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Gabe Moshenska

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2 years

OMG i put some students in a Zoom breakout room in February and totally forgot about them

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My late grandma kept a scrapbook of unflattering photos of the Royal Family with sarcastic handwritten captions. Here's some highlights

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Insomnia + glue-gun = built Maurice a tank

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I saw Goody Proctor with a drone

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Greece has banned tourists from the UK. Have they lost their marbles?

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Reading 'PEEPO!' as a WW2 material culture specialist: a thread. 1/12

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@Nicole_Cliffe My friend's cat heard her singing in the bath, walked in, smacked her in the face, walked out

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I built a tiny library inside a cigar box

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Is rage-baking a thing? I just rage-baked some flapjacks. They taste like golden syrup and revolutionary violence #NoCapitulation

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I built a tiny library inside a matchbox

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This horrid scrapbook brought my grandma much malicious joy over many years. It's my favourite (and pretty much only) family heirloom.

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Will I picket in the snow next week? I'm a UK archaeologist you fool, I own more thermal clothing than you can possibly imagine. #UCUStrike

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I've solved the #Stonehenge Tunnel problem

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The captions are wonderful. I can hear her voice when i read them

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Autocorrect is not your friend, student who emailed me "Hi Babe"

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Sky burial platforms or kids play area at motorway services? Archaeologists are baffled

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It’s a beautiful afternoon out, I think I’ll start a fight on Twitter

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Aside from the photos, there's just one cutting in the scrapbook: an account of Phil's "controversial remarks".

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And obviously Charles

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Especially this one

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Anyone else waiting for @UniversitiesUK to accidentally tweet a full concession to @ucu demands so we can all just get back to work? #USSstrike

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My book on WW2 childhood isn't quite as cute as PEEPO! but it is Open Access. Download 'Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain' for free from: 12/12

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I want to believe

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Good morning from the Archaeology @UCL_UCU picket #UCUstrike

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Busted my wrist, but as a True Archaeologist/fuckwit I stopped at finds lab on way to hospital to collect rusty ferrous artefact in case they'd xray it for us. #archaeology #OWmyarm

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I made the Long Man of Wilmington out of Curlywurlies and Freddos. Was gonna be the Cerne Abbas Giant but I was one Freddo short

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She seems to have particularly had it in for Anne

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My dad scolded the Guardian about their shitty coverage of trigger warnings <3

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But mostly Anne

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Hello @chatarch ! This short ‘presentation’ in linked tweets is a mini-investigation of my late grandmother’s collection of stolen airline cutlery and the life stories it might tell. @chatarch #pilgrimCHAT

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UK tourists can visit Egypt, as long as they've stopped taking their tablets

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Anyone: "oh, you're an archaeologist? What's your favourite dinosaur?" Me, an archaeologist who enjoys public engagement and dislikes smug elitist gatekeeping: "Allosaurus, definitely! What's yours? Anyway, let's talk #archaeology ..."

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It’s so important to highlight the racist, colonialist, eugenicist dimensions of pseudoarchaeology. But let’s not pretend that ‘mainstream’ serious academic archaeology isn’t also tainted with these same hateful ideologies, to its very bones

Dr. Sara L. Gonzalez

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This right here 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 There is a direct line connecting pseuarchaeology to racism and eugenics. Ancient aliens is a contemporary version of the Myth of the Moundbuilders, used by proponents to deny Indigenous peoples of their histories & thus their claims in the present.

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The beloved #archaeology phenomenon of "rocks that look vaguely like artefacts but aren't"

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PEEPO! gives a gentle, child's-eye view of WW2 Britain, where the war intrudes only subtly, almost hidden amongst the clutter of everyday things. The threats of loss and harm are hanging in the background, but familiar domesticity keeps them at bay, at least for now. 11/12

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Some #archaeology themed strike propaganda, with thanks to @e17jlh

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Most of the pics are from the 80s and 90s

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Also Fergie

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Universities are full of oddballs* but it's still astonishing to see eugenicists and transphobes demanding academic respectability for their hate-mongering pseudo-science. No. Shoo. *engineers pls stop phoning the archaeology dept with your 'theories' ffs

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Gabe Moshenska

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Academic Twitter, work your contracted weekday hours then fuck off home. Read a novel. Watch trash telly. Bake scones. Piss away hours on Twitter. Catch up on your sleep.

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According to Moodle, this year I am teaching...

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I really need to replace this knackered old sellotape

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And not infrequently food, too

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I have a professional interest in the kinds of people who attack public #archaeology . The gatekeeping instinct reflects personal and professional insecurity, and rests on an absurd fantasy of purity and perfection in professional archaeological practice. 1/

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And this one

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It's here! And it's VERY pretty. #published

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Gabe Moshenska

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Read this thread. Historical context for the proposed laws targeting Roma, Gypsy and Traveller people in the U.K. Never forget, never forgive

Anarchist 💣Federation ❤️🖤

@AnarchistFed

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Eva Justin was born on 23 August 1909 in Dresden. She graduated from High School in 1933, the same year Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and began to study to become a nurse at the University Hospital in Tübingen under Dr Robert Ritter. 1/

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#NoCapitulation I spit on this offer. I spit until I've spat all the water out of my body and I'm a dry husk of an academic.

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The overarching theme is lèse-majesté

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Reminder for #archaeology and #heritage students (and anyone else): I'll happily send you PDFs of any of my publications if you ask. This includes books

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Day 1 of #ussstrike I just wanted to get back to work with my pension intact. Day 13: UCL Archaeology Workers' Militia/Anarcho-Primitivist Death Squad demands bonuses for cleaners, a 6 day weekend, and free tickets to see Tomb Raider

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I can haz Kursk Salient?

