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The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the O’Gara manuscript. Written in the Low Countries in the mid-17th C, this collection of poetry transmits important literary material from manuscript sources that have since been lost.
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 F 16, the O’Gara manuscript. Written in the Low Countries in the mid-17th C, this collection of poetry transmits important literary material from manuscript sources that have since been lost.
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www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... - Short-term research fellowships (1-4 weeks) available in the University of Glasgow Library, to work with our wonderful Archives and Special Collections. Do apply if this would suit you - a number of Celticists have been successful in the past.
University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows
www.gla.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li... - Short-term research fellowships (1-4 weeks) available in the University of Glasgow Library, to work with our wonderful Archives and Special Collections. Do apply if this would suit you - a number of Celticists have been successful in the past.
GRMA @tuairisc.bsky.social !
"'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚
tuairisc.ie/an-leann-cei...
"'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚
tuairisc.ie/an-leann-cei...
An Léann Ceilteach san Ísiltír slán … mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla
Tá deireadh á chur leis Léann Ceilteach in Ollscoil Utrecht san Ísiltír mar chúrsa céime neamhspleách, ach mairfidh cuid de mar chuid de Roinn an Bhéarla
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November 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
GRMA @tuairisc.bsky.social !
"'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚
tuairisc.ie/an-leann-cei...
"'Is cinnte go bhféadfadh cúrsaí a bheith níos measa,’ a deir Nike Stam, ‘agus tá muid buíoch as an tacaíocht ar fad a fuair muid i bhfoirm agóidí, alt, litreacha agus achainí ar líne, a chabhraigh lenár gcás go mór.’" 💚
tuairisc.ie/an-leann-cei...
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Lecture alert @celticuu.bsky.social!
🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
Lecture Seán Ó Hoireabhard: Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
Seán Ó Hoireabhard discusses whether the medieval Irish Lebor na Cert ‘The Book of Rights’, with its many flaws, can be regarded as a reliable historical source.
www.uu.nl
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Lecture alert @celticuu.bsky.social!
🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
🗓️ Seán Ó Hoireabhard (@hoireabhard.bsky.social @scs-dias.bsky.social): Is the Irish Book of Rights a useable medieval source?
📍 Utrecht (Utrecht University Centre for Medieval Studies), Thursday 11 December
🔗 www.uu.nl/en/events/le...
🎓 Symposium Alert!
31st of October, the workshop 'Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World' will take place. Satoko Tokunaga of Keio University Japan will give the keynote lecture entitled 'Shaping sacred landscapes and early printing in late medieval England' 📚
More 👉 www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...
31st of October, the workshop 'Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World' will take place. Satoko Tokunaga of Keio University Japan will give the keynote lecture entitled 'Shaping sacred landscapes and early printing in late medieval England' 📚
More 👉 www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...
Workshop: Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World
Explore during this workshop the concepts of spatiality, landscape, and the sacred in the premodern world, from antiquity to the Renaissance.
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October 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
🎓 Symposium Alert!
31st of October, the workshop 'Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World' will take place. Satoko Tokunaga of Keio University Japan will give the keynote lecture entitled 'Shaping sacred landscapes and early printing in late medieval England' 📚
More 👉 www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...
31st of October, the workshop 'Sacred Landscapes in the Premodern World' will take place. Satoko Tokunaga of Keio University Japan will give the keynote lecture entitled 'Shaping sacred landscapes and early printing in late medieval England' 📚
More 👉 www.uu.nl/en/events/wo...
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IERSE VERHALEN | In de derde van in totaal vier afleveringen kijken we in de @ubleiden.bsky.social met dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) naar verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland!
🎧 De derde aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
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#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
🎧 De derde aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
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#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
Verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland: meertalige geleerden in de glossen (1/2)
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September 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
IERSE VERHALEN | In de derde van in totaal vier afleveringen kijken we in de @ubleiden.bsky.social met dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) naar verhalen uit middeleeuws Ierland!
🎧 De derde aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
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#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
🎧 De derde aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
🧵 1/2
#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
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About this. I've just received an email from a friend and associate of Maartje Draak saying Maartje would have been 'highly satisfied' with this article, and I'm, just, I can't even, what. This is probably the best peer review I'll ever get in my life.
