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Keith Lilley
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Academic geographer on a long journey. Coventry kid, washed up on Ireland's shore. Interests in bench marks, industrial archaeology, maps and mapping, new towns, landscape histories, medieval stuff, pottering about on my bike, being outdoors 🚵 .. more

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Keith Lilley is Professor at Queen's University Belfast, known as a historical geographer and urban historian.

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Philosophy 11%
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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 1h
Sounds interesting, yes camps must have been connected somehow, either using existing routes or newly made ones 👍

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 1h
Interesting, I always feel these sorts of maps are a bit misleading in the picture of communication networks, it's a bit like just having a map of the motorway network and leaving all the other roads off!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h
Council for British Research in the Levant grants of up to £7000 for UKHEI-based early career researchers. Deadline 9 January.
cbrl.bsky.social CBRL - Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social · 4h
Less than one week left to apply! ⏳

CBRL Project Grants 2026–27 are still open for researchers working in or on the Levant and based at a UK HEI or research organisation.

📧 More details:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...

⏰ Deadline: Midnight (GMT), Friday 9 January 2026
cbrl.bsky.social CBRL - Council for British Research in the Levant @cbrl.bsky.social · Oct 23
CBRL invites applications for Project Grants 2025! 📝
🔹Deadline: Friday - 09 Jan 2026

Learn more and apply:
www.cbrl.ac.uk/news/cbrl-pr...

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Brigitte Webster @tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social · 15h
Two years before this map was drawn by John Lane in 1580, a tenant farmer, John Lyster, complained that the #rabbits of Methwold Warren ‘doo borough and brede’ on the arable lands adjoining to the warren. 1/3

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 1d
There's another morphological connection there too, Jeremy Whitehand lived in Amersham
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The Geographical Journal | RGS Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
This Obituary discusses the geographical contributions of Professor J.W.R. Whitehand.
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 2d
We urban morphologists love our nomenclature 🤓 feast upon this on a Friday evening 👍
hgrg.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · 4d
Stupendous stuff from
@samleggs22.bsky.social - meta analysis of human strontium and oxygen stable isotope data from southern Britain in 2nd half of 1st Millennium AD. Too rich to summarise but if your are into complex early medieval mobility, this one’s for you.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100
THIS STUDY PRESENTS THE RESULTS of a large-scale isotopic meta-analysis of early medieval England which reveals migration patterns from c ad 400–1100. These patterns are gendered, regionally distin...
www.tandfonline.com

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 5d
Over 600 suspected house platforms have been identified at Brusselstown Ring hillfort in County Wicklow, marking it as the largest known prehistoric nucleated settlement in Britain and Ireland. doi.org/hbhgtd
Scientists have uncovered evidence of Ireland's largest prehistoric hillfort settlement
In a recent study published in Antiquity, Dr. Dirk Brandherm and his colleagues identified more than 600 suspected house platforms in the Brusselstown Ring hillfort, making it the largest nucleated settlement ever discovered in the entirety of prehistoric Britain and Ireland thus far.
phys.org

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 6d
Gloomy winter day overlooking Belfast

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British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social · 8d
Join us next month to learn about how an Atlas of London in 1666 has been researched!

This webinar is in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-r...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 9d
University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies

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University of Southern Denmark, 3-year postdoc in Medieval Studies | MEMOs
University of Southern Denmark - 3-year postdoc position in medieval studies
memorients.com

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 11d
Well done to the Great Central Railway for this initiative for those seeking some festive steam and company/comfort on Christmas Day, amazing
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Heritage railway offers 'pay what you can' Christmas Day trips
Mince pies and light refreshments are also set to be offered during the journeys.
www.bbc.com

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Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social · 11d
Big thanks to The Scarborough News for their article on our upcoming historical map of Scarborough.

If you'd like to donate to the project, you can do so here: shop.historictownstrust.uk/product/donate
A newspaper article.

