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Author, artist, archaeologist; I write about the Viking Age and the juicy bit beforehand. Views my own. (FORGOTTEN VIKINGS: https://www.waterstones.com/book/forgotten-vikings/alex-harvey/9781398133266) Published w/ Cambridge Uni, Pen & Sword, Amberley

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · May 30

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...

LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025

As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)

Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵

Little Kingdoms

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 8h

Some disciplines are also friendlier than others when it comes to accepting tentative, keen-to-learn recruits!

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching Y8 about the reactions & long-term effects of the Industrial Revolution soon

To contextualise this, we’ll be starting the lesson with a discussion about the allegedly inevitable ‘AI revolution’; are they for or against it? what impacts will it have? Good and/or bad?

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 1d

We’re nearly a month out from release.. the marketing and press machines (so I’m told) are about to start their engines!

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · May 30

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...

LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025

As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)

Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵

Little Kingdoms

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · May 30

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...

LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025

As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)

Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵

Little Kingdoms

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you very much! They're quite gentle really... now that we're 1200 years removed from the worst of it!

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 1d

Release the grey lit!

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 1d

This is a massive discovery; Oxford in the Roman Period wasn’t really a thing, so this is a really early sign of local if not regional importance

Would love to read more about this

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

Among other synonyms

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

I haven’t had as much time to read lately, as I’ve stepped into a full-time teaching post

Still, Javier Martínez Jimènez (et al)’s The Iberian Peninsula Between 300 & 850 (2018) has been a great companion these last 3-4 weeks; a detailed yet sweeping overview of post-Roman / Umayyad Spain

A book, The Iberian Peninsula between 300 and 850, resting on a hob. Pesto pasta simmers in a pot next to it.

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

The perpetual and completely unsustainable implosion of the heritage sector

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

Keep seeing stuff about Vikings in my timeline and getting disappointed upon learning that it is sports

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

I thought his turn to villainy in S3 was really well done - its easy to see how a slightly endearing / irritating joke candidate can become a serious threat in the real world

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not even a money-saving thing, either: if you’ve got the funds to fly to Japan, you can afford more than a McSquid Burger (and most of the time, McDonalds costs more than better food anyway)

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

I have several fellow British friends who exclusively go to McDonalds no matter what county they are in

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno Shaun, the Dark Ages ended about 1300 years ago…

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 3d

Lesson 2: Little Kingdoms, on Wednesday!

Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 7d

Starting tomorrow! Join the online course Dark Age Britain, taught by @alexharvv.bsky.social medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/dark... #medievalists #medievalsky #medievalstudies

Dark Age Britain

A detailed overview of Britain between the 5th and 8th centuries, traditionally referred to as the ‘Dark Ages’. Discover some of the lesser known aspects, themes, evidence, and figures of this…

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

A dramatic reading about the Haxey Hood from the Lincolnshire Folk Tales Anthology: Reimagined (2025) tonight in @waterstones.bsky.social in Lincoln!

Thank you to @rorywaterman.bsky.social, Anna Milon, and the AHRC for letting me be a part of this project

Alex Harvey reading before a crowd in Waterstones.

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

Plus, Early Medieval Frisia as a topic is studied nowhere near as much as Scandinavia/England

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

The Great Frisian Army… almost!

Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social · 4d

We do have another Carolingian-style fitting from the camp at Aldwark, strap-end ADB 945. This is quite a bit plainer than the Torksey finds, and is a type frequently found in Frisia: as @alexharvv.bsky.social says, it's impossible to consider the Great Army without Frisians in the ranks! /7

A finds drawing of strap-end ADB 945, found at the Viking Great Army camp at Aldwark, North Yorkshire. A broken retaining bar can be seen at the top of the artefact, showing where the strap-end failed.

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Dr Tess Machling @tessmachling.bsky.social · 6d

Also there's that whole 'Long Iron Age' thang occurring around the peripheries of Rome that I don't think we look nearly closely enough at...

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Nosferatu's John Thomas @karanthir.bsky.social · 6d

Back when I was doing my MA, E.A. Thompson "The Goths in Spain" and Roger Collins "Visigothic Spain" were my Old and New Testament.

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 6d

Starts TODAY!

Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 7d

Starting tomorrow! Join the online course Dark Age Britain, taught by @alexharvv.bsky.social medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/dark... #medievalists #medievalsky #medievalstudies

Dark Age Britain

A detailed overview of Britain between the 5th and 8th centuries, traditionally referred to as the ‘Dark Ages’. Discover some of the lesser known aspects, themes, evidence, and figures of this…

medievalstudies.thinkific.com

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone got any good recommendations for books about the Visigoths or, more generally, 4-7th c. Spain? 📚

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 7d

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The tasty recolour for the Forgotten Vikings paperback! Re-releases on 15/11/25, just 15 days before my next book!

Forgotten Vikings by Alex Harvey | Waterstones

Buy Forgotten Vikings by Alex Harvey from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 7d

www.waterstones.com/book/forgott...

The tasty recolour for the Forgotten Vikings paperback! Re-releases on 15/11/25, just 15 days before my next book!

Forgotten Vikings by Alex Harvey | Waterstones

Buy Forgotten Vikings by Alex Harvey from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com