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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.
- A look at what we can learn by recording wartime pillboxes. We'll take a look at 'Earwig Villa' on the East Yorkshire coast.
- Details for teachers and home-schoolers for online session and courses with Dr Sam Griffiths, across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
- The Thames sailing barge (TSB) with its readily identifiable sprit-sail rig was a great work horse of Thames-Medway and East coast ports in the pre-war days. It's recorded that sixteen Thames Sailing Barges set out to do their bit in the summer of 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo.
- Thames Barges & the Dunkirk Little Ships in Operation Dynamo
- Before the coming of the railways if you wanted to quickly and easily move large amounts of cargo you needed sail power. Whether that was shipping goods inland from an international port or moving products to a seaport for overseas sale. On the Mersey that sail power was provided my a Mersey Flat, a barge which evolved to deal with the specific conditions of working on the river.
What can we learn from pillboxes?
29/05/2020 | Chris Kolonko
Online Teaching for Classrooms and Home Schooling
27/05/2020 | N/A
Dunkirk 'Little Ships' & the Thames Barge
26/05/2020 | Gustav Milne
Operation Dynamo 80th anniversary
24/05/2020 | Gustav Milne
Work horse of the Mersey
20/05/2020 | Andy Sherman
