A very happy new year wherever you are, from wherever I am

I'd also like to remind people that for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social I am teaching a new LIVE course from April on medieval chivalry! You get a live hour of teaching with me per week but also tons of online contact and resources. lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/medi...

Is there any object that has changed less in the last 4000 years than a gaming die? There's an astonishingly human and above all social story around that profound survival.

Come work with me! Research Assistant opportunity - Global Renaissance history.web.ox.ac.uk/event/resear...

Tonight on #Hiddenwonders we visit the @uniofreading.bsky.social excavation at the site of Cookham Abbey. More stories of powerful women, early Christianity and a place of healing for the sick. Oh and a lot of bone combs 🪮 9pm tonight More4 #Archaeology 🏺#newshow #cookham

New 📖 & stocking filler 🎁 from the FeedSax project team - Feeding Medieval England: A Long ‘Agricultural Revolution’, 700–1300 Congratulations to the FeedSax team! You can get it in print from Nov 21st. @archanchistleic.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

My old job as Director of Oxford's largest portfolio of online courses with @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is being advertised. If you enjoy academic management and digital education as well as teaching and research, this could be the job for you! F/t and permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE029/d...

My old job as Director of Oxford's largest portfolio of online courses with @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social is being advertised. If you enjoy academic management and digital education as well as teaching and research, this could be the job for you! F/t and permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPE029/d...

Exciting new publication on warfare and weapon burial in Europe from the Iron Age through to the Roman period by Rasmus Birch Iversen. Not got hold of it yet, but it looks like it will be a really valuable and much-needed synthesis: unipress.dk/udgivelser/w...

Isn't this great? A laser-scanned corpus of early medieval brooches from the Arctic Museum of Norway. And, the renders also kind of look like ghost brooches, which is seasonally appropriate 👻 dataverse.azure.uit.no/dataset.xhtm... #digitalcollections #opendata #archaeology

This looks good. Due out in December. 'It also provides the first full catalogues of a number of important but poorly understood hacksilver hoards from the UK: Norrie’s Law (Fife), Gaulcross (Aberdeenshire), Tummel Bridge (Perthshire) and Patching (Sussex).' www.scriptbooks.co.uk/archaeology/...

Here's an opportunity to come and work for us at @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social as a tutor in archaeology on a part-time (0.6FTE) and permanent basis. We're looking for anyone with a background from late Prehistory to the medieval period. Deadline: 10 November 2025 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

We're delighted to be joined by fantastic colleagues, Jade Whitlam and @helengittos.bsky.social, for our upcoming lecture series for @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Don't miss this chance to explore this fascinating region & period! 🔗 bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures #skystorians #medievalsky #history

Explore some of the themes and speakers featuring in our six-week hybrid lecture series 'Silk Roads: Empire and Everyday Voices in the Medieval Islamicate East'... Starts Monday 13 October. For more information, and to book, visit bit.ly/SilkRoadslectures #skystorian #silkroads #studyatoxford

A chill in the air and some blushing crabapples are telling me autumn has surely arrived now. Have a great week everyone.

The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.

This 5th-century quoit brooch from Rennes was a new one for me. A fascinating object with its best parallels in southern Britain: journals.openedition.org/archeopages/...

An early Anglo-Saxon sword bead is on my desk today, and a beautiful one at that.

An early Anglo-Saxon sword bead is on my desk today, and a beautiful one at that.

Interesting thoughts here on the status of Lifelong Learning in the UK: www.neilmosley.com/blog/are-uk-...

Conference Call! Sūþseaxna: New Research from the Early Medieval Record of the County. Join @sussexpast.bsky.social for this important new conference on post-Roman Sussex this November 🏺 sussexpast.co.uk/event/the-su...

The Gefrin Trust is now on Bluesky! Follow along as we head back to the field this September, uncovering new finds and charting old trowel-marked features at #Yeavering. #GefrinTrust #Northumberland #DurhamArchaeology

Very exciting opportunity to work with me! Full time permanent post in art of the Global South, specialising in either early modern or modern art and material culture. Please share! #arthistory www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI408/d...

John Blair's long-awaited book on vampires has a cover! Due in November from @princetonupress.bsky.social. 'A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the living.' press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Nice new PAS find. A glass bead, probably earlier than the fancy 7th-century gold pendant into which it has been set, usually reserved for much more expensive stuff like garnet, but both likely to be women's possessions. A memento from friend or family? A keepsake from childhood?

Our article on 5th- to 7th-century Anglo-Saxon silver alloys is published in @archaeometry.bsky.social. Based on the first substantial dataset of non-surface samples for the period, we argue for the direct involvement of jewellery in a bullion economy in 6th-century Kent: doi.org/10.1111/arcm...

Early medieval archaeologist here, working mostly in lifelong education. I expect I shall be mostly posting about early medieval artefacts, with a smattering of my second enthusiasm in digital education.