A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!

Happy Glyndŵr Day! It was 625 years ago to this day – 16 September 1400 – that Owain Glyndŵr was proclaimed Prince of Wales and started the rebellion which has captured the imagination of so many people down the centuries

The Futures Festival of Discovery is coming to Bristol! This is a chance for all the family to come along and experience research like never before Tickets are free and can be booked here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1585438542... #MedievalStudies #medievalbluesky #mappingthemarch #Skystorian #education

This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.

Exciting Digital Humanities Opportunity for Early Career Researchers! Don’t miss this chance to enhance your digital research toolkit, explore new methodologies, and boost your academic career. Please find further details below! #MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #medievalbluesky #Skystorians

I've imported Royal Commission data (from @jrdollery.bsky.social and @scottlloyd.bsky.social) into @mappingthemarch.bsky.social for @latemedievalist.bsky.social and @mattlampitt.bsky.social ) and I'm becoming slightly obsessed with the fragmentation of Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire!

Tomorrow is the deadline for registering for this year’s Harlaxton, on the theme of ‘The Medieval City’. Join us!!! Register here: harlaxtonmedievalsymposium.org 📚 #medievalsky #skystorians

The Snodhill Castle Preservation Trust is offering a research opportunity: Download the full brief here www.snodhillcastle.org/documentary-... Please submit proposals in PDF format to Project Lead Katherine Findlay at [email protected] by 11:59pm on Monday 11th August 2025.

We’re pleased to announce that our database has reached 2,000 person entries! 🎉 #MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #ResearchMilestone #medievalbluesky #medieval #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

It was great to hear @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social’s talk last night for our @mappingthemarch.bsky.social seminar series. Really interesting discussion afterwards on if it is possible to compare the different Marches (particularly the Scottish, Irish, and Welsh) in the late Middle Ages. #medievalsky

Don't forget to email us at [email protected] for the link to this seminar today at 16:00 BST @bristolcms.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

Next week (11 June, 7.30pm), our PDRA @mattlampitt.bsky.social will be talking to the Mortimer History Society Online Seminar about his new book - join us there!(mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/onli...) #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

All welcome to join! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians #MedievalSky

Delighted to share this article in PRj vol 23, 'Creating a Database for the Medieval March of Wales', @mappingthemarch.bsky.social edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader...

All welcome to join! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians #MedievalSky

Playing with importing @jrdollery.bsky.social and @scottlloyd.bsky.social 's Historical Boundaries of Wales data in MOWLIT (@mappingthemarch.bsky.social) and wondering if Denbighshire officials lost a bet to Caernarfonshire officials ...

Happy Friday Everyone! We've been working hard to recreate the historical townships of Wales from various historical sources and map. The pre-1840 Township boundaries for Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire & Radnorshire are now available on the Historical Boundaries of Wales website!!!

Thrilled to see that this is now available online (for free)! academic.oup.com/book/59910 @mappingthemarch.bsky.social

We loved attending the French of the Celtic Worlds conference in Bristol last week! Huge congratulations to Bristol CMS members Dr Luciana Cordo Russo and Dr Matt Lampitt for their hard work in putting this together, and to Abi Freeman for her invaluable support! #medievalsky

I'm the Research Software Engineer on the @mappingthemarch.bsky.social project. I'm currently experimenting with integrating @jrdollery.bsky.social 's GIS data, starting with the historic parishes of Wales. I thought I'd messed up something with the parish of Aber ...

For those who missed our seminar with Professor Jackson Armstrong about The Surnames and other expressions of kin solidarity in the Anglo-Scottish Marches before 1498, you can watch the session on our YouTube channel here #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians #MedievalSky

There's still time to get your tickets for Professor Helen Fulton's lecture this Friday (14th March)! Helen will be discussing 'Gentry Families and their Poets in Late-Medieval Brecon', and the lecture will take place in-person and online. We can't wait! #medievalsky

All welcome to join! @profkdlilley.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians #MedievalSky

Just a reminder that the @mappingthemarch.bsky.social project have a fascinating seminar this afternoon. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolantharch.bsky.social

‘Gentry Families and their Poets in Late-Medieval Brecon’ The Brecknock Society’s annual Sir John Lloyd lecture will be given by Professor Helen Fulton at Theatr Brycheiniog on Friday 14th March at 7pm. In person tickets are free but must be booked through the link below:

Just a reminder that registration is open for The French of the Celtic Worlds Conference (9-11th April)! This promises to be a really brilliant conference, with a fantastic range of speakers and activities. Definitely not to be missed! Find out more at: blog.mowlit.ac.uk/french-of-th...

