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.
- For VE Day, archaeologist and historian Stephen Fisher looks at the fate of some of the Second World War’s most interesting intertidal features – the landing craft embarkation hards built in advance of D-Day. © Stephen Fisher/ CITiZAN
- Mapping the world; Educating Darwin; Guarding Essex
- Ever been interested in how archaeologists conduct and use desk-based research? Here is a little insight and a chance to join us in an new initiative over the next weeks during lock-down.
- Sadly, this is not a tribute to Peggy Lee’s Fever, although it does make good background music and a great hook in the current situation. This blog is about fever hulks, particularly the fever hulks present on the Dart Estuary within the South Devon Rivers Discovery Programme. It also gives you a quick run-through of Quarantine through history.
- Rectory Woods are a set of pleasure gardens built in the village of Heysham, on the southern shores of Morecambe Bay. Along with the Morecambe Bay Partnership and the Lancaster and District Heritage Group we recorded the gardens in the first phase of the Project. Learn a little more about the gardens with this blog.
Hard Ending: The Post-War Fate of Britain’s D-Day Embarkation Hards
06/05/2020 | Stephen Fisher
HMS Beagle 200th Anniversary
05/05/2020 | Gustav Milne
Armchair Archaeology with CITiZAN
01/05/2020 | Lara Band, Chris Kolonko and Sam Griffiths
You give me fever !
29/04/2020 | Grant Bettinson
The Vicar's delight
27/04/2020 | Andy Sherman
