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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 23h

🇺🇦 Anton Kotenko, 'The value of names: toponymic commercialization in late nineteenth-century Kyiv'

🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Title and abstract for the linked article

dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 1d

Our new South Ronaldsay field-names site is up and running:
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net

Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 1d

@andccg.bsky.social 🙂🚲👇

Cycul @cycul.bsky.social · 2d

Good to meet up with other cycle campaigners from across Ireland at the @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social “Crossing Borders Conference”in Drogheda - and thanks to Quay Cycles in Drogheda for the bike hire.

Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 2d

Our new Maps & Memories project this week has a guided walk following in the footsteps of OS surveyors of 200 years ago 😍 with @nationaltrust.org.uk 👇

Ulster Archaeological Society @ulster-archaeology.bsky.social · 2d

Our next monthly lecture is tomorrow at 19.30 in-person at Elmwood QUB and online (www.youtube.com/live/XkAIUSg...). It is titled ‘Drumclay in the 9th Century: From Dates to Daily Life — Reconstructing an Early Medieval Community’ and will be given by Dr Marie Therese Barrett (IAC).

Cycul @cycul.bsky.social · 2d

Good to meet up with other cycle campaigners from across Ireland at the @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social “Crossing Borders Conference”in Drogheda - and thanks to Quay Cycles in Drogheda for the bike hire.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 3d

Our great thanks to Jane Ohlmeyer who gave the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture on Friday evening.

Jane's lecture, 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland', charted new work to recover the lives of Irish women, c.1550-1700 bit.ly/43NZXhv. Video to follow soon #Skystorians

Jane Ohlmeyer delivers the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture - RHS

On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Jane's lecture in...

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Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting geographical distribution! 🤔

Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 3d

#Talk: 'From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems'. What happens to our understanding of the nation when we start at the very smallest scale? Friday 28 November, 3pm, University of Leicester - all welcome! www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/2...

Map created by the brilliant @shaunawaterman at Penguin Press, which helps us see how my book takes us inside different places across England.

(Poems were pinned to places on the map for various reasons, and there are definitely conversations to be had there!)

Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent, our @andccg.bsky.social cycle campaign group is represented by our chair Stephen McCrory 👍

Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 3d

I see some familiar faces there

Cycul @cycul.bsky.social · 3d

Down at the “Cycling Across Borders: All Ireland Cycle Campaigners Conference” in Drogheda, organised by @IrishCycle

Hearing about all the new infrastructure projects underway in ROI is going to be a tough listen!

Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 3d

I see some familiar faces there

Cycul @cycul.bsky.social · 3d

Down at the “Cycling Across Borders: All Ireland Cycle Campaigners Conference” in Drogheda, organised by @IrishCycle

Hearing about all the new infrastructure projects underway in ROI is going to be a tough listen!

Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 3d

Aw yes of course, I use this a lot in my teaching on maps and mappings, inspired by the late great J B Harley 🙏

Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 3d

#Talk: 'From Nation to Local: Re-Discovering England’s Places through #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems'. What happens to our understanding of the nation when we start at the very smallest scale? Friday 28 November, 3pm, University of Leicester - all welcome! www.englishlocalhistory.org/wp/2025/09/2...

Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 3d

The Royal Irish Academy has just released the Discourse Series 2024/25 report ‘Our Future with AI’

Read the report and explore what our future with AI could look like: https://www.ria.ie/2025/11/19/our-future-with-ai-the-2024-25-discourse-series-report-is-out-now/

Keith Lilley @profkdlilley.bsky.social · 3d

Maps silence and they other, what is 'off the map' is as important as what is 'on the map'

Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 3d

1835 Florida map showing the Everglades untouched & undeveloped.
Fernandina Historic Museum.

Adam Markham @adammarkham.bsky.social · 3d

1835 Florida map showing the Everglades untouched & undeveloped.
Fernandina Historic Museum.

Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 4d

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
AHRC 'Doctoral Landscape' - 6 awards for candidates proposing their own research topics - closing 13 January 2026
www.qub.ac.uk/Study/postgr...

With match funding from Queen’s, we are offering six funded studentships beginning in 2026.

www.qub.ac.uk

Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 4d

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Art and enhancing community engagement with and support for net zero and climate action'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

REF: DfEPOL1 - POL-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast

www.qub.ac.uk

Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 4d

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Our Place: Our Stories: History and Placemaking among Belfast's Underserved Communities'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

REF: CSHIS03 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast

www.qub.ac.uk

Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 4d

Funded PhD opportunities at QUB:
'Observing the Heavens from the ‘Periphery’: Astronomy in Ireland 1640-1830'
www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...

REF: CSHIS02 - HIS-PHD | Courses | Queen's University Belfast

www.qub.ac.uk

Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Allmaps (led by @bertspaan.nl & Jules Schoonman) + @iiif.bsky.social on the announcement of this partnership. It's a fantastic step towards a sustainable, open, digital maps infrastructure and data ecosystem.

Learn more at allmaps.org/iiif-partner... & iiif.io/news/2025/11...

screenshot of announcement for Allmaps + IIIF Partnership reading "Open up your map collections: Announcing the Allmaps - IIIF Partnership", with mini, multicolored map outlines and the Allmaps and IIIF logos.

laurajcleaver.bsky.social @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 4d

How have books shaped the way we think? In January Anna Somfai will teach an online short course on books about science and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Book now 👇 #MedievalSky @ies-sas.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social palaeography.uk/study/short-...

Medieval Philosophical and Scientific Manuscripts – an online short course taught by Anna Somfai

This course will run online from 14:00-17:00: Monday 26 January – Thursday 29 January 2026. The course explores medieval Western philosophical and scientific manuscripts produced over the spa…

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Council for British Archaeology @archaeologyuk.bsky.social · 4d

New landmark research out today: We've just launched Trowel and Error, the most in-depth look in 25 years at how audiences want to engage with archaeology. The findings are clear: people want human, accessible, story-led archaeology.

Read the report here 👉 www.archaeologyuk.org/our-work/tro...

Person smiling whilst taking part in a workshop

Ulster Archaeological Society @ulster-archaeology.bsky.social · 4d

Our next monthly lecture is on Monday 24th November at 19.30 in-person at Elmwood QUB and online (www.youtube.com/live/XkAIUSg...). It is titled ‘Drumclay in the 9th Century: From Dates to Daily Life — Reconstructing an Early Medieval Community’ and will be given by Dr Marie Therese Barrett (IAC).

American Association of Geographers @geographers.bsky.social · 4d

TODAY: As thousands of geographers are preparing to gather for #AAG2026, join NCGE for an opportunity to explore and understand how this city came into existence and how historic places can serve as sites of engagement and even reconciliation.

🌉🗺️ Join here 4 pm PDT / 7 pm EDT: buff.ly/7ViFuBU

Graphic with the name of the webinar and logos of the organizing partners. Provided by NCGE.

Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 4d

On 8 December we have a joint seminar with the Centre for Public History. Visiting Scholar Jessica Martell (Appalachian State Univ.) will speak on 'Beyond plantation mentalities in Irish literature, film, and culture'. In-person and online.
www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Irish Studies / Public History Seminar: Jessica Martell

www.qub.ac.uk

Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 5d

Details: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...

Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 5d

In case you'd like to try before you buy, the good folk @academic.oup.com have made Chapter 1 of my book free to view for a few weeks :) academic.oup.com/book/61370/c...