Latest Blog entries

We encourage everyone involved in the CITiZAN project to contribute to our blog. Whether you're on site monitoring, in a library researching, or conducting oral history projects, we want to hear from you! To submit an article please email your regional CITiZAN Community Archaeologist with your text and up to five images.

Introducing Coasts in Mind, a new MOLA project exploring community-centered approaches to coastal change

17/07/2023   |   Rebecca Tyson

Coasts in Mind is a people-powered project, growing out of the success of CITiZAN (the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network). Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Coasts in Mind empowers members of the public to act on climate change. Harnessing their knowledge, we will work with local people to co-create a ‘Community Archive’ of coastal change over the last 100 years.

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Winds of Change

16/12/2022   |   Lawrence Northall

Digital exhibition exploring the history and archaeology of shipping in a shifting coastal environment, seen through the Lloyds Register Foundation archives.

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The forgotten sounds of Joss Bay

04/10/2022   |   Lawrence Northall

Blog discussing Joss Bay's unique role in a history of acoustic detection and sonic experimentation in Thanet, Kent

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Reading coastal erosion through coastal wartime concrete

29/09/2022   |   Chris Kolonko

Can archaeologists use coastal wartime concrete to assess and read coastal erosion?

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Searching Sandwich Bay

17/08/2022   |   Lawrence Northall

Digital exhibition revealing the unique archaeology & changing coastal environment of Sandwich Bay, told through local stories.

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