William Carruthers

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Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk

Elvis
Cinema billboard reading “The Odyssey Sold Out”
Bio of hedge fund manager whose fund just got bought in an emergency deal
Rain, glorious rain
The University of Hertfordshire apparently has a campus in Cairo's New Administrative Capital.
View across the Channel from Dover Castle
It’s a statue of Jane Austen in Winchester Cathedral Close in the sunshine.
Windows in Rome botanical garden
Piazza Navona at night
Charing Cross departure board. All trains labelled as ‘Network Southeast service[s].
Adelaide House, London Bridge
A Beatle, surely
Poppies flowering through the pavement
Lobby of 51 Like Street, an office building in the City of London. A TV showing BBC News and the Labour move against Starmer.
Advert served to me on the Guardian, purporting to show an office location in the UK (it is, extremely visibly, Manhattan)
Crystal Palace terraces
View from Sydenham Hill Woods
‘Heritage entwined with timeless modernity’, apparently.
Taxidermy plaque from the Great Exhibition (and some Crystal Palace commemorative crockery)
Farley Mount
View from cross-channel ferry approaching Dover at sunset
Beaune
Upside down tile with Arabic on it
Dover
Extremely incorrect history of the UCL Petrie Museum in the 1970s
A box with eight copies of my book Flooded Pasts
Looking out from Wivenhoe
Recently departed Regis Snack Bar in Leadenhall Market
Inside St Pancras
View of Armourers’ Hall in the City of London. Taken from outside at night.
Sunrise over Tower Bridge
Pre-order the paperback of my book via, er, illustrious bookseller TG Jones.
Rain over Clapham somewhere
View down Bishopsgate in the rain and fog
The Royal Exchange, City of London, in the drizzly gloom.