Catriona Cooper

I'd hope so.... Or at least there will at least be tea at some point

At least there are flints, and is the spider friendly?

No milk delivery this morning. No milk > no milk for tea > no tea. Not a good portent for a Monday morning

I've finally given in a bought a pair of baggy jeans and feel like I'm cosplaying a fatter, more tired version of 16 year old me. Cue excessive Levellers on repeat this afternoon as no one else is in residence at my end of the corridor

2 weeks and 2 hours of teaching to go and I think I might be 90% biscuit, and 10% coffee. But I'm about to go teach some archaeology that isn't GIS, and I get to go to Stonehenge and visit the city I was born in next week.

I'm 75mins into a 2.5hour training session on AI and Careers and I'm unsure I've seen any actual content

You know what gamification does not make GDPR training more fun, at this point it mostly makes it less accessible

Have you encountered the @mahsa-project.bsky.social

Green Street art-style vinyl on the wall of Canterbury cathedral's ambulatory that reads 'What is the architecture of heaven?'

Forvtheircweek on heritage and place, I took the MA Heritage students to 'Hear Us', the graffiti-style installation at Canterbury Cathedral. They were both receptive and critical. We had a great discussion of intention, inclusion/exclusion, theology of questions etc. 1/

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

I don't know 😭 I suspect I might be heading back towards basic black coffee... I'm happy for recommendations that don't include matcha or surgery syrups

I've a classic September chaotic mix today of meeting incoming first year students, while also trying to finish marking MA dissertations before the new term starts. Both are exciting things, just a wish there was a bit more separation

I think my love affair with flat whites might be ending 💔

I hope your new AI policy is better than our new AI policy.

Finally have access to all my blackboards for this semester. Next challenge, making sure students are enrolled on them.

Ooo we should do breakfast!

Only a semester of teaching before we get there!

Also feeling very smug that I've not only submitted an abstract to TAG on time, but I've also booked a room at my favourite York pub with rooms for the princely sum of £45 a night.

A dissertation student stopped by to drop off some books I lent them. I'm so proud of him, he had a rough year but pulled off a cracking dissertation and submitted in time for autumn graduation! A nice little reminder before the dread kicks in that that is the point of all of this

We're not quite in egg territory yet, but I hope security hurry up before I start to feel guilty

I mean they're one of many individuals who have been evicted in recent months... But perhaps this is the most appropriate move

Pigeon chilling out on a surface by an open window in a small office kitchen

Today in academia: pigeon eviction

In case you haven't spotted it:
**Historical Association Bursary Scheme via @royalhistsoc.org **
Open to early career and mid-career applicants
£1,500 research support to produce an article
Deadline 15 August 2025
royalhistsoc.org/calendar/his...

If you are teaching a course that includes digital ethics, what are your go-to texts? I need a refresh of my reading list, and I'm looking for any recent papers that stand out

The FfWG (Funds for Women Graduates) Theodora Bosanquet Bursary is available to postgraduate women studying History or English Literature to finance up to 4 weeks of basic student accommodation in London during the summer of 2026 to support their research studies.

www.ffwg.org.uk/grants/theod...

The building survey we funded of Leybourne, revealed that the castle was likely commissioned by a woman. She wasn't alone as @racheldelman.bsky.social explores in this blog from 2020 on Mary of Guelders and her commissioning of buildings including castles: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2020/10...

Poster about Visualising Canterbury Castle with an image and extra small text

One intern discussing the castle model with two guest all looking at a touch screen

We're showing off our visualisation of Canterbury Castle today as part of Canterbury's Medieval Pageant. @katiemcgown.bsky.social @lvhicks.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social

I've spent my whole career telling people that archaeology is not like Indiana Jones, while at the same time often watching 1 & 3 (largely, I think, to sing the theme tune) and I have never considered the point made in this thread. I'm seeing loads of archaeologists joking about the reboot >

One of the great placements we offered on Applied Humanities this year!

Research day, research day! I have 3 different castles papers to work on and need to figure out where to start