Kenny Brophy
@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer, Archaeology, University of Glasgow, the Urban Prehistorian, and Keeper of Hookland’s Stones. Glasgow’s Archaeologist in Residence (self-appointed)
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Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Udo Kier - cinema’s fallen angel and an embodiment of the screen’s delicious power to corrupt - is gone. "I would live like the hero of Huysman's A Rebours,” he once told me. “Have no clocks, and hire two nuns to go by my window and pray at 12 o'clock each day."
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'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago
UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3
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If in need of a harmless Christmas film ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ with Cary Grant and David Niven is on BBC I-player.
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
If in need of a harmless Christmas film ‘The Bishop’s Wife’ with Cary Grant and David Niven is on BBC I-player.
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Sharing a landmark TikTok moment for my Archaeodeath public education and engagement project. After 5-and-a-half years posting daily videos, I've just hit 150k followers!
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Sharing a landmark TikTok moment for my Archaeodeath public education and engagement project. After 5-and-a-half years posting daily videos, I've just hit 150k followers!
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The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
97 ‘peace walls’ still divide Belfast. Will they ever come down?
Twenty-seven years on from the Good Friday agreement, miles of ‘peace walls’ still separate Protestants and Catholics in Belfast. Some people want them built higher
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The Belfast walls prove more enduring than the Berlin Wall bit.ly/4p8ykYY more than a quarter of a century after the Good Friday agreement Belfast is still a (physically) divided city
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Stanbury Hill 07: Drastic brush cutting with heavy machinery has damaged this lovely rock art panel - the photo shows chipping to the right of the main carving, and scratch marks around the top three cups.. One of the cup marked stones on Stanbury Hill, Bingley Moor, also known as the Lunar Stone.
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Stanbury Hill 07: Drastic brush cutting with heavy machinery has damaged this lovely rock art panel - the photo shows chipping to the right of the main carving, and scratch marks around the top three cups.. One of the cup marked stones on Stanbury Hill, Bingley Moor, also known as the Lunar Stone.
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Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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🏺 Have had a proper look at this ahead of time and it’s such a gorgeous book and a fantastic approach to engaging with history!
The Picts were always more than their blue-painted, bloodthirsty depictions. Carved in Stone, a new setting guide from @stoutstoat.co.uk and archaeologist Heather Christie, invites players to explore their incomplete but beautiful history.
Carved in Stone is both a history book and an eye-catching RPG
Publisher Brian Tyrrell and archeologist Heather Christie paint a pretty Pict-ure.
www.rascal.news
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🏺 Have had a proper look at this ahead of time and it’s such a gorgeous book and a fantastic approach to engaging with history!
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Extremely informative, looking forward to part 2 tonight!
I couldn't hope for a better crash course on the history of Glasgow, am very grateful that these lectures are free and open to the public.
I couldn't hope for a better crash course on the history of Glasgow, am very grateful that these lectures are free and open to the public.
Amazing opening lecture by Steve this evening. 30 years of Govan and Glasgow Cathedral archaeology! #Glasgow850
#Dalrymples2025 lectures kicking off with Prof Stephen Driscoll. The room is packed with an audience of over 120! #Glasgow850
November 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Extremely informative, looking forward to part 2 tonight!
I couldn't hope for a better crash course on the history of Glasgow, am very grateful that these lectures are free and open to the public.
I couldn't hope for a better crash course on the history of Glasgow, am very grateful that these lectures are free and open to the public.
Amazing opening lecture by Steve this evening. 30 years of Govan and Glasgow Cathedral archaeology! #Glasgow850
#Dalrymples2025 lectures kicking off with Prof Stephen Driscoll. The room is packed with an audience of over 120! #Glasgow850
November 20, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Amazing opening lecture by Steve this evening. 30 years of Govan and Glasgow Cathedral archaeology! #Glasgow850
#Dalrymples2025 lectures kicking off with Prof Stephen Driscoll. The room is packed with an audience of over 120! #Glasgow850
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
#Dalrymples2025 lectures kicking off with Prof Stephen Driscoll. The room is packed with an audience of over 120! #Glasgow850
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Details: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
November 20, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Details: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
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BTW tomorrow it will be Clonehenge's 17th birthday. Yes our presence is nearly vestigial now, no longer spending 2 or 3 hours every day doing research and then posts on multiple platforms, no longer doing the Friday Foodhenge, but we're still here.
