know an archaeologist, team, or project that deserves recognition? Find out more about the awards and how to nominate here 👉 shorturl.at/bC8AT
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🚨 Archaeology orgs, we need you!
We’re reviewing CBA Organisational Membership as part of #ReconnectingArchaeology, and your input will shape how we support groups of all sizes across the UK.
🗓 Complete the survey by 5 Sept for a chance to win a £200 voucher. 👉 surveymonkey.com/r/3CNC8SZ
We’re reviewing CBA Organisational Membership as part of #ReconnectingArchaeology, and your input will shape how we support groups of all sizes across the UK.
🗓 Complete the survey by 5 Sept for a chance to win a £200 voucher. 👉 surveymonkey.com/r/3CNC8SZ
Organisational Membership Survey
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August 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🚨 Archaeology orgs, we need you!
We’re reviewing CBA Organisational Membership as part of #ReconnectingArchaeology, and your input will shape how we support groups of all sizes across the UK.
🗓 Complete the survey by 5 Sept for a chance to win a £200 voucher. 👉 surveymonkey.com/r/3CNC8SZ
We’re reviewing CBA Organisational Membership as part of #ReconnectingArchaeology, and your input will shape how we support groups of all sizes across the UK.
🗓 Complete the survey by 5 Sept for a chance to win a £200 voucher. 👉 surveymonkey.com/r/3CNC8SZ
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Archaeologists, historians, classicists: can your research into our past inform our future? The ‘Lessons from the Past’ (March ‘26) conference is looking for papers on tangible sustainability changes informed by human history lessonsfromthepast.info
@livancworlds.bsky.social #AcademicSky
@livancworlds.bsky.social #AcademicSky
August 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Archaeologists, historians, classicists: can your research into our past inform our future? The ‘Lessons from the Past’ (March ‘26) conference is looking for papers on tangible sustainability changes informed by human history lessonsfromthepast.info
@livancworlds.bsky.social #AcademicSky
@livancworlds.bsky.social #AcademicSky
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Keen to be green? Caring about carbon? You're in luck!
Historic England have launched new training workshops, covering 'How to Measure a Carbon Footprint', and 'How To Write a Carbon Reduction Plan'! Check out our Blogpost all about it for more: buff.ly/7wpe1ZA
Historic England have launched new training workshops, covering 'How to Measure a Carbon Footprint', and 'How To Write a Carbon Reduction Plan'! Check out our Blogpost all about it for more: buff.ly/7wpe1ZA
Keen to be green? Caring about carbon? Historic England launch free Carbon Reduction Workshops for Heritage Organisations! - Heritage Network
Historic England’s new Carbon Reduction Training for the Heritage Sector is open for workshop bookings today!
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August 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Keen to be green? Caring about carbon? You're in luck!
Historic England have launched new training workshops, covering 'How to Measure a Carbon Footprint', and 'How To Write a Carbon Reduction Plan'! Check out our Blogpost all about it for more: buff.ly/7wpe1ZA
Historic England have launched new training workshops, covering 'How to Measure a Carbon Footprint', and 'How To Write a Carbon Reduction Plan'! Check out our Blogpost all about it for more: buff.ly/7wpe1ZA
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Very interesting to consider when we think as archaeologists about landscapes and memory
Fascinating thread on our bucolic perceptions of the (recent) past agricultural landscape & the reality. Came across this time & again in writing new book, #GhostsoftheFarm. No denying we’ve decimated so much wildlife in pursuit of food production, but Shifting Baseline Syndrome is a complex beast!
In 1956 some of this scene was already mainly memory in England, Corncrake had become rare with horse drawn mechanical reaper. Corncockle was a seed contaminant, better seed cleaning it was gone, Cornflower and other arable weeds like poppy started to be eradicated by 2,4-D introduced in 1946.
August 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Very interesting to consider when we think as archaeologists about landscapes and memory
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Our study further reveals the marvelous and often surprising complexity of our planet. It reminds me of how difficult it is to predict the future and how our own actions are creating a profoundly uncertain world and future.
