Sarah Lidwell-Durnin
@sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social
History of archaeology, Knossos, archives, gaming, wine
Ancient History PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & Minoans🏺💀 Volunteering @ Griffith Institute
In Oxford/From Dublin
Reading: The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Ancient History PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & Minoans🏺💀 Volunteering @ Griffith Institute
In Oxford/From Dublin
Reading: The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Join us on the 27th of November for the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR group online conference, happening from 2-6pm (UK time)!
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Join us on the 27th of November for the 7th LBA/EIA Aegean ECR group online conference, happening from 2-6pm (UK time)!
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
We have some fantastic speakers joining us this year (see the poster below), and we look forward to welcoming you - register here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/BTwUa6HmBB
Well this was the post above, so maybe it was Odysseus?
November 10, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Well this was the post above, so maybe it was Odysseus?
If you or anyone you know is a PGR or ECR working on the Aeagan LBA/EIA, come to this online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) on the 27th of Nov. Proposals on any topic within the remit of the group are v welcome - forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
October 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
If you or anyone you know is a PGR or ECR working on the Aeagan LBA/EIA, come to this online conference, chaired by Dr Yannis Galanakis (Cambridge) on the 27th of Nov. Proposals on any topic within the remit of the group are v welcome - forms.gle/PJN5cw4HbkiC...
Please share widely!
Please share widely!
My fab art history seminar group spent today's session designing and pitching an exhibition on iconoclasm for an imaginary job interview to be a gallery curator. I love that one group selected this sculpture by Esther Strauß to be their exhibition's finale:
October 3, 2025 at 4:10 PM
My fab art history seminar group spent today's session designing and pitching an exhibition on iconoclasm for an imaginary job interview to be a gallery curator. I love that one group selected this sculpture by Esther Strauß to be their exhibition's finale:
Big thank you from this young classicist (doing GCSE Latin AND Greek!) who fell asleep reading your book last night after a great evening. Her favourite part was the vase. 🏺
September 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Big thank you from this young classicist (doing GCSE Latin AND Greek!) who fell asleep reading your book last night after a great evening. Her favourite part was the vase. 🏺
I know they spent a gajillion pounds on it, but it ALSO looks like a free Wordpress template. I can confidently say I could have built that with Wordpress and Divi (my day job before I started my PhD), and wouldn't have had this clusterfuck in the menu either.
July 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
I know they spent a gajillion pounds on it, but it ALSO looks like a free Wordpress template. I can confidently say I could have built that with Wordpress and Divi (my day job before I started my PhD), and wouldn't have had this clusterfuck in the menu either.
Having the absolute time of my life at our local Minoan necropolis this afternoon.
July 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Having the absolute time of my life at our local Minoan necropolis this afternoon.
There are 3 core journeys the homepage should facilitate: "So you want to go to Warwick" (applicants), "So you got into Warwick" (offer holders) and "So you're at Warwick" (current tudents). MAYBE "So you want to work at Warwick". Nobody has ever cared about Business, Alumni, News or Engagement. 2/2
July 24, 2025 at 5:51 AM
There are 3 core journeys the homepage should facilitate: "So you want to go to Warwick" (applicants), "So you got into Warwick" (offer holders) and "So you're at Warwick" (current tudents). MAYBE "So you want to work at Warwick". Nobody has ever cared about Business, Alumni, News or Engagement. 2/2
The Historians of Archaeology Support Group now has its own Discord server - discord.gg/YcRNpDby
Join us to help build a community, join reading groups or co-working sessions, and meet some fantastic people in this exciting niche of archaeology.🏺
Join us to help build a community, join reading groups or co-working sessions, and meet some fantastic people in this exciting niche of archaeology.🏺
April 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Historians of Archaeology Support Group now has its own Discord server - discord.gg/YcRNpDby
Join us to help build a community, join reading groups or co-working sessions, and meet some fantastic people in this exciting niche of archaeology.🏺
Join us to help build a community, join reading groups or co-working sessions, and meet some fantastic people in this exciting niche of archaeology.🏺
Have I worked my way through even half of the books on my bedside table? No. Am I fully going to buy The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom in @blackwelloxford.bsky.social today? Yes, yes I am.
