We’re currently recruiting for a Project Cataloguer on a 1 year fixed-term contract to catalogue parts of our archives relating to our transfer from Hamburg to London in 1933.
35 hours per week
£30,842 per annum
Apply by 12 May 2026
Apply now ➡️ warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#jobopportunity #UoL
Mine was about Lady Godiva and how commemoration of her related to the cult of the saints. It was actually pretty good! It taught me some important things about how to be a researcher anyway
4 PhD funded positions at Swansea University on history, heritage, archives and museums.
#PublicHistory #Museums #Archives #Heritage
www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Andy Marshall’s Remarkable Anglo-Saxon Survivals You Can Still Visit www.digest.andymarsh...
The Lilla Cross, which stands in Fylingdales Moor, North Yorkshire.
A West Saxon assassin named Eomer tried to kill Edwin, king of the Northumbrians, in his hall by the Derwent #OTD in 626. A thegn, Lilla, leapt into the blade’s path, dying alongside another man, Forthhere, before the assailant was slain. The Lilla Cross 📸Phil Catterall
Ok fine, but I’m not sure you’re meant to have a ‘favourite testament’, I don’t think that’s how it works
I grew up near here and had no idea… but there was some excellent graffiti proclaiming ‘Home Rule for Crick’
👀 Funded PhD opportunity: Connecting with North Yorkshire’s Protected Landscapes: Towards a Natural Health Service @yorkstjohn.bsky.social
"The project ... will explore the role protected landscapes have on human health and wellbeing."
www.howardianhills.org.uk/phd-scholars...
medieval brooch. silver circle, with bronze-coloured celtic inlay
Friday! The Toronto Old English Colloquium returns with Lindy Brady of Edge Hill University's "Multilingualism, Old English, and the Viking Age". RSVP to attend in person at CMS or virtually via Zoom, April 17, at 2:30 pm.
uoft.me/TOEC2026 #oldenglish
I think more people should know about Alexander Campbell who is walking around the world. He posts strangely compelling YouTube videos as he is menaced dogs, jogs along miles of desolate road and hunkers down in drains. Never seen someone so content with their life. www.worldwalkexpedition.com
I think more people should know about Alexander Campbell who is walking around the world. He posts strangely compelling YouTube videos as he is menaced dogs, jogs along miles of desolate road and hunkers down in drains. Never seen someone so content with their life. www.worldwalkexpedition.com
This looks like the book I needed when I was doing my PhD!
This is a real issue in humanities and social sciences. Often all that is needed for such work is buyout (i.e. time) and maybe some travel. But grant pots are formed at either low figures that exclude buyout or very high figured aimed really at big multi-person projects.
Any ideas on the central figure in the sky? AI mashup or an actual demon (or both)
Did he create this just for a future A level History source analysis? (Is this actually real? I’ll believe anything now)
Like when my students say something I remember happened ‘in the late 1900s’ 💀
A bit of a long shot, this, but does anyone out there have up-to-date contact details for my former student Adrian (Ade) Smith, whom I taught at Birkbeck and later at York on the MA and an M.Phil.?
That is a wrap on this year’s Viking Society for Northern Research student conference. Superb line up speakers starting of with our plenary Prof Williams pictured with members of Wirhahl Skipfelagr #medievalsky #archaeology #history @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social
Coming home 4 books heavier
Liverpool Catholic cathedral with large modern lantern spire
Excellent day in Liverpool at the Viking Society Student Conference (and launch of Eleanor Barraclough’s book)
Re-post by Averil Cameron on Bluesky
This was the Averil Cameron I knew, telling it like it is, here on social media. She was one of the least pretentious and straightforward academics I knew, which is also how she wrote, making her work easily engaging as well as fascinating
St Hilda's Church, located in the hamlet of Ellerburn, North Yorkshire, is an ancient Anglican church with origins dating back to the Saxon period
The stone is a fragment of a medieval Anglo-Scandinavian cross, dating approximately between the 9th and 11th centuries. It features intricate interlace patterns and stylized animal designs, often referred to as a "Jelling" style bound dragon or serpent.
🧵 St Hilda's Church, Ellerburn near Thornton-le-Dale is a Grade II* listed building often described as a hidden gem. Remarkably well preserved, it has origins in the Saxon period, with much of the present structure dating to around 1050. The church features carved stones from as early as the 8th or
We RE-OPEN at 11:00am on the 1st of April! See you here?
📼 Dr Tom Horne
Hello #MedievalSky and #Antiquity from the #PresentDead!
Here's my #cfp for a hybrid conference on "interacting with the Dead in Antiquity & the Middle Ages", to be held in Graz, Austria on 2-4 Sept., 2026
presentdead.uni-graz.at/en/news/blog...
Please do circulate it to interested parties :)
The bursary application deadline for this is 7 April 👇 #MedievalSky
palaeography.uk/study/short-...
The IHR's guide to its Monumenta Germaniae Historica collections (@monumenta.bsky.social) is a superb introduction for students of medieval German and European history. #medievalsky
Oh that makes sense. I have been wondering if the all-night essay crisis will endure as a phenomenon in the age of OpenAI 😆
Two!
I genuinely don’t know what to say… two in the whole university?