The first article in our 2025 volume is @naoicea.bsky.social et al's edition and translation of the previously illegible pages of the Leiden University Library Fled Bricrenn and the process by which they made them visible, available open access here: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn: : Multispectral Imaging applied to f. 9v of Leiden MS VLQ 7
This contribution discusses the multi-spectral investigation of the previously illegible final page of Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS VLQ 7. The technical specifications of the images and the pos...
journal.fi
September 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
About this. I've just received an email from a friend and associate of Maartje Draak saying Maartje would have been 'highly satisfied' with this article, and I'm, just, I can't even, what. This is probably the best peer review I'll ever get in my life.
Je bent zelf een uil!!
Luister nu naar de nieuwe september aflevering over Middeleeuws Ierland bij #MiddeleeuwenPodcast!
Luister nu naar de nieuwe september aflevering over Middeleeuws Ierland bij #MiddeleeuwenPodcast!
IERLAND | Ook deze week neemt dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) van @celticuu.bsky.social ons mee naar Ierland in de Middeleeuwen. Van heiligenlevens tot poëzie… en meer!
🎧 De tweede aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
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#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
🎧 De tweede aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
🧵 1/2
#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
Ierland in de Middeleeuwen: Saint Patricks 'rap battle' en je bent zelf een uil (2/2)
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September 10, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Je bent zelf een uil!!
Luister nu naar de nieuwe september aflevering over Middeleeuws Ierland bij #MiddeleeuwenPodcast!
Luister nu naar de nieuwe september aflevering over Middeleeuws Ierland bij #MiddeleeuwenPodcast!
Another hulloh! to our trusty followers: keep your eye out for new public lectures, podcasts, and events announced on this channel to satisfy all your Celtic Cravings!
Amidst all the uncertainties in our Faculty, we'll make sure to make this an absolute banger of a year together with you 🎉
Amidst all the uncertainties in our Faculty, we'll make sure to make this an absolute banger of a year together with you 🎉
a man talking into a microphone with the words of course celtic written above him
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September 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Another hulloh! to our trusty followers: keep your eye out for new public lectures, podcasts, and events announced on this channel to satisfy all your Celtic Cravings!
Amidst all the uncertainties in our Faculty, we'll make sure to make this an absolute banger of a year together with you 🎉
Amidst all the uncertainties in our Faculty, we'll make sure to make this an absolute banger of a year together with you 🎉
Welcome to our 14 😍 first year *felmaic* (students), who will be embarking on the magical journey that is Old Irish on Thursday (insert epic music here).
Also, of course, a big fáilte/croeso to our current students, who will return to learn more, do more, and write brilliant theses this year! 🔥1/2
Also, of course, a big fáilte/croeso to our current students, who will return to learn more, do more, and write brilliant theses this year! 🔥1/2
elmo is standing in front of a fire with the words `` welcome to the darkside '' .
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September 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Welcome to our 14 😍 first year *felmaic* (students), who will be embarking on the magical journey that is Old Irish on Thursday (insert epic music here).
Also, of course, a big fáilte/croeso to our current students, who will return to learn more, do more, and write brilliant theses this year! 🔥1/2
Also, of course, a big fáilte/croeso to our current students, who will return to learn more, do more, and write brilliant theses this year! 🔥1/2
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Ken je die grap van een podcastmaker en een wetenschapper die een bieb binnen liepen om een tweeluik te maken?
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Tsja, dat werd een vierluik dus.
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Tsja, dat werd een vierluik dus.
IERLAND | De komende vier weken neemt dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) van @celticuu.bsky.social ons mee op een episch podcastavontuur naar Ierland in de Middeleeuwen!
🎧 De eerste aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
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#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
🎧 De eerste aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
🧵 1/2
#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
Ierland in de Middeleeuwen: het beste van elke taal en je buurman z’n bijen (1/2)
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September 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Ken je die grap van een podcastmaker en een wetenschapper die een bieb binnen liepen om een tweeluik te maken?
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....
Tsja, dat werd een vierluik dus.
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Tsja, dat werd een vierluik dus.
Happy New Academic Year! Begin goed met deel één van een vierluik dat een tweeluik had moeten zijn over middeleeuws Ierland bij de onvolprezen Podcast Middeleeuwen! Van bronnentombola tot hanschriftenshuffle, ga mee op dit doldwaze avontuur 🔥
IERLAND | De komende vier weken neemt dr. Nike Stam (@naoicea.bsky.social) van @celticuu.bsky.social ons mee op een episch podcastavontuur naar Ierland in de Middeleeuwen!
