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Venturer of the Week: Nicola Mathers

Venturer of the Week – Nicola Mathers ‘Hello, my name is Nicola and I live in London. This is the first time I’ve done anything like this! I didn’t even know complete newbies like…

Maggie the Indestructible!

Torpedoed in the Mediterranean, strafed by the Luftwaffe, bombarded in Moscow, pulled out of a crashed chopper, and stranded on an Arctic island: photographer Margaret Bourke-White was as Maggie the Indestructible! Today’s #WWWednesday post…

DigVentures, HLF and the ‘Digital Dig Team’ at Leiston Abbey

DigVentures wins Heritage Lottery Fund support for innovative ‘Digital Dig Team’ project at Leiston Abbey Today, DigVentures has received £74,700 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) for their ‘Digital Dig Team’ project, which will…

Venturer of the Week: John Cooper

Venturer of the Week – John Cooper ‘I’m coming back for my third year of DigVentures because it is the best way for me to work with experts and know they will engage well…

DigVentures in The Guardian

At CultureLabel’s REMIX LONDON summit in 2012, Steve Crossan, the Director of the Google Cultural Institute, opened the conference by saying that for him, the most exciting thing about culture were the stories of…

Venturer profile: Joan Sutherland

Joan Sutherland Returning back to fold, Joan Sutherland tells us why she’s re-joining the team again at Leiston Abbey this year. ‘I took my first tentative steps into practical archaeology in 2012 when I…

D is for… Dirty Weekends

With the aid of blogger and archaeologist HollyMae Steane Price, we are working our way through the alphabet, looking at the A-Z of archaeology, one letter at a time. Today’s letter is D… Do…

Paid Internship Opportunity with Global Heritage Fund UK

Hello DigVentures community! We’re helping one of our favourite organisations to find a Digital Media and Admin Assistant Intern for their London office. Have you got the right stuff? Read on! Global Heritage Fund…

Back in Britain – Changing Lives at Home in #WWI

Welcome to this week’s #WWWednesday! This week, we are sharing our most recent #WWI obsession the ‘Back in Britain’ tumblr site run by DCMS. Part of the Government’s prgramme to mark the First World…

A Home Front Tragedy, 1915

Welcome to #WWWednesday! While drinking our morning coffee at DVHQ, we noticed a tweet from the excellent @ArthursLetters, which shares a poignant story about a tragedy involving several members of the 4th KOYLI during…

Honour envelopes – WWI’s top secret letters of love

image: British Museum and Postal Archive, @postalheritage Honour envelopes: top secret letters of love Through the wonders of twitter, we have just discovered Honour envelopes. This lovely concept has really taken our fancy, so…

Francis Pryor asks: How are Sheep Relevant to Life – and Archaeology?

DigVentures is pleased as punch to have an original blog to share with our readers from the one, the only, the mighty Francis Pryor. As an accomplished archaeologist, author, personality and general man-about-town, we’re…

Poetry in Motion Pictures

Up close and personal, it wasn’t hard to see that our on-site Venturers were having a whale of a time mucking in with the team… But how our dig was playing out with our…

DigVentures BBC TV Interview

Yet more fantastic coverage from the BBC...Fergus's agent was particularly pleased with this one from the BBC's Look East news programme

Flag Fen Lives – Aerial-Cam in Action

We’ve had Dog Cam. We’ve had Auger Cam. We’ve even had JCB Cam… But it was only a matter of time before we arrived at… Aerial-Cam! At the end of last week we were…

Working like a Dog!