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 which a CITiZAN archaeologist goes on holiday and bumps into Scotland's intertidal archaeologists SHARP out on fieldwork.....
- Phoebe Ronn writes on how volunteering with CITiZAN and the Thames Discovery Programme led her to take a degree in archaeology at the University of York and focus on lost landscapes off the coast of England in her dissertation.
- CITiZAN supported oral histories project "Searching Mersea" involved collecting stories and memories from local Mersea Islanders, to learn more about its changing coastline and disappearing foreshore heritage. A year and a half on, an exciting exhibition has opened to present some of the project's findings. This includes objects, an interactive map and an archive of audio recordings.
- In the first week of July the whole CITiZAN team arrived in Portsmouth to learn how to make videos for social media. Read all about our attempts to be the next Kathryn Bigelow or Steven Spielberg, as well as our first quarterly meeting of the year.
- Our long-time volunteer Angus looks at the industrial history of Seaham in County Durham and an unlikely celebrity visitor.
So you go on holiday to get away from it all......
29/08/2019 | Lara Band
Searching for Subtidal Archaeology
31/07/2019 | Phoebe Ronn
Searching Mersea exhibition opens at Mersea Museum
26/07/2019 | Lawrence Northall
Everything is content
23/07/2019 | Chris Kolonko and Andy Sherman
Seaham: "Mad, bad and dangerous to know"
01/07/2019 | Angus Stephenson
