janet miller

Lapsed archaeologist; Trustee Spode Museum Trust @SpodeWorks; former CEO @MOLArchaeology; former Director Cities and Development Atkins. Views are my own

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

In their latest free British Archaeology article, Florence Smith Nicholls explores archaeological roleplay in Nothing Beside Remains, a 2D game where players interpret a ruined village through the material traces left behind.
https://t.co/WJlMZrVEi5

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

@TorstenBell Yours was easily the best of the commentators on Tony Blair’s written rant on @BBCRadio4 this evening. Good factual rebuttals instead of Gove’s and Hutton’s substanceless pontificating

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

1/The National Trust is run by 'infantilised morons' according to this Spectator article. It’s paywalled but you can read the abuse of my fellow morons and me at the beginning for free https://t.co/Ntm4CcuW4h

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

@thomasforth Like it. But - genuine question - what economic and industrial levers would need to be pulled to make it happen?

[Kirsty Brimelow KC @Kirsty_Brimelow]

Over 3,200 legal professionals including 22 retired judges and 303 KCs have written to the Prime Minister urging him not to reduce our jury trials.

Barristers enable complainants/victims/survivors and defendants to give their evidence in court.

Barristers want to lift the criminal justice system out of the crisis.

Barristers have pioneered proposals to reduce delays and welcome their implementation. They need to happen urgently.

Juries do not cause the unacceptable delays and are not the remedy to reduce delays.

@thebarcouncil
#JusticeNeedsJuries

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

@thomasforth seen this? Reckon Stoke on Trent could claim this title? Given Denise Coated Foundation recent support of robot surgery centre of excellence in Stoke?

[Liz Kendall @leicesterliz]

AI has the potential to improve public services, create jobs and transform communities. And Barnsley is leading the way by becoming the UK’s first Tech Town.

[Liz Kendall @leicesterliz]

AI has the potential to improve public services, create jobs and transform communities. And Barnsley is leading the way by becoming the UK’s first Tech Town.

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

Congrats @nationaltrust. Well deserved.

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

The National Trust is 131 years old today. We’re delighted to be receiving the biggest cash donation in our history, to invest in restoring nature and giving access to more people.

National Trust gets record cash donation: £10m to spend as it pleases

https://t.co/37FexqO2Bg

[Cambridge Archaeological Unit @CambridgeUnit]

The 2018 volume Riversides: Neolithic Barrows, a Beaker Grave, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon Burials and Settlement at Trumpington has been released as a free Open Access download here: https://t.co/5TPLLXcRJ2
@UCamArchaeology

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

Here's my piece on how Stoke-on-Trent has a bigger tech sector than Cambridge or Oxford again. https://t.co/POKZvaUFKP

[Paul Williams @PaulWilliams207]

@neil_brownsword: “By illuminating the architectural, artistic, and technological endeavours that define our past, the (heritage trail) markers encourage individuals and communities to recognise the cultural value embedded in these places.”

@stokeontrent100 @UniofStaffs

https://t.co/3BSLaRRwwJ

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

@thomasforth

[Staffordshire Regeneration @Regenerate_SOT]

It’s pretty simple.

When the politicians at all levels, invest in this area and create as much tangible change as much as the Coates family have. Then maybe we’ll see a difference.

God forbid someone from Stoke On Trent does well for themselves.

We look after our own

[ceramicsuk @ceram_uk]

This Christmas, every raised glass is a reminder: ceramics make it possible. From flute glasses to tree decorations to vital glass in hospitals, ceramic refractories power it all. Let’s celebrate UK-made ceramics and the innovators behind them.

#Ceramics #BritishMade #Innovation

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

Storming piece

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

I went to a dinner with the AI Minister and I read a paper on Lovelace Institue --- a proposal from Tony Blair's Institute on how we could fund breakthrough science better. And I wrote that all up into one incoherent mess for you to enjoy. https://t.co/88guLSQ5ha

[Chris Stringer @ChrisStringer65]

Ancient DNA Reveals Most Europeans Had Dark Skin Until Just 3,000 Years Ago https://t.co/9mS70yqeoh

[Harry Gillow @hmgillow]

A classic case of “you’ll miss it once it’s gone”. Might never affect you personally, but if you were falsely accused you’d be exceptionally glad to have the right to a jury trial - insane that this is being pushed simply because of capacity issues.

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

Beautiful music. Beautiful man.

[Faithless @faithless]

And here we are…

[janet miller @JMArchaeologist]

Very excellent discussion of Stoke on Trent, post industrial places, and Tech

[Tom Forth @thomasforth]

"Evil or Irrelevant: pick one." > I wrote up why I'd usually prefer to have an 'evil' company succeeding in Leeds than a good one succeeding in London. https://t.co/POKZvaVdAn

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

What are the implications of the prize-winning discovery of Africa's earliest agricultural complex west of the Nile? Cyprian Broodbank discusses the importance of Oued Beht in Mediterranean prehistory.

Read the research🆓 https://t.co/7bNCZ5aDkX

@UCamArchaeology @CambUP_Archaeo

[Paul Rees. ex Rucksack. @HannahIamthest1]

The lady at the charity shop today told me that she wishes people would clear out their children's old toys in the lead up to Christmas rather than after because she always sees a number of parents in the days before Christmas looking for toys for their little ones who might be strapped for cash. She said there's very rarely anything in just before, but that they get inundated with toys in the days after.

And it really made me think about it in a way I never would have before.

If you know your child is going to get lots of presents from Father Christmas this year, by clearing out your cupboards a few days early, you could make another child's Christmas a lot more special too.

Saw this & thought I'd repost.