Joe Baubles

Relooted: the South African video game where players take back artefacts from western museums Creators say they’re offering Africans a ‘hopeful, utopian feeling’ of retrieving objects looted by colonial armies

#Relooted: A #museum heist video game. But one with a political twist. 🤔

www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f... via @theguardian.com

This archaeological research really captures the enchantment of trying to understand human life across the barriers of time and evidence. A warm July day, grief and sadness, colour, scent and precious things.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s your current research focus? Just curious about your Wandsworth expedition!

Bookshelves. Mezzanine. Banners.

IN A LOCAL ARCHIVES. WONDERFUL PLACE.

Public protection order

No ball games

Field work afternoon after archival morning #enclosure #commons #publicspace

This is a fascinating, unguarded conversation between a young Miyamoto and Itoi, just poised on the edge of the future in 1989 and excited about what was to come.

the Trump administration is flying historic American documents around the country, and administration officials are asking you to pray for the pilots and plane

British education is funded by exploited, working class migrants... and dividends from the fossil fuel and weapons industries. You can go to class or teach because Israel drops bombs on Gaza and BAE Systems' stock increases and displaced Palestinians pay thousands to University of Glasgow to escape.

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

As it's the start of #WomensHistoryMonth today, your reminder that there are LOADS of women who were active in archaeology, history and heritage @beyondnotables.bsky.social database! beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page

How ‘The Simpsons’ became a shared language for my generation The ritual aspects of the hit TV show provided its fans a common perspective

I remember this and agree! It was written by @tomwhyman.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1669...

Happily I can now share this film I participated in: Walk The Land opens up the colonial history of the Yorkshire Dales. It's by a great Dutch film maker Peter Delpuet & features the poet Testament, with other locals being spontaneously interviewed. Password WTLDocmakers!
vimeo.com/755262849

Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council.

Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."

March Hares! ‘I shall go into a hare’…. Painted, engraved stained glass, private collection.

Manchester United fans unveiled a pro-immigration banner during Sunday’s fixture against Crystal Palace in response to comments from minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe.

More from @lauriewhitwell.bsky.social

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We are training undergrads (18-22) to digitize vcr tapes, cassettes, and vinyl. We introduce phrases like "rewind" into their vocab and made diagrams of what a tape looks like from 6 angles. And we get questions like "how do I rewind a record" which is understandable but turns my bones to dust.

We came to US universities, studied imperial history, met and talked to other elites from other colonized spaces of the US empire, taught our students anti-colonial thought. In the colony, USAID was the face of imperial benevolence, even as US companies brutally exploited its resources.

These connections fostered a growing anti-colonial political consciousness forged by the byways of empire itself. It would not be till the brutalities of the 1930s, when the distinction between empire and colony began to decisively collapse, that anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism coincided 4/

By the way, anyone in NYC can go visit @interferencearc.bsky.social and you can ask to peruse and importantly to touch any of those posters or anything else there. interferencearchive.org

A few years ago, I donated dozens of my anti-war posters and ephemera to @interferencearc.bsky.social. As I dropped them off, I felt deeply conflicted because we stopped none of those wars but I feel that our protests perhaps helped to shorten some of the wars. Small comfort, I know.

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

🏺Time Team, then DFB showed how much appetite there is for solid, fieldwork-founded, object-exploring & narrative archaeological public communication.
People want to understand time and their place in it as individuals, communities & a species, and effects of this have a unique power for cohesion.

A photograph of two people, one of them is taking a photo on their phone of a display of fabric blood bags

Our new exhibition is now open!

Rag: A History of Blood explores the social, medical and cultural history of blood.

The exhibition runs until 16th October

📍 Physicians’ Gallery, 11 Queen Street, EH2 1JQ

📅 Mondays – Fridays, 10am – 4.30pm

Find out more 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/rag...

Questions of Race and Repair The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain. Catherine Hall examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.

How might the wrongs of slavery be properly acknowledged, and redressed in Britain? What could each of us do?

Catherine Hall considers both historical and contemporary questions of race and repair.

Sudan: People with Disabilities Targeted in North Darfur The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of Sudan’s two main warring parties, targeted, abused, and killed people with disabilities during and after their October 26, 2025, takeover of El Fasher, North Dar...

We hear little about it in the news but disabled people are being horrifically targeted in the Sudan war.

Human Rights Watch report RSF have killed civilians including a blind child, a man with Down syndrome called “insane”, and a 14 year old wheelchair user. A horror.
www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Welsh listed building entries include accurate dates in about 80% of cases. This drops to just 40-50% in England.

Join me tomorrow night at 7pm for an online talk, Reinterpreting Listed Buildings to find out why:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...
📸 Plas Mawr, Conwy

As far as I know, farm archives have never really been used to track queer histories before. Given they mostly record the financial ongoings on a given farm, you can understand why. However, my year of research at The MERL has proved their potential.

Find out more in this blog:

Four tile pattern shapes woth love hearts and fleur de lis shapes in orange tones on white card

Medieval tiles excavated in Bristol! 🧡⚜️
Originals are now housed in Bristol Museum.

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#medieval #bristol #archaeology #medievaltiles #history #skystorians #bristolcity

Excellent, will read!

Thanks for sharing this! Do you know of any more recent publications on these records since they transferred to TNA?