Here in the lovely Mappin Hall for the launch of The Material Body by Professor Karen Harvey and Lizzy Craig-Atkins - also joined by a range of distinguished contributors

We had a great time hosting our 2024 Human Osteology Short Course!

Participants joined our intensive, three-day program to learn skeletal estimation techniques, analyse pathology & more. We look forward to welcoming them back soon! Learn more: sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/sh….

Join us online for the launch of my book with Lizzy Craig-Atkins Wed 24 April at 4.20pm. We and several authors will be speaking. Email me for in-person details.
Register here: ticketsource.co.uk/sheffield-arch…

I'm at the #SAA2024NOLA conference with Yvette and excited to talk about Archaeology at Sheffield . We're at booth 127 in the exhibit hall. Come say hi!

Please to say this year we
have organised 4 events for the Festival of Debate .
The 1st one is sold out and had a W/l
of 30 people 😌🙏.
Looking forward to this amazing event with amazing speakers.
Lizzy Craig-Atkins Opus Independents
Mark Jones, Ben McGarry,Rhonda Allen,Patrick O’Shea

'The things we carry with us no matter where we are in the world' - last week the wonderful Rhonda and Terezia from Roots & Futures visited Sheffield Youth Cabinet for a session on culture & heritage

Lizzy Craig-Atkins The University of Sheffield

Thanks to speakers Lizzy Craig-Atkins, Olivier Tsemo, Jo Buchanan & Andy Brown & everyone else who came along today & engaged with Roots and Futures. The Policy Brief can be found here: gla.ac.uk/media/Media_10… & all other outputs/further info about the work: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.u… ⬇️

2/2 On Mon 25 March 1pm, Lizzy & team will discuss the brief with Historic England ICOMOS-UK and Sheffield & District African Caribbean Community Assoc.

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1/2 Our next Arts and Humanities Research Council Place Programme Policy Brief is published!

Lizzy Craig-Atkins & brilliant Roots & Futures team make recommendations to meaningfully embed diverse perspectives in heritage strategies & practices

Read/D-load 🔽
Media_1058430_smxx.pdf (gla.ac.uk)

Great work by the #RootsandFutures team today ArchaeologyUK HE Heritage Advice #heritageandwellbeing conference! We delivered a workshop on trauma associated with heritage (and heritage projects) with focus on racially marginalised groups. Archaeology at Sheffield

New! How can we better embed multiple histories, cultures&perspectives in heritage strategies?

Join Lizzy Craig-Atkins Historic England ICOMOS-UK & Sheffield&District African Caribbean Community Association at launch of Policy Brief

25 March:1-2

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New! How we can go beyond metrics when considering Pride in Place? Join the brilliant And Towns team in conversation with Kenneth Gibb CaCHE in the 1st event from Arts and Humanities Research Council Place Programme Policy Brief series

14th March:12:30-1:30

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Excited to get my hands on this new book! Edited by Professor Karen Harvey and Lizzy Craig-Atkins, it contains my chapter on shoes and the body. It's open access here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526152770

🥳Very excited to see this out and Open Access too! Check out mine and Dr Sarah Inskip's chapter on smoking and its relationship to Identity in the Industrial Period for the TobaccoHealthHistory Project 🥳

And to College of Arts+Law for funding the conference, to The University of Sheffield Faculty of Arts and Humanities for supporting open access publication and Archaeology at Sheffield for hosting our book launch on 24 April. Thank you!

Just out (+open access): 'The Material Body: Embodiment, history and archaeology in industrialising England, 1700-1850' eds Lizzy Craig-Atkins & me. A unique collaboration of historians & archaeologists who stepped outside their discipline to study embodiment
manchesterhive.com/display/978152…