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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
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The latest @timeteam.bsky.social feature length episode focusing on our excavations at Cerne Abbey has gone live. It's fantastic to see the work we've been doing over the last couple of years shared with everyone!
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NEW EPISODE! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant | TIME TEAM (Dorset) 2025
YouTube video by Time Team Official
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November 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
The latest @timeteam.bsky.social feature length episode focusing on our excavations at Cerne Abbey has gone live. It's fantastic to see the work we've been doing over the last couple of years shared with everyone!
🏺 🐈⬛
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8?...
🏺 🐈⬛
youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8?...
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The Government have published the Curriculum and Assessment Review report and their own response. We have a short statement expressing our views.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report – response
www.history.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
The Government have published the Curriculum and Assessment Review report and their own response. We have a short statement expressing our views.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ne...
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Today in my Viking Age module we read Ibn Fadlan’s account of a Rus’ funeral, with this article in particular prompting some great discussion. Always find something new to talk about in this text!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age - Volume 31 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Today in my Viking Age module we read Ibn Fadlan’s account of a Rus’ funeral, with this article in particular prompting some great discussion. Always find something new to talk about in this text!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show
The gilded cross can be seen at Leeds City Museum following its discovery in the city last year.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 10:31 PM
BBC News - Solid silver Saxon cross found in Leeds field goes on show - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Here's something you don't see every day. Our President Professor Jane Geddes's new theory of Sueno's Stone now on a t-shirt, courtesy of @northernpicts.bsky.social! Is this the first time a conference paper has made it to a t-shirt?!
Furnace of the Damned! (Women\/Slimmer fit)
Rock on with Northern Pictland's finest!
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November 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Here's something you don't see every day. Our President Professor Jane Geddes's new theory of Sueno's Stone now on a t-shirt, courtesy of @northernpicts.bsky.social! Is this the first time a conference paper has made it to a t-shirt?!
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To mark the launch of Colmán Etchingham's Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland, Boydell & Brewer are offering a **65%** discount on the book until the end of November. Enter the code BB158 when ordering it from their website (individual not institutional orders):
boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
To mark the launch of Colmán Etchingham's Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland, Boydell & Brewer are offering a **65%** discount on the book until the end of November. Enter the code BB158 when ordering it from their website (individual not institutional orders):
boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
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Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300
Abstract. As in the rest of Europe, the population of medieval England grew steeply, especially between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. This volume inv
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October 31, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...
Of interest for anyone who enjoyed the Words on the Wave exhibition in Dublin this summer.
'Augustine vs Wodan. Notker Labeo, Wednesday, and Irish Intellectual Influence at St Gall in the Early Middle Ages.'
New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien':
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
New #OA article by Immo Warntjes @historytcd.bsky.social in 'Frühmittelalterliche Studien':
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Augustine vs Wodan
The change of the weekday terminology for Wednesday from ‘Wodan’s day’ to ‘middle of the week’ in Old High German around the year 1000 is commonly explained through a rejection of the Germanic god Wod...
www.degruyterbrill.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Of interest for anyone who enjoyed the Words on the Wave exhibition in Dublin this summer.
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If you'd like to know more about Cedd and his chapel at Bradwell, check out the Open Access book published by @uclpress.bsky.social that I edited a few years ago: uclpress.co.uk/book/st-pete...
St Peter-On-The-Wall
The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation ...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you'd like to know more about Cedd and his chapel at Bradwell, check out the Open Access book published by @uclpress.bsky.social that I edited a few years ago: uclpress.co.uk/book/st-pete...
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Essays in honour of Ros Faith, brilliant topics and a terrific volume recognising one of the most friendly and engaging of medievalists
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England
www.herts.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Essays in honour of Ros Faith, brilliant topics and a terrific volume recognising one of the most friendly and engaging of medievalists
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
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The Book of Kells by Victoria Whitworth - Out Today!
The Book of Kells is probably the most famous manuscript in the world – and Victoria Whitworth's masterly treatment offers something new.
Get your copy here! - https://bit.ly/48HEVnQ
The Book of Kells is probably the most famous manuscript in the world – and Victoria Whitworth's masterly treatment offers something new.
Get your copy here! - https://bit.ly/48HEVnQ
October 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The Book of Kells by Victoria Whitworth - Out Today!
The Book of Kells is probably the most famous manuscript in the world – and Victoria Whitworth's masterly treatment offers something new.
Get your copy here! - https://bit.ly/48HEVnQ
The Book of Kells is probably the most famous manuscript in the world – and Victoria Whitworth's masterly treatment offers something new.
Get your copy here! - https://bit.ly/48HEVnQ
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Happy Wednesday! Here are some recent medieval news stories you might have missed. First, a forgotten medieval abbey in Cerne Abbas, Dorset: tinyurl.com/socmedarch25 And a medieval knight beneath an ice cream parlour: tinyurl.com/socmedarch26 (Image of excavation: Piotr Wittman/gdansk.pl)
October 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Happy Wednesday! Here are some recent medieval news stories you might have missed. First, a forgotten medieval abbey in Cerne Abbas, Dorset: tinyurl.com/socmedarch25 And a medieval knight beneath an ice cream parlour: tinyurl.com/socmedarch26 (Image of excavation: Piotr Wittman/gdansk.pl)
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Wirksworth still v significant royal holding in the Peak in Domesday with lead mines. Lead from Wirksworth sent by Abbess Cynewaru to Canterbury in 835, so some connection. In Mercia as in Northumbria, stone sculpture v important source for early ecclesiastical history. Here a lost female house? 3/
October 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Wirksworth still v significant royal holding in the Peak in Domesday with lead mines. Lead from Wirksworth sent by Abbess Cynewaru to Canterbury in 835, so some connection. In Mercia as in Northumbria, stone sculpture v important source for early ecclesiastical history. Here a lost female house? 3/
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A warmly evocative tribute to Jinty Nelson by Alice Rio:
'Her openness about her family & how much it meant to her turned her into an inspiring role model to generations of younger women...she somehow made you feel that you could be yourself, & that this would not be counted against you.'