Reminder that our seminar 'The Surnames and other expressions of kin solidarity in the Anglo-Scottish Marches before 1498' by Professor Jackson Armstrong from @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social is happening on Monday 17 February at 16:00 (all welcome!) @bristoluni.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

❗Upcoming seminar presented by Professor Jackson Armstrong entitled 'The Surnames and other expressions of kin solidarity in the Anglo-Scottish Marches before 1498.' (Monday 17 February, 4pm. University of Bristol.)❗ #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch

Rachael (@latemedievalist.bsky.social) had a nice view of the neo-Gothic exterior of John Rylands Library last week when she was examining a manorial roll from Wigmore. Not all manuscript reading rooms have such a view...!

Our IT lead Mike Jones (@mikej1971.bsky.social) has been hard at work developing a bespoke data-entry system which is now at final testing stage. We'll be using this to capture all our data moving forwards.

A couple of cheeky faces in hiding in the heading of the accounts of Usk and Caerleon. BL Add. Ch. 44706 #medievalmanuscript #mappingthemarch #manuscript

Wonderful to hear about all the good things that the @mappingthemarch.bsky.social team are up to at a project Advisory Board meeting this afternoon. Really exciting stuff. Check out the project website here: mappingwelshmarches.ac.uk/about/

Out of the office today in sunny Bristol at the Engineers House with the @mappingthemarch.bsky.social @latemedievalist.bsky.social team for a workshop and our Advisory Board meeting. Very nice location for it.

Our database continues to grow! Check our website for monthly updates on our progress tracker, blog posts, and more! blog.mowlit.ac.uk #MappingMonday #MedievalMonday #MappingTheMarch #skytorians #medieval

For those who missed our seminar with Dr Andy Seaman about 'A Hippo in the March' last week, you can watch the session on our YouTube channel here: #medieval #mapping #archaeology #mappingthemarch

A first for me - visiting Special Collections to view 19th c material instead of medieval. Mostly for the map of the two Marcher lordships for @mappingthemarch.bsky.social! But every other page of the book was left blank for ‘Manuscript Notes’ and that’s what I’d like in all my books from now on…

Great to hear Andy Seaman's paper on Breiddin Hill at the 'Mapping the March' seminar on Monday. Andy revealed a fascinating find from the site - an early medieval ornament made of copper alloy, in the shape of a small hippo. Evidence of an early interest in African culture?

This week Rachael (@latemedievalist.bsky.social) has been examining accounts from Bromfield and Yale, plotting the locations within the lordship that men and women were active in. Our database is growing quickly…plus it is satisfying to unroll these accounts! #medievalmapping #manuscripts

The 2024/2025 'Mapping the March' seminar series is due to commence this month! Please find details below about our November seminar presented by Dr Andy Seaman entitled ‘A Hippo in the March: An Early Medieval Centre on the Breiddin Hill and its Context in a Frontier Landscape’.

This week we hit a database milestone of 1000 Person_place connections!🙌 Keep an eye on our monthly tracker to follow our data progress. blog.mowlit.ac.uk #MedievalMonday #MappingMonday

🕷️Happy Halloween from the 'Mapping the March' Team! 🪦 🎃Calan Gaeaf Hapus oddi wrth dîm 'Mapio'r Mers'! 🐈‍⬛

Valle Crucis Abbey (Abaty Glyn y Groes) was one of the foremost Cistercian abbeys in the March of Wales. It was an important centre for producing vernacular manuscripts, including the Black Book of Basingwerk (NLW 7006D) one of the manuscripts in our Mapping the March database.

We've been busy mapping the historic parish boundaries of Gloucestershire. The Severn is our unofficial boundary marker for now and so we will head north from here into Herefordshire! #mapmonday

We’ve received some wonderful proposals for our ‘French of the Celtic Worlds’ conference, but we have room for more! ⚠️The CFP is now extended until 1 November. We’d love to read your abstract!⚠️ #celtic #medieval #conference #callforpapers #mapping #linguistics #french

Interested to know how many data entries we've logged this month?🤔 Head to our homepage where you can keep up to date with our project progress! mowlit.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

🚨Conference alert! 🚨‘The French of the Celtic Worlds’ is a joint venture between 'Mapping the March' and Luciana Cordo Russo's Charlemagne in Wales project. Find further event and submission details below👇 And please do share this post! #medieval #french #celtic #callforpapers

We have published an article in the EU Dissemination PRj Article Volume 20 (June, 2024) #mappingthemarch #medieval #mapping #maps #history #article Click the link below to read about the project and what we have recently been up to:

The Hanged Man – Murder, Mystery or Miracle? A walking tour through Medieval Swansea led by Lighthouse Theatre Ltd 👣🔍 Please feel free to share this event to anyone in or around Swansea who may be interested! ⬇️Click the link below to book your tickets⬇️ eventbrite.com/e/the-hanged...

This is a reminder that our 'Mapping the March': Spring 2024 Seminar Series is holding its second session with Dr Lindy Brady on Monday the 24th of June #medieval #mapping #MappingtheMarch

We’re launching free tickets for a murder mystery walking tour through medieval Swansea led by Lighthouse Theatre: The Hanged Man – Murder, Mystery or Miracle? Tickets are limited so make sure to book early! eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hanged...