Opening Ceremony Podcast
Opening Ceremony with Jess May is a podcast focuses on ceremonies and how they tell our human stories!
Jess May is an Award Winning Celebrant who chats with amazing human beings about their life events, passions and careers and the ceremonies associated with them.
By focusing on ceremony throughout history, in different times, cultures and places we learn about the multitude of human lives and voices and how we are both different and interconnected.
Ceremonies remind us of what it means to be human and that is what makes them fascinating. Join Jess and her fantastic community to learn more about why they matter and how they are changing over time.
Opening Ceremony Podcast
Professor Howard Williams, Archaeologist of Death & Memory on Donkey Sanctuaries as memorials!
Howard Williams is an Archaeologist with a passion for The Archaeology and Heritage of Death and Memory - Past & Present
He is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Chester (2008–present). He specialises in mortuary archaeology and medieval archaeology as well as the history of archaeology and public archaeology.
He has a BSc in Archaeological Science, an MA Burial Archaeology and a PhD Archaeology.
His legendary Archaeodeath blog explores archaeology, mortality and material culture and is so engaging it is addictive:
This famous blog and associated social media channels with a huge online following on Tiktok, Instagram and Youtube (125.3k followers)
He creates more accessible, relevant and fascinating academic content for people like you and me than we could ever hope to absorb in one lifetime.
He challenges current narratives and discourse around tradition and identity and seeks to find facts where there are some, encourage us to admit when there are none and debunk myths were there are many.
He is also enormous fun!
Youtube: https://youtube.com/@archaeodeath?si=l9OJAHJauPIAX370
Blog: https://howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/
For journals, publications, academic articles and Howard's blog
TikTok: tiktok.com/@archaeodeath
Howard is a published author and you can find his books here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B06W2H14ZY/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=21a388b9-40e2-4ebe-8372-3ed6c5506745