Blog entries in 2021
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.
- Scattered across the foreshore between Crosby and Hightown are miles of demolition rubble, often thought to have come entirely from the clearence of bomb damaged buildings in the centre of Liverpool after the bombing raids of the Second World War. This blog explores the full origins of the rubble and looks at one forlorn example in more detail
- The Mexico was a German sailing vessel heading out of the port of Liverpool in 1886, heading for South America, when she ran into terrible trouble. The RNLI leapt into action, but they would pay a terribly heavy price for their heroism.
- In this blog we’ll be taking a quick look at one of the Humber Discovery Programme’s most unique maritime buildings.
- Smuggling in the 18th century was a profitable yet extremely risky pastime associated with many coastal villages around Britain. However, is there still evidence of past smugglers' exploits in the landscape today? One place where the answer to this is most definitely ‘yes’ is new Community Archaeologist Hannah's favourite spot on the coast, Robin Hood’s Bay.
- Can local voices tell stories related to coastal and climate change to create local impact? With funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, CITiZAN has trialed a novel approach to examining these changes by looking at Mersea Island through the unique lens of local memories by combining oral histories, image archives, maps, and archaeological survey data.
A lonely marker on the foreshore
17/12/2021 | Andy Sherman
RNLI Heroism: The wreck of the Mexico
09/12/2021 | Andy Sherman
Flamborough Old Lighthouse: Lighting the way since the 1600s
20/11/2021 | Chris Kolonko
Robin Hoods Bay; smuggling, ghosts and Listed fish.
13/11/2021 | Hannah Thompson
Changing Minds, Changing Coasts
05/11/2021 | Oliver Hutchinson, Danielle Newman & Lawrence Northall
