Wordly Women: Gemma Hollman In a new edition of my Wordly Women series, I chat with historian Gemma Hollman...

Wordly Women: Gemma Hollman

In a new edition of my Wordly Women series, I chat with historian Gemma Hollman...

We’ll be at @imc-leeds.bsky.social next week for a full day of 15th century topics! Join us on Tuesday for a range of excellent papers on fascinating themes, and then for a drinks reception in the evening! 📚 🍷 #Skystorians #Medievalsky

Scottish Witch-Hunting and the Rise of a Protestant Culture 1590-1690 - Online short course Study the history of Scottish witchcraft online. Earn credits towards a Masters degree as you explore the Scottish witch trials and witch-hunting in Scotland.

The initmitable Bill Naphy is offering an online course on Scottish witchcraft and Protestant culture via the University of Aberdeen. #earlymodern #reformazing
on.abdn.ac.uk/courses/scot...

Excited to be joining @Mattlewishistory.bsky.social for a chat on 𝗚𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 this week! We’re diving into my new book The Rose, The Bastard & The Saint King - expect rebels, battles, thrones, and a few bloody surprises⚔️🥀👑 #Medieval
#Podcast📚buff.ly/4h5qlIT

I have a bad feeling about this

Strong Women: A manifestation of Christian values in the Icelandic family sagas — The Young Historians The Íslendingasögur (The Sagas of the Icelanders or Family Sagas) feature stories about prominent Icelandic families from 850-1050 AD, authored anonymously, narrated like history. In the 20th centur...

I had so much fun writing about #StrongWomen in the #IcelandicSagas for #TheYoungHistorians

www.theyounghistorians.com/blog/strong-...

#sagaoftheicelanders
#Íslendingasögur
#SagaofEriktheRed
#Greenlandsaga
#Laxdælasaga
#familysagas
#medieval-literature
#medieval
#Grænlendingasaga
#Eiríkssagarauða

Spatial dynamics of homicide in medieval English cities: the Medieval Murder Map project - Criminal Law Forum This study examines the spatial patterns of homicide in three 14th-century English cities—London, York, and Oxford—through the Medieval