Tracy Marshall
@tracym57.bsky.social
Interests: Mediterranean/Iberian/Punic/Roman archaeology; British genealogy.....and many other things. English living in Andalucia, collects stray dogs...
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Tracy Marshall
@tracym57.bsky.social
· Nov 17
When you live in an Andalucian village the neighbours give you pumpkins.
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🌅One for the early birds: 'I am relieved at how unInstagrammable it is; and so I do the most unInstagrammable thing of all: I set my device aside, pull up a chair, and take out my watercolours.' 📖👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal... #allsaintsbillesley
September 8, 2025 at 5:35 AM
🌅One for the early birds: 'I am relieved at how unInstagrammable it is; and so I do the most unInstagrammable thing of all: I set my device aside, pull up a chair, and take out my watercolours.' 📖👉 www.digest.andymarshall.co/andy-marshal... #allsaintsbillesley
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A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire
October 2, 2025 at 6:50 AM
A joy of a sight for #ThrowbackThursday - A ghost gable 👻 - caught like a fly in amber at Wirksworth in Derbyshire
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Like a time capsule: a #Roman tile marked with #finger lines, hobnail #shoe prints, #dog's paw prints, and a #stamp of the LEG(io) XIIII G(emina). Tiles with imprints are very common, since tiles were laid out to dry in the open air ahead of firing, where...🧵1/2
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
#TilesOnTuesday 🏺
November 11, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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A must-read: A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home
thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...
thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...
At home with refugees - The Bristol Cable
A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home
thebristolcable.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A must-read: A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home
thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...
thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...
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Enjoying some time with Jean Mabillon and his extremely approachable transcriptions of Merovingian scripts, in addition to the other joys of De re diplomatica (1681)—the work first establishing the science of paleography.
October 23, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Enjoying some time with Jean Mabillon and his extremely approachable transcriptions of Merovingian scripts, in addition to the other joys of De re diplomatica (1681)—the work first establishing the science of paleography.
Locked out of FB so here I am again
October 23, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Locked out of FB so here I am again
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Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
'“I don't think that people appreciate how few people are working to keep these collections online, even at huge institutions,” Weinberg told me. “It's usually an incredibly small team, one person, half a person, half a person, plus, like their web person who is sympathetic to what's going on.'
AI Scraping Bots Are Breaking Open Libraries, Archives, and Museums
"This is a moment where that community feels collectively under threat and isn't sure what the process is for solving the problem.”
www.404media.co
June 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.
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I've decided to make sandcastles on the beach and sell them for a living.
April 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I've decided to make sandcastles on the beach and sell them for a living.
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We don't see English papers so I hope all is well with the Stock Market.
April 10, 2025 at 2:05 PM
We don't see English papers so I hope all is well with the Stock Market.
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At 3.00 A.M on Sunday the girls were dancing the hokey pokey so we have not had much sleep.
April 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
At 3.00 A.M on Sunday the girls were dancing the hokey pokey so we have not had much sleep.
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Researchers Unearth Oldest Known Human Facial Bones Ever Found in Western Europe 🏺🧪
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious, unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious, unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago.
April 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Researchers Unearth Oldest Known Human Facial Bones Ever Found in Western Europe 🏺🧪
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious, unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago.
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious, unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago.
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I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.
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"The Library" by American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), who shared a communal household in Pennsylvania with fellow artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. See Alice A. Carter's book The Red Rose Girls for more information on these remarkable women. #SomethingBeautiful
April 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"The Library" by American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), who shared a communal household in Pennsylvania with fellow artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. See Alice A. Carter's book The Red Rose Girls for more information on these remarkable women. #SomethingBeautiful
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Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.
April 14, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.
Just cancelled my midjourney sub to SAVE ELECTRICITY.
What is the point in covering all our farmland with solar panels and wind farms JUST TO PROVIDE ALL THE EXTRA ELECTRICITY THAT AI USES. Not to replace oil but to provide vast amounts of electricity JUST for AI?
What is the point in covering all our farmland with solar panels and wind farms JUST TO PROVIDE ALL THE EXTRA ELECTRICITY THAT AI USES. Not to replace oil but to provide vast amounts of electricity JUST for AI?
April 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Just cancelled my midjourney sub to SAVE ELECTRICITY.
What is the point in covering all our farmland with solar panels and wind farms JUST TO PROVIDE ALL THE EXTRA ELECTRICITY THAT AI USES. Not to replace oil but to provide vast amounts of electricity JUST for AI?
What is the point in covering all our farmland with solar panels and wind farms JUST TO PROVIDE ALL THE EXTRA ELECTRICITY THAT AI USES. Not to replace oil but to provide vast amounts of electricity JUST for AI?
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Tomorrow Yanis Varousfakis and Michael Hudson will be giving the David Graeber Institute a talk.
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
Michael Hudson & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
www.youtube.com
April 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Tomorrow Yanis Varousfakis and Michael Hudson will be giving the David Graeber Institute a talk.
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
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Graeber, Varoufakis, Pettifor, and Hudson’s argument: lasting change requires not just debt relief, but a radical redefinition of economic systems—one that prioritizes collective well-being over creditor demands.
On Monday, we are holding a discussion with Yanis Varoufakis, Michael Hudson and Ann Pettifor.
The topic will be debt and its implications for Global South–North relations.
It will all be streamed live on Youtube, Here is the link to the livesteam. www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
The topic will be debt and its implications for Global South–North relations.
It will all be streamed live on Youtube, Here is the link to the livesteam. www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
Michael Hudson & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
www.youtube.com
April 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Graeber, Varoufakis, Pettifor, and Hudson’s argument: lasting change requires not just debt relief, but a radical redefinition of economic systems—one that prioritizes collective well-being over creditor demands.
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Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
A Teotihuacan altar at Tikal, Guatemala: central Mexican ritual and elite interaction in the Maya Lowlands | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
A Teotihuacan altar at Tikal, Guatemala: central Mexican ritual and elite interaction in the Maya Lowlands - Volume 99 Issue 404
doi.org
April 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Ever since looking up the medical examiner's record for my great-grandfather, I've been reading through the volume of 1920s coroner's records. Should be mandatory reading for the "doing my own research" crowd. This kid was 16 years old and died of tetanus after scraping his little finger on a rock.
April 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Ever since looking up the medical examiner's record for my great-grandfather, I've been reading through the volume of 1920s coroner's records. Should be mandatory reading for the "doing my own research" crowd. This kid was 16 years old and died of tetanus after scraping his little finger on a rock.
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OTD in 1848, some 150,000 Chartists met on Kennington Common to present their third petition to Parliament.
Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians:
http://www.historywo...
Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians:
http://www.historywo...
Family History in the Digital Age
In the second article of our feature on the radical potential of family history, family historian Mark Crail reflects on the power of collaboration in the history of working-class movements.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
April 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
OTD in 1848, some 150,000 Chartists met on Kennington Common to present their third petition to Parliament.
Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians:
http://www.historywo...
Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians:
http://www.historywo...
The EU has issued an alert for everyone to stock up a 72 hour supply of food (and presumably flock to the nearest fortified castle) in case of invasion.
My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.
My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.
March 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The EU has issued an alert for everyone to stock up a 72 hour supply of food (and presumably flock to the nearest fortified castle) in case of invasion.
My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.
My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.
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We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers
Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-dup...
Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-dup...
We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):
www.caitlinjohnst.one
March 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers
Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-dup...
Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-dup...