Delighted as General Editor to see these two excellent @Brepols Studies in the Early Middle Ages volumes published recently in collaboration with @uochester @HistArchChester! Huge congratulations to the editors and authors. 👏👇😀

Reserve a free space now:

To all educators out there: come along to Chester Town Hall, 6-7-25, 13:00, to help us begin creating KS2 teaching resources for the @hist_towns Historical Map of Chester - part of @uochester #ChesterIdeas! https://t.co/gcUIEx6GWG

Celebrate the publication of our historical map of Chester at this free virtual event on 16 June at 6pm: https://t.co/W3k83tikqO with talks from Prof. Keith Lilley, @DrKAWilson and @DrThomasPickles. Registration is open now!

Why not read the official press release for our great new @hist_towns historical map of Chester! 😀👇

Or watch the presentation for the York Festival of Ideas 2020 at which the ideas were first aired: https://t.co/Q1NPwpg9XQ

Go on, follow it up with his Social History Blog post about the importance local-global history... https://t.co/B0aamCvirl

To learn about its origins and the folkloric story that surrounds it, why not read @HistArchChester @DrThomasPickles' Open Access article in Social History. 😀👇 https://t.co/fo7pKOrBxC

Today, on Ascension Eve, at Whitby, the bailiff of the manor of Fyling will build the Horngarth or Penny Hedge - a ceremony that has existed since at least the twelfth century! https://t.co/tFS6bIgVJx

Thanks to @chesterherifest and #ChesterIdeas for hosting public consultations in 2024 - look out for our #ChesterIdeas education workshop to co-create teaching resources for schools!

Thrilled to see this @hist_towns Historical Map of Chester out - led by @uochester @HistArchChester 's @DrThomasPickles & @DrKAWilson, drafted by History students, with the help of @VCH_London, @CheshireRO @cwacmuseums @ChesterArchSoc @ChesterCivTrust @localcheshire @CSLH6 😀👇

@cwacmuseums @uochester Rhianna - Today we found some pretty Roman pottery! These are my favourite pieces. 🧵 2/2

#DigChester, Day 9, Annabel: Today was a little challenging as the sunshine has baked the soil rock solid. Ugi & I managed to find a possible Roman posthole & good progress was made on the Roman ditch. We had good tunes to get us through! 🧵 1/2 @cwacmuseums @uochester

Can you believe it's our final week! Tomorrow afternoon our site will be *open to the public*. To find out more about what the @uochester students have uncovered this year and see the new finds first hand, come along from 2pm – 4.30pm (Tues 20th May) @cwacmuseums

#DigChester Day 7: Alex - today our group took our first 'levels', recording the height of a new layer full of slate before digging it. It layer produced our largest piece of pottery yet (of imported German stoneware), found by Casper, who's still on form! @cwacmuseums @uochester

#DigChester, Daisy: day 6 at the big brother dig! Annabel & I finished our section of the Roman ditch & recorded it, drawing a profile & description. Kayleigh finally found a bit of pot (Roman samian ware!) & Tom again sat in a hole looking whimsical! @uochester @cwacmuseums

@cwacmuseums @uochester and Oscar tries his hand at presenting...

More from #DigChester, Day 5: Oscar, Ciaran and Mitchell get stuck in... @cwacmuseums @uochester

#DigChester Day 4-5, Thurs-Friday, Lucy: A hot day in Grosvenor Park but progress was made, we uncovered a stone feature, with the most common find being animal bone!!! Beth: Today was a hot day but we got lots completed (with some help from a 🐿️)! @cwacmuseums @uochester

@cwacmuseums @uochester 3/3 Kayleigh: Temperatures are high and so are discoveries. Ranging from pottery sherds, teeth and bones there’s plenty to be uncovered this year. With plenty of music, laughs and snacks to keep us going the dig is a blast.