Interesting work: "Through twenty-four semi-structured interviews & questionnaires w/ private collectors & institutional representatives the study traces how these artefacts have circulated globally & acquired new meanings beyond their archaeological contexts." 👍 Open access: tinyurl.com/32z344fk

Help ma boab! 17th-century tombstone, Old Logie Kirk, Scotland

Here’s a wee introduction to our new video aimed at first-time voters on the #IsleofMan. youtu.be/YTt7KP2IMqk The link to the video itself is in the comments 👇 With @edge-law.bsky.social

If you’re thinking about standing for election to the House of Keys this year on the #isleofman, check this out: youtu.be/EG1dDCmhr-s?.... The link to the talk being discussed is in the comments 👇

If you know anyone who'll be voting for the first time in this year's #isleofman General Election, @edge-law.bsky.social and I have created a short video exploring why young people should vote. youtu.be/vEGMca-y5Q0

👀 Excellent, funded PhD ... someone's going to be busy! "...combining archaeological excavation of targeted heritage features, palaeoecological studies to establish long-term ecological heritage & investigating intangible heritage of folk customs & traditions [+] Advanced digital visualisation..."

Explore #Kernewek with the BBC’s new Learn Cornish podcast. Join Danni Diston and Kernow King, alongside guests including #Cornwall Council’s Cornish language officer Sarah Buck, as they celebrate #Cornish language, culture and history. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Well worth googling 'David Attenborough' today... Happy 100 Sir! 🎉🎉

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

On this day in 1851, the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was opened by Queen Victoria. So let's talk about the revolutionary toilets in the building, because we love talking about lavs and how people peed in the past...

👀 7.00PM Wed 06 May 2026 ...

👋 Thinking of standing for MHK in September's #IsleofMan election? Join us on Wednesday (in person or online) to find out what being an MHK involves and to get some tips about running for election.

👋Calling all #IsleofMan first-time voters! Join us this Wednesday at 3:30pm to find out what they need to know about voting in an Isle of Man election. We’ll cover what MHKs do, why young people should vote, how to pick who to vote for, and what happens at the polling station.

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Famous last words, but @cmackie.bsky.social and I seem to have both of these events sorted - written, tech side sorted, special guests arranged ... Just need to do them!

Thinking about standing for the House of Keys in September’s General Election? Want to find out more about it? Join us on Wednesday 22 April at 6:30pm (in person or online) to find out what being an MHK involves and get some tips about running for election. Details👇and at edgelawblog.com

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

There’s an event for first-time voters at Ballakermeen Studio Theatre at 3:30pm on Wednesday 22 April. We’ll be discussing why young people should vote, and how the process works. Attend in person or online! #isleofman #manxelection

I never thought I’d see an early modern woodcut of women prophets on a ‘girls’ night out’ card.

A one-day conference on Exeter's buildings coming up soon ...

#ICYMI, the History of Parliament is excited to be hosting an 8-week internship for postgraduate-level researchers this summer, working with the House of Lords 1640-60 section. Applications are open now! Follow the link below for more details on the role and how to apply:

🚨Job klaxon 🚨 Come and be my colleague at York! We're looking for an Associate Lecturer in Modern British History and Public History. Two year post - apply by 19 March. 🗃️ More details here www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO971/a...

I'm really looking forward to talking folklore at this online event on 2 April. I've found an understanding of folk tradition hugely enriches the study of ancient buildings because it informs us about how people thought about them. Bookings here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-folklo...

📣 Applications open! Women’s History Scotland Research Bursary Up to £500 is available for Masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians researching women’s and gender history 🗓 Deadline 31 May 2026 Details on how to apply 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

BBC Radio 4’s The Long View - Cottingley Fairies mentioned! 🧚 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…#CottingleyTruthere#FrancesWasRighth#TheFifthPhotoIsRealal https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002s4cv

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

Archaeology often challenges assumptions about listed buildings. This Leicestershire house was thought to be 17th century until a survey revealed evidence that it was mediaeval. On 26 Feb I'll be speaking online about Reinterpreting Listed Buildings: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reinterpre...

Kindle edition currently 99p. www.amazon.co.uk/Anglo-Saxons...

I’m sharing this in recognition of Gladys Mae West’s work on GPS because it’s been a transformational technology for archaeology and that lady deserves to be lauded.

I love it when a plan comes together. Together with @cmackie.bsky.social in April I will be running two on-Island public facing events in the run up to the 2026 General Election - one aimed at voters aged 16-18, and one aimed at people considering standing for the Keys.

I'm absolutely delighted to share that I have just been appointed Project Officer for Lincolnshire County Council's new Mud and Stud project. Really looking forward to getting stuck into the first proper county-wide study of its indigenous building technique!

This is thought to be the earliest photograph of a snowman in the world ⛄ ❄ It was taken at Penllergare by Mary Dillwyn in c.1853 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Mary is thought to be one of the earliest female photographers in the world 📷 museum.wales/articles/972... #Wales #History

Historic England is seeking memories and stories of listed pubs. Wakefield has a number of listed pubs, for instance the Elephant and Castle on Westgate, or the Black Swan on Silver Street. Can you help? More information: www.wakefieldhistoricalsociety.org.uk/historic-eng...

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

This is wonderful news! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research? We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections. Find out more: collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/

Now this is how to start a history book. A Wiltshire story teller 1890s. "There were a time, 'tweren't in my time, neither in your time, nit (nor yet) in anybody else's time; 'twere when magpies builded in old men's beards and turkey-cocks chewed bacca”.

An interesting paper of an under researched topic which invites further discussion. It brought to mind family stories of a Grandmother who worked in a steel foundry during WW2. While that wasn't exceptional but her refusal to leave at the end of the war was & more so, the management's capitulation!

Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩‍🔬 🧪 Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent. Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive

We had a feeling the press would love the first findings from our survey - and we’ve been getting some wonderful coverage! Take a look at the press page on our website to see how it’s been reported so far.

A snippet of folklore for #Halloween 🎃 If you sit on a church porch at midnight on Halloween, you will see a procession of all the people who are destined to die in the parish during the next year 💀 #Wales #History

Published today: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4nwj9Y2 Gareth's book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series @uolpress.bsky.social. Available Open Access and in paperback print #Skystorians 1/2

The #ScottishGaelic Texts Society Annual #CannaLecture will take place at the University of Edinburgh on 21 November 2025, delivered by Dr Martin Macgregor. llc.ed.ac.uk/celtic-scott...

Absolutely delighted to see this paper published and particularly pleased that it's open access! 'Environmental patriarchy in a small democracy: Women politicians’ experiences of patriarchy in Manx politics' is available here: www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/...

There is a moment at this time of year when the word ‘apricity’ really comes into view. For those who don’t know it, it was recorded only once, in 1623, before slipping out of view. Apricity is the warmth of the sun on a chilly day.

The home of the O'Donovan family is being used as a polling station in Coolmoyne, Co Tipperary. Around 250 people are eligible to vote at the house and after they cast their ballot, they will be treated to a cup of tea, a slice of apple or rhubarb tart, or a scone | More: rte.ie/b/1540324

Folk explanations of place name derivations. Just finished revising a short study of them. Some were serious & others humorous. A favourite: The Shropshire village of Selattyn on the Welsh border was thought to derive from a local schoolmaster who advertised "I sell Latin".

Research by @emvchung.bsky.social one of @camunicampop.bsky.social brilliant PhD students in the Guardian today www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Hybrid 🙏 Looking forward to attending the Intangible Cultural Heritage Scotland Conference next month: tracscotland.org/news-post/ne...