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They call me Gabe Trowel-Hands, the fastest and messiest digger in all #Archaeology

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Not so many pictures of Phil

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Book just published! 'Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain', open access, download here: #ww2 #history #anthropology #childhood #histchild

Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain | Gabriel M

How do children cope when their world is transformed by war? This book draws on memory narratives to construct an historical anthropology of childhood in Second

www.taylorfrancis.com

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The details of 1940s domestic life in Janet Ahlberg's illustrations are stunning: she used 'The Army and Navy Stores Catalogue, 1939-1940' as a reference for her richly populated interior scenes. 3/12

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Stunning local hydroelectric power station. Feels like just the place to raise the dead/create time loops/open portals into dark realms

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Student recruitment has skyrocketed at @UCLarchaeology since we renamed archaeology 'Applied Necromancy for Millennial Nerds'

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Spare a thought for the dinosaurs suffering in the cold today

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aDNA archaeologists, this is your fucking mess

Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו

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A new study of DNA recovered from an ancient Philistine site in the Israeli city of Ashkelon confirms what we know from the Bible – that the origin of the Philistines is in southern Europe.

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Gabe Moshenska

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Academic comrades worried about white supremacists and nationalists misusing your scholarship to fit their twisted world-views, I gotta tell you THE CALL IS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE

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Public #archaeology is a professional specialism and a distinct skill-set. #Pubarch is also a radical ideology of openness, democracy, pedagogy, community empowerment, cultural enrichment, and the breaking down of pointless barriers. Don't fuck with us. 5/5

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Guess who crashed a PhD viva this afternoon

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Good evening to everybody except the absolute goblins running Sheffield Uni and the UK government

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Archaeologists:

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The sea was a what now?

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Give them a big hand! @UCLarchaeology staff and students have created a giant rock-art hand-print themed strike banner #USSstrike #ucustrike #bloomsburypickets

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Like me, PEEPO! first appeared in 1981, and is much loved by generations of tiny readers. It's a gentle story of a baby and the things he sees in and around his family home in wartime London. 2/12

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Forgivable in a local archaeology museum, laughable in a university anthropology museum.

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"I don’t want an election, you don’t want an election." - B. Johnson. I want a revolution and your head on a spike you smirking little shit, I'll SETTLE for a fucking election.

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Say it three times into a mirror and archaeology will creep up behind you and destroy your earning potential

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@clmorgan Just checked handbook and “form utopian commune” was listed as a key learning outcome so 🤷‍♀️

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@lornarichardson Unpublished excavations do more damage to archaeology than metal detecting.

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The key to success in archaeology is learning to point authoritatively

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make me director of the British Museum you cowards

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It’s a beautiful afternoon out, I think I’ll start a fight on Twitter

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Gabe Moshenska

@GabeMoshenska

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I got quoted (and sneered at) in the Mail! Apparently I have respect for my students' wellbeing.

Archaeology pupils at UCL are warned that 'bones can be scary'

University College London alerted students that history can be upsetting and they 'might feel stressed'. If they do, they can leave class, as long as they copy someone's notes later on.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Anyway.

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@induswaliarch @Sharon_evi @PriyamvadaGopal @earlymodernjohn @edanderson101 @WritersofColour @lottelydia Coincidentally, this is what 'sensitivity' training looks like at the same institution:

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I see you, historical organisations distancing yourselves from the boorish racist whose well-publicised boorish racism you've ignored and implicitly condoned for decades

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Half an hour later I found myself back on the street, dazed, clutching a heavy carrier bag, with no memory of what had transpired

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Gabe Moshenska

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Incredibly proud to have won a student choice award for Excellent Personal Tutoring. It's a pleasure and privilege to work with the amazing students at @UCLarchaeology

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Just posted this on Facebook and sharing here too. Happy to discuss #LabourAntisemitism with anyone uncertain about voting Labour. No easy answers but an important conversation worth having.

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I saw the best minds of my generation driven out or shut out of academia by vicious mediocrities and sometimes it makes me want to howl

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The Second World War intrudes into PEEPO! quite gently to begin with, and mostly stays in the background: a gas mask case hanging on the bed frame, a battledress jacket with corporal's stripes on the back of a chair, a ration book on the dining table. 4/12

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This is "were you all smoking crack?" levels of heritage whattheactualfuckery

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This 👇 and public archaeology is taking the photo

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Excavation, cultural heritage, theoretical archaeology, landscape archaeology.

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The final scene shows the baby looking in a mirror as he's carried to bed. The dad's in uniform: is he heading out for a Home Guard exercise or is he off to war? 10/12

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Out at the park there's a genial-looking RAF pilot by the pond, but in the background there's a bombed-out house, and a barrage balloon floats on its steel cable, waiting to saw the wings off enemy aircraft. 6/12

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New ID card. I look like I was exiled to Siberia in 1908 for my seditious poems and also bank robbery

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@ioanmarcjones @Nic_ky___R To her absolute credit, she didn't mean a word of it

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Taught my 1st yrs that the British Museum is a serial killer's trophy collection of bloodstained relics of imperialist violence.

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Finally got to hold a physical copy! It makes a good solid thud sound when dropped. Thanks again to contributors, @UCLpress and @ClareLewi15

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Me: I should go live in a tiny hut on a remote mountainside Also me: it is my human right to be able to buy a KitKat at 4am

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The 1940s period details are just wonderful, from the Picture Post and the soft furnishings to the radio and the sideboard it sits on. 8/12

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New book! Life-writing in the History of #Archaeology : Critical Perspectives, edited by @ClareLewi15 and I, published today by @UCLpress . Stuffed with brilliant papers. See for yourself! #OpenAccess so free to download from

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My first father's day. Feels very special.

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