🎧 De eerste aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
🧵 1/2
#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
🎧 De eerste aflevering van dit vierluik is nu overal te beluisteren
🧵 1/2
#podcast #geschiedenis #Middeleeuwen #Ierland
Ierland in de Middeleeuwen: het beste van elke taal en je buurman z’n bijen (1/2)
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September 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Happy New Academic Year! Begin goed met deel één van een vierluik dat een tweeluik had moeten zijn over middeleeuws Ierland bij de onvolprezen Podcast Middeleeuwen! Van bronnentombola tot hanschriftenshuffle, ga mee op dit doldwaze avontuur 🔥
In their series 'protest songs', Nike talks about the various ways in which Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile has been used as a protest - from the Jacobites to the feminists to our own Celtic students via Pádraig Mac Piarais. 2/2
August 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
In their series 'protest songs', Nike talks about the various ways in which Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile has been used as a protest - from the Jacobites to the feminists to our own Celtic students via Pádraig Mac Piarais. 2/2
Miss Celtic while you're enjoying the lovely summer? Then listen to our assistant-professor Nike on Dutch National Radio's history show OVT @omroepvpro and sing along to Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile! 🎤 🎼 1/2
www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...
www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...
Historische protestsongs: Oró, sé do bheatha ‘bhaile
Het historische protestlied 'Óró, sé do bheatha 'bhaile' met keltoloog Nike Stam.
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August 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Miss Celtic while you're enjoying the lovely summer? Then listen to our assistant-professor Nike on Dutch National Radio's history show OVT @omroepvpro and sing along to Óró sé do bheatha 'bhaile! 🎤 🎼 1/2
www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...
www.vpro.nl/ovt/artikele...
Are you still basking in the after glow of the #MaartjeDraakSeminars2025? ☀️
Then bask some more in this wonderful #Aftermovie, produced by @veraortlep! 🙏
We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you again in september! 🐉💚☘️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFp...
Then bask some more in this wonderful #Aftermovie, produced by @veraortlep! 🙏
We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you again in september! 🐉💚☘️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFp...
Maartje Draak Seminars 2025: The Aftermovie
YouTube video by Keltisch UU
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June 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Are you still basking in the after glow of the #MaartjeDraakSeminars2025? ☀️
Then bask some more in this wonderful #Aftermovie, produced by @veraortlep! 🙏
We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you again in september! 🐉💚☘️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFp...
Then bask some more in this wonderful #Aftermovie, produced by @veraortlep! 🙏
We wish you all a wonderful summer and we look forward to seeing you again in september! 🐉💚☘️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMFp...
Registration for the Maartje Draak Seminars 2025 is now open! 🥳
🖌 Registration via: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/FyXYEyg5TJ... (closes on the 11th of June!)
🐉 Programma via: keltisch.sites.uu.nl/maar.../maar...
🔥 Let us know whether we'll see you there this year! 🔥
🖌 Registration via: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/FyXYEyg5TJ... (closes on the 11th of June!)
🐉 Programma via: keltisch.sites.uu.nl/maar.../maar...
🔥 Let us know whether we'll see you there this year! 🔥
May 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Registration for the Maartje Draak Seminars 2025 is now open! 🥳
🖌 Registration via: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/FyXYEyg5TJ... (closes on the 11th of June!)
🐉 Programma via: keltisch.sites.uu.nl/maar.../maar...
🔥 Let us know whether we'll see you there this year! 🔥
🖌 Registration via: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/FyXYEyg5TJ... (closes on the 11th of June!)
🐉 Programma via: keltisch.sites.uu.nl/maar.../maar...
🔥 Let us know whether we'll see you there this year! 🔥
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Excellent work by all involved!
The first article in our 2025 volume is @naoicea.bsky.social et al's edition and translation of the previously illegible pages of the Leiden University Library Fled Bricrenn and the process by which they made them visible, available open access here: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn: : Multispectral Imaging applied to f. 9v of Leiden MS VLQ 7
This contribution discusses the multi-spectral investigation of the previously illegible final page of Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS VLQ 7. The technical specifications of the images and the pos...
journal.fi
May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Excellent work by all involved!
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I am so excited that this is live! @naoicea.bsky.social ’s article for which Dr. Katie Albers-Morris and I did the image processing and tech write up for is now live! Nike did an incredible pain-staking job with the translation and transcription. I am in awe of the effort she put into this edition.
