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.
- Following our recent and sold out Forton lake Low Tide Trail, I have been inspired to draw attention to one of the smaller and often over looked vessels in this historic ships’ assemblage. These ships range from Motor Minesweeper to the vessel I would like to draw your attention to FL24 a Bomb Scow, a vessel with a great story!
- HMS Conway was the Mercantile Marine Service Association's training school for offices in the Merchant Navy. Moored of Rock Ferry in the River Mersey, three vessels carried the name before the last ship was wrecked off Wales. Several memorials can be found to her on both sides of the river and the memory of a Man O'War on the Mersey is still strong on the Wirral.
- In which a CITiZAN archaeologist goes on holiday and bumps into Scotland's intertidal archaeologists SHARP out on fieldwork.....
- Phoebe Ronn writes on how volunteering with CITiZAN and the Thames Discovery Programme led her to take a degree in archaeology at the University of York and focus on lost landscapes off the coast of England in her dissertation.
- CITiZAN supported oral histories project "Searching Mersea" involved collecting stories and memories from local Mersea Islanders, to learn more about its changing coastline and disappearing foreshore heritage. A year and a half on, an exciting exhibition has opened to present some of the project's findings. This includes objects, an interactive map and an archive of audio recordings.
Big Badda Boom!
28/10/2019 | Grant Bettinson
A Man O'War or three on the Mersey
17/09/2019 | Andy Sherman
So you go on holiday to get away from it all......
29/08/2019 | Lara Band
Searching for Subtidal Archaeology
31/07/2019 | Phoebe Ronn
Searching Mersea exhibition opens at Mersea Museum
26/07/2019 | Lawrence Northall
