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.
- 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
- Can archaeologists use coastal wartime concrete to assess and read coastal erosion?
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
Reading coastal erosion through coastal wartime concrete
29/09/2022 | Chris Kolonko
