Recording of this talk available here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehlu...

Talking this Wednesday 5pm about key themes from my thesis (hopefully, soon to be published book). Online or in person at Rewley House, Oxford. Free for all but booking required here lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/news/seminar...

I recently somehow managed a convergence of research activities: marshy island-sites with Old English names @cam.ac.uk , teaching at Godstow Abbey @ox.ac.uk , and a new project Rediscovering the Tudor Domesday @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social 1/2

Hopefully, the research report should be coming out soon, but here is a whistle stop tour of the project looking at archival evidence from the Red Boxes about the nature, extent and loss of historical external surface finishes in Cumbria. vimeo.com/1191141031/9...

All the talks from the What's the Point? 2 conference in York are available to watch here: historicengland.org.uk/advice/techn...

This week I am teaching analytical earthwork survey to students on the lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk MSc in Applied Landscape #Archaeology. We are recording First World War practice trenches in Wytham Woods. Under beautiful beech trees and ankle deep in bluebells

Teaching historical building understanding, interpretation and recording, with a good dose of watery place-names, at Godstow Abbey: @ox.ac.uk . Gained some new 'recruits' interested in close inspection of the claustral walls and surviving chapel! 1/2

And @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social, recently of this parish @namestudies.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social

Webinar and Q & A with the Urban Design Group on using historical place-names for modern street naming: lnkd.in/edeJRvjQ

High Bishopseat on the former Rookhope & Middlehope Railway. Self-acting incline. Lead, iron ore and limestone. 1/2

A free webinar with the Urban Design Group. More details and registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/place-name...

Chasing down Gaelic and Norse place-names, Iron Age circles, Máel Ruba's monastery and some Hebridean barns. 1/2

A cool 38° in Düsseldorf but @isseme2025.bsky.social @hhu.de is proving fascinating. So far, Communities in Early Medieval England @rorynaismith.bsky.social , Old English Andreas as inadvertent rogation and Judith and Holofernes as never before seen via powerpoint animations 1/2

Annual DAC meeting and dinner @stjohnsox.bsky.social @oxforddiocese.bsky.social Inimitable tour from William Whyte. Laud, Juxon, Opus Anglicanum and Rawlinson's heart, not to mention theatrical shrubberies! Great to gather & thank everyone working for hundreds of unique and irreplaceable sites. 1/2

Opening icebreaker... @GeoPlace 2025 @englishplacenames.bsky.social @namestudies.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social

Facilitating a roundtable today at GeoPlace 2025 on using historical place-names to inform modern street naming. Interesting hearing others from public and private sectors as we kick off. @namestudies.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social @englishplacenames.bsky.social

Speaking imminently @snsbi.bsky.social - Stirling. Pre-conference walk looking at Logie Old Kirk (Thomas Clancy eprints.gla.ac.uk/135558/1/135... and Simon Taylor eprints.gla.ac.uk/222543/), a standing stone at the county boundaries (now rugby pitch) and a hogback or two.