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.
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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
Two metal objects on a black background: a large silver triangular plaque with a gold Chi-Rho symbol at the top, and a smaller round gold medallion with a Chi-Rho symbol beside it.
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
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#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...
I would guess so.
Gallarus Oratory, a drystone church with a corbelled roof on the Dingle Peninsula County Kerry, Ireland.
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
The publicly-available stats for Sept ‘25 show other universities have taken in enormous first year History cohorts. My institution isn’t one of those btw.
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
Ísl. en + ensk. than?
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!
Title: Change lane to escape the global energy crisis. Car - £108 per week and rising fast. (Source: Average weekly cost of car ownership (IPPR, 2025)). Bus - £20 per week (Contactless card weekly cap for National Express West Midlands). Walking and cycling - Free. Fewer short car trips also leads to less congestion, more reliable public transport, quicker journey times for all.
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.
