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.
- In celebration of International Museum Day, we look back at our collaborations with Mersea Museum over the last few years and announce a brand new project for volunteers!
- Britain at Low Tide (BaLT) regularly reached audiences of over a million people, demonstrating that foreshore archaeology and the stories it reveals about our island history are fascinating to the British public. Six months since the last episode aired (and the public was left high and dry for its intertidal archaeology fix), we are getting back in touch with the team to revisit some highlights.
- For VE Day, archaeologist and historian Stephen Fisher looks at the fate of some of the Second World War’s most interesting intertidal features – the landing craft embarkation hards built in advance of D-Day. © Stephen Fisher/ CITiZAN
- Mapping the world; Educating Darwin; Guarding Essex
- Ever been interested in how archaeologists conduct and use desk-based research? Here is a little insight and a chance to join us in an new initiative over the next weeks during lock-down.
A Timeline to Pass the Time
18/05/2020 | Danielle Newman
Britain at Low Tide revisited
14/05/2020 | Oliver Hutchinson
Hard Ending: The Post-War Fate of Britain’s D-Day Embarkation Hards
06/05/2020 | Stephen Fisher
HMS Beagle 200th Anniversary
05/05/2020 | Gustav Milne
Armchair Archaeology with CITiZAN
01/05/2020 | Lara Band, Chris Kolonko and Sam Griffiths
