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 vanishing archaeology of early aviation on the Liverpool Bay coast

01/07/2021   |   Andy Sherman

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.

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TANK TRAPS, TRAINS & TOURISTS: Hastings in WW2

22/06/2021   |   Gus Milne

Hastings & hurriedly assembled Second World War defences, 81 years on...

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Understanding and interpreting Coastal Crust defences with CITiZAN

06/05/2021   |   Chris Kolonko

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.

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CITiZAN Launches Reports & Research Outputs Map

27/04/2021   |   Lawrence Northall

CITiZAN launches a new map presenting digital research outputs browseable by location. These include reports, blogs, low tide trails & digital exhibitions.

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The Unseen Heard - a soundwalk for POW! Thanet

06/04/2021   |   Lara Band

An audio trail of tiny soundscapes, giving glimpses into the lives of 19th and early 20th century women in Ramsgate, in their own words - available to listen from the comfort of you own home too.

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