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Conversation Kenge
@fenken.bsky.social
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Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
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Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social · Nov 19
I have made a Maritime Archaeologists Starter Pack. I need to go through my follow/followers lists to populate it more fully, but please share and let me know who I should be including!

go.bsky.app/Q9TbFV2
fenken.bsky.social
Nighthawks, #Fen edition...

#DailyHopper
A photograph of a farm taken at night. It is mostly two high powered lights on the outside of a barn that is lit up inside.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Book for the Mermaid's Tail tour or Queer Legends workshop, part of #queermaritimes at the National Maritime Museum. Both take place this Saturday, 15 Nov.

This is part of the wonderful work of the Queer History Club, which meets at the NMM. #skystorians 🗃️
Queer Maritimes
From tours about merpeople to creative workshops on personalised maps, discover some of the LGBTQ+ histories connected to Royal Museums Greenwich's collections
www.rmg.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
fenken.bsky.social
#OTDH 1975 one of my favourite albums was released. 50 years old and still sounds fresher than a lot of more recent releases.

#PattiSmith
#Horses
A CD copy of Horses, by Patti Smith in a cracked case. The cover art is a black and white photo of Patti Smith by Robert Mapplethorpe. She is wearing a pair of jeans and a white shirt with a black ribbon round her neck like an untied tie and a jacket over her shoulder. She has dark, shaggy hair.
November 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
fenken.bsky.social
Early morning cat
A tabby cat asleep on a sofa, lit by the light from another room.
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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mlobelart.bsky.social
As antidote to current US government's reprehensible erasure of Black soldiers' WWII contributions, here's Jacob Lawrence's "Beachhead," 1947, a work in his larger War series. Lawrence himself served in WWII as an artist on the US military's first racially integrated ship whitney.org/collection/w...
Scene of soldiers on battlefield Mid-1940s photo of artist Jacob Lawrence, at center, holding up a painting surrounded by shipmates
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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fakehistoryhunter.net
I'm still confused about why people use fake nonsense when there are actual real photos you can easily find online.
This Facebook page has close to half a million followers.

On the left their picture, on the right real ones taken by Bob Willoughby in 1958.
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 PM
fenken.bsky.social
I see your 'April 1805... Oceans are now battlefields', and I raise you...
Iain Gruffudd as Mr Midshipman Hornblower, in the cabin of HMS Indefatigable. For the avoidance of doubt, I am doing chores, but the boy is ill and has chosen to entertain himself with some prime telly. The girl merely remarked 'Tell me when he takes his shirt off'...
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
fenken.bsky.social
Share to the original post, rather than to me.
lilahsturges.com Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 2d
Again I am asking trans people to share something good that is happening in your life. Can be something really small or even the absence of a bad thing! Hearing the good things in your lives gives me life and hope.
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
fenken.bsky.social
The yellow wreath is a particularly poignant act of remembrance.
ninabake2.bsky.social Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social · 1d
#YellowPoppyWreath
I made a 🟡poppy wreath to commemorate the men & women munitions workers who sacrificed their lives or their health in war service for their country.
🟡because of the 'Canaries' women whose skin turned 🟡from TNT chemicals.
#Glasgow cathedral today
@debsadelight.bsky.social
Glasgow cathedral altar with mainly red poppy wreaths. Yellow wreath at right hand side. The text in the yellow wreath says "In Remembrance of the ‘Canary Girls’ and all other civilian munitions workers who gave their lives or health in the service of the nation." The charities that make the usual wreaths do not (yet) make yellow ones so this is home made but I did make a donation to the poppy appeal.
November 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
fenken.bsky.social
#RunningPunks #VirtualRunClub includes a #heron for the #BrokenPunks and all in the #NoRunClub, #SelfieSunday, a #DailyRothko, #FenLife and #TooManyHashtags
A grey heron stood on the bow of a narrow boat. A figureheron, if you will. Idiot in running gear stood in a river marina Dawn over the fen with mist rising from the ground to meet haze and a graduated apricot sky. Silhouettes of railway gantries and transmission towers Dawn rising behind the silhouettes of houses and trees.
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
fenken.bsky.social
Extremely grateful to @lafeeverte.bsky.social for the #Sparks #earworm!
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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actualkatherine.bsky.social
In case you wondered what "Dunmore Day" was all about
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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waitmanwbeorn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:20 PM
fenken.bsky.social
I was looking at the Heritage Craft Association's Red List of Endangered Crafts.

