Senior Professor School of Celtic Studies position now open for applications. More information can be found on www.dias.ie/senior-profe... #DIASdiscovers

We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR. Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Applications open for a Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures @queenscollegeox.bsky.social to work with the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month series is back for another year! Our January 2025 entry is @ria.ie MS 23 F 19, containing an original Irish treatise on anatomy, an Irish version of the Trotula texts on women’s medicine & much more👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Join us on Friday 7 February for the first Society lecture of 2025: 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World', with Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) bit.ly/4gLj28g. Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance #Skystorians #medieval

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

A very exciting SSNS Seminar coming up this Thursday (16 Jan, 7pm GMT), as Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm will be discussing ‘Frisia and the Viking Age‘. Online, free, and open to all! Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...

📣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

If you are an early career historian, you really should be following @historylabplus.bsky.social

Our International Max Planck Research School is offering two PhD fellowships, funded by @maxplanck.de & hosted at @mpi-nl.bsky.social, to carry out innovative research projects on language & genetics, & on multimodal language. Application portal closes 6th Jan 2025! 🧪 www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

Happy New Year! May there be hope and light.

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Frohe Weihnachten! I know it is hard to feel festive this year, but let's keep up the hope. I hope you are all with people who love you.

This time of year can be a bit much - so here is a non-exhaustive list of some UK numbers that might help a bit. Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 CALM - 5pm-midnight 0800 58 58 58 Plus bonus restful cat photo.

A brief dose of #runes for the holiday season – and what better choice than the fantastic Dynna stone from Gran in Hadeland, from around the mid-eleventh century. #runology

Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others. Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2

My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!

As promised... here's our first festive instalment from the Saga of the Earl's of #Orkney (aka Orkneyinga #saga)... 'The Host with the most'! #Christmas blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

Dear all, the German government has not “collapsed”. That happened a month ago. Today’s no confidence vote was an entirely usual procedure in keeping with our constitition. The outcome was clear, as were the elections in February. Enough drama in the world without construing it.

Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care: 1. I have just downloaded your app. 2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account! 3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2

The funeral details for Raghnall O’Floinn are available here - such a huge loss. A wonderful person and scholar - deepest sympathies to his family and friends - rip.ie/death-notice...

Call for NECRON Board Members The Network of Early Career Researchers in Old Norse is looking for a new board for 2025-2027. If you are a PhD/postdoc/ECR interested in joining the board, contact us by January 15th with a short bio & let us know why you're interested in running NECRON. 1/5

I think I am losing the battle against ' I can definitely finish this stuff before Christmas so I can have a clear start in 2025'.

@uonenglish.bsky.social Congratulations to all the MA students who graduated today. Whether you could attend in person or watch it online: it was a joy to have you here. I am wishing you the very best for your future. If you are around say hello.

Lovely to see our Viking & Early Medieval English MAs graduate today. I did not take a picture, but I cheered. @moufridji.bsky.social

This afternoon I will listen to @judithjesch.bsky.social on ' Revenge @ Christmas' which is based on her work on Orkneyinga saga and the @ragnasislands.bsky.social project. Looking forward to it!

The Middle Ages were a plunge into the superstitious after the rational culture of Antiquity! Romans: So hear me out, have you tried asking chickens what to do?

This explains a lot!!!!

The excellent Middle Ages in the Modern World conference is back next year, and we're taking a strand on Medievalist Games! We've got a particular focus on 'Temporalities'. Call for Papers deadline 10 January for event 24-26 June at Kings College London. middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

And if you can't make it live, register anyway and you'll receive the recording link! We'll also be talking about medieval options on our online MA English #medievalsky

📢Job alert! Postdoc (History) on Norse links with North America at the Arctic Centre of @unigroningen.bsky.social - part of the CONTACT ERC project (1.0 FTE, 12 months with expected 1.5 year extension, deadline 31 December) www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

If you are interested in Old English, Old Norse and Viking Studies at MA level, please come and join us tomorrow at 7pm GMT for a virtual information event. More here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/pros...

#MedievalSky people, listen up: here is a great opportunity to do a postdoc on sainthood with the Warsaw team!

Perfect day: making Stollen, writing Christmas cards and listening to Händel's Messiah. I love the run up to Christmas. Wishing you all a perfect Sunday.

It's going to be Stollen-making-day tomorrow. I am baking for our annual bakesale for Upendo junior school which is run by the @uonenglish.bsky.social alumnus Dr Masibo Lumala. Please come and support (lots of lovely cakes in the School office).

There's also one on glacial archaeology: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... 🏺

Some of the amazing early medieval gold thread recovered by our Durham University/ DigVentures excavations at Lindisfarne (Holy Island)

What does guest-blogger @em-ehx.bsky.social make of the 'carrot-shaped' #Orkney island place-name #Egilsay?! Find out in our latest blog! shorturl.at/UnbgU

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I love all those starter packs. Thank you to the people who take the time yo compile them.

Severed my ties with the other place.

Haven't covered kingship yet on the podcast (being contrary, started w/queens!), but have a listen to HistoryHit's @mattlewishistory.bsky.social excellent episode on golden boy of Meath, Flann Sinna, & 'high kings', with the brilliant Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (ASNC) open.spotify.com/episode/67YT...

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

English: Shared Futures UK’s largest English Studies conference…creative writing,language,linguistics & literature - academics, teachers, policy-makers…celebrate strengths,tackle shared challenges,imagine a new future for English Studies across sectors & beyond! www.englishsharedfutures.org/cfp

From the FT the other day. I had no idea.

To celebrate Columbanus's feast day (Nov 23rd, 615), we chat to expert Dr Alexander O'Hara about this charismatic handsome aristocratic learned monastic founder! A visionary who preached European unity centuries ahead of his time, but was he zero craic? Find out now! open.spotify.com/episode/6TcC...

Look at this pretty thing in the Uppsala snow. U 489, "Gullaug(?) had the bridge made for the spirit of Gillaug, her daughter, and whom Ulfr owned (i.e. was married to). Œpir carved." Women erecting runestones isn't unheard of, but it's extra interesting that it's a woman in memory of her daughter.