Blog entries in 2020

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.

Archaeology Hunt!

30/12/2020   |   Lara Band

Come on an archaeology hunt with CITiZAN! It doesn't matter if you don't live near Margate, or even in the East Kent Coast Disco area, there's tips inside to help you discover more about where you live too!

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Virtual Low Tide Trail: a walk through Conyer Creek’s industrial past

18/11/2020   |   Lawrence Northall

Virtual Low Tide Trail: a walk through Conyer Creek’s industrial past

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Hallsands: Fishing Tales And The Village That 'Went To The Sea'.

11/11/2020   |   D Wootton

In this blog, find out how Hallsands- once a thriving fishing community on the South Devon coast- was lost to the sea in 1917.

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CITiZAN improves your tool

31/10/2020   |   Oliver Hutchinson

We've improved the tool in your pocket... We're excited to announce an updated and improved version of the CITiZAN app is now available to download via your app store. Read about the improvements and new features now available...

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Sugar, cotton and tobacco - Liverpool's role in the trade in enslaved Africans

30/10/2020   |   Andy Sherman

Liverpool sat at the centre of the trade in enslaved African's for more than a century. Ships built and financed in the city, crewed and captained by people born along the banks of the Mersey, forcibly transported millions of men, women and children from west Africa to European colonies in the Caribbean and America. This blog discusses Liverpool's role in this despicable trade.

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