Have just read on the BBC that "the UK's first 'super-university', stretching across an entire region" is to be creaed by merging the universities of Kent and Greenwich, and I'm thinking it's a shame they've never heard of the University of the Highlands and Islands.

Really excited with support from @thinkuhi.bsky.social to be recruiting Faculty Interns for 25-26, who will advance the student voice in quality in our subject areas and work with wonderful staff including @davidworthington.bsky.social. This and other current posts at: hisa.uhi.ac.uk/about/workfo...

James Fraser or Mary, Queen of Scots? The choice is yours on this shelf in Waterstone's, Inverness.

Researching & Writing Highland Lives 17 May, Waterstones Inverness – free Historians Jennifer Morag Henderson & @davidworthington.bsky.social, chaired by @shonamaclean.bsky.social, will discuss researching & writing about the history of the Highlands & its people www.waterstones.com/events/telli...

Sometimes I forget how much I love the C17th and how I feel sorry for people who study history and don't know it's the BEST century. Currently reading for an event at Waterstones Inverness on 17th May with @davidworthington.bsky.social and Jennifer Morag Henderson (Daughters of the North).

Nice to see this poster in the window of Waterstones Inverness, advertising an upcoming event (17 May) with Jennifer Henderson and myself, chaired by @shonamaclean.bsky.social. It will focus on approaches to researching and writing Highland lives, with a strong focus on #EarlyModern themes.

Spent an inspiring, enjoyable and, at turns, moving half hour chatting to Prof James Hunter and Dr Karen Cullen today in prep for this. First time the three of us have talked together in almost fifteen years! Hard to convey just how vital those two were to the early years of @uhihistory.bsky.social

Post Doc! "Materialising the Scots in Northern Europe c.1500-1750: Mobilities, Communities and Materiel Culture" Focus on the Netherlands, Scandinavia or Poland www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa... #Skystorians 🗃

This is something to celebrate: the Centre for History is an innovative and creative department whose important work researching and teaching history with and in communities across the Highlands and Islands should be a model for institutions across the country.

Book post is best. Home from work to find the paperback of @davidworthington.bsky.social ‘s fine book waiting for me. That’s school holiday reading sorted.

We are so excited to team up with @insuhi.bsky.social, @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social, HTC & @thinkuhi.bsky.social Literature, & be part of the new MLitt programme, Early Modern European Studies (EMES)! Enrolments for Sept 2025 and Jan 2026 will open shortly, so visit bit.ly/3EUjymB for more info!

The team behind the award-winning Uist Virtual Archaeology Project have been awarded funding for a new three-year digital heritage interpretation project in the Outer Hebrides. #archaeology #ThinkUHI archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/12/u...

Meet our EARTH Scholars 🌎 In Spring 2025, 10 researchers from around the world will collaborate with 10 Scotland-based scholars, academics & partners to address #EnvHum & #ClimateEmergency issues in innovative ways 🍃 Learn more about the #EARTH2025 cohort 🔗 sgsah.ac.uk/prospective/...

There’s a distinct UHI Archaeology Institute flavour to the new issue of Archaeology Scotland Magazine with three articles from students and lecturers. archaeologyorkney.com/2025/02/07/a... #archaeology #ThinkUHI #UHIResearch

Dr Andrew Lind & Dr Andrew Jennings @thinkuhi.bsky.social in #Prague to discuss HerInDep project. Depopulation in European periphery regions & how affects #culture & #heritage See blog bit.ly/3Q88PqQ

Find out more about 2 of our brilliant PGRs, as Dr Iain Robertson reflects on his latest trip to the Western Isles to visit Mhairi Ferrier & Jo MacDonald. Their research projects are funded by @sgsah.bsky.social & we are working together with some amazing partners. For full story ➡️ bit.ly/40L3Xy3

Dr Paul Malgrati, @thinkuhi.bsky.social INS Lecturer, BBC Radio 4 Loose Ends talks about his research and book on Robert Burns's political legacy.... Available on BBC Sounds Catch Up... bit.ly/4gdHWMU

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 REMRA is hosting its 1st interdisciplinary conference on Northern Narratives! To register your interest, please contact the conference team ([email protected]) by 21 Feb 2025. For info, see below ⬇️ or visit bit.ly/4arhSwx @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @thinkuhi.bsky.social

This is cool - we are part funding an excavation in Orkney of a large Atlantic Roundhouse (broch) and associated structures from various phases through the Iron Age and Norse period. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2481074...

CfP: This June @thinkuhi.bsky.social will be hosting the first REMRA online conference: Northern Narratives: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Early Modern Period in the North Atlantic and Baltic. Register your interest by 21 Feb.

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online. DL for proposals 15 Jan. For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W

In 1653, Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty envisaged a new, tertiary, Highland university embracing "all sciences, liberal disciplines, arts active and factive, mechanick trades, and whatever concernes either vertue or learning, practical or theoretick". 372 years on... archive.org/details/work...

Very much enjoyed chairing our @thinkuhi.bsky.social meeting with @sgsah.bsky.social from Inverness today. Thanks to @clairesquires.bsky.social, @dranindyar.bsky.social, Monica Callaghan and all colleagues who participated, especially our outstanding SGSAH-funded PGR students.

Dornoch Beach. No @uhihistory.bsky.social team sledging down this hill on this occasion, @karlykehoe.bsky.social

Hello. I've arrived belatedly in/on Bluesky. Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues here.