Postdoc historical and cultural geographer @LeverhulmeTrust, @GeosciencesEd. Interested in transhumance, Viking settlement, place-names, medieval farming.
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Reading Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations'. It never fails to calm and put things in perspective. I need to make the effort to read it at least once every year.
West Cumbria in the 16th century was a simpler place. I just came across a document where a man was charged for calling another a 'Forsworn fellow'. There would be a double loop around the courthouse today.
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@Jennifer_Bones and her fantastic work using stable isotope analysis to explore animal-human interactions, and how looking at diet reveals that there are differences between Bronze age, Iron age and Viking farming in the Scottish Islands! @UCLanResearch @UCLanArchAnth #research
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Thanks Neil. I am looking forward to this talk on Wednesday night. I'll be talking through some of the ideas in my new book📖 from @RoutledgeHist
This is based on research carried out during my @IrishResearch fellowship @uccarchaeology & developed from my time @ucdarchaeology
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Distribution of the ON generic ærgi. The term was one of the few words adopted from Gaelic into ON. It is more likely to have had a similar meaning to the OIr áirge, referring to a dairy shieling, rather than the Scottish Gaelic àirigh with its more generic shieling meaning.
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❄️ Got the winter blues?
Check out these free resources for Wintering Well developed by Prof Hayden Lorimer (@Slipshodspeller) in partnership with University of Glasgow, LLTTF and artist-poet Alec Finlay: ow.ly/MzwH50Qr0Vy
#BlueMonday
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@Department_ASNC goes north! The @dindshenchas team is really looking forward to giving a series of inter-related papers on how and why Scotland features in Dindshenchas Érenn and to talking about flaming saints, vomiting fish and journeying Picts in the process. Tues 16 Jan 5.30
We are greatly looking forward to our visit from the @dindshenchas project @Department_ASNC tomorrow! Come along in person or online to what willl be a fantastic seminar @UofGCSCS - details here eventbrite.co.uk/e/flaming-s… #CelticStudies
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Well that's Blue Monday done with for another year.
But what about today and then tomorrow?
Wintering Well ought to be a habit!
Warding off the blues means getting creative and staying social. More here...
impact.ed.ac.uk/our-shared-w…
@HesterParr @Dailies54153708 @GeosciencesEd
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Blue Monday?
Whatever your view, there's a healthy conversation to be had about Winter Blues and what we can do to help one another through the darker months...info. and access to free creative resources here:
impact.ed.ac.uk/our-shared-w…
@HesterParr @Dailies54153708 @GeosciencesEd
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I’m organising the Assembly of Literary Translators – a gathering for literary translators of all persuasions to come together for an afternoon of panels and conversation in central London on 11 March. Full details and registration: the-assembly-of-literary-tra…
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Interested in working with the SIRFA team? Pationate about Orkney's archaeological resources? We are recruiting a project assistant to work on the SIRFA Orkney Resource Assessment.
nwh.uhi.ac.uk/en/staff/vacan…
@uhi_orkney @ScARFHub @ThinkUHI @UHIArchaeology @OrkneyCouncil @UHINWH
The distribution of sætr-names in North-West England would back up the view of relatively large migration of Norwegian Viking settlers.
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📚 A wonderful review of @VikingScotland by Duncan W. Wright!
The Viking Age in Scotland. Studies in Scottish Scandinavian Archaeology: Eds. Tom Horne, Elizabeth Pierce, Rachel Barrowman (@EdinburghUP).
@SocMedArch Medieval Archaeology: Vol 67, No 2
£: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Brepols - Maritime Exchange and the Making of Norman Worlds
Check out this fiiiine looking book edited by @meDIVAlist and Pip Byrne. With a humble contribution on the Black Sea and the coins of Tmutarakan by me! brepols.net/products/IS-9782…