'Her openness about her family & how much it meant to her turned her into an inspiring role model to generations of younger women...she somehow made you feel that you could be yourself, & that this would not be counted against you.'
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)
by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024)*
Jinty Nelson left a strong mark of her presence in every institution that she was ever a part of, and there is none which does not regard its association w
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October 2, 2025 at 5:34 PM
A warmly evocative tribute to Jinty Nelson by Alice Rio:
'Her openness about her family & how much it meant to her turned her into an inspiring role model to generations of younger women...she somehow made you feel that you could be yourself, & that this would not be counted against you.'
'Her openness about her family & how much it meant to her turned her into an inspiring role model to generations of younger women...she somehow made you feel that you could be yourself, & that this would not be counted against you.'
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Free book download of collected papers on Knowledge Commons ‘No Horns on their Helmets? essays on the Insular Viking Age’ #medievalsky #history #vikingsky #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/xc6k...
No Horns on their Helmets? Essays on the Insular Viking Age
Collected papers, including 1 An imaginary viking-raid on Skye in 795? 2 Annals, armies, and artistry: 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle', 865–96 3 'Hiberno-Norwegians' and 'Anglo-Danes': anachronistic ethni...
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September 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Free book download of collected papers on Knowledge Commons ‘No Horns on their Helmets? essays on the Insular Viking Age’ #medievalsky #history #vikingsky #archaeology works.hcommons.org/records/xc6k...
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Is the Book of Kells from Pictland rather than Ireland? Great to see this @theguardian.com piece about @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social's new book on Kells, published by @headofzeus.bsky.social next month: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-k... www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
New research may rewrite origins of the Book of Kells, says academic
Exclusive: Author challenges assumption monks on Iona created manuscript, instead positing its origins are Pictish
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Is the Book of Kells from Pictland rather than Ireland? Great to see this @theguardian.com piece about @victoriawhitworth.bsky.social's new book on Kells, published by @headofzeus.bsky.social next month: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/book-of-k... www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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A chill in the air and some blushing crabapples are telling me autumn has surely arrived now. Have a great week everyone.
September 22, 2025 at 7:20 AM
A chill in the air and some blushing crabapples are telling me autumn has surely arrived now. Have a great week everyone.
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Get to see this before it goes in October!!!!
One of the highlights of Words on the Wave at @NMIreland is Cod. Sang. 51—an 8th-c. Irish Gospel book with rare depictions of the Crucifixion & Second Coming. On display until 24 Oct. 🕊️
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
More: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
September 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Get to see this before it goes in October!!!!
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THE PICTISH ARTS SOCIETY CONFERENCE!!
Day 1, Metal and Metalwork
Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context
Book below!
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Day 1, Metal and Metalwork
Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context
Book below!
facebook.com/events/s/pas...
PAS Annual Conference 2025
Event in Brechin, United Kingdom by The Pictish Arts Society on Saturday, October 4 2025
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September 19, 2025 at 11:09 AM
THE PICTISH ARTS SOCIETY CONFERENCE!!
Day 1, Metal and Metalwork
Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context
Book below!
facebook.com/events/s/pas...
Day 1, Metal and Metalwork
Day 2, New research on Pictish Art and it’s Context
Book below!
facebook.com/events/s/pas...
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Today is the feast of Edith of Wilton, d. ca. 984. 🕯️ My hero for fighting Æthelwold over her wardrobe and winning. Read more here: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
Gotha Forschungsbibliothek Membr. I 81, a 14th-c. MS, contains copy of her Vita by Goscelin.
#medievalsky
Gotha Forschungsbibliothek Membr. I 81, a 14th-c. MS, contains copy of her Vita by Goscelin.
#medievalsky
September 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Today is the feast of Edith of Wilton, d. ca. 984. 🕯️ My hero for fighting Æthelwold over her wardrobe and winning. Read more here: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman...
Gotha Forschungsbibliothek Membr. I 81, a 14th-c. MS, contains copy of her Vita by Goscelin.
#medievalsky
Gotha Forschungsbibliothek Membr. I 81, a 14th-c. MS, contains copy of her Vita by Goscelin.
#medievalsky
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Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Offa
An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...
yalebooks.yale.edu
September 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Agenda is up for the Pictish Arts Society conference 2025, happening online on Sat 4 and Sun 5 October. Papers on metal and metalworking in Pictland, plus latest updates from
@northernpicts.bsky.social and new research on Pictish cross-slabs and bull carvings. Tickets from £12.94. Not to be missed!
@northernpicts.bsky.social and new research on Pictish cross-slabs and bull carvings. Tickets from £12.94. Not to be missed!
Conf | The PAS
www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk
September 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Agenda is up for the Pictish Arts Society conference 2025, happening online on Sat 4 and Sun 5 October. Papers on metal and metalworking in Pictland, plus latest updates from
@northernpicts.bsky.social and new research on Pictish cross-slabs and bull carvings. Tickets from £12.94. Not to be missed!
@northernpicts.bsky.social and new research on Pictish cross-slabs and bull carvings. Tickets from £12.94. Not to be missed!