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.
- Find out about the surprising archaeology which can be found on the remote Howick foreshore on the Northumberland Coast; from bathing pools to submerged forest to submarines.
- "Archaeology has enhanced my well-being," says Sally, UCL post-grad student and CITiZAN and TDP volunteer. She wants to know if you agree! Would you fill out a short survey to help her studies?
- A surgeon's science lectures in 1856, a temporary hospital for an epidemic in 1897 and a lucky escape from a blizzard for the coble Jane Douglas in 1894: what do these three events have in common? They all took place in a simple wooden hut in Beadnell.
- A volunteer's perspective of a CITiZAN Training Event on three timber hulks found at Earles Shipyard on the banks of the River Humber.
- A blog post exploring the history of these unique historic vessels and the fates of five of them now being recorded by CITiZAN.
Howick: A remote coastline with a long history
14/07/2016 | Megan Clement
Archaeology and well-being: a survey of volunteers
30/06/2016 | Sally Gray
The Reading Room, Beadnell
20/06/2016 | Katrina Porteous (Local Historian)
Earles Shipyard, Hull: A volunteer's experience
07/06/2016 | Ken Parker (Citizan volunteer)
Red Sails in the Sunset: Thames sailing barges and their remains at Maldon, Essex
06/05/2016 | Lara Band
