Senior Curator at Colchester Museums. Mainly Roman archaeology and LGBTQ+ history. Also cat dad to Artemis and enthusiastic Gaymer. He/Him
Author of 50 LGBTQ+ Finds: https://www.amberley-books.com/50-lgbtq-finds.html
Website: www.benpaites.uk
🏰 Ben Paites 🏛️
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Nice thing to see on my way home.
I don’t know whether it’s because Sanctuary and 007: First Light have come out so close together, but I think the next Bond movie needs an Evanescence title song.
I don’t know whether it’s because Sanctuary and 007: First Light have come out so close together, but I think the next Bond movie needs an Evanescence title song.
It was an absolute pleasure to speak at Epping Forest District Museum last night about Roman Colchester. Also had a quick look around their current exhibition “Town and Country: Life in Roman Durolitum”. Some wonderful objects and very well put together!
On this day, 13 June 1648, parliamentary forces reached Colchester and started a siege that would last 11 weeks. Residents of the town were forced to eat domestic animals and tallow from candles. This painting by Peter Froste imagines one of the parliamentary encampments.
Seen!
Wrighty
Next in the #Pride month series is this Giraffe badge. The work of ecologist Anne Innis Dagg showed what was once thought of as displays of male dominance was in fact sexual behaviour. Giraffes are one of many species in the natural world to engage in same sex activity.
#50LGBTQ+Finds
Next in the #Pride month series is this Giraffe badge. The work of ecologist Anne Innis Dagg showed what was once thought of as displays of male dominance was in fact sexual behaviour. Giraffes are one of many species in the natural world to engage in same sex activity.
#50LGBTQ+Finds
Saturdays are for family time 😌
#AssassinsCreedOdyssey
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