DPhil researher Melody Li runs tea drinking & fan making workshops @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social to explore how museum collections, academic research, and lived experiences might meaningfully intersect through shared cultural experience. theoxfordblue.co.uk/breeze-brew-... @graduate.ox.ac.uk 🍵🫖🪭
Dr Jenny Wang writes about a community curation project at the Ashmolean Museum, exploring Chinese fans and tea culture.
Oxford, reflected 🌧️
📷 Instagram | UmairAtOxford (Photos taken earlier this week)
Festival of Archaeology 2026 - free support sessions for organisers
For those interested in climate science, deep interpretation, and common sense, I highly recommend listening to this brilliant lecture by Prof Sturt Manning
We're so excited to see the #SuttonHoo ship sail again (🤞in late Spring of 2027). youtu.be/J7jhAhQ34sM?...
Congratulations to Rick Schulting et al., winners of the 2026 #BenCullenPrize!
Their research found evidence for the cannibalisation of enemies in Bronze Age Britain, marking the largest-scale example of interpersonal violence in British prehistory.
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🏺 #Archaeology
If you need a lunch & learn distraction, this interactive periodic table website is so much fun! zperiod.app #chemistry #isotopes #lablife #archeaologicalscience
Introducing Prof Shadreck Chirikure (@chirikure.bsky.social) Edward Hall Professor in Archaeological Science. "The great thing about Archaeological Sciences, it is so inter-disciplinary, ...It combines, chemistry and geo-science and anthropology and problem solving’. www.ox.ac.uk/news/pulse/s...
The theme for the 2026 CBA Festival of Archaeology is “Archaeology and Nature”, with the Festival taking place across the UK from Saturday 18th July to Sunday 2nd August. Event listings and resource submissions for the 2026 Festival remain open, and the Council for British Archaeology (CBA) is running a series of free support sessions for event organisers. To run an event as part of the Festival follow this link: Organiser Area Council for British Archaeology To book a free support session on how to organise an event follow this link: …
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Waiting for the #BayeauxTapestry BM ticket sales to go live feels a bit like 'our Glastonbury' 🎟️🔥
I've even set up an ⏰ on my phone. DM me if you know any elbow sharpening exercises I should be doing to prepare for the inevitable crush. #MuseumLife #countdown
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Congratulations to Professor Rick Schulting et al. awarded the Ben Cullen prize for their paper 'the darker angels of our nature' (free to read 🔗👇). @antiquity.ac.uk awards 2 prizes annually for outstanding work in the field of archaeology. @rschulting.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Professor Shadreck Chirikure defies expectations: an archaeologist of ancient civilisations who is fixed on the future; an expert in highly-technical sciences, who likes to mend random things, and a d...
👀📽️Professor Sturt Manning (@cornelluniversity.bsky.social) gave a brilliant, thought provoking talk for our Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology, 2026: 'Identifying climate changes that matter in the past & future relevance' youtu.be/J-JJecM4smQ?... #climatechange #palaeoclimates #archaeologicalscience