Dr Claire Millington ✍🏻🏺
@clairemillington.bsky.social
I am longing after Joules What the Flock jumper. Twisting 80s Princess Di style could not be more on point.
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I am longing after Joules What the Flock jumper. Twisting 80s Princess Di style could not be more on point.
I am longing after Joules What the Flock jumper. Twisting 80s Princess Di style could not be more on point.
November 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I am longing after Joules What the Flock jumper. Twisting 80s Princess Di style could not be more on point.
'Great-granddad Samuel and the Rudston Venus mosaic'
clairemillington.com/2025/10/27/g...
#MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky
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#MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
'Great-granddad Samuel and the Rudston Venus mosaic'
clairemillington.com/2025/10/27/g...
#MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky
clairemillington.com/2025/10/27/g...
#MosaicMonday #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky
Going to this University of Kent lecture on Britain's Last Roman hoards that is tonight - and IT'S ONLINE SO I CAN #TinyJoys
(Can't find a link - it's by research.kent.ac.uk/late-antique...)
(Can't find a link - it's by research.kent.ac.uk/late-antique...)
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Going to this University of Kent lecture on Britain's Last Roman hoards that is tonight - and IT'S ONLINE SO I CAN #TinyJoys
(Can't find a link - it's by research.kent.ac.uk/late-antique...)
(Can't find a link - it's by research.kent.ac.uk/late-antique...)
New old book to help me think through the fall of decline.
October 13, 2025 at 1:55 PM
New old book to help me think through the fall of decline.
Strange what survives. Found this yesterday, memento of Staffordshire County Youth orchestra trip (playing viola).
October 13, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Strange what survives. Found this yesterday, memento of Staffordshire County Youth orchestra trip (playing viola).
Life of Britian.
October 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Life of Britian.
He is a brilliant little cheer-monger. His brother Weatherwax also brings all the floof you could possibly ask for.
September 29, 2025 at 6:36 PM
He is a brilliant little cheer-monger. His brother Weatherwax also brings all the floof you could possibly ask for.
Some eighteenth century graffiti with tea and cake yesterday.
Images are of a sun-striped wooden café table in front of stone mullioned windows with greenery outside. A slice of cake and a pot of tea is on the table.
The stone mullions have deeply scratched initials I . S and the date...
Images are of a sun-striped wooden café table in front of stone mullioned windows with greenery outside. A slice of cake and a pot of tea is on the table.
The stone mullions have deeply scratched initials I . S and the date...
September 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some eighteenth century graffiti with tea and cake yesterday.
Images are of a sun-striped wooden café table in front of stone mullioned windows with greenery outside. A slice of cake and a pot of tea is on the table.
The stone mullions have deeply scratched initials I . S and the date...
Images are of a sun-striped wooden café table in front of stone mullioned windows with greenery outside. A slice of cake and a pot of tea is on the table.
The stone mullions have deeply scratched initials I . S and the date...
Archaeology library shut cause of St Giles' fair so ended up with a change of scene yesterday (fewer useful to me books tho).
September 9, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Archaeology library shut cause of St Giles' fair so ended up with a change of scene yesterday (fewer useful to me books tho).
Feels like autumn already although the trees still hold their green. Good to be starting the new academic year in the library working on a new book proposal 🤞🏻
September 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Feels like autumn already although the trees still hold their green. Good to be starting the new academic year in the library working on a new book proposal 🤞🏻
August 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Richborough fort today. Where Roman Britain arguably began (and 'ends').
#RomanBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#RomanBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
July 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Richborough fort today. Where Roman Britain arguably began (and 'ends').
#RomanBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
#RomanBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺
Holiday reading.
(On train. Image is cover of Rosemary Sutcliffe 'Three Legions' hardback secondhand copy. Propped on fabric bag on train table.)
(On train. Image is cover of Rosemary Sutcliffe 'Three Legions' hardback secondhand copy. Propped on fabric bag on train table.)
July 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Holiday reading.
(On train. Image is cover of Rosemary Sutcliffe 'Three Legions' hardback secondhand copy. Propped on fabric bag on train table.)
(On train. Image is cover of Rosemary Sutcliffe 'Three Legions' hardback secondhand copy. Propped on fabric bag on train table.)
Writing about Roman slavery today. So #RomanFortThursday are the remains of cavalry barracks at Housesteads on Hadrian's Wall. Enslaved grooms - calones - cared for horses and their kit in the Roman army.
www.jstor.org/stable/20191...
www.jstor.org/stable/20191...
July 3, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Writing about Roman slavery today. So #RomanFortThursday are the remains of cavalry barracks at Housesteads on Hadrian's Wall. Enslaved grooms - calones - cared for horses and their kit in the Roman army.
www.jstor.org/stable/20191...
www.jstor.org/stable/20191...
Research visit to #Vindolanda today. This is a multi-use commercial/accommodation building in the settlement outside the fort-wfh was a Roman thing.
Inside was a counter with drains for sluicing it clean, meat-hooks, knives and animal bone. Most likely this was a butchers shop.
#RomanFortThursday
Inside was a counter with drains for sluicing it clean, meat-hooks, knives and animal bone. Most likely this was a butchers shop.
#RomanFortThursday
June 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Research visit to #Vindolanda today. This is a multi-use commercial/accommodation building in the settlement outside the fort-wfh was a Roman thing.
Inside was a counter with drains for sluicing it clean, meat-hooks, knives and animal bone. Most likely this was a butchers shop.
#RomanFortThursday
Inside was a counter with drains for sluicing it clean, meat-hooks, knives and animal bone. Most likely this was a butchers shop.
#RomanFortThursday
June 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Nimloth window in archaeology library. Pro-tip if you water saplings they don't die.
June 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Nimloth window in archaeology library. Pro-tip if you water saplings they don't die.
Reading @josephinequinn.bsky.social 'How the World Made the West' over breakfast in lovely new café in Banbury #CafeNovo
May 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Reading @josephinequinn.bsky.social 'How the World Made the West' over breakfast in lovely new café in Banbury #CafeNovo
Ogg's on his cushion all's right with his world.
(Yeah I know, but he doesn't.)
(Yeah I know, but he doesn't.)
May 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Ogg's on his cushion all's right with his world.
(Yeah I know, but he doesn't.)
(Yeah I know, but he doesn't.)
Trying to think of delay repay and not grind my teeth into nubs at yet again cancelled train.
Least I have excellent reading material and vat of (bad, expensive) coffee before I'm no doubt standing all the way to London. Again.
Least I have excellent reading material and vat of (bad, expensive) coffee before I'm no doubt standing all the way to London. Again.
May 22, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Trying to think of delay repay and not grind my teeth into nubs at yet again cancelled train.
Least I have excellent reading material and vat of (bad, expensive) coffee before I'm no doubt standing all the way to London. Again.
Least I have excellent reading material and vat of (bad, expensive) coffee before I'm no doubt standing all the way to London. Again.
I have both a perfect score and a semi-colon addiction. Fact.
(Other writers seek out and destroy adjectives in their drafts; I hunt down semi-colons with ctrl+f.)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
(Other writers seek out and destroy adjectives in their drafts; I hunt down semi-colons with ctrl+f.)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
May 18, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I have both a perfect score and a semi-colon addiction. Fact.
(Other writers seek out and destroy adjectives in their drafts; I hunt down semi-colons with ctrl+f.)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
(Other writers seek out and destroy adjectives in their drafts; I hunt down semi-colons with ctrl+f.)
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...