David Petts
@davidpetts1.bsky.social
Rewriting archaeology, @durham_uni
Land/seascapes- old music/books - folk traditions - early med/ post med Britain / Armorica - views own - incorrigibly plural - Pleasant Green; Dept of Works
Land/seascapes- old music/books - folk traditions - early med/ post med Britain / Armorica - views own - incorrigibly plural - Pleasant Green; Dept of Works
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OK- I'm doing a practical session with MA [humanities] students about academic writing (soft skills) - what are people's best bits of advice about academic writing - anything from how to knuckle down to writing to style to structure?
October 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
OK- I'm doing a practical session with MA [humanities] students about academic writing (soft skills) - what are people's best bits of advice about academic writing - anything from how to knuckle down to writing to style to structure?
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Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.
This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.
This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
September 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
When I was a teenager there was a bus direct from my hometown in Germany to London - we had a British army base, and this direct bus connection was one of the benefits of that. One summer I went on that bus to go volunteer in an old people's home in Southend-on-Sea. I had just turned 18 and was... 🧵
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This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
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Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne.
Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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September 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Day 4 of our post-excavation week and we have been out to visit our friends at Ad Gefrin and @davidpetts1.bsky.social on #Lindisfarne.
Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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Lots of lovely early medieval goodness.
#northumberland #archaeology
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Nice surprise - fragment of Roman terra sigillata from our excavations at Lindisfarne- that's our fourth bit!
September 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Nice surprise - fragment of Roman terra sigillata from our excavations at Lindisfarne- that's our fourth bit!
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We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉
Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q
Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q
September 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
We are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2026 and ranked third overall in its Good University Guide. Congratulations to our global university community on this success. 🎉
Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q
Read more: brnw.ch/21wVU4Q
Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne
September 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Three early medieval namestones in one morning in the @digventures.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social excavations at #Lindisfarne
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Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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September 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Yesterday was the big day:
The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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The team of the Glasgow-Maynooth OG(H)AM project celebrated the end of four years of intensive work (2021-5) with the launch - in the venerable rooms of the Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie - of the new, revised and hugely updated 𝕆𝕘𝕙𝕒𝕞 𝕚𝕟 𝟛𝔻 database and website.
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For over a millennium Holy Island has been known as the site of the creation of one of the masterpieces of world art, the Lindisfarne Gospels - but today, it has been witness to one of my students doing a karaoke version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels. O tempora, O mores!
September 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
For over a millennium Holy Island has been known as the site of the creation of one of the masterpieces of world art, the Lindisfarne Gospels - but today, it has been witness to one of my students doing a karaoke version of "I've got a brand new combine harvester" by The Wurzels. O tempora, O mores!
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A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
September 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all
www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
Reform leader bans engagement with Notts Live in unprecedented step
All of Reform UK's Nottinghamshire county councillors will now refuse to speak to any of our journalists
www.nottinghampost.com
August 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Eesh. Notts Reform leadership blacklisting both the local paper and the local democracy scheme that covers the council for the BBC. Don’t like this at all
www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
www.nottinghampost.com/news/news-op...
My problems with "King and Conqueror" are not born out of pedantry, but the fact that the whole thing is a total fucking car crash - and so so so lazy... Would far rather watch Asterix and the Normans
August 26, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My problems with "King and Conqueror" are not born out of pedantry, but the fact that the whole thing is a total fucking car crash - and so so so lazy... Would far rather watch Asterix and the Normans
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This is going to get a lot worse if media & politicians don’t start portraying it as vandalism & intimidation rather than patriotism
Fash in Clevedon doing the vital work of *checks notes* defacing public information boards in parks.
August 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is going to get a lot worse if media & politicians don’t start portraying it as vandalism & intimidation rather than patriotism
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"More than two thirds of the people arrested for disorder when an anti-immigration demonstration in Bristol turned violent last summer had previous contact with police over reports of domestic abuse."
#FarageRiots #ReformUK
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
#FarageRiots #ReformUK
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
Two thirds arrested at protest involved in domestic abuse reports
Avon and Somerset Police confirmed the statistics following an FOI request
www.bristolpost.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
"More than two thirds of the people arrested for disorder when an anti-immigration demonstration in Bristol turned violent last summer had previous contact with police over reports of domestic abuse."
#FarageRiots #ReformUK
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
#FarageRiots #ReformUK
www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...
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Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂
But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People just lie’: How Riverford’s Guy Singh-Watson became the most brutally honest farmer in Britain
The organic veg pioneer talks to the Guardian about being unemployable, his unconventional father and his recent autism diagnosis
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Not many farmers would tell you that we need to eat less meat; that wealthy landowners shouldn’t moan about inheritance tax but should “pay the whole fucking lot”; & that Reform UK are “a load of rich rightwing toffs” 😂
But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But Devon farmer Guy Singh-Watson does:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thames barges - Ipswich - my grandpa remembered going up to London from Essex on these as a boy as his uncles were Thames bargemen running bricks up from the brickfields of Essex
August 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Thames barges - Ipswich - my grandpa remembered going up to London from Essex on these as a boy as his uncles were Thames bargemen running bricks up from the brickfields of Essex
Just pondering the bell-ends in Southwold last week making loud comments about 'refugee taxi services' whilst I was in the RNLI shop.... 😕
August 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Just pondering the bell-ends in Southwold last week making loud comments about 'refugee taxi services' whilst I was in the RNLI shop.... 😕
For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent
August 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent
For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent
August 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
For someone who spends a lot (too much?) time thing about early medieval seascape, a visit to the Sutton Hoo ship project in Woodbridge amounts to an afternoon well spent
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I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
joanneedge.co.uk
joanneedge.co.uk
Dr Joanne Edge
Historian and writer
joanneedge.co.uk
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I've got a new website! Thanks to Man Kit Lam for design, and @knifewitch.bsky.social and @soranasantos.bsky.social for photos and encouragement! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
joanneedge.co.uk
joanneedge.co.uk
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Despite OP's valid point, credit to the reporters of the news article for explicitly making the point about the burial practices signalling community inclusion, an important retort of people's efforts to impose modern assumptions onto past behaviours.
It shouldn't be news that people don't fit into tidy categories, and they insist on doing untidy things like trading and travelling and falling in love and settling down; but apparently it's non-news we have to keep repeating because untidiness helps keep us human.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA
Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers
www.science.org
August 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Despite OP's valid point, credit to the reporters of the news article for explicitly making the point about the burial practices signalling community inclusion, an important retort of people's efforts to impose modern assumptions onto past behaviours.
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Nurse! She's got out of bed again!
2025: Liz Truss, "The views expressed at the Olympic ceremony are not the views of the average Briton"
2019: Liz Truss on Twitter, "We need to revive the Olympic 2012 spirit - a modern, patriotic, enterprising vision of Britain"
2019: Liz Truss on Twitter, "We need to revive the Olympic 2012 spirit - a modern, patriotic, enterprising vision of Britain"
August 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Nurse! She's got out of bed again!