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.

London’s Lightermen at D-DAY invasion of Normandy

03/06/2020   |   Gustav Milne

The role Thames lighters & lightermen played in preparing for, delivering & supporting the Normandy landings.

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What can we learn from pillboxes?

29/05/2020   |   Chris Kolonko

A look at what we can learn by recording wartime pillboxes. We'll take a look at 'Earwig Villa' on the East Yorkshire coast.

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Online Teaching for Classrooms and Home Schooling

27/05/2020   |   N/A

Details for teachers and home-schoolers for online session and courses with Dr Sam Griffiths, across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.

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Dunkirk 'Little Ships' & the Thames Barge

26/05/2020   |   Gustav Milne

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.

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Operation Dynamo 80th anniversary

24/05/2020   |   Gustav Milne

Thames Barges & the Dunkirk Little Ships in Operation Dynamo

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