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Aug 6
3 min

Statement from Soldier On!

We have been included in a high number of tweets this afternoon in connection with comments made about one of our ambassadors, Laurence F...

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Nicholas Harrison

Aug 3
2 min

PhD research position offered to Soldier On! volunteer.

We have heard some great news from one of our former participants to share with you, which demonstrates the value of engendering self-suf...

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Nicholas Harrison

Jul 22
1 min

Minister for Business and Industry responds to construction concerns and UK heritage

We have received a letter from Nadhim Zahawi MP in response to the worries we have for the UK's heritage following the Prime Minister's c...

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Nicholas Harrison

Jul 15
0 min

Dan is looking for a job as an in-house recruiter or Operations Manager

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Nicholas Harrison

Jul 15
2 min

‘FREE Support now available to help archaeologists facing redundancy’

With over twelve years’ experience helping people who have lost their jobs to plan and manage their career transitions and having created...

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Nicholas Harrison

Jul 10
2 min

Can archaeology make you happy?

Two streams of measurement exist to the value of our work. One is the personal development side, how people grow as a result of participa...

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Nicholas Harrison

Jul 7
3 min

‘Unique outplacement programme available to help organisations manage redundancies due to Covid-19'

As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, as many as 7.6 million jobs may be lost in the UK and unemployment could soar to as much as 24%....

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Nicholas Harrison

Jul 6
1 min

MP reacts to proposed construction boom

Concerned by comments made to us by archaeologists that any amendments to construction rules would potentially see construction companies...

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Nicholas Harrison

Jul 3
1 min

Virtual Heritage and Well-being Survey

Our friends at Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage recently launched a research project assessing the impact of virtual her...

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Nicholas Harrison

Jun 18
1 min

10,000 memories in Chelsea

Between the 13th and 15th of September, 2019, we delivered a survey of the Burial Ground of The Royal Hospital Chelsea. The aims of the ...

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Nicholas Harrison

Apr 27
1 min

Learning from home - Part 4. Late Medieval ‘Finger-rilling’

The sherd shows the features of a wheel-thrown closed/restricted vessel, with the parallel lines on the surface called: ‘finger-rilling’

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Nicholas Harrison

Apr 23
5 min

Unearthing hidden talent in archaeology. Can we do more for disabled job-seekers?

We’re learning much about pottery, but little about Tim himself? In this week’s post we interviewed him to get to know him better.

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Nicholas Harrison

Apr 14
2 min

Learning from home - Part 3. Our third pottery piece

Welcome to the third instalment of our ‘Learn from Home’ series, where we are looking at the pottery found on Soldier On! digs and elsewhere

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Nicholas Harrison

Apr 6
1 min

Learning from home - Part 2. Our second pottery lesson from our archaeology at home series

This particular piece was found last summer at one of our own digs in South Yorkshire.

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Nicholas Harrison

Mar 30
3 min

Learning from home - Part 1. Introducing our home learning Resource – Pottery

Hello everyone from Tim, an archaeologist who, over the next few weeks, will be delivering some information about historical pottery.

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Nicholas Harrison

Mar 29
4 min

Making friends in isolation! Soldier On! asks people at home to think about who we can help.

Having had to cancel all of our activities for this year, now is a really good time to connect with people who run organisations

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Nicholas Harrison

Mar 20
1 min

Soldier On! Projects postponed

I am sorry to have to let you know that all of our planned projects for 2020 have been cancelled due to Covid-19.

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