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
BTW tomorrow it will be Clonehenge's 17th birthday. Yes our presence is nearly vestigial now, no longer spending 2 or 3 hours every day doing research and then posts on multiple platforms, no longer doing the Friday Foodhenge, but we're still here.
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Early Bronze Age bell-shaped beaker which was found at Stanground in Peterborough - an area rich in Bronze Age activity. Now part of the collections at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Archaeology #Peterborough
November 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Early Bronze Age bell-shaped beaker which was found at Stanground in Peterborough - an area rich in Bronze Age activity. Now part of the collections at Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery. 📸 My own. #Prehistory #Archaeology #Peterborough
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TODAY!
Really looking forward to this later. It's all free, link in post, and I'm talking about three fabulous, related, torcs at 3pm.
#Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Gold
Really looking forward to this later. It's all free, link in post, and I'm talking about three fabulous, related, torcs at 3pm.
#Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Gold
Do join us at our free online symposium tomorrow from 10am!
You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
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You can join using the following MS Teams link: l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http...
Some do have issues joining so please open the Teams browser or app and go to Calendar, Join meeting with ID and put in
ID: 364 396 620 178 1
PC: bG2gD3ZU
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
TODAY!
Really looking forward to this later. It's all free, link in post, and I'm talking about three fabulous, related, torcs at 3pm.
#Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Gold
Really looking forward to this later. It's all free, link in post, and I'm talking about three fabulous, related, torcs at 3pm.
#Archaeology 🏺 #Torcs #Gold
Dalrymple lecture day! #Dalrymples2025 #Glasgow850
November 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Dalrymple lecture day! #Dalrymples2025 #Glasgow850
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We will be watching Psychomania for the podcast soon. Have you seen it? Let us know your thoughts and we will try to fit them into the episode.
November 20, 2025 at 7:32 AM
We will be watching Psychomania for the podcast soon. Have you seen it? Let us know your thoughts and we will try to fit them into the episode.
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My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures.
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
Going… going… gone overseas?
by Tess Machling [A download/print PDF version can be found at the end of the paper] Abstract With the boom in detecting tourism, and with mass detecting rallies being held across the UK, increasin…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
My latest piece of writing - looking at Export Licences, detecting tourism, etc and pulling together some of the earlier figures.
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
We really are in a mess...
#Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 #Gold #Treasure
bigbookoftorcs.com/2025/11/19/g...
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THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
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There are some remarkable unpublished rock art photos in the Ronald Morris archive. Images (c) HES
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There are some remarkable unpublished rock art photos in the Ronald Morris archive. Images (c) HES
There are some remarkable unpublished rock art photos in the Ronald Morris archive. Images (c) HES
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There are some remarkable unpublished rock art photos in the Ronald Morris archive. Images (c) HES
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An onslaught on heritage: "Surrey Metal Detecting Club… membership has rocketed… to more than 3,000 in 2025."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
The Surrey Metal Detecting Club sees membership leap in six years
Founded with 60 members in 2019, the Surrey club now has more than 3,000 members across the county.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
An onslaught on heritage: "Surrey Metal Detecting Club… membership has rocketed… to more than 3,000 in 2025."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
"We're not in it for the treasure, we're history finders" says a man who's "found thousands of coins" and has a shelf at home "where it's all Roman - coins, brooches and stuff like that."
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OUT NOW! 📚
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.
Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology (2025) - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
The Society is delighted to announce the publication of a new edited volume in honour of Dr Anna Ritchie.
www.ssns.org.uk
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
OUT NOW! 📚
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.
SSNS is proud to present its new edited volume, 'Common Ground in Scottish Archaeology' (ed. Kelly Kilpatrick), which honours the work of Dr Anna Ritchie, esteemed archaeologist, author, and lifelong advocate of Scotland's premodern history and heritage.