Read more here: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au...
Read more here: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au...
August: Peatlands protection | News and features | University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk
August 6, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our study further reveals the marvelous and often surprising complexity of our planet. It reminds me of how difficult it is to predict the future and how our own actions are creating a profoundly uncertain world and future.
Read more here: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au...
Read more here: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/au...
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🚨 Aged 18 - 25 & passionate about heritage? Join our Youth Advisory Board!
Help shape a more inclusive, youth-led future for archaeology 🔍 No experience needed, just bring your insight, ideas & curiosity!
Find out more about the YABs, their work, and how to apply here 👉 shorturl.at/MxxO0
Help shape a more inclusive, youth-led future for archaeology 🔍 No experience needed, just bring your insight, ideas & curiosity!
Find out more about the YABs, their work, and how to apply here 👉 shorturl.at/MxxO0
July 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🚨 Aged 18 - 25 & passionate about heritage? Join our Youth Advisory Board!
Help shape a more inclusive, youth-led future for archaeology 🔍 No experience needed, just bring your insight, ideas & curiosity!
Find out more about the YABs, their work, and how to apply here 👉 shorturl.at/MxxO0
Help shape a more inclusive, youth-led future for archaeology 🔍 No experience needed, just bring your insight, ideas & curiosity!
Find out more about the YABs, their work, and how to apply here 👉 shorturl.at/MxxO0
This week, I leave my role as Community Participation Coordinator @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Thank you to my colleagues in the University and wider community working tirelessly across the town-gown web. I've been a Cambridge resident for 20 years and never felt more connected with my local area.
July 30, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This week, I leave my role as Community Participation Coordinator @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Thank you to my colleagues in the University and wider community working tirelessly across the town-gown web. I've been a Cambridge resident for 20 years and never felt more connected with my local area.
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Curious about archaeology but not sure where to start?
Join us on 13 September for Unearthing Futures, a FREE event created by young people, for young people at the Great North Museum: Hancock. Enjoy skills workshops, network, and have fun!
Travel + lunch covered 🍕
👉 shorturl.at/KYmHV
Join us on 13 September for Unearthing Futures, a FREE event created by young people, for young people at the Great North Museum: Hancock. Enjoy skills workshops, network, and have fun!
Travel + lunch covered 🍕
👉 shorturl.at/KYmHV
July 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Curious about archaeology but not sure where to start?
Join us on 13 September for Unearthing Futures, a FREE event created by young people, for young people at the Great North Museum: Hancock. Enjoy skills workshops, network, and have fun!
Travel + lunch covered 🍕
👉 shorturl.at/KYmHV
Join us on 13 September for Unearthing Futures, a FREE event created by young people, for young people at the Great North Museum: Hancock. Enjoy skills workshops, network, and have fun!
Travel + lunch covered 🍕
👉 shorturl.at/KYmHV
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#Wetlands are among nature’s most powerful climate allies. Despite their immense value, wetlands remain in peril. As we look towards #COP30 please sign the letter linked below for the sake of #conservation, #biodiversity and #climate change action.
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July 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#Wetlands are among nature’s most powerful climate allies. Despite their immense value, wetlands remain in peril. As we look towards #COP30 please sign the letter linked below for the sake of #conservation, #biodiversity and #climate change action.
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Interested in studying archaeology at university? JOIN US in person or virtually on Monday 27th October 2025 at the British Academy bsky.app/profile/brit... to find out more about what it's like to study archaeology at university! More info and booking links here: linktr.ee/University_A...
July 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Interested in studying archaeology at university? JOIN US in person or virtually on Monday 27th October 2025 at the British Academy bsky.app/profile/brit... to find out more about what it's like to study archaeology at university! More info and booking links here: linktr.ee/University_A...
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🎉 The Festival of Archaeology 2025 is here!🏺
To celebrate the role of open knowledge in wellbeing, we’re highlighting a selection of projects that showcase how archaeology can support personal and community wellbeing in diverse and meaningful ways.
