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Time Team (the hit British archaeology portray) is jubilant to be working with Operation Nightingale on a UK website online linked to the United States Army’s most famed regiment of the 2nd World Battle – the legendary Band of Brothers.
The excavation commemorates 80 years since the legendary Straightforward Company were stationed in Wiltshire, England ahead of D-Day.
As the 80th anniversary of D-Day approaches, Time Team will drop in to a Wiltshire village (United Kingdom), as soon as home to the enduring Straightforward Company of the US 101st
Airborne Division. The troopers were stationed here in 1943, before appealing in pivotal actions of World Battle II – amongst them Operation Overlord, Operation Market Backyard and the Battle of the Bulge.
The dig this Would possibly maybe well moreover (2023) is being led by Operation Nightingale, a Ministry of Defence initiative that makes employ of archaeology to spice up the restoration of servicemen and girls getting back from warfare. In 2012, Time Team joined the veterans at Figheldean, Wiltshire, coming face to face with weak warriors.
Time Team’s creator and Sequence Producer, Tim Taylor, says: “We’re jubilant to be becoming a member of forces over again with our correct pals, Richard Osgood and Operation Nightingale. I’ve consistently believed in archaeology’s qualities for selling correct wellbeing. I will’t wait to peek what we check together!”
Richard Osgood, MBE, says: “Operation Nightingale final labored with Time Team in our early years, in 2012, and it’s very neutral correct to be reunited. Encourage then it became as soon as a Saxon cemetery, however this time we can’t wait to work together on a website online of big 20th century importance, and to continue our efforts to encourage military veterans with the energy of archaeology!”
WHEN IS THE DIG HAPPENING?
The dig takes situation from 2nd to 9th Would possibly maybe well moreover 2023, with day-after-day updates from Matt Williams as the action unfolds on Time Team’s Patreon channel. The elephantine story will then be brought together in a Time Team Special documentary hosted by Sir Tony Robinson, airing at a later date – elephantine info to be announced across Time Team’s channels.
The Band of Brothers dig follows the originate of Time Team’s most up-to-date episodes: a Knights Hospitaller preceptory in Shropshire, and a world Expedition Crew collaboration investigating an weak metropolis in Greece. The premieres led a file-breaking month of virtually 1 million views worldwide, with one other episode originate on the attain, featuring an Anglo-Saxon cemetery in Norfolk.
ABOUT TIME TEAM:
First airing in 1994 on the UK’s Channel 4, Time Team, created by Sequence Producer Tim Taylor, turned a Sunday teatime staple. This day, the portray is watched in over 50 worldwide locations worldwide.
Presented by Sir Tony Robinson, Time Team made family names of archaeologists alongside with the late Mick Aston, Phil Harding and Carenza Lewis. Classic episodes are readily on the market on the Time Team Classics YouTube channel, which has over 200,000 subscribers worldwide.
For the duration of 20 series, Time Team investigated over 220 sites, alongside with iconic landmarks Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle and Westminster Abbey. At its top, Time Team became as soon as one of the UK’s most spirited fair funders of archaeology, and the series is credited with boosting the reputation of archaeology in Britain.
Time Team relaunched independently in 2020 with the enhance of thousands of followers worldwide on the platform Patreon. Recent episodes hosted by Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, OBE are readily on the market on the Time Team Official YouTube channel, which lately surpassed 150,000 subscribers and 10 million views.
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Operation Nightingale: https://www.facebook.com/operationnightingale/
ABOUT OPERATION NIGHTINGALE:
Operation Nightingale is a Ministry of Defence initiative to encourage the restoration of wounded, injured and unwell military personnel and veterans by getting them occupied with archaeological investigations.
CONTACT:
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