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 13d
I don't bother looking at Facebook comments on anything on cycling on our roads, it's too utterly depressing

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The Castle Studies Trust @castlestudies.bsky.social · 14d
Between 2018-21 we awarded Duncan Wright 3 grants to research Laughton castle which developed the proof of concept for an AHRC grant. Now it's up for a Current Archaeology awards under From Bayeux to Bosham. The winner is decided by public vote so vote for this great project: archaeology.co.uk/vote

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 14d
Isn't this Silbury Hill, I didn't realise the sun rolls up the hill like that at the solstice

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 15d
08.40 sunrise
www.gov.ie/en/office-of...
Winter Solstice at Newgrange 2025
The Winter Solstice is an astronomical phenomenon that marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year
www.gov.ie

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Dr Ciarán McDonnell @drciaranmcdonnell.bsky.social · 15d
Delighted to attend the official launch of my #Medieval Walled Towns of Meath booklet this week. Thanks to everyone at Meath County Council and Abarta Heritage, and to The Heritage Council for their support.
PDF can be downloaded via the link below. 1/2
www.meath.ie/council/coun...
Meath County Council staff and Heritage Council staff at the launch of the Walled Towns booklet. The booklet on a table at the launch.

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James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social · 15d
Between 1840 and 1918, British attitudes towards drink changed dramatically. Life assurance company archives reveal their influence and also offer insights into the lives of ordinary abstainers.

Available (at 35% off with code GLR AT8) from Bloomsbury Academic www.bloomsbury.com/uk/temperanc...
Temperance Lives
This book explains how the rise of temperance life assurance affected ideas surrounding the dangers of drinking and abstinence between 1840 and 1918.James Kneal…
www.bloomsbury.com

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Luc Amkreutz @prehistoryrmo.bsky.social · 15d
Slightly late for #FindsFriday but this fragment of a bear (Ursus arctos) longbone was brought in last week on our @rmoudheden.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social Doggerland day. Found on Katwijk beach it shows cutmarks most likely by a flint tool.(C14 within our Resurfacing Doggerland project)🐻

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 16d
On advance access: "Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion"

Ft: Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham

#OpenAccess

doi.org/10.1093/past...
Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion
Abstract. Over the last few years, a number of articles have featured in Past and Present on the subject of late medieval lordship. Three were accepted wit
doi.org

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 17d
We are pleased to be announce that Karen Hanghøj, Director of the @bgs.ac.uk will be delivering the 2026 GSI Geoscience Lecture on 29 January 2026.

Book your tickets now: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/royalirishacademy/1981076

@geolsurvie.bsky.social

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 17d
📣 New #OpenAccess article

📖 Sophie van Ginneken, 'On second sight: the impact of architectural knowledge on travel guidebooks and the tourist gaze on Amsterdam'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article

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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 17d
📣 New #OpenAccess article

🏮 Margo Buelens-Terryn, Ilja Van Damme and @thomassmits.bsky.social, 'Projecting cities: illustrated lantern lectures as forgotten practice of place promotion in Belgium, c. 1900 – c. 1920'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096... #UrbanHistory
Title and abstract for the linked article

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 17d
Mapped the regulated routes. It's now clear how the police sought to exclude marches from the centre of the City in 1939.
Map of city of London with March routes on its voundary

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American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 17d
Big news for #conservation and cultural heritage! Seth Kannarr, Ph.D. Candidate @utkgeography.bsky.social explains how the Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia may soon earn the prestigious designation of National Park. buff.ly/Bm65LE4

📌 Should more historical and cultural sites receive national park status?
Ocmulgee Mounds preserves ancient earthworks in an area occupied by humans for 12,000 years. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

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Austrian Fietser @woemi.bsky.social · 17d
Cycling Research Board Annual Meeting 2026 and call for abstracts on the theme of "Place, People, Politics: The Reimagination of Space". A multidisciplinary dialogue about cycling as a probe, a tool, and a catalyst for reimagining cities. Learn more about the conference: cyclingresearchboard.com

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 18d
I keep on having that dream, you know the one, turning up for a conference to speak but not having prepared anything...

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Joshua Kirshner @joshkirshner.bsky.social · 18d
call for letters of intent (LOIs) on decolonizing participatory research methods, in the Journal of Participatory Research Methods: jprm.scholasticahq.com/post/3612-ca...
Call for LOIs- Decolonizing Participatory Research Methods | Published by Journal of Participatory Research Methods
The Journal of Participatory Research Methods (JPRM) invites Letters of Intent (LOIs) for a forthcoming special issue on Decolonizing Participatory Research Methods.
jprm.scholasticahq.com