"not only have I gained experience of photogrammetry, but I have also gained a much deeper understanding of it through the errors and challenges faced in using the technology" Aimée Wilkinson reflects on a summer internship at the ICS supported by the Roman Society: ics.sas.ac.uk/blog/ehrenbe...

#WCCWiki is back on Wed 24 Sept 2025, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Online editing session with Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385. Email [email protected] for more information

Last chance to book for this evening’s special online seminar @ihr.bsky.social at 5.30pm BST. It will reflect on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. Please register below to join us. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

#WCCWiki is back after the summer break!! For your calendars, the next #WCCWiki online meetup & editing session is 13.00-15.00 GMT, Wed 25 September. We'll be editing together to improve the gendered rep of classicists (broadly conceived) on #Wikipedia, & we can provide training to start editing

I'm looking for researchers on crime/punishment in Britain, particularly Cheshire. I'm in touch with CRO, but access is limited due to the move. I've also spoken with Cheshire Policing Museum (records are mostly at CRO). Any time period, but esp Victorian! There may be a freelance research opp here.

While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal! JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2

New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 18, No. (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55589 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @jmrcolvin.bsky.social

the new issues of Studies in Late Antiquity has our SBL forum on the 20th anniversary of THE WAYS THAT NEVER PARTED (co-ed @annetteyreed.bsky.social): ft. me, @simchagross.bsky.social, Heidi Wendt, and Jae Han's intro! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3

No cover image yet, but look what's coming from CUP 🤓 Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/60683

how did I miss this Element on Egeria? attn: @rsfalcasantos.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Caffè Greco, Rome's oldest coffee house, risks closure amid rent dispute Historic bar in Rome has been serving customers since 1760.

Women from Hackney #Wikithon. Join @hackney-society.bsky.social for a free Wikipedia editing workshop this Sat 6 Sep 2025 1:15 - 4:15 PM #Hackney #Archives, E8 3BQ. All levels of experience welcome, introduction & training provided. Book your place here www.tickettailor.com/events/hackn...

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

#TodayInQueerHistory July 28 (1540) Walter Hungerford is executed at Tower Hill in London. He was the first person killed under Henry VIII's Buggery Act. Buggery remained a capital offence, that is, punishable by death, in the UK until 1861. The final executions for Buggery took place in 1835.

the David Brakke Festschrift! available now! www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

🚨 ‘YOU’RE DEAD TO ME’🚨 NEW EPISODE! The amazing life and work of French writer Alexandre Dumas, who created the Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo My fantastic guests are comedian Celya AB and historian @historianmemory.bsky.social Listen on BBC SOUNDS, or wait 28 days for other apps

Medieval angel from Norwich Cathedral - one of several 14th century wall paintings located in the cathedral treasury. 📷 My own. #WednesdayWallpaintings #NorwichCathedral

I'm really sad not to be at #IMC2025 this year, please post about it! I will follow as many medievalists as I can using this #IMC2025 🤩

Any digital medievalists at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2025? We've prepared an agenda featuring events sponsored by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Check it out and come say hi! Full programme here: tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025

I will also have some @royalhistsoc.org flyers and badges to promote the society. There are different levels of membership, including for postgrads royalhistsoc.org/membership/ #IMC2025

#IMC2025 has a Lactation Room in University House: Woodsley Room This room is a private, comfortable space and will provide facilities for those who are breastfeeding/need to express milk during the day. A fridge, labels, paper towels, and wet wipes will be provided. #MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Ireland’s Oldest and Largest Medieval Book Shrine Goes on Public View for the First Time 📜 www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/loug...

This #FrescoFriday we’re in awe of the deep blue of this fresco from Pompeii. It depicts Mars, the god of war. He stands on a plinth adding a sculptural feel and is surrounded by bushes, trees, birds, and a rich blue sky that might be about to turn from twilight to night. #AncientBluesky🏺

Vol. 88 is out! It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/31

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55015 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Monday 30 June, #WCCWiki online meetup & editing session, 12.00-14.00 GMT+1, please do join us! us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385 We'll be editing together to improve the gendered rep of classicists (broadly conceived) on #Wikipedia. We can tell you about #WCCWiki & provide training to start editing

Righto, gonna recreate some of my most viral twitter threads here for posterity. First up: For a few decades in the first century CE, the Roman Empire was absolutely flooded with weird sex-coins and we're still not 100% why.

Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History University of Bristol - Department of History (Historical Studies) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

A Pictish stone found at Inchyra House in 1945, now housed in the lovely new Perth Museum. @stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social #perthhire #pict

Call for Papers! Peregrinations of Plenipotentiaries, Pilgrims, Peddlers, Pedagogues, Poets, and Painters: Literary Exchanges between Ottoman Anatolia and Inner Asia for a two-day workshop held in the University of Oxford, 16-17 April 2026.

A treasure trove of new books to read during Pride Month - with a shout-out to @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES - a fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Interested in annotated manuscripts of Orosius? the monastery of Moissac? tentative connections between southern France and Brittany? Then this article might be for you academic.oup.com/bics/advance...

Fragmentary wall painting from Ostia Antica depicting a court scene. Dating to the first half of the 3rd century AD, the fresco is part of the collections at the Ostia Antica site museum. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #OstiaAntica #Roman

Relief depicting three spirits wearing hooded cloaks (genii cucullati) from a building that formed part of the vicus at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. The relief is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library was founded in 1903. Today it's published by Manchester University Press. From the Spring 2025 issue (published in July), it will be Open Access and available for free to read. Find the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library on manchesterhive.com.

#cfp Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series, 2025-26 Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) invites proposals for its upcoming series of monthly seminars on the histories of women, gender, and sexuality across the Americas. Deadline: 1st August

It was an honour & a lovely excuse to talk about Orosius's Historiae at Cambridge as part of the Betty Behrans Seminar on historiography. Many thanks to Davide Caddedu for his really warm hospitality. Pictured here with Prof. Erika Hagelberg, who pioneered extracting DNA from ancient bones

Petition to save Bangor University's Archives and Special Collections www.change.org/p/save-your-...

A permanent job here at Southampton in Palaeolithic Archaeology and/or Palaeoanthropology Please share widely! jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

#RomanSiteSaturday - The Arch of Germanicus in Mediolanum Santonum (Saintes, France), a Roman arch dedicated in AD 18/19 to the emperor Tiberius, his son Drusus Julius Caesar, and his adoptive son Germanicus, who was born #onthisday in 15 BC.

Friday night news drop: it got announced at tonight's NAPS business meeting---I will be taking over as the next editor of the Journal of Early Christian Studies On the hunt for your best work on any aspect of early Christianity (100-700CE)! www.press.jhu.edu/journals/jou...

📢Darlith O’Donnell 2025 O’Donnell Lecture 🗓05/06/25 🕔5.00pm 📍@LLGCymru & Zoom 🗣Ann Parry Owen ‘Geiriadur i gadw'r iaith yn dragywydd: Thomas Wiliems (1545/6͏–c.1622) a geiriadur hanesyddol cyntaf y Gymraeg’ 🎧Welsh language lecture with translation. @collen105.bsky.social @geiriadur.bsky.social