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.
- Can local voices tell stories related to coastal and climate change to create local impact? With funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, CITiZAN has trialed a novel approach to examining these changes by looking at Mersea Island through the unique lens of local memories by combining oral histories, image archives, maps, and archaeological survey data.
- As the world focuses on Glasgow and the COP26 summit, CITiZAN examines five crucial ways that coastal and intertidal archaeology can play in helping to shape climate change action.
- Ever since the Wright brothers made their famous flight in North Carolina, aviators have been taking of and landing from the beaches north of Liverpool. Much of this activity leaves little trace in the archaeological record today, this blog looks at some of those famous flights and looks at why little trace of them can be found on the ground today.
- Hastings & hurriedly assembled Second World War defences, 81 years on...
- Another chance to join CITiZAN Community Archaeologist Chris Kolonko, to find out what we can learn about Second World War Coastal Crust defences of Lincolnshire through archaeology.
Changing Minds, Changing Coasts
05/11/2021 | Oliver Hutchinson, Danielle Newman & Lawrence Northall
How can we tackle climate change?
01/11/2021 | CITiZAN
The vanishing archaeology of early aviation on the Liverpool Bay coast
01/07/2021 | Andy Sherman
TANK TRAPS, TRAINS & TOURISTS: Hastings in WW2
22/06/2021 | Gus Milne
Understanding and interpreting Coastal Crust defences with CITiZAN
06/05/2021 | Chris Kolonko