I was interested to find out there are still two traditional orrery manufacturers in Britain:

www.heritagecrafts.org.uk/skills/redli...
The Red List - Heritage Crafts
Charity that promotes, safeguards and celebrates heritage craft skills in the UK
www.heritagecrafts.org.uk
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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pharology.bsky.social
#LighthouseArt of the Day

Joseph Wright of Derby (British, 1734-1797), A moonlight with a #lighthouse, 1789, oil on canvas.

Courtesy National Gallery, nationalgallery.org.uk/

🧵 1/2

#PharosFriday #ScapeDay #scape #art #artsky #OilPainting #landscape #harborscape #BritishArt
A tall lighthouse tower stands on a jetty in a harbor under the light of a full moon, an orange flame burning in its lantern. In the foreground, three figures are docking a sailboat. A hill rises in the background, topped by the walls and tower of a fortress. The walls of another building or fortification are just to the left of the lighthouse.
November 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM
fenken.bsky.social
So I went for a run today (with @benefitstheband.bsky.social - third fastest run since my op. Recommend Constant Noise as a running album). There was a #heron, some boats and some autumnal action.

#FenLife
A grey heron stood on the bank of a cutting just astern of a small cabin cruiser, most of which is out of shot. Black and white photo of a narrow boat, bow on, hauled out of the water on a patent slip Some leaves floating on the river. The light is odd and while the river is very still, the camera man is a bit shaky so there is a little movement. One of those photographic accidents that I quite like.
November 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
fenken.bsky.social
Predictably...

Anal Chimney is a class band name, though
A picture of John Peel saying 'Next up we have Belgian thrash metal band Anal Chimney'
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
fenken.bsky.social
#QuoteOfTheDay: 'Lots of quangos get a say in what they would like, without having to consider the costs. So you end up with perfect being the enemy of the good' (Helen Lewis on development).

Simultaneously agree wholeheartedly and fundamentally disagree!
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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tessmachling.bsky.social
...and in great news - this is what £250,000 can buy you in a museum.

We could get FOURTEEN of these for one £3.5 million payout to a detectorist & landowner for their lucky Tudor Heart locket find... 🤔

#Archaeology 🏺

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Peterborough Museum gets £250k for Bronze Age project
The two-year initiative will explore the discoveries made at Must Farm in Whittlesey.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:55 PM
fenken.bsky.social
Some of the comments...
remembrancewatch.bsky.social RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social · 10d
www.yoursouthport.com/blog/life-si...

In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...

The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.
A crochet spitfire in front of a building. No, really. A different view of the crochet spitfire - no, I really do mean it, it's a full sized spitfire made from wool. This angle shows it apparently on tow by a rope of poppies, because of course it is.
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
fenken.bsky.social
I do like a bit of #geophysics, me...
ullamr.bsky.social Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · 5d
Researchers led by Emil Jęczmienowski of the University of Poland's Institute of Archaeology found traces of a first-century AD Roman fort near the Romanian-Serbian border and mapped it with geophysics. It was for 1,000 auxiliary forces near the Iron Gate. #RomanFortThursday
November 6, 2025 at 6:13 AM
fenken.bsky.social
Oh that's a fabulous shot. So good I'm not even tempted to Photoshop in a giant gorilla holding a miniature Fay Wray...
joshsternberg.com Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 6d
Sometimes you just gotta look up and marvel about the things that human beings have built together.
The Empire State Building flanked by two buildings, under a broken cloudy sky.
November 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
fenken.bsky.social
'Tis the season to be...IT'S NOVEMBER!

When they power this lot up it is going to draw enough power to write a 200 word letter with AI...
A house covered in Christmas decorations. Seriously covered. Imagine a house as covered in light up Christmas decorations as you can get, then add several more. It is not remotely sensible. Probably serves as a useful navigation beacon for aircraft pilots and passing flying saucers.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM