Rebecca Tyson
@tyguson.bsky.social
PhD student at University of Bristol; RHS Marshall Fellow (2024-25) at Institute of Historical Research; 11th-century Normandy, maritime and riverine environments, the Norman invasion fleet.
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/rebecca-tyson
2025 was a year of professional highs and personal lows. Highlights included sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed 11th-c cargo ship and giving a paper at the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies. In January I’ll submit my PhD thesis, so I’m looking forward to seeing what 2026 will bring.
December 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
2025 was a year of professional highs and personal lows. Highlights included sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed 11th-c cargo ship and giving a paper at the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies. In January I’ll submit my PhD thesis, so I’m looking forward to seeing what 2026 will bring.
The full-size willow-woven horse sculpture at Tredegar House is extremely impressive. It was designed and sculpted by Sarah Hatton.
December 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The full-size willow-woven horse sculpture at Tredegar House is extremely impressive. It was designed and sculpted by Sarah Hatton.
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This is incredibly stimulating and useful!
🌟New OA Publication🌟 doi.org/10.1086/738364 🧪🏰 "Biomolecular Archaeology and Medieval Studies: A Graphic Article" in @medievalacademy.bsky.social w @janetekay.bsky.social & an awesome team of ECR #WomeninSTEM 🧵⬇️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is incredibly stimulating and useful!
Svälget 2, the newly discovered medieval cargo ship, had a length of approx. 28 meters, a width of up to 9 meters, a height of 6 meters, and could have carried approx. 300 tons of cargo. Dating from the early 15th century, this ship demonstrates that largescale trade networks operated at this time.
The largest medieval kogge merchant ship yet discovered, found in the Øresund off Copenhagen and professionally excavated - dating from c 1410 and built in the Netherlands.
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/nyheder/arka...
Arkæologer afslører middelalderligt superskib: "Det er verdens største kogge"
I 600 år har havet ud for København gemt på en kæmpe hemmelighed. Nu kan Vikingeskibsmuseets marinarkæologer sammen med DR-dokumentaren Gåden i dybet afsløre fundet af verdens største kogge, et middel...
www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk
December 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Svälget 2, the newly discovered medieval cargo ship, had a length of approx. 28 meters, a width of up to 9 meters, a height of 6 meters, and could have carried approx. 300 tons of cargo. Dating from the early 15th century, this ship demonstrates that largescale trade networks operated at this time.
A piece of tideline treasure- a small white quartz pebble. Though abundant on the shores of the Irish Sea, these bright, sea-tumbled pebbles have nonetheless been treasured for millennia in this region and are associated with remembrance.
December 23, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A piece of tideline treasure- a small white quartz pebble. Though abundant on the shores of the Irish Sea, these bright, sea-tumbled pebbles have nonetheless been treasured for millennia in this region and are associated with remembrance.
There is some juicy new Bayeux Tapestry scholarship to tuck into this lunchtime👇
My tasty take (pun intended) on the Bayeux Tapestry—a subject on which I had vowed never to publish. Available Open Access with @ihr.bsky.social. See what you make of it, and bon appetit! academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
Chewing over the Norman Conquest: the Bayeux Tapestry as monastic mealtime reading*
Abstract. This article offers a new contextualization of the Bayeux Tapestry by exploring its use as mealtime reading in a monastic refectory. This concept
academic.oup.com
December 15, 2025 at 11:51 AM
There is some juicy new Bayeux Tapestry scholarship to tuck into this lunchtime👇
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✍️🗻 Dr @stevedehailes.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) tells us about his Medieval Mountain AHRC project which seeks to raise awareness of our historical relationship to mountains & our continued role in their preservation
Read more about the project 👉 brnw.ch/21wXUsn
Read more about the project 👉 brnw.ch/21wXUsn
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
✍️🗻 Dr @stevedehailes.bsky.social (@bristolunienglish.bsky.social) tells us about his Medieval Mountain AHRC project which seeks to raise awareness of our historical relationship to mountains & our continued role in their preservation
Read more about the project 👉 brnw.ch/21wXUsn
Read more about the project 👉 brnw.ch/21wXUsn
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Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Last week I went on a 'research walk', a new thing for me. I was attempting to 'beat the bounds' of the parish of Portishead, which is the central case study in my current book project about everyday life in 17th century villages. A good start; it was a dry day... 🧵
I’ve had an excellent couple of days at the Fécamp herring festival. A charter from 1088 granted the abbey of Fécamp permission for a herring fair. Today, as well as the vendeurs and grilleurs, there is the crowning and weighing of a Herring Queen (equiv to 1,501 herring, incase you wanted to know).
