A visit to #theBigPit National Coal Museum yesterday & #PMAC24 kicks off at #SwanseaUniversity with Joel Santos, Tânia Casimiro & Jaõa Sequeira: Plastic Prayers Unveiling the environmental toll of Fátima's candlelit processions: 5t plastic waste for a 2h event! #SwanseaCHART #PostMedievalArchaeology
April 6, 2024 at 8:56 AM
A visit to #theBigPit National Coal Museum yesterday & #PMAC24 kicks off at #SwanseaUniversity with Joel Santos, Tânia Casimiro & Jaõa Sequeira: Plastic Prayers Unveiling the environmental toll of Fátima's candlelit processions: 5t plastic waste for a 2h event! #SwanseaCHART #PostMedievalArchaeology
I was especially struck by this methodology. A former colleague used Google Streetview a good few years ago to evaluate survival of railway structures on hard-to-access land, but there are so many more iterations of the photography now! #PMAC24
Now Afonso Leāo & Susan Pacheco (will Uni of Lisbon win for most presenters at #PMAC24? We'll see!) Lisbon;from recession to tourism boom: the story of a single street through street view and AirBnB, mapping analysis. One of the last remaining convenience stores has been given protected status.
April 6, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I was especially struck by this methodology. A former colleague used Google Streetview a good few years ago to evaluate survival of railway structures on hard-to-access land, but there are so many more iterations of the photography now! #PMAC24
Onto the last session: Uni Highlands & Islands #MA #ArtAndArchaeology takeover!: Art and Archives - creative practice as archaeological research, do we need more transdisciplinary and subjectivity in archaeology? YES! #PMAC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Onto the last session: Uni Highlands & Islands #MA #ArtAndArchaeology takeover!: Art and Archives - creative practice as archaeological research, do we need more transdisciplinary and subjectivity in archaeology? YES! #PMAC24
Waving a flag for spma.org.uk/pmac24 the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology annual conference, 5-7 April 2024 at the University of Swansea - the Call for Papers has been extended to 26 January. Put in a paper and prepare for some paddling, swimming if you're brave, it's right by the beach!
January 18, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Waving a flag for spma.org.uk/pmac24 the Society for Post Medieval Archaeology annual conference, 5-7 April 2024 at the University of Swansea - the Call for Papers has been extended to 26 January. Put in a paper and prepare for some paddling, swimming if you're brave, it's right by the beach!
Then @artefactual & Olaf Bayer (Historic England) - absolutely full packed paper on relational archaeology on Dartmoor, with aerial imagery in particular highlighting the correspondence between human and fellow beings over time *scribbles down things to add to reading list* #PMAC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Then @artefactual & Olaf Bayer (Historic England) - absolutely full packed paper on relational archaeology on Dartmoor, with aerial imagery in particular highlighting the correspondence between human and fellow beings over time *scribbles down things to add to reading list* #PMAC24
*failed to continue live posting at #PMAC24 due to lost phone* (now found phew) so just going to round up with a flavour....session Colonial (Mis)practices: Gareth Hoskins & Leighton James on complex life of the Sir Thomas Picton memorial, twice neglected, twice revived
April 7, 2024 at 4:54 PM
*failed to continue live posting at #PMAC24 due to lost phone* (now found phew) so just going to round up with a flavour....session Colonial (Mis)practices: Gareth Hoskins & Leighton James on complex life of the Sir Thomas Picton memorial, twice neglected, twice revived
And that wraps it up for #PMAC24! An equal number of sessions I didn't go to so take a look at spma.org.uk/pmac24. Fantastic weekend, old friends, new friends, and as always loads of inspiration. Thank you local cmte at U Swansea #CHARTSwansea and roll on #PMAC25: Lisbon!
April 8, 2024 at 5:28 PM
And that wraps it up for #PMAC24! An equal number of sessions I didn't go to so take a look at spma.org.uk/pmac24. Fantastic weekend, old friends, new friends, and as always loads of inspiration. Thank you local cmte at U Swansea #CHARTSwansea and roll on #PMAC25: Lisbon!
Followed by @hannahmclean.bsky.social on the materiality of British-colonial detention camps in central Kenya #PMAC24 - oral histories, sticky heritage and ghosts in the stamps of reused bricks
April 7, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Followed by @hannahmclean.bsky.social on the materiality of British-colonial detention camps in central Kenya #PMAC24 - oral histories, sticky heritage and ghosts in the stamps of reused bricks
Aileen Ogilvie - Listening to the landscape : beautifully powerful sonic archaeology of a crofting landscape through time. What sounds have been lost (and why: societal and climactic) - how does this change our perception of landscape? #PMAC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Aileen Ogilvie - Listening to the landscape : beautifully powerful sonic archaeology of a crofting landscape through time. What sounds have been lost (and why: societal and climactic) - how does this change our perception of landscape? #PMAC24
And finally Isabelle Carter (U of York) C16-18th Forest of Knaresborough squatters' settlements and their persistent traces in the landscape - though frequently no recognition of their origin/identity in written explanations today. #PMAC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:23 PM
And finally Isabelle Carter (U of York) C16-18th Forest of Knaresborough squatters' settlements and their persistent traces in the landscape - though frequently no recognition of their origin/identity in written explanations today. #PMAC24
More team Lisbon action: Susana Pacheco, Afonso Leāo and Joāo Sequeira: a forgotten box of archive photos reveals Portuguese colonial endeavour to rehabilitate national image by way of a New York PR company, on the eve of the Angolan War of Independence #PMAC24
April 7, 2024 at 5:18 PM
More team Lisbon action: Susana Pacheco, Afonso Leāo and Joāo Sequeira: a forgotten box of archive photos reveals Portuguese colonial endeavour to rehabilitate national image by way of a New York PR company, on the eve of the Angolan War of Independence #PMAC24
Susan Torrance : multimedia creative approach to the 400 volumes of the Inverness Courier 1945-60 - using printmaking, performance, film to exploring how newspaper archives - and Highland political issues - can be excavated, re-examined & reactivated #PMAC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:25 PM
Susan Torrance : multimedia creative approach to the 400 volumes of the Inverness Courier 1945-60 - using printmaking, performance, film to exploring how newspaper archives - and Highland political issues - can be excavated, re-examined & reactivated #PMAC24
Monday: Walked to Mumbles, got blown happily back to Swansea by wind and rain to brunch with #CHARTSwansea #PMAC24 organiser Hilary Orange. Determined to do a full round up at least of the sessions I saw, so: Sunday: Working the land.
