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Northern Environmental History Network @northernenvhistory.bsky.social · 49m

For those looking forward to Thomas' talk on historical environmental medicine in a a couple of weeks, you can now sign up using the eventbrite link below. Looking forward to seeing you online at 1500 GMT on the 28th of October.
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Oswald's Raven @oswaldsraven.bsky.social · 2h

I'm giving an online lecture next Thursday evening, in aid of Peterborough Cathedral. I'll be talking about Oswald's cult at Peterborough and his continental connections. There will be arm relics and ravens! 💪 #MedievalSky

To book tickets: peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/event/in-per...

ppt slide. Title "The surprising afterlife of a Northumbrian king: the cult of St Oswald in Peterborough and beyond". Image from a medieval German manuscript shows Oswald and Aidan at the Easter feast, with beggars. Gold background and architectural frame.

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The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 2h

🎯 Our #totaliser reaches 83%!

Can YOU help us get over the line?

🎯 tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

Fundraiser target, with £8,255 of £10,000 raised.

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Firestorm Books @firestorm.coop · 2d

For #BannedBooksWeek we're doing a limited run of shirts with one of our favorite designs of all time! The "Trash Fascism, Not Books" possum was created by artist Des Revol for our 2023/24 campaign to send thousands of banned books back to Florida kids. www.bonfire.com/store/firest... 1/

A promotional graphic for a t-shirt design. The black and white illustration of a possum curled up with a copy of "Maus" by Art Spiegelman is encircled by text that reads "Trash Fascism, Not Books." Around the design is a ribbon with text that reads "New Shirts."

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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The Pictish Arts Society @pictishartssociety.bsky.social · 2d

Our new lecture season kicks off on Friday 24 October. Dr Mike King will explore texts that could have influenced the subject-matter of Pictish stone carvings - from ancient tales to hagiography, the bible and more. Lectures are for members only, but there's time to join before the season starts!

Lectures | The PAS

The Pictish Arts Society monthly online lecture syllabus for 2025-2026.

www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk

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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 2d

A cool bit of urban micro history! My grandfather grew up in Wolverhampton in housing not too unlike these. Feels like a bit of a glimpse into that world.

Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 4d

This week's Substack post brought the history of Wolverhampton's Low Hill Estate up-to-date:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/the-low-hi...

The Low Hill Estate, Wolverhampton: ‘a popular place to live’

We left the Low Hill Estate last week in 1939 very largely complete.

municipaldreams.substack.com

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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 4d

Excitedly to log on and listen this morning! Always a really excellent conference, and it being online makes it easy to access...

The Pictish Arts Society @pictishartssociety.bsky.social · 5d

Last chance to book! The 2025 Pictish Arts Society Conference takes place on Zoom tomorrow and Sunday. We have 8 expert speakers on Pictish sculpture, metalwork and metalworking, plus an update on the latest exciting discoveries from @northernpicts.bsky.social. Full agenda and booking link below.

Conf | The PAS

www.thepictishartssociety.org.uk

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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 4d

Obviously this is true of texts, of small finds, but something about the landscape-ness of the stones just strikes me. Never forget just how cool it is that we can see these things that existed so long ago, that were part of peoples' lives.

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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 4d

I think that standing stones have such an effect on me because it's one of those things that I can look at and think yeah, a bunch of medieval people looked at this, it stood in their world, they passed by it and touched it, it was part of their experience of the day. And now I'm looking at it.

The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social · 4d

Crowle Stone: This impressive carved stone now has pride of place inside St Oswald's church in Crowle, Lincolnshire. There is also a substantial medieval cross in the churchyard. The former was reused as the lintel of the twelfth-century doorway between the west tower and nave.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 5d

Here’s Hamish Henderson’s “Freedom Come-All-Ye”, sung by Karine Polwart in the Italian Chapel, Orkney. The chapel was built & decorated by Italian POWs during WW2 using scraps & reclaimed materials, & is still in use today
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Phu...

“Freedom Come All Ye” performed by Karine Polwart in The Italian Chapel, Orkney, August 2013.

YouTube video by Alan Ferrier

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 5d

Are you interested in the history of rivers? Do you wonder how historians and environmental scientists can work together? Join the EDHS seminar to hear from the ARTEMIS team about their amazing project exploring the histories and ecologies of the Scheldt. #envhist #histsci #skystorians #dh

Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 7d

The Environmental #DH Seminar (EDHS) is back!

Co-organised by Lancaster & Manchester w/support from @n8cir.bsky.social, our first event features the ARTEMIS project.

Join us ONLINE at 12pm (UK) on Oct 15 to hear about this digital historical investigation of the Scheldt River Valley.

RSVP 👇

Artemis Project: A Digital Bridge to Historical Landscapes and Maps

Join us for a discussion with Iason Jongepier (University of Antwerp) & Vincent Ducatteeuw (Ghent University)

www.eventbrite.com

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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.bsky.social · 7d

I just met my own book. We're getting on very well.

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Grace Hill @gracehill.bsky.social · 7d

Good article! Many people don’t realize the coal mining begets water pollution, not just air pollution from burning the coal.

www.alleghenyfront.org/monongahela-...

The legacy of coal mining in the region remains the Mon's biggest pollution problem, according to experts. Before modern environmental laws, underground mines were
constructed so that polluted water inside them flowed out and drained into nearby rivers and streams. And there were a lot of coal mines in the region, especially the Mon Watershed, for over 200 years.
Ziemkiewicz said that by the early '70s, acid mine drainage, mostly from abandoned mines, was severely impacting the Mon. "That meant a lot of metals were getting into the river. The pH was depressed. And there was essentially no fish life," he said.
The Monongahela River near Elizabeth, Pa. Photo: Julie
Grant / The Allegheny Front

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 7d

15,000+ searchable charters from the early Middle Ages...

formlitchart.bsky.social @formlitchart.bsky.social · Sep 2

Neben unserer Edition mit Übersetzung der frühmittelalterlichen Formeln und unserem e-Lexikon haben wir auch ein ständig wachsendes Urkundenkorpus in unserer Werkstatt. 15.376 Herrscher- und Privaturkunden sind es inzwischen! Frei zugänglich und voll durchsuchbar:
werkstatt.formulae.uni-hamburg.de

Willkommen in der Formulae - Litterae - Chartae Werkstatt!

Medieval Latin Formulae and their German translations in the Capitains Format

werkstatt.formulae.uni-hamburg.de

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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 8d

I have joked that if I was able to teach my own specialist class on my research focus I might well call it Lochs & Brochs.

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 8d

So I used to like to joke I taught from Plato to NATO

But really I taught from, say, Gilgamesh to Luther.

But they don't rhyme. I want them to rhyme.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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IHR Earlier Middle Ages Seminar @earliermiddleages.bsky.social · 9d

📣 The Earlier Middle Ages seminar @ihr.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! Here's our autumn term schedule. First up is @rorynaismith.bsky.social on 8 October, giving the annual David Wilson Lecture (with @uclarchaeology.bsky.social). All welcome! Please sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Autumn 2025 schedule for the Institute of Historical Research's Earlier Middle Ages seminar. Full information available at https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/earlier-middle-ages

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🕯️ Crowley Rae Jepsen 🕯️ @mags.colvett.online · 11d

Thinking a lot about “you can never be sure / you die without knowing” as it applies to, ah, everything (www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58530/...)

I had hardly begun to read
I asked how can you ever be sure
that what you write is really
any good at all and he said you can't

you can't you can never be sure
you die without knowing
whether anything you wrote was any good
if you have to be sure don't write

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Simon @malkydungeon.bsky.social · 14d

The Govan Stones is one of the most important historical sites in Scotland.
It's one of the few surviving places that has material evidence for this lost kingdom and culture of that most elusive early medieval people, the North Britons and I'd love to see it preserved for the future

The Govan Stones @govanstones.bsky.social · 15d

🎉 We've hit 10,000 Facebook followers!

💲 Please help us raise £10,000 of crucial funding - Just £1 per follower would get us to our goal.

Thank you all so much for following, and for any donation you can make!

tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage

Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc

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Zooarchaeology Lab Sheffield @zooarchlabsheff.bsky.social · 15d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bEv... For decades we've worked to enhance the Sheffield Zooarch Lab & to see years of dedication destroyed by corporate executives who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing is heart breaking @watchingbrief.bsky.social #savesheffieldarchaeology

The destruction of the Zooarch laboratories in Sheffield

YouTube video by Sheffield Zooarchaeology Lab

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 15d

I would be endlessly grateful if you were to support this crucial fundraising effort for Govan Old's 1,500-year-old graveyard and the @govanstones.bsky.social museum! 💲❤️

tghts.enthuse.com/cf/graveyard...

Graveyard Guardians: showcasing Govan's Archaeology and Natural Heritage

Govan Heritage Trust is hoping you can help us raise £10,000 for a project that will transform the future of the Govan Stones and Govan Old. We're raising money for a 2-year initiative that will showc

tghts.enthuse.com

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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 16d

Exciting book launch event!!

Dr Victoria Whitworth: The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma is finally out, and you can celebrate it (and snag a copy) at the Tarbat Discovery Centre on 11 October.

Tickets at www.tickettailor.com/events/tarba...

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 16d

Welp here we are again, fresh out of Archaeologists for Skype a Scientist matches.

This fall, we have matched 248 groups with Archaeologists for online Q&As. I have 38 more groups who need a match, but I'm out of Archaeologists!

Archaeologists! Please volunteer
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

Alt: a woman is smiling and holding a cup that says help me .

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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 19d

It's crazy but I think I worry about this more than students who actually use it to cheat - one innocent, etc. etc.

But mostly I really don't like that it's put us into an adversarial relationship, an arms race of cheating and catching that helps nobody and accomplished zero learning

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19d

I just put a long paper definitely 100 per cent written by a human into the first stupid AI detector on Google search and it said it was 97% AI. Absolutely ridiculous situation all of us are in.

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