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.
- An online exhibition looking at Lloyd's Register Foundation's HEC (Heritage Education Centre) & how it is helping CITiZAN's six Discovery Programmes research their heritage & archaeology.
- A digital version of the Arts Council funded exhibition & installation "Echoes", which ran as part of the Ramsgate Festival of Sound.
- During the 18th century a military prison stood close to the shores of Forton Lake, a total creek in Gosport, Hampshire. During the 1790s the prison held hundreds of French African-Caribbean men, women and children as prisoners of war. Who were these people and how did they come to be in Hampshire?
- Alnmouth is a small former fishing village on the Northumberland coast, about halfway between Newcastle and Berwick. Angus describes us what happened there on Christmas Day 1806...
- For this years Lincolnshire Day we've pulled together a few updates and blog links from our recent workings in the county. Happy Lincolnshire Day!!
Lloyd's Register HEC & CITiZAN - digital exhibition
26/10/2020 | Lawrence Northall
Kents Coastal Sound Mirrors digital exhibition
21/10/2020 | Lawrence Northall
African-Caribbean prisoners of war at Forton Prison 1796-1800
14/10/2020 | Abigail Coppins
Alnmouth: "A Nice Clean Place"
09/10/2020 | Angus Stephenson
Lincolnshire Day 2020
01/10/2020 | S Griffiths