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Welcome to the MOLA blog. Explore our latest news, discoveries, stories and content. Our blog posts are created by archaeologists and specialists from across the organisation and cover a range of fascinating and informative topics. Browse our posts using the tags, join in the discussion and share with your network.

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MOLA hosts Arts Emergency remote work experience placements

Magnus Copps
08.09.2020

This August we hosted three young people as part of a week-long placement scheme operated by Arts Emergency, an award-winning mentoring charity and network that supports young people to overcome barriers to participation in higher education and careers in Arts and Culture.

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Archaeology and Public Benefit Project Update 6: Archaeology and public benefit under lockdown

Dr Sadie Watson
07.08.2020

Future Leaders Fellow Dr Sadie Watson on the impact of coronavirus on archaeological public engagement work.

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The archaeology of sea level change in the southern North Sea

Damian Goodburn
18.07.2020

In this blog, archaeological woodwork specialist Damian Goodburn shares what decades of excavation has taught us about sea level change over the centuries, and what bearing this has on life on the Thames floodplain today…

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Archaeology and Public Benefit Project Update 5: Shaping our public consultation

Dr Kate Faccia
09.07.2020

Dr Kate Faccia on some of the key questions she's thinking about as she shapes our public consultation on how the benefit of archaeological engagement can be maximised.

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Queering the archaeological record: gender identities in 5th-7th century burial

Cecilia Levratto Francese
30.06.2020

In this blog, MOLA Archivist Cecilia Levratto Francese shares why we should avoid thinking about gender in a binary way when we interpret burial evidence from the 5th – 7th centuries…

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