Richard Purkiss
@richardpurkiss.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Associate on the Making the March project at the University of Manchester. Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
PhD opportunity in modern urban history at Stockholm University (sharing for a friend who's not on here) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
PhD student in History, with focus on Urban history
The Department of History at Stockholm University is one of the larger departments within the Faculty of Humanities with about 70 employees. The Department has about 15 active PhD students. There are
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September 16, 2025 at 8:47 PM
PhD opportunity in modern urban history at Stockholm University (sharing for a friend who's not on here) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Finally able to share: A Festschrift in honour of the one and only Ros Faith. Twelve essays on peasants and rural society in the 7th-14th centuries, edited by @hannah-boston.bsky.social and me, coming later this year with UHerts Press.
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
July 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Finally able to share: A Festschrift in honour of the one and only Ros Faith. Twelve essays on peasants and rural society in the 7th-14th centuries, edited by @hannah-boston.bsky.social and me, coming later this year with UHerts Press.
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
Delighted to see this out with @enghistrev.bsky.social: A new look at the thing we call the Danelaw. What's behind the idea that England had three legal provinces, one of them Danish? And what did contemporary writers actually mean by 'Dena lagu'? (Open Access) doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
The Limits of the Danelaw*
Abstract. The Danelaw is commonly understood as the largest of three legal provinces in tenth- to twelfth-century England, extending from Yorkshire to Midd
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May 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Delighted to see this out with @enghistrev.bsky.social: A new look at the thing we call the Danelaw. What's behind the idea that England had three legal provinces, one of them Danish? And what did contemporary writers actually mean by 'Dena lagu'? (Open Access) doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...