The first article in our 2025 volume is @naoicea.bsky.social et al's edition and translation of the previously illegible pages of the Leiden University Library Fled Bricrenn and the process by which they made them visible, available open access here: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn: : Multispectral Imaging applied to f. 9v of Leiden MS VLQ 7
This contribution discusses the multi-spectral investigation of the previously illegible final page of Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS VLQ 7. The technical specifications of the images and the pos...
journal.fi
May 20, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I am so excited that this is live! @naoicea.bsky.social ’s article for which Dr. Katie Albers-Morris and I did the image processing and tech write up for is now live! Nike did an incredible pain-staking job with the translation and transcription. I am in awe of the effort she put into this edition.
A publication out of Utrecht fresh in @sfennica.bsky.social !
The first article in our 2025 volume is @naoicea.bsky.social et al's edition and translation of the previously illegible pages of the Leiden University Library Fled Bricrenn and the process by which they made them visible, available open access here: journal.fi/scf/article/...
Reading the end of Fled Bricrenn: : Multispectral Imaging applied to f. 9v of Leiden MS VLQ 7
This contribution discusses the multi-spectral investigation of the previously illegible final page of Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek MS VLQ 7. The technical specifications of the images and the pos...
journal.fi
May 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
A publication out of Utrecht fresh in @sfennica.bsky.social !
We are very delighted that dr. Jasper de Bruin of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden will speak at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars on the recently discovered Bunnik coin hoard, which contains both Celtic and Roman coins. Of course, we will be able to see the coins themselves on location @rmoudheden.bsky.social !
May 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
We are very delighted that dr. Jasper de Bruin of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden will speak at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars on the recently discovered Bunnik coin hoard, which contains both Celtic and Roman coins. Of course, we will be able to see the coins themselves on location @rmoudheden.bsky.social !
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You know you're studying a good language when there is a word specifically for *the neck of a decapitated body*
Sometimes I forget how wonderfully graphic Fled Bricrenn is - why is there no film yet?
eDIL s.v. méide or dil.ie/31755
Sometimes I forget how wonderfully graphic Fled Bricrenn is - why is there no film yet?
eDIL s.v. méide or dil.ie/31755
eDIL - Irish Language Dictionary
The electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL) is a digital dictionary of medieval Irish. It is based on the ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY’S Dictionary of the Irish Language based mainly on Old and Midd...
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May 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
You know you're studying a good language when there is a word specifically for *the neck of a decapitated body*
Sometimes I forget how wonderfully graphic Fled Bricrenn is - why is there no film yet?
eDIL s.v. méide or dil.ie/31755
Sometimes I forget how wonderfully graphic Fled Bricrenn is - why is there no film yet?
eDIL s.v. méide or dil.ie/31755
Many thanks to #HistorischCafeAmsterdam for their invitation to speak about Kneecap, #Gaeilge and #CelticStudies. And well done to the audience for their amazing questions 🔥 Keep up the good work!
May 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Many thanks to #HistorischCafeAmsterdam for their invitation to speak about Kneecap, #Gaeilge and #CelticStudies. And well done to the audience for their amazing questions 🔥 Keep up the good work!
We greatly look forward to hearing Dr. Hunter speak at the Maartje Draak Seminars, 25-26 June 2025!
Want to know who our second speaker is? Well, keep an eye on the socials ;-)
(registration link will be available soon)
Want to know who our second speaker is? Well, keep an eye on the socials ;-)
(registration link will be available soon)
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May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
We greatly look forward to hearing Dr. Hunter speak at the Maartje Draak Seminars, 25-26 June 2025!
Want to know who our second speaker is? Well, keep an eye on the socials ;-)
(registration link will be available soon)
Want to know who our second speaker is? Well, keep an eye on the socials ;-)
(registration link will be available soon)
We are delighted that dr. Fraser Hunter has agreed to be one of our speakers at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars 2025! He is the principal curator of prehistoric and Roman archaeology at the National Museums Scotland with a strong focus on ‘Celtic Art’ and the impact of the Romans on local populations.
May 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
We are delighted that dr. Fraser Hunter has agreed to be one of our speakers at the #MaartjeDraakSeminars 2025! He is the principal curator of prehistoric and Roman archaeology at the National Museums Scotland with a strong focus on ‘Celtic Art’ and the impact of the Romans on local populations.
Interesting, thanks for the link!
May 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Interesting, thanks for the link!