It’s remarkable in this day and age to hear a politician anywhere say the following: “Support for a diverse, rigorous and accessible body of historical scholarship should be a much greater priority for democratic governments even at a time of stretched budgets.“

Switzerland is testing a simple idea: lay removable solar panels between train tracks to generate power from space that normally sits unused. A pilot in Buttes has installed 48 panels over 100 metres, producing about 16,000 kWh a year while trains keep running. SNCF buff.ly/xXCnpg6 #ShareGoodNewsToo

This is why I object to the use of AI for mundane tasks. The planet can’t cope with it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Job Opportunity! Teaching Associate in Medieval History University of Sheffield - School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL054/t...

Today the Norwegian Kulturhistorisk museum assumed responsibility for further investigation of the location of the incredible Mørstad hoard - no fewer than 3841 silver coins have now been found! 🇳🇴 All these photos are theirs, including the rare triquetra penny of Harald Hardrada.

France passed a law in 2022 requiring car parks to install #solar. * Applies if ≥80 spaces * Must cover at least 50% of area * Exemptions (grid constraints, heritage sites) We did it with disabled spaces why not solar? There are obstacles but none are strong enough to justify not doing it at all!

Two weeks to go!

Land rises and pressure continues to increase at #Svartsengi on #Iceland's #Reykjanes Peninsula: while #magma continues to accumulate the most likely scenario remains that a magma intrusion will propagate, which could lead to a #volcanic eruption.

📰 Pre-Viking-Age ship burial in Norway is one of the oldest in Scandinavia, providing a chronological bridge between earlier English ship burials, such as Sutton Hoo, and later Viking ones 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/04/a...

Just under a month now!

Today we also open the call for applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

This conference we are supporting in Birmingham in June has an amazing mix of 40 panels - a veritable Choose your Own Adventure through modern British studies. It’s also the inaugural event of the Association of Modern British Studies! Great stuff here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Having to empty the house of my former partner who died in late 2024. Lots of amazing books, journals free to rehome but also rare books for sale including ‘Monumenta Palaeographica Vindobonensia’ vols 1 and 2. Please comment on this post if interested #booksky #palaeography

It’s a spring special, all about the return of the migratory kría, the arctic tern.

I'm delighted to be talking at the 2026 Midlands Viking Symposium on 15 May - sign up link here!

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

👉 Deadline approaching! Funded PhD position in The Netherlands on medieval representations of disability

It's a month until the 2026 Midland Viking Symposium on 15 May. Sign up here! This year it's free, it's online and it's on a Friday. Please share. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sagas-the-...

When you’re a pilot and it’s your last day at work before you retire….

But go on, you were saying that universities don't need to teach medieval history...

“See Birmingham’s charming suburbs by ‘bus”. 100 yrs on and this bus route still has the same no. and follows roughly the same route.

In eastern #Iceland, #drivers encountered serious obstacles yesterday: a herd of #reindeer, an #avalanche and a #rockfall. Parents have for years warned the road authorities about dangerous sections on the route to #schools in #Breiðdalsvík and #Stöðvarfjörður.

Easter eggs are rarely linked to Vikings, yet finds from Viking-age might surprise us. In Sweden, thin glass “resurrection eggs” made in Kyiv reveal long‑distance exchange and cultural contact across Europe. Fact and image courtesy: Statens historiska museer.

Close to at one major-ish (for Norfolk) Roman road and two miles from the Anglo-Saxon cathedral at North Elmham.

Incredible example of 9th century Christian art found on the Calf of Man #medievalsjy

For Good Friday let's go back to the time of early Christianity: a silver plaque and a gold disc from the Water Newton hoard carrying Chi (X) and Rho (P), the first two greek letters of Christ's name, a symbol frequently used by early Christians. The hoard...🧵1/2 🏺

#Sculpture, ‘Red Queen of Maya.’ Surrounded by treasure & covered in blood red dust, the Red Queen was discovered in a seventh-century Maya tomb, but her true identity remains unknown, #Palenque #Mexico #art

History without historians is doomed to fail. With an interdisciplinary team of scholars we show how the purported link between late Roman conflicts and drought has been misunderstood. We also outline a path forward in the use of sources in paleoclimatic research. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Teaching Fellow in Theology & Religion University of Birmingham - School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion / College of Arts and Law #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB067/t...

In today's edition of our free #MonumentMonday we take a trip to the beautiful Dingle Peninsula to visit Gallarus Oratory. A place once described by Seamus Heaney as a: 'core of old dark, walled up with stone...' #Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺 #WildAtlanticWay #Travel

This is the situation we find ourselves in

A C10th runestone from Tryggevælde, Denmark 🪨 Ragnhild, Ulf's sister, placed this stone and made this mound, and this ship(-setting), in memory of her husband Gunulf, a clamorous man, Nærve's son. Few will now be born better than him. My 📷 Nationalmuseet

It appears that the club have lied to the fans. Mark Ashton; get out of our club. #ITFC

Haaland has gone up in my estimation although it looks like his family had some influence too!

Sometimes a Ð can actually be D. Old Norse Wordle 26-03-22 ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 onp.ku.dk/z2

With the price of fuel going up by the week, change lanes to avoid the impact. Bus tickets are capped at £20 a week. Walking and cycling short trips is free. Fewer short car trips also means less congestion, more reliable public transport, safer and better roads, cleaner air, and healthier people.

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

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This morning, we're sharing this lovely reconstruction of the ring fort at Rough Fort, near Limavady, NI. Ring forts are found across Ireland, built during the 7th-9th centuries as homesteads for cattle farmers 🎨Philip Armstrong #MedievalMarch #StPatricksDay www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/northe...

I’m delighted to see ‘The Caliph and the Falcons’ take to the skies at Early Medieval Europe! I had a blast writing this with @medivalist.bsky.social as we followed the extraordinary journey of falcons from Scandinavia all the way to Baghdad. #medievalsky onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How Birmingham's torrid love affair with high-rise ended in tears. My concluding post looks at how and why the city's obsession with high-rise housing came to fail: municipaldreams.substack.com/p/post-war-h...

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

Calling #Skystorians #MedievalSky the 49th Latin and Palaeography Summer School (formerly the Keele summer school) is open for bookings. 27-31 July in Birmingham. 👇 palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Did you know our archive has over a hundred articles and podcasts related to women's history? Happy Women's History Month!

Hadn’t done this for ages until yesterday but am on a roll now. Old Norse Wordle 26-03-12 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 onp.ku.dk/z2

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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

This book will be excellent. But if you really love Mercia I’d recommend coming to study History in the heart of Mercia, at the University of Birmingham!

New discovery: A large burial ground dating from the Early Imperial Age to Late Antiquity has been uncovered in Rome’s Ostiense Necropolis during pre-construction works. cultura.gov.it/comunicato/2...

#FindsFriday Time for trading; this week's trinket is a lead alloy weight used in the mixed coin / bullion economies of ninth-century viking army camps BH-1DA0A5 (finds.org.uk/database/art...)