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I’ve had an excellent couple of days at the Fécamp herring festival. A charter from 1088 granted the abbey of Fécamp permission for a herring fair. Today, as well as the vendeurs and grilleurs, there is the crowning and weighing of a Herring Queen (equiv to 1,501 herring, incase you wanted to know).
The Sunday morning bells of La Trinité de Fécamp from Jardin Guillaume de Volpiano
November 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Sunday morning bells of La Trinité de Fécamp from Jardin Guillaume de Volpiano
The first proper frost of the winter in my part of the Wye valley. It is definitely a hot chocolate day today.
November 26, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The first proper frost of the winter in my part of the Wye valley. It is definitely a hot chocolate day today.
It’s a beautiful morning, and I’m off to do some digging with Cardiff University.
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It’s a beautiful morning, and I’m off to do some digging with Cardiff University.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Boatwald Boatfaceson www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions
Sutton Hoo Ship's Company wants help naming their replica, but urges people not to make joke suggestions.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Boatwald Boatfaceson www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
The serpent head of the Oseberg Viking ship, carved in 820, and shown for the first time to the public in the Oslo Historical Museum
In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
In the early hours of this morning, following 119.6mm of rainfall in 12hrs, the River Monnow burst its banks and flooded Monmouth. The usual river level is just under 2m, this morning it was 6.63m- even higher than the record-breaking level during the floods in 2020 (6.57m). Absolutely devastating.
I've been watching back videos from when I sailed from Dives-sur-Mer to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, following the route of the Norman invasion fleet in 1066. 130km of c. 70m chalk cliffs in a strong N/NE wind that turned into a gale just before we reached Fécamp. Similar conditions to 1066 #MedievalSky
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I've been watching back videos from when I sailed from Dives-sur-Mer to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, following the route of the Norman invasion fleet in 1066. 130km of c. 70m chalk cliffs in a strong N/NE wind that turned into a gale just before we reached Fécamp. Similar conditions to 1066 #MedievalSky
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Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Have I sailed as close as you are legally allowed to do to have a nose at the SS Montgomery?
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
Of course.
Moment I knew she existed, I was out there faster than Jay Hulme when he spots a rickety ladder in a church.
Here she is:
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New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
Domesday at the IHR - On History
IHR Fellow, Chris Lewis, writes about new publication, 'Making Domesday'.
blog.history.ac.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR.
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...
I saw some teeny tiny perfect mushrooms in the woods this morning. I love the way the things I see and hear on this walk change every day through the seasons.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I saw some teeny tiny perfect mushrooms in the woods this morning. I love the way the things I see and hear on this walk change every day through the seasons.
Excellent blog post on the territorialisation of the North Sea #MaritimeHistory
This week's North Sea Nexus post on the invisible boundaries in the sea most of us rarely think about, and how they came to be.
Drawing the lines
Shifting boundaries and legal ambiguities in the North Sea
northseanexus.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Excellent blog post on the territorialisation of the North Sea #MaritimeHistory
I’m thinking about Mont-Saint-Michel and its tidescapes today, and missing this view from my window last year.
Views of Mont-Saint-Michel from my window this week #medievalsky
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I’m thinking about Mont-Saint-Michel and its tidescapes today, and missing this view from my window last year.
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 🦭
Feeling this very strongly at the moment. Also see ‘This appears to be a long document, would you like me to summarise it for you?’ I know it’s a long document, it’s taken me almost 5 years to write it, now piss off and stop taking up all the space on my screen with your shitty AI prompts! Argh!
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Feeling this very strongly at the moment. Also see ‘This appears to be a long document, would you like me to summarise it for you?’ I know it’s a long document, it’s taken me almost 5 years to write it, now piss off and stop taking up all the space on my screen with your shitty AI prompts! Argh!