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.
- The mouth to the the Taw and Torridge Estuary is a dangerous place, with capricious winds, shifting sands and heavy traffic. That's why by the middle of the 19th century three lifeboat stations were doted around the mouth of these rivers. From Braunton Sands to Bad Step this is their story.
- A dozen or more ships have been abandoned on the banks of the River Torridge in the last century. Hulked when they were no longer wanted by their owners and now slowly sinking into the mud of the river. Maybe the most famous of these old boats is the MA James, built in North Wales at the turn of the century and abandoned to the ravages of time and tide after the Second World War.
- Coasts in Mind is a people-powered project, growing out of the success of CITiZAN (the Coastal and Intertidal Zone Archaeological Network). Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Coasts in Mind empowers members of the public to act on climate change. Harnessing their knowledge, we will work with local people to co-create a ‘Community Archive’ of coastal change over the last 100 years.
- Digital exhibition exploring the history and archaeology of shipping in a shifting coastal environment, seen through the Lloyds Register Foundation archives.
- Blog discussing Joss Bay's unique role in a history of acoustic detection and sonic experimentation in Thanet, Kent
Saving lives were the Taw and Torridge meet
07/09/2023 | Andy Sherman
Fast as a dolphin - The schooner MA James
21/08/2023 | Andy Sherman
Introducing Coasts in Mind, a new MOLA project exploring community-centered approaches to coastal change
17/07/2023 | Rebecca Tyson
Winds of Change
16/12/2022 | Lawrence Northall
The forgotten sounds of Joss Bay
04/10/2022 | Lawrence Northall
