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Dr Carly McNamara
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PhD in Celtic, focusing on early medieval Irish and Scottish history. Saints, monasteries, monastic networks, and water-based travel. Founder and Managing Director of My Academic Family, a non-profit supporting student success in university.
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🚨 Celtica is now available open-access! This is the result of painstaking work going on behind the scenes since 2022. Issues 33 to 36 (2021–24) are now online, and future issues will appear online & in print. We will also digitize the back issues of the journal.
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June 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia'
Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia
We call on all trans-inclusive feminist academics and educators to sign this statement: ‘Not In Our Name’ We are non-trans feminist academics and educators. We write in support of trans rights, tran...
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April 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Just past 2500 views of my co-authored essay w/ @fancynahyan.bsky.social, "Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death." Part of an on-going effort to transform how we understand pandemics. #OneHealth #histmed www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. | Medical History | Cambridge Core
Plague history, Mongol history, and the processes of focalisation leading up to the Black Death: a response to Brack et al. - Volume 68 Issue 4
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April 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
medievalcarly.bsky.social
This looks like it will be a good read.
April 14, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Want to learn something new this summer? This 2-day course on writing in the Early Frankish World could be for you! 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social

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Writing in the early Frankish world
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April 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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For any tourists visiting these shores this summer, I recommend this detailed map of Britain, Ireland and the Orkneys, from “Topography Of Ireland” by Gerald Of Wales (1187)
April 14, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Ah this is super! A project investigating manuscripts found to be made of certain raw materials, linked to ideas of colour and purity, and linked further to the story of the latter phases of the Greenland Norse colony before its collapse.

Read this thread!!!!
matthewcollins.bsky.social Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Apr 9
🧵 Is this a Dire wolf... 🤔?

No...

Our @erc.europa.eu Beasts to Craft team led by Élodie Lévêque uncovered the true identity of mysterious hairy covers on #medieval #Cistercian #manuscripts - they're ...
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Image fo a seal - by someone that has not seen one - from Valenciennes, ms 0320, Thomas de Cantimpré, Albert le Grand. Liber de natura rerum, vers 1280, 230 × 156 mm. Folio 116, Image : IRHT https://patrimoine-numerique.ville-valenciennes.fr/ark:/29755/B_596066101_ms_0320 (http://initiale.irht.cnrs.fr/codex/7876). The original colour of the skin (before it degraded) - but what is it? (image Elodie Leveque) Mock-up of the original book binding by Elodie Leveque. Note that the fur is too dark in this mockup (image Elodie Leveque). In 2016, the team in 2016 first confronted the collection at Troyes - but what are the bindings made of? Image of five people, one sitting, discussing a large bound medieval text held by supports in a modern library.
April 9, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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#histSTM #GenderStudies
hpsleeds.bsky.social Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social · Apr 3
Two Collaborative PhD Studentships in History of Science

The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative…
Two Collaborative PhD Studentships in History of Science
The Centre for History & Philosophy of Science is offering two fully-funded PhD scholarships to support research in the history of science and gender, and the history of trust in meteorology. The two projects – supported by Collaborative Doctoral Awards from the Arts & Humanities Research Council – will offer supervision through project partners including the Royal Society and Cambridge University Library…
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April 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Post-doc in domestic livestock - zooarchaeology and ancient DNA at York: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML043/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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April 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
medievalcarly.bsky.social
I'm giving a talk on the medieval monastery at Lismore for the Scottish Society if Northern Studies this Thursday, 27 February! www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
SSNS Seminar - Dr Carly McNamara - Lismore's Monastery in Early Medieval Scotland - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
The SSNS Seminar Series continues on 16 January with a talk by Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm on 'Frisia and the Viking Age'.
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February 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌

Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history

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PhD Scholarship Opportunities | School of History and Geography
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January 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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#Viking Age jet gaming pieces from Mote Hill, #Warrington. The jet may have been sourced from eastern England. Mote Hill overlooks a strategic crossing point of the #Mersey. It was later the site of a motte and bailey castle, and close to an old church. Now in Warrington museum #medievalsky
January 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The Lewis Chessmen for #MedievalMonday

Characterful 12th-century chess pieces with wonderfully expressive eyes! 👀

From a large gaming hoard found on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in 1831. Walrus ivory, c. 1150-1200. 📷 my own

#Archaeology
My photo collage shows a selection of bishop and warder (rook) Lewis chess pieces carved from walrus ivory c. 1150-1200 AD. Photo top left: Two bishops and a warder. All standing. The bishops wear long garments and mitre (headgear) and hold a crozier with both hands. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment and conical helmet with neck and ear-pieces. He is armed with a sword and kite-shaped shield inscribed with a lozenge shaped cross. Photo top right: A so-called ‘berserker’ (warder) chess piece. Standing, wearing a long garment and hood, armed with a sword and shield decorated with an interlaced saltire. The warder has large, wide- open eyes, and large upper teeth which bite the top of the shield. Height 8.2 cm. Photo bottom left: A standing warder and two seated bishops, one of which is partly obscured by the warder. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment and conical helmet with neck and ear-pieces, and is armed with sword and shield. The seated bishops wear long garments, mitres, and each holds a crozier and a book. Photo bottom right: A warder and a bishop, both standing. The bearded warder wears a long pleated garment, and conical helmet with neck, ear-pieces and ornamented head-band. He is armed with a sword in right hand and kite-shaped shield in left hand. His eyes look to the left. The bishop wears a long garment with cloak, and mitre, and holds a crozier in his left hand and a book in his right hand.
December 23, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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New Medieval Books: The Medieval Persian Gulf https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/new-medieval-books-persian-gulf/ #PersianGulf #historybooks #medievalbooks
New Medieval Books: The Medieval Persian Gulf - Medievalists.net
Although the Persian Gulf was not as prosperous or influential in the Middle Ages as it is today, the region boasts a fascinating history. This book delves into its communities, exploring their…
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November 18, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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‘The Value of History’: a new briefing from the Royal Historical Society
28 October 2024

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October 28, 2024 at 9:13 AM
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CfP for the Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe (hybrid)—a chance for students at all levels to present their work!
Call for 20-minute papers for 4th Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe, 21 March 2025 in Oslo/online, with the theme Lost in Translation (though other topics OK); abstracts of 250 words plus title, name, university, program, to oslomedievalstudentconference at gmail dot com by 16 December.
October 23, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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Mistakes happen! If you forget to insert that one sentence in a paragraph the solution is easy. Just draw a dude in a hood and he will pull the missing text to the right place with a piece of rope!

Walters Ms. W.102 Book of Hours, late 13th/early 14th C.

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A figure in a late medieval manuscript drawn on a margin. They are pulling a missing piece of text on a rope and pointing to a place where it should be inserted.
October 23, 2024 at 6:38 AM