April 24, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Have I worked my way through even half of the books on my bedside table? No. Am I fully going to buy The Library of Ancient Wisdom by Selena Wisnom in @blackwelloxford.bsky.social today? Yes, yes I am.
Midnight in rural Crete - church bells, bonfires and fireworks everywhere - happy Easter!
April 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Midnight in rural Crete - church bells, bonfires and fireworks everywhere - happy Easter!
Haha! This is great! Okay so I think we definitely met the tortoiseshell - this is me holding her last year, in fact!
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Haha! This is great! Okay so I think we definitely met the tortoiseshell - this is me holding her last year, in fact!
I think we met one of their descendants!
April 9, 2025 at 5:27 AM
I think we met one of their descendants!
Went to Phaistos, but there were cats so I only have cat photos not Phaistos photos. You can almost see a royal Megaron in the background, if that helps? Itwas cool, overcast and slightly rainy, which is the absolute best way to visit such an exposed site! 🏺
April 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Went to Phaistos, but there were cats so I only have cat photos not Phaistos photos. You can almost see a royal Megaron in the background, if that helps? Itwas cool, overcast and slightly rainy, which is the absolute best way to visit such an exposed site! 🏺
Barefoot in a sun hat but still firmly in woolly cardigan and long skirt on Plakias this afternoon. Looking forward to a chilly visit to Phaistos in a few days, I think.
March 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Barefoot in a sun hat but still firmly in woolly cardigan and long skirt on Plakias this afternoon. Looking forward to a chilly visit to Phaistos in a few days, I think.
The ultimate one by Rhiannon Ash:
March 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The ultimate one by Rhiannon Ash:
Love the language of a journalist in 1904 describing the Snake Goddess's clothing as "ultra-fashionable robes, extravagantly décolletés and with horribly modern waists".
March 6, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Love the language of a journalist in 1904 describing the Snake Goddess's clothing as "ultra-fashionable robes, extravagantly décolletés and with horribly modern waists".
I got to visit the archives of Oxford’s Institute of Archaeology today and the amount of material they have there is extraordinary - papers, lantern slides, photographs, letters - a treasure trove. No prizes for guessing what I zeroed in on immediately!
March 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I got to visit the archives of Oxford’s Institute of Archaeology today and the amount of material they have there is extraordinary - papers, lantern slides, photographs, letters - a treasure trove. No prizes for guessing what I zeroed in on immediately!
Literally just sat down with my coffee to start this as it’s quite clearly too wet to go to the Bodleian this morning!
February 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Literally just sat down with my coffee to start this as it’s quite clearly too wet to go to the Bodleian this morning!
My brain immediately:
January 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
My brain immediately:
The absolute delight of coming downstairs for my tea in the morning to find the wood burning stove still alive & ready to be woken up with a new log.
December 31, 2024 at 7:46 AM
The absolute delight of coming downstairs for my tea in the morning to find the wood burning stove still alive & ready to be woken up with a new log.
Term is over, closing with a successful supervision, and now it’s time to eat too much sugar with my teens and my father in Dublin (my home town) for a few days!
December 17, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Term is over, closing with a successful supervision, and now it’s time to eat too much sugar with my teens and my father in Dublin (my home town) for a few days!
Oxford this morning (the secret cemetery in Osney). Absolutely delightful to see so many dogs absolutely losing their minds.
November 19, 2024 at 8:29 AM
Oxford this morning (the secret cemetery in Osney). Absolutely delightful to see so many dogs absolutely losing their minds.
The best kind of student feedback.
November 16, 2024 at 3:16 PM
The best kind of student feedback.
In love with these extraordinary cubist designs that were proposed for Edward VIII’s coinage in 1936, and fascinated by everything curator Shailendra Bhandare told us about the Ashmolean’s Money Talks exhibition yesterday on the Oxford Numismatic Society visit.
November 9, 2024 at 10:05 AM
In love with these extraordinary cubist designs that were proposed for Edward VIII’s coinage in 1936, and fascinated by everything curator Shailendra Bhandare told us about the Ashmolean’s Money Talks exhibition yesterday on the Oxford Numismatic Society visit.