🔗 To find out more visit: buff.ly/ltIPhVR
To celebrate the role of open knowledge in wellbeing, we’re highlighting a selection of projects that showcase how archaeology can support personal and community wellbeing in diverse and meaningful ways.
🔗 To find out more visit: buff.ly/ltIPhVR
July 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🎉 The Festival of Archaeology 2025 is here!🏺
To celebrate the role of open knowledge in wellbeing, we’re highlighting a selection of projects that showcase how archaeology can support personal and community wellbeing in diverse and meaningful ways.
🔗 To find out more visit: buff.ly/ltIPhVR
To celebrate the role of open knowledge in wellbeing, we’re highlighting a selection of projects that showcase how archaeology can support personal and community wellbeing in diverse and meaningful ways.
🔗 To find out more visit: buff.ly/ltIPhVR
Magical. Preserved handprints dispel the curtain of time.
"I have never seen such a complete handprint on an #Egyptian object before."
Find out how researchers at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum discovered a 4,000-year-old handprint on an exhibit: bit.ly/3U0MKwx
#Archaeology #Museums #Research #AncientBlueSky #Egyptology
Find out how researchers at Cambridge University's Fitzwilliam Museum discovered a 4,000-year-old handprint on an exhibit: bit.ly/3U0MKwx
#Archaeology #Museums #Research #AncientBlueSky #Egyptology
4000-year-old ancient Egyptian handprint discovered at Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum.
The extraordinary find uncovered as part of upcoming exhibition, 'Made in Ancient Egypt'
www.cam.ac.uk
July 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Magical. Preserved handprints dispel the curtain of time.
This #BogDay seems apt to announce that I am starting a PhD @york.ac.uk in September with @anthropocenebio.bsky.social and the Department of Archaeology. I will be researching the past ecology of the North Yorks Moors and using this evidence to explore views about the future landscape #MoorViews 🪧
July 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
This #BogDay seems apt to announce that I am starting a PhD @york.ac.uk in September with @anthropocenebio.bsky.social and the Department of Archaeology. I will be researching the past ecology of the North Yorks Moors and using this evidence to explore views about the future landscape #MoorViews 🪧
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We have one last surprise for #AskAnArchaeologist...
To keep the discoveries flowing & to celebrate #FestivalOfArchaeology, we’re unlocking the British Archaeology archives for ONE WEEKEND ONLY - totally OPEN ACCESS! 🔓👉 shorturl.at/7uZaD
Let us know what you uncover!
To keep the discoveries flowing & to celebrate #FestivalOfArchaeology, we’re unlocking the British Archaeology archives for ONE WEEKEND ONLY - totally OPEN ACCESS! 🔓👉 shorturl.at/7uZaD
Let us know what you uncover!
July 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
We have one last surprise for #AskAnArchaeologist...
To keep the discoveries flowing & to celebrate #FestivalOfArchaeology, we’re unlocking the British Archaeology archives for ONE WEEKEND ONLY - totally OPEN ACCESS! 🔓👉 shorturl.at/7uZaD
Let us know what you uncover!
To keep the discoveries flowing & to celebrate #FestivalOfArchaeology, we’re unlocking the British Archaeology archives for ONE WEEKEND ONLY - totally OPEN ACCESS! 🔓👉 shorturl.at/7uZaD
Let us know what you uncover!
A mindful moment connecting with people past and present at tonight's @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalofArchaeology talk about bringing the prehistoric archaeology at Stanwick Lakes to life🏺
July 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
A mindful moment connecting with people past and present at tonight's @archaeologyuk.bsky.social #FestivalofArchaeology talk about bringing the prehistoric archaeology at Stanwick Lakes to life🏺
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#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
July 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#AskAnArchaeologist Day is on Bluesky this year! 🏺
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
Get your questions ready for this Friday, when tons of archaeologists will be on hand to answer your #archaeology queries.
@archaeologyuk.bsky.social
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🏺 The 2025 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards are now open for nominations!
🎉 Help us celebrate the people & projects shaping archaeology across the UK & Ireland.
