I am surprised and honoured to be elected as a Corresponding Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony - the largest learned society for the Humanities in Northern Germany. I join 160 German and 210 international corresponding members in interdisciplinary exchange! 📚
Recent publication! Dr Jonny Geber, Senior Lecturer in
@edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social at HCA, is co-author. Read, Nature Communications volume 17, Article number: 3040 (2026), edin.ac/4tZvVlD
#Archaeology #Anthropology #Palaeoecology #Edinburgh
@bryonycoombs.bsky.social and I have been making ink @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social historical reconstruction lab. My v. easy 1555 recipe is from Alessio Piemontese’s Secrets - it involves wine, very Italian - and made pretty good ink, even with my Scottish galls. Can’t wait til our workshop!
The head of a fluffy toy unicorn looks up at the Flodden Wall plaque.
Ethelwyn Explores, an occasional series. We took the new School mascot to see the plaque marking the position of the Flodden Wall on Forrest Road, just around the corner from the School.
#wallsonwednesday #wednesdaywalls #history #edinburgh #unicorn
Find out more about Professor @jillburke.bsky.social's 'A history of the body in the Renaissance, edin.ac/4vBleaE
#History #Renaissance #Edinburgh @leverhulme.ac.uk
Art nurtures creativity and innovation, plays an important role in sharing knowledge, and encourages curiosity and dialogue. Today, on #WorldArtDay, we take a look at inspiring research in the arts.
Delighted and honoured to have been elected to be a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh! I’m amongst great company. 🏴
A fluffy toy unicorn wears a navy jumper with the initials HCA in white.
#Nationalunicornday *cough* edin.ac/4e7ykFY
#history #classics #archaeology #edinburgh #edinburghunicorns
Christopher Harding, Senior Lecturer in Asian History, will be on BBC TWO next Tuesday and Wednesday - 14 and 15 April - as part of the new series, 'Great Japanese Railway Journeys' with Michael Portillo. Find out more, edin.ac/41Q8xL9
#History #Japan #Genji #Greatrailwayjourneys #BBC #Edinburgh
Some frivolity for Friday. We now have a mascot. edin.ac/4e7ykFY
#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Friday
Frank Cogliano - Professor of American History - was on BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' this morning, discussing the Spanish-American War, 1898. Listen now at edin.ac/4mgbNJh
#History #Classics #Archaeology #Edinburgh #America #Americanhistory
US viewers: PBS will show this two-part doc on the American Revolution on April 7 & 14. (It will air on BBC later, too.) I acted as a consultant on it (and make a brief on-screen appearance). I met Lucy Worsley and the Stamp Act on the same day last summer.
www.pbs.org/about/about-...
Thoughtful and beautifully-written review of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England in @lrb.co.uk by @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social.
It's surreal to see #earlymodern deponents and workers like Lucretia Harward getting their day in the 21st-century sun! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tomorrow! Join Professor Fiona Edmonds for the 2026 John Bannerman Lecture, 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Hybrid. Tickets (free): edin.ac/49WxGHL #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCa #Edinburgh #JohnBannerman #Freevent
Photograph from the air of a floodplain. Image courtesy of Barry Molloy.
🌦️ This week's ArchSoc/Archaeology Research Seminar will be given by Dr Barry Molloy (UCD) “Did climate change cause Bronze Age societies to collapse ca. 1200 BC? A critical perspective from Central Europe” Thurs 26th March 16:15 📍 Meadows LT #EdinArch #Archaeology @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
Promo image for my talk: Creating a Framework for Creating Rome in Tabletop Roleplaying Game Design
My talk at the History and Game Lab in the @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-a...
Read more about Tsz Ho, and his experience of being supervised across two disciplines at The University of Edinburgh (with us under @aaronwmoore.bsky.social and in @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social),:
llc.ed.ac.uk/news/major-f...
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📅 Join us tomorrow for the CMRS seminar where we welcome @williampurkis.bsky.social (University of Birmingham):
Portals to Holy Places: Relics, Round Churches, and the Reshaping of the Crusading Ideal
5:15pm, LG.11, 40 George Square
All welcome!
Image of a new volume text from press. Text reads: Day 17 of 200: out today on UCL Press the new volume "Critical Heritage and Social Justice" brings together insights and experiences of scholars and practitioners working across heritage, museums, galleries, and cultural institutions to explore how principles of social justice can be embedded within these spaces. Just in time for World Book Day!
Day 17 of 200: @uclpress.bsky.social new volume
"Critical Heritage & Social Justice": insights and experiences of scholars & practitioners working across heritage, museums, galleries, and cultural institutions to explore how principles of social justice can be embedded within these spaces.
#UCL200
One week to go until the 2026 John Bannerman Lecture with Professor Fiona Edmonds on 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Hybrid. Tickets (free): edin.ac/49WxGHL #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCa #Edinburgh #JohnBannerman #Freevent
Tomorrow! Dr Hannah Proctor will give the 2026 International Women's Day Lecture on 'Unconsciousness raising: Feminist burnout and psychoanalysis, 1968-1980'
Tickets (free) edin.ac/4qWyNO4 #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #IWD #IWD2026
Today on #InternationalWomensDay, we celebrate outstanding women whose research spans the disciplines – from mathematical imaging to medieval diets, translations on reproductive health, designing better cities, planetary science, forensic science, and female friendships. media.leverhulme.ac.uk
From the current issue: "Nationcraft and the Origins of Territory: Experiencing Romanía in the Medieval Empire of New Rome"
by Nicholas S M Matheou (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Looking forward to launching this collection by @uvapress.bsky.social at Mount Vernon on April 16.
www.mountvernon.org/plan-your-vi...
It is one week until our 2026 International Women's Day Lecture with Dr Hannah Proctor on 'Unconsciousness raising: Feminist burnout and psychoanalysis, 1968-1980'. Tickets (free) edin.ac/4qWyNO4 #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #IWD #IWD2026
Professor Agarwal has long black hair and wears a pink and white shirt. They stand confidently with a friendly expression.
The logo for the Munro Lectures. Black text on a white background.
Tomorrow! Munro Lecture - 'Necropolitics in the collection: From colonial legacy to antiracist futures' with Professor Sabrina C. Agarwal. edin.ac/4abzb5g #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Colonialism #Anatomy #Anthropology
Today! Hybrid Talk, "Long-term Urban Change at Aphrodisias: New Results from the Place of Palms and Governor’s House" with Prof. Ben Russell (HCA). 17:10-18:30, register: edin.ac/4u5fYLv #Classics #Archaeology #Edinburgh
One week until Professor Sabrina C. Agarwal present's the next Munro Lecture, 'Necropolitics in the collection: From colonial legacy to antiracist futures'. Tickets (free): edin.ac/4abzb5g #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Colonialism #Anatomy #Anthropology
Top Left: Photograph of V.G. Childe c. 1930s, Australia, Public Domain. Top Right: Photograph of Stuart Piggott, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2741252. Bottom: “Stained glass of Dr Robert Munro FRSE in Scottish National Portrait Gallery” By Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=114215413.
TOMORROW's ArchSoc/Archaeology Research Seminar 🕰️ 16:15📍Meadows LT "Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh University until about 1990" by Prof Ian Ralston @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social ahead of our 💯 🎂 year as a department! #EdinArch #archaeology #Edinburgh #prehistory
The 2026 Charles Gordon Mackay Lecture will be given by Professor Angelos Chaniotis on 'Cavafy as a historian of the Post-Classical World' at 5:10pm on Wed 11 March. More info: edin.ac/4l8WrFW
#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Leventis
