Trevor Wiley
@mearcsteppende.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment and human landscapes on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
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Trevor Wiley
@mearcsteppende.bsky.social
· Sep 20
Getting a lot of new followers from the excellent medieval starter pack - so hello! I'm a Ph.D. student writing a dissertation about the estuary landscapes of fifth- to eighth-century southern Scotland, and more importantly, about the people who lived in them and transformed them.
A little extra teaching money means the budget is there for a final-summer-of-the-PhD research trip to Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland!
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A little extra teaching money means the budget is there for a final-summer-of-the-PhD research trip to Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland!
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
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Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wow! 😮🤩
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓
itiner-e.org
We might have to have a lie-down.
A reminder that if you live in a place with elections today, no matter how local, you should get out and vote!
November 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
A reminder that if you live in a place with elections today, no matter how local, you should get out and vote!
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For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Periodisation, Terminal Narratives, and the Beginning of the Middle Ages in Lowland Britain
This brief contribution seeks to remind readers that familiar periodisation schemes are deeply entrenched not so much because they have withstood the test of time but because scholars come of age a...
www.tandfonline.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:12 PM
For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Save the Date!
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Save the Date!
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
Monday, November 10 7 pm
The Spot Bar
50th Anniversary of the Loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald
What:
History lecture on the Fitz and Arthur Anderson by yours truly
Sing-along with Gordon Lightfoot
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Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭
November 4, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Another sealskin book cover @mearcsteppende.bsky.social, this time from Norway 🦭
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Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Two examples of a distinctively Romano-British artefact: the sinuously gorgeous dragonesque brooch for #FindsFriday 😍
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
These particular copper alloy beauties, inlaid with red and blue enamel, were found in Faversham #Kent c 1895
© Trustees of the British Museum
#Roman #Archaeology
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so the news is that i have done the unthinkable and... started a podcast.
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
October 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
so the news is that i have done the unthinkable and... started a podcast.
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
"American Medieval" - because if we've never been fully modern, maybe it's because we've always been a little bit medieval.
the trailer has now dropped! please have a listen -->
patreon.com/americanmedieval
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“No Sanctuary
It’s Hallowe’en. The turnip-man’s lopped head
Blazes at us through split bottle glass
And fumes and swims up like a wrecker’s lantern.
Death mask of harvest,
l mocker at All Souls
With scorching smells, red dog’s eyes in the night
We ring and stare into unhallowed light”
Seamus Heaney
It’s Hallowe’en. The turnip-man’s lopped head
Blazes at us through split bottle glass
And fumes and swims up like a wrecker’s lantern.
Death mask of harvest,
l mocker at All Souls
With scorching smells, red dog’s eyes in the night
We ring and stare into unhallowed light”
Seamus Heaney
October 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
“No Sanctuary
It’s Hallowe’en. The turnip-man’s lopped head
Blazes at us through split bottle glass
And fumes and swims up like a wrecker’s lantern.
Death mask of harvest,
l mocker at All Souls
With scorching smells, red dog’s eyes in the night
We ring and stare into unhallowed light”
Seamus Heaney
It’s Hallowe’en. The turnip-man’s lopped head
Blazes at us through split bottle glass
And fumes and swims up like a wrecker’s lantern.
Death mask of harvest,
l mocker at All Souls
With scorching smells, red dog’s eyes in the night
We ring and stare into unhallowed light”
Seamus Heaney
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Tomorrow is #Halloween 🎃, which means it's the "Season of the Witch!" Here is a little bit about the relationship between environment and witchcraft in early modern Europe, because it tells us something really interesting about how we humans have thought about weather, climate, and disasters. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Tomorrow is #Halloween 🎃, which means it's the "Season of the Witch!" Here is a little bit about the relationship between environment and witchcraft in early modern Europe, because it tells us something really interesting about how we humans have thought about weather, climate, and disasters. 🧵
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LiDAR-Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South"
"community archaeology"
-> not just for Maya centers
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South"
"community archaeology"
-> not just for Maya centers
October 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
LiDAR-Based Storytelling About a Historical Industrial Landscape in Southern Middle Tennessee
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South"
"community archaeology"
-> not just for Maya centers
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
"coal mining coincided with the convict leasing system that operated across the American South"
"community archaeology"
-> not just for Maya centers
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Engraving of stake nets wood #fishweirs in the coast #Cantabria #Spain in 1791. Archaeologically very few of these monuments have ever been found and are only known from written descriptions and rare drawings such as this. 1/5 #coastsinmind #coastalhistory
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Engraving of stake nets wood #fishweirs in the coast #Cantabria #Spain in 1791. Archaeologically very few of these monuments have ever been found and are only known from written descriptions and rare drawings such as this. 1/5 #coastsinmind #coastalhistory
Hi! I’m Avi. I’m a PhD candidate in History. My dissertation looks at the relationship between humans and marine environments in Roman Britain. I’m interested in things like oysters, fish sauce, and sea salt. I also write about marine environments in other periods, including in early America.
