Hear the latest #BoxOfficeBears in Dr Anna Bloxam’s webinar next Monday (March 16th) at 5pm. Info on the poster below. #medieval #bear #roads #routeways
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And there it is. Updated with the latest results from work with @thibaut-d.bsky.social & @cartapaniso.bsky.social & the @archaeobears.bsky.social #Boxofficebears , 50 mins of 🐻 from the lateglacial to present in Britain. So much more I could have said! Ta for the invite @geoffreymsmith.bsky.social!
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Map of Bankside in London, showing the locations of the Rose and Globe theatres and four bear gardens, all within a few streets of each other.
The theatre wasn't the only form of entertainment in Elizabethan England, though. Just down the road from the Globe were several 'bear gardens', where the unpleasant (but popular) 'sport' of bear baiting was staged 2/2
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
@archaeobears.bsky.social #BoxOfficeBears
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A stuffed polar bear in a glass case at the top of the stairs at Dover Museum. The bear was bought back to Dover by the Medical Officer of the 1894-7 Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition.
A Staffordshire stoneware jug c 1740 in a museum display case with a tin glazed plate in the background. The jug is in the shape of a bear holding a dog in its paws. The bear’s head is detachable.
A small 19th century brass bear money box in a museum display case.
A small plush teddy bear in a dark blue knitted RAF uniform on an acrylic stand in a museum display case.
@archaeobears.bsky.social - I was thinking of you and the rest of the #BoxOfficeBears team while on a visit to Dover Museum.
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Joyful abundance of #BoxOfficeBears news to share, including 2 new articles and... 🥁🥁🥁
🎉OUR BOOK CONTRACT NOW SIGNED! Fully open-access with @uclpress.bsky.social. We're excited and busying away writing.
🗣️Read all about it, read all about it 🗣️ here: boxofficebears.com/bob-in-print/
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Learn more about the place of bears in #WorldTheatreDay from this #BoxOfficeBears publication, just out.
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A great instance of an animal in probate frim @materialwills.bsky.social! You can see more on spit dogs and on early modern dogs-on-paper in our #BoxOfficeBears resource on the dog censuses of New Romney: boxofficebears.com/resource/a-c...
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Find out more about these bear pots here in this #BoxOfficeBears blog post: boxofficebears.com/resource/bea... #WorldBearDay
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Is you’re interested in #bear #history for #WorldBearDay, check out the #BoxOfficeBears website. Lots of insights and stories into human-bear interactions in the #Tudor period: boxofficebears.com
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There is an embarrassment of riches coming out of the #BoxOfficeBears project at the moment (or should that be embearrassment?). Bear journeys in early modern England is out today.
Well done @callanjd.bsky.social @archaeobears.bsky.social and co!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Interested in #earlymodern journeys? Pondering where you might travel with a #bear in early modern England? Wonder no more, here’s our new #BoxOfficeBears paper! We explore the day-to-day London - Gloucester travels of a bearward, + snippets from other places. 🐻📚
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our #BoxOfficeBears article on touring entertainers and travelling bears in early modern England is published today: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
One for any #SHAX2025 and #RenSA25 delegates interested in GIS/digital mapping or #Shakespeare touring troupes @archaeobears.bsky.social
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This may be the first time an Antiquity article got its own origin story! Once you've finished reading this interesting blog on the #BoxOfficeBears project, check out the research article 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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It’s almost exactly 5 years since we were notified #BoxOfficeBears was funded by AHRC @ukri.org . The project formally finishes today. We’ve had bones, bears, dogs, wrestlers, creative writing & performance & a lot of #archaeology & archives. Watch out for our many outputs still to come!
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New #BoxOfficeBears Research by Prof Hannah O’Regan & Honorary Research Fellows Dr Lizzie Wright & Dr Liam Lewis, & many other collaborators. Read about it in the 🧵below 👇
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Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ - Elizabeth Wright et al.
https://buff.ly/431MWS2
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@callanjd.bsky.social @archaeobears.bsky.social #BoxOfficeBears
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Excited that my first Bluesky post is the first major #BoxOfficeBears publication, Open Access and Open Fabulousness in @antiquityj.bsky.social.
Learn about the bears and dogs of C16th Bankside from our team of ancient-DNA analysts, archaeologists and historians.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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It’s here! Find out what we’ve been up to for the last 4 years #archaeology #earlymodern #shakespeare #boxofficebears
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🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social
What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Did they ever have bears come to visit? They’re at the Tower, in Southwark, and Whitehall. I haven’t seen any reports from the Inns though. #BoxOfficeBears
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On my way to Cardiff to give a seminar on medieval bears and baiting with Dr Liam Lewis. It’s a two-hander - I’m archaeology and dating, he’s literature and imagery. Publication coming soon. #BoxOfficeBears
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Photo of the opening slide of a talk. It says ‘bears and humans: a complex relationship’ by Hannah O’Regan, University of Nottingham. There’s also a photo of a bear cranium on it.
All prepped and ready to speak to the Southwell Community Archaeology Group about the long history of bears in Britain. Includes #archaeology #history #bears #bones and #BoxOfficeBears
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My colleague Anna Bloxam has been digitising Ogilby’s maps plus some others to look at bear and bearward travel times in the #earlymodern period. First paper coming soon with @callanjd.bsky.social and the #BoxOfficeBears team.
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Maybe @archaeobears.bsky.social or @callanjd.bsky.social (or the rest of the #BoxOfficeBears team) might have some suggestions??
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What’s that Skippy? Another #BoxOfficeBears open access paper accepted? There’s going to be a 🐻 research bonanza after Christmas! 🏺
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Brown circular plaque with white lettering saying “Near this site stood the Curtain Theatre 1577 - 1627”
I’m doing a thing at 7.30pm 20th November in #Faversham. Talking about theatre #archaeology and the amazing stuff we now know after digging a few 16th / 17th century playhouse sites, and the amazing ways we can use the new stuff we know inc #BoxOfficeBears
🏺🎭🧱🐻 favershamsociety.org/events/?even...
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