📅 Deadline: 3 Sept 2025
Start your nomination 👉 shorturl.at/NAQBZ
Join our clinics to find out more 👉 shorturl.at/A74pb
🎉 Help us celebrate the people & projects shaping archaeology across the UK & Ireland.
📅 Deadline: 3 Sept 2025
Start your nomination 👉 shorturl.at/NAQBZ
Join our clinics to find out more 👉 shorturl.at/A74pb
July 19, 2025 at 2:43 PM
🏺 The 2025 #ArchaeologicalAchievementAwards are now open for nominations!
🎉 Help us celebrate the people & projects shaping archaeology across the UK & Ireland.
📅 Deadline: 3 Sept 2025
Start your nomination 👉 shorturl.at/NAQBZ
Join our clinics to find out more 👉 shorturl.at/A74pb
🎉 Help us celebrate the people & projects shaping archaeology across the UK & Ireland.
📅 Deadline: 3 Sept 2025
Start your nomination 👉 shorturl.at/NAQBZ
Join our clinics to find out more 👉 shorturl.at/A74pb
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📣 #PublicHumanities invites papers which look beyond community inclusion in excavation and embrace participation in archaeology through different avenues for a new themed issue. Learn more here: 🔗 cup.org/44RfLQj
#CommunityArchaeology
#Archaeology
#OpenAccess
#CommunityArchaeology
#Archaeology
#OpenAccess
July 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📣 #PublicHumanities invites papers which look beyond community inclusion in excavation and embrace participation in archaeology through different avenues for a new themed issue. Learn more here: 🔗 cup.org/44RfLQj
#CommunityArchaeology
#Archaeology
#OpenAccess
#CommunityArchaeology
#Archaeology
#OpenAccess
A devastating loss. Flag Fen Roundhouse destroyed by Peterborough vandals www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/t...
Flag Fen Roundhouse destroyed by Peterborough vandals
A roundhouse at Peterborough’s Flag Fen has been destroyed by arsonists, it has been revealed.
www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM
A devastating loss. Flag Fen Roundhouse destroyed by Peterborough vandals www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/crime/t...
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What will you discover this #SummerAtTheMuseums?
☀️🔎🔭🎨💎🦖
Check out our full summer events calendar online from today!
Browse all events and book your place: museums.cam.ac.uk/theme/summer
☀️🔎🔭🎨💎🦖
Check out our full summer events calendar online from today!
Browse all events and book your place: museums.cam.ac.uk/theme/summer
July 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What will you discover this #SummerAtTheMuseums?
☀️🔎🔭🎨💎🦖
Check out our full summer events calendar online from today!
Browse all events and book your place: museums.cam.ac.uk/theme/summer
☀️🔎🔭🎨💎🦖
Check out our full summer events calendar online from today!
Browse all events and book your place: museums.cam.ac.uk/theme/summer
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NEW: What is the relationship between poetry and place at heritage sites? Our new blog-post introduces the @torchoxford.bsky.social collaborative project with @englishheritage.bsky.social - Poetry, Heritage and Community: Inspiring Voices 👇 www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/intr...
Introducing the Poetry, Heritage, and Community Project
www.torch.ox.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
NEW: What is the relationship between poetry and place at heritage sites? Our new blog-post introduces the @torchoxford.bsky.social collaborative project with @englishheritage.bsky.social - Poetry, Heritage and Community: Inspiring Voices 👇 www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/intr...
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Saying “we will never know” (but here is what I think, and why) is the most powerful thing. It says, we can’t be sure, what do you think? A 7 year old child hearing it might think to themself, I can work that out. And maybe, one day, they will
More archaeological sites should take note of the approach to interpretation at Flag Fen. I think it's incredibly important to present a range of hypotheses, the evidence informing them and to recognise that 'we will never know' 🙌 🧵3/
July 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Saying “we will never know” (but here is what I think, and why) is the most powerful thing. It says, we can’t be sure, what do you think? A 7 year old child hearing it might think to themself, I can work that out. And maybe, one day, they will