drdanstewart1.bsky.social
Ancient historian/archaeologist at the University of Leicester. Likes ancient landscapes, Roman Crete, Peloponnese, & Pausanias. Obviously views expressed are my own and not those of my employer. He/him.
👤 Joined on 13 October 2023
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@drdanstewart1.bsky.socialThe approval of the Jackdaw gas field is an environmental catastrophe. But also, side-eyeing this from an industry which has lost THIRTY THOUSAND JOBS in the past five years, what the absolute fuck is this justification?
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Show PostCharting the UK higher education landscape requires skills that include economics, empathy and ethnography. Getting to grips with the crisis is not unlike the complex process by which James Cook, Joseph Banks and their mates came to 'see' the kangaroo on the eastern Australian coast in 1770.
Show PostSince it is Spartacus day in the Roman Republic class ⚔️, a reminder: the University of Mannheim has a database with all known tombstones of ancient gladiators. gladiators.geschichte.uni-mannheim.de Take a look! Here is a fav for a man named Palumbus (“pigeon”) from the gladiator cemetery at Ephesus.
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