April 8, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Monday: Walked to Mumbles, got blown happily back to Swansea by wind and rain to brunch with #CHARTSwansea #PMAC24 organiser Hilary Orange. Determined to do a full round up at least of the sessions I saw, so: Sunday: Working the land.
First up: Jen Protheroe-Jones (Amgueddfa Cymry - Museum Wales) on the introduction of gunpowder assisted mining in Wales, in answer to a Q from the floor - "I expect if you were still alive after your first few attepts you were considered an expert" #PMAC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:15 PM
First up: Jen Protheroe-Jones (Amgueddfa Cymry - Museum Wales) on the introduction of gunpowder assisted mining in Wales, in answer to a Q from the floor - "I expect if you were still alive after your first few attepts you were considered an expert" #PMAC24
Now Afonso Leāo & Susan Pacheco (will Uni of Lisbon win for most presenters at #PMAC24? We'll see!) Lisbon;from recession to tourism boom: the story of a single street through street view and AirBnB, mapping analysis. One of the last remaining convenience stores has been given protected status.
April 6, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Now Afonso Leāo & Susan Pacheco (will Uni of Lisbon win for most presenters at #PMAC24? We'll see!) Lisbon;from recession to tourism boom: the story of a single street through street view and AirBnB, mapping analysis. One of the last remaining convenience stores has been given protected status.
It’s been a whirlwind at @SPMA’s #PMAC24. Presented on @HE_Archaeology #landscape survey on @dartmoornpa today alongside other industrial #archaeology research, historical cartography and ‘squatters’ settlements in the Forest of Knarborough!
November 16, 2024 at 2:45 PM
It’s been a whirlwind at @SPMA’s #PMAC24. Presented on @HE_Archaeology #landscape survey on @dartmoornpa today alongside other industrial #archaeology research, historical cartography and ‘squatters’ settlements in the Forest of Knarborough!
Me! Getting entangled in relations with urban wetlands: cruising utopia to make film archaeologies with (not of) multi-species, -temporal, -sensuous worlds #HeritageEcologies #PMAC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Me! Getting entangled in relations with urban wetlands: cruising utopia to make film archaeologies with (not of) multi-species, -temporal, -sensuous worlds #HeritageEcologies #PMAC24
Steph Mastoris (same) Wm Cavendish & his C17th industrial landscapes - ongoing insights via continuity of estate maps that are still a living management document. (also: husband of Margaret Cavendish author of The Blazing World, the first sci fi novel - it's good, read it) #PMaC24
April 8, 2024 at 5:17 PM
Steph Mastoris (same) Wm Cavendish & his C17th industrial landscapes - ongoing insights via continuity of estate maps that are still a living management document. (also: husband of Margaret Cavendish author of The Blazing World, the first sci fi novel - it's good, read it) #PMaC24
And last Sanna Lipkin (U. Oulu) the archaeology of coping mechanisms during the C18th Great Wrath, Finland: memorial trees, and folklore and oral heritage as intangible cultural artefact of 'pakokauhu' - the horror that makes you flee #PMAC24 & that was Saturday (at least the sessions I went to!)
April 7, 2024 at 5:46 PM
And last Sanna Lipkin (U. Oulu) the archaeology of coping mechanisms during the C18th Great Wrath, Finland: memorial trees, and folklore and oral heritage as intangible cultural artefact of 'pakokauhu' - the horror that makes you flee #PMAC24 & that was Saturday (at least the sessions I went to!)
Callum Reilly (UWE Bristol) - on the landscape of social reform and how that visual representations that went hand in hand with poverty mapping and paternalistic attitude actively helped obscure the complex reasons for poverty in the C 19th and early 20th #PMAC24
April 7, 2024 at 5:35 PM
Callum Reilly (UWE Bristol) - on the landscape of social reform and how that visual representations that went hand in hand with poverty mapping and paternalistic attitude actively helped obscure the complex reasons for poverty in the C 19th and early 20th #PMAC24
Top University of Swansea catering team lunch and onto Saturday afternoon! Now #PMAC session In Times of Crisis: Michał Pawleta (Adam Mickiewicz Uni), Dawid Kobiałka (U. Lodz), Kamil Karski (Museum KL Plaszow) sensitive work finding lost Second World War Italian PoWs in Lamsdorf cemetery #PMAC24
April 7, 2024 at 5:30 PM