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A standing stone in a pub? Well, that's gone on the list to visit...
October 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
A standing stone in a pub? Well, that's gone on the list to visit...
Leaving South Bend after a remarkably friendly and fun Midwest Medieval History Conference. Brimming with ideas and inspiration for writing (to be pursued after I catch up on grading...)
October 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Leaving South Bend after a remarkably friendly and fun Midwest Medieval History Conference. Brimming with ideas and inspiration for writing (to be pursued after I catch up on grading...)
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For St Cedd's day, a view of the C7th chapel at Bradwell on Sea, built on the ruined Roman Saxon shore fort of Othona.
Sound on for the birdsong! 🎵🎶
#Essex #MedievalSky
Sound on for the birdsong! 🎵🎶
#Essex #MedievalSky
October 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
For St Cedd's day, a view of the C7th chapel at Bradwell on Sea, built on the ruined Roman Saxon shore fort of Othona.
Sound on for the birdsong! 🎵🎶
#Essex #MedievalSky
Sound on for the birdsong! 🎵🎶
#Essex #MedievalSky
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The Dornoch Firth Coastal Survey (Mar/Apr2025) Report is out! Highlights: a monumental fish trap, Bonar bridge coastal engineering, & a wonderful discovery of zulu sailing drifter. Download here: scapetrust.org/wp-content/u...
#coastarch #scotarchstrat #hessupported
#coastarch #scotarchstrat #hessupported
October 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Dornoch Firth Coastal Survey (Mar/Apr2025) Report is out! Highlights: a monumental fish trap, Bonar bridge coastal engineering, & a wonderful discovery of zulu sailing drifter. Download here: scapetrust.org/wp-content/u...
#coastarch #scotarchstrat #hessupported
#coastarch #scotarchstrat #hessupported
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Had the pleasure of seeing this incredible digital reconstruction of medieval Barrow-upon-Trent at a heritage event this weekend. It's kinda mesmerising. Love this level of detail. Grab a cuppa and give it a watch!
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
Medieval Barrow upon Trent c1300 CE
YouTube video by albino igil
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Had the pleasure of seeing this incredible digital reconstruction of medieval Barrow-upon-Trent at a heritage event this weekend. It's kinda mesmerising. Love this level of detail. Grab a cuppa and give it a watch!
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
#derbyshire #archaeology #medieval 🏺
Copyright 2023 Friends of St Wilfrid's.
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A number of manuscripts in the renowned Cotton collection were damaged or destroyed in the fire at Ashburnham House, London, #OTD in 1731. Asser’s biography of King Alfred of Wessex was lost. The Lindisfarne Gospels was among those to survive. #medievalsky
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
A number of manuscripts in the renowned Cotton collection were damaged or destroyed in the fire at Ashburnham House, London, #OTD in 1731. Asser’s biography of King Alfred of Wessex was lost. The Lindisfarne Gospels was among those to survive. #medievalsky
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Scottish Society for Northern Studies day conference!! lots on Picts and Vikings www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-... #scotland #history #archaeology #medievalsky
SSNS 2025 Day Conference - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
We are happy to announce our next in-person conference at 10:45 BST on 22nd November in Arbroath. The conference will be followed by an optional visit to the St Vigeans Sculptured Stones Museum. There...
www.ssns.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Scottish Society for Northern Studies day conference!! lots on Picts and Vikings www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-... #scotland #history #archaeology #medievalsky
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Making final preparations for travel to South Bend tomorrow for the Midwest Medieval History Conference, where I'll be giving a paper about seals, sea-birds and sea-snails and what they tell us about life and landscape around the early medieval Firth of Forth! #envhist #medievalsky
October 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Making final preparations for travel to South Bend tomorrow for the Midwest Medieval History Conference, where I'll be giving a paper about seals, sea-birds and sea-snails and what they tell us about life and landscape around the early medieval Firth of Forth! #envhist #medievalsky
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If you're in the Boston/Cambridge area, next Wednesday 10/29 I will be talking about Van Gogh, industrial pollution & climate change at Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/enviro...
October 21, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you're in the Boston/Cambridge area, next Wednesday 10/29 I will be talking about Van Gogh, industrial pollution & climate change at Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/enviro...
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go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.
www.ndsmcobserver.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...