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December 29, 2023

Twenty plenty more

I could review 2023, with The Rock Showman and I delivering a fab fossil festival in wonderful Whitby; and the magnificent Kirkleatham Museum team inviting me to work on their Lemon Tops & Lobster Pots exhibition; and the NLHF Dynamic Collections scheme awarding funding for YorEarth Heritage with Scarborough Museums and the University of Leeds; and becoming a champion of...

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November 21, 2023

Far from boring: the Kirkleatham Musseleum

Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne is strongly associated with fossils, but the church named after him in Kirkleatham, near Redcar, takes his palaeontology off in a new direction. The oldest part of St Cuthbert’s Church is its mausoleum, which was erected in 1740 in memory of Marwood William Turner. (The rest of the church was rebuilt in the 19th Century.) The...

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November 7, 2023

The star of Skinningrove

Our BEACH (Bold Earth/Art Cleveland Heritage) project is funded by the UK Science Festivals Network, with the aim of connecting Earth science researchers, artists, and local people to explore the rocks and fossils of Redcar & Cleveland, creatively. We did pretty well at our Skinningrove event on Halloween, not least because one of the young people on our morning fossil...

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October 19, 2023

The BEACH at Redcar Palace

What did you miss if you didn’t come to our first BEACH (Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage) event at Redcar Palace? Oh, not much. Only MONSTER MOLLUSCS, MICROSCOPIC MOUNTAINS, and MAGNIFICENT MYTH-MAKING! Monster molluscs After a quick introduction at the Palace, we all headed out onto Redcar Rocks, to see what remarkable things we might find. Seven year-old Oliver was the...

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October 10, 2023

BEACH

The Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage Project This autumn, thanks to funding from the UK Science Festivals Network ‘Making Connections‘ scheme, The Rock Showman and Fossiliam are leading BEACH: The Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage Project. Through a series of free events, the BEACH aims to bring together local communities, researchers and artists to explore the amazing Earth history of Redcar &...

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September 25, 2023

Fossiliam’s Awesome Autumn

Fall into fossils this autumn, with my busy programme of activities! Saturday 7th October, York York Unlocked at the YPS Lodge, York Museum Gardens, 10-12pm and 2-4pm. As part of the York Unlocked weekend, we’ll be opening up the lodge to visitors, and showing off some Yorkshire fossils. It’s free, and everyone is welcome. You are also welcome to bring...

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September 5, 2023

Fossils & Palaeoenvironments

This November – on Saturday 11th and 18th – I am teaching a two-part online course for the University of York Centre for Lifelong Learning. Fossils & Palaeoenvironments will explain what fossils are, how we’ve worked this out, and how we use fossils to understand ancient environments. Saturday 11th November will be the Fossils day, introducing fossils, palaeontological techniques, and...

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August 4, 2023

Rebel show nails!

Banish the grey fear with a prehistoric pedicure! This summer, at Kirkleatham Museum, the Lemon Tops & Lobster Pots exhibition is celebrating the Redcar & Cleveland seaside. I’ve curated the geology display, and I’ve made Gryphaea arcuata – the devil’s toenail – star of the show. The fossils are always grey, though, so on Wednesday August 9th and 23rd I’m...

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July 7, 2023

Mary Anning Rocks Yorkshire’s Jurassic World!

She never visited the county during her lifetime but finally, on #FossilFriday July 14th 2023, Mary Anning will arrive in Yorkshire, as the maquette of her wonderful Lyme Regis statue comes to the Yorkshire Museum for a two-month stay. I can’t tell you how pleased I am that Mary is coming to York. She’d have loved fossiling on the Yorkshire...

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June 17, 2023

Yorkshire Fossil Festival 2023

What did you miss? Don’t panic! There’s plenty more to come! If you missed – or perhaps you’re just missing – the 2023 Yorkshire Fossil Festival in Whitby, what can you do to bring the fossil-feelgood-factor back before our next festival? Here are some ideas: Come back to Whitby Museum! Celebrating its bicentenary this year, the wonderful Whitby Museum is...

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