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University of Leicester
Joined August 2014
👑We came top! Scoring on social mobility, teaching quality, student experience, research excellence, graduate outcomes and social inclusion! Book onto an open day and see what Archaeology & Ancient History have to offer you! @uniofleicester.
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Did you hear? We’ve been crowned the Daily Mail’s University of the Year 2025! And we’ve also been shortlisted for Times Higher Education’s University of the Year 2024! 🤞 for November’s #THEAwards! . #CitizensOfChange | #UniversityOfTheYear | #THEAwards24
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📢We are pausing posting on X for the moment. However, you can continue to find out what SAAH staff and students are up to on Instagram, Facebook and Bluesky. Do follow us there.
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🚒 On #findsfriday we have some hot news about one of our 👨🎓DL students, Aidan Phillips. He's founded Operation Phoenix an initiative which supports #firefighters & fire staff through #Archaeology and traditional crafts. 🔎Find out more here:.
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📕New open access book with contributions from past & present SAAH staff is out! Check out: Frida Espolin Norstein and Irene Selsvold eds. 'Archaeological Perspectives on Burial Practices and Societal Change. Death in Transition'. 👉
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RT @ClassicsLSF: We are out and about! The A Level #Classics students are visiting @uniofleicester @ArchAncHistLeic for an afternoon of le….
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💻Join the Later #Prehistoric Finds Group Online Symposium 2024, on 8th November. This event includes a keynote lecture from SAAH's Dr Rachel Crellin entitled "Find(ing) transitions." To register email the LPFG chair, Dr Matt Hitchcock (mwh19@leicester.ac.uk). 📷 by M. Hitchcock
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🏛 The annual Buchan memorial lecture is TONIGHT! Prof. Tom Harrison, Keeper of #Greece and #Rome at the @britishmuseum will ask 'What more can you say about the #Parthenon Sculptures?'. Register to attend in person or join online.👇👇 #Archaeology.
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24th Annual Dorothy and Alan Buchan Lecture: ‘What more can you say about the Parthenon Sculptures?’ Alumni, students, staff an...
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🎬Last Friday @thetimeteam filmed our 2nd yrs for a piece they're making about our #Roman villa fieldschool near Loughborough. The students were filmed recording ceramics & wall plaster as well as flotation training with @ULASarchaeology. Watch this space for the final film! 🎬
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📣Cool #findsfriday experimental #archaeology alert! . 👨🎓PhD student Hamish Darrah entered the 2024 Scottish Hedgelaying Championship, using replica Late Bronze Age socketed axes. He proved that it's possible and recorded use wear and techniques required. ⚒
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📚 Book your ticket now to hear SAAH's Prof. @sarah_tarlow and @sarahrward1 talking about #archaeology, #CrimeFiction and her moving memoir exploring the realities of marriage, care-giving, how we die and how we grieve.
We're looking forward to November and hearing authors and friends @sarahrward1 and @sarah_tarlow discussing all things #Archaeology #CrimeFiction and #memoir .If you'd like to join us, get full details and booking info through the event link below:
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⚡Have you ever wondered how the ancient #Mesopotamians would have predicted @realDonaldTrump #election odds?⚡.Find out more in an article written by SAAH's Dr Selena Wisnom for The Conversation. It involves a sheep's liver 🐑! .👉
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Using a sheep’s liver to predict the outcome of the US election makes a serious point about how humans have coped with uncertainty throughout history.
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⚱Our next SAAH Research Seminar is this Wednesday 30th. Andrea Hadley-Johnson will speak on 'Self-Led Creativity and wellbeing behind the closed cell door.' Email arch-wedseminar@le.ac.uk for a Teams link, or join us in person for cake! 🍰.
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❓Did you know that we offer a range of #Distancelearning degrees? Iain Grainger, a retired GP, has been 'keeping his grey cells active' (his words!) by studying #Archaeology part time with us. Despite excavating at Roman Magna with @VindolandaTrust he's obsessed with prehistory!
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Every #modulemonday we're going to introduce you to the breadth of our teaching. Module AH3020 focuses on #NorthAfrica in #LateAntiquity & explores how classical & #Christian traditions were transformed from #Morocco to the #RedSea (pictured: a 6th c. Gospel book from Ethiopia).
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⚡Newsflash⚡Our newsletter 'The Mosaic' is out. Find out what our staff & students have been up to including details of the excavation of a Bronze Age burial site on Dartmoor and athletic glory at Leicester's half marathon! 👉
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Welcome to the third issue of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History’s newsletter ‘The Mosaic’!
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🗡This Late #BronzeAge sword from Dickleburgh is being studied by Dr Rachel Crellin's New History of Bronze project. It was deliberately destroyed in a violent #ritual act, the motivation for which remains unknown CC: @theyorkshiremuseum #findsfriday #realarchaeology🗡
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❓Missed this week's Wednesday seminar? . 🔎Want to find out more Dr Eva Miller's research on 'Modern and Ancient Artists: Imagining the Origins of Art, Writing, and Civilization, 1870–1930 (CE)' ? . 🎬A recording is now up on our YouTube channel:.
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⚱Our next SAAH Research Seminar is this Wednesday 23rd. 👩🎓Eva Miller @modishantiquity.of @UCLHistory will speak on imagining the origins of art, writing, and civilisation from 1870 to 1930. Email arch-wedseminar@le.ac.uk for a Teams link, or join us in person for cake! 🍰
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🚬Ever wondered what smoking does to your body? . ❓SAAH's @TobacHistory project has been finding out about some of tobacco's more permanent effects with the results discussed in @Independent. Follow the link to find out more 👇👇:
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Archaeologists say tobacco consumption leaves a metabolic record that can be studied for centuries
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Explore the monuments of imperial Rome through the people who lived and visited the city at this exciting workshop this November with SAAH's @KathrynTempest and UCL's Gesine Manuwald @grandlat as part of the Being Human Festival
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🏞 Missed the seminar last week? Desperate to find out what links winged phalluses and Roman river gods? Well now's your chance as Philippa Walton's lecture on Ritual & Rubbish in Roman rivers is now on the SAAH YouTube channel 🎥:
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