Sophie C-S
@sophiecs.bsky.social
MA Classical Studies - Roman Britain & family life
Always researching women’s health in antiquity 🏛️ 🩺 🏺 Metal DetectorIST in the UK Midlands
Always researching women’s health in antiquity 🏛️ 🩺 🏺 Metal DetectorIST in the UK Midlands
Going to attempt a number of archaeological illustrations today in preparation for some primary school talks. A selection of Roman finds and their uses… but with pizazz 🌈 #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
April 12, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Going to attempt a number of archaeological illustrations today in preparation for some primary school talks. A selection of Roman finds and their uses… but with pizazz 🌈 #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
I don’t know why people bother with cocaine when KP Salted Peanuts exist.
April 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I don’t know why people bother with cocaine when KP Salted Peanuts exist.
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Something a little different for #EpigraphyTuesday. An iron age arrow-head from Barouk, inscribed in Phoenician 'Arrow of Ada, son of Ba'la.' The Phoenicians were a key Mediterranean influence but often sadly overlooked within scholarship.
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky
📷 British Museum, 136753
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky
📷 British Museum, 136753
April 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Something a little different for #EpigraphyTuesday. An iron age arrow-head from Barouk, inscribed in Phoenician 'Arrow of Ada, son of Ba'la.' The Phoenicians were a key Mediterranean influence but often sadly overlooked within scholarship.
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky
📷 British Museum, 136753
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky
📷 British Museum, 136753
Battle of Bosworth sesh today 🛡️ ⚔️ 👑 #richardiii #carparkking #tudorhistory #warsoftheroses #plantagenets
March 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Battle of Bosworth sesh today 🛡️ ⚔️ 👑 #richardiii #carparkking #tudorhistory #warsoftheroses #plantagenets
Men went into battle and you won’t even take out the bloody bins.
March 29, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Men went into battle and you won’t even take out the bloody bins.
Currently nap trapped… while the dog whines at the door waiting for walkies. This is the type of stress I live for and makes me 100% certain I made the decision not to return to work post 4th baby.
March 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Currently nap trapped… while the dog whines at the door waiting for walkies. This is the type of stress I live for and makes me 100% certain I made the decision not to return to work post 4th baby.
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@lawrence-shaw.bsky.social
Nice work...looking forward to learning more.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nice work...looking forward to learning more.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Archaeologists uncover Bronze Age stone circle in Farley Wood
The
www.bbc.co.uk
March 22, 2025 at 8:20 AM
@lawrence-shaw.bsky.social
Nice work...looking forward to learning more.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nice work...looking forward to learning more.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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#MosaicMonday
Wroxeter - Fragment of mosaic floor from the townhouse excavations in 1914. 📷 My own.
AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History
Wroxeter - Fragment of mosaic floor from the townhouse excavations in 1914. 📷 My own.
AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History
March 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#MosaicMonday
Wroxeter - Fragment of mosaic floor from the townhouse excavations in 1914. 📷 My own.
AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History
Wroxeter - Fragment of mosaic floor from the townhouse excavations in 1914. 📷 My own.
AncientBlueSky🏺
#Archaeology #History
Bronze… spear ish? Any ideas? (Banana for scale). #metaldetecting #ancientbluesky #bronzeage please share!
March 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Bronze… spear ish? Any ideas? (Banana for scale). #metaldetecting #ancientbluesky #bronzeage please share!
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Brilliant news on a Friday afternoon: gov will launch new natural history GCSE. It's taken Mary Colwell, @carolinelucas.bsky.social & others years of campaigning. (I'm praying it'll be introduced quickly enough for my children!)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE
Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Brilliant news on a Friday afternoon: gov will launch new natural history GCSE. It's taken Mary Colwell, @carolinelucas.bsky.social & others years of campaigning. (I'm praying it'll be introduced quickly enough for my children!)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 10:11 AM
History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
There’s nothing quite like stomping around atop an Iron Age hill fort at Breedon on the Hill, Derbyshire in the heart of ancient Mercia⚔️later a monastery then a church; ‘Briudun’ according to the 7th C Anglo Saxon Chronicle, meaning ‘a hill’ and ‘the hill’. So it’s really ‘A Hill Hill on the Hill’😆
March 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
There’s nothing quite like stomping around atop an Iron Age hill fort at Breedon on the Hill, Derbyshire in the heart of ancient Mercia⚔️later a monastery then a church; ‘Briudun’ according to the 7th C Anglo Saxon Chronicle, meaning ‘a hill’ and ‘the hill’. So it’s really ‘A Hill Hill on the Hill’😆
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Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
Getting started on ancient Greek
This free course, Getting started on ancient Greek, offers a taster of the ancient Greek world through the study of one of its most distinctive and enduring features: its language.The course ...
www.open.edu
March 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...
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Please recommend me a thorough, up-to-date history of the Ottoman Empire that I can read before visiting Istanbul this summer.
March 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Please recommend me a thorough, up-to-date history of the Ottoman Empire that I can read before visiting Istanbul this summer.
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You who knew Dr Philip Mills. A fitting celebration of life on Saturday March 22 at 7pm in The Kneaded Pint in Anstey. #PhilFest #Archaeology
March 17, 2025 at 11:56 AM
You who knew Dr Philip Mills. A fitting celebration of life on Saturday March 22 at 7pm in The Kneaded Pint in Anstey. #PhilFest #Archaeology
Looking for recommendations and suggestions for literature discussing women, children and family life inside British Roman forts. Thanks! #ancientbluesky #romanbritain … please share if you can… I am still new here and have like 3 followers 😂 #helpmeh
March 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Looking for recommendations and suggestions for literature discussing women, children and family life inside British Roman forts. Thanks! #ancientbluesky #romanbritain … please share if you can… I am still new here and have like 3 followers 😂 #helpmeh
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#BlueSkyClassics🏛️
Beware the #IdesofMarch
was notable in #Rome as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the #assassination of Julius #Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in #Roman #History. 🗡️
#AncientBlueSky🏺
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Beware the #IdesofMarch
was notable in #Rome as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the #assassination of Julius #Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in #Roman #History. 🗡️
#AncientBlueSky🏺
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March 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
#BlueSkyClassics🏛️
Beware the #IdesofMarch
was notable in #Rome as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the #assassination of Julius #Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in #Roman #History. 🗡️
#AncientBlueSky🏺
🧵 (1/3) 👇
Beware the #IdesofMarch
was notable in #Rome as a deadline for settling debts. In 44 BC, it became notorious as the date of the #assassination of Julius #Caesar, which made the Ides of March a turning point in #Roman #History. 🗡️
#AncientBlueSky🏺
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Roman fibula brooch found in Loughborough today… and a few other possible snippets of Roman metalware. #metaldetecting #romanbritain
March 9, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Roman fibula brooch found in Loughborough today… and a few other possible snippets of Roman metalware. #metaldetecting #romanbritain
Pond dipping and fungi spotting at Bradgate Park 🦌 🍄 ☀️ Leicester
October 29, 2023 at 10:50 AM
Pond dipping and fungi spotting at Bradgate Park 🦌 🍄 ☀️ Leicester
We did the amphitheatre today (largest in Britain) and Roman gardens… and the cathedral ✨ LoveChester ☁️
October 19, 2023 at 8:32 PM
We did the amphitheatre today (largest in Britain) and Roman gardens… and the cathedral ✨ LoveChester ☁️
New book is arriving today and I’m super excited! I hope it’s not a totally let down… but the previous version is somewhat of a cult classic
ReadersDigestMythsandFolklore
ReadersDigestMythsandFolklore
October 17, 2023 at 8:31 AM
New book is arriving today and I’m super excited! I hope it’s not a totally let down… but the previous version is somewhat of a cult classic
ReadersDigestMythsandFolklore
ReadersDigestMythsandFolklore
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Hi! I’m an illustrator of the Ancient Mediterranean world, with a particular interest in Roman visual culture. I wrote my BA thesis on the imagery of 2nd and 3rd c Roman imperial coinage 🪙🌿🏺
September 29, 2023 at 8:45 PM
Hi! I’m an illustrator of the Ancient Mediterranean world, with a particular interest in Roman visual culture. I wrote my BA thesis on the imagery of 2nd and 3rd c Roman imperial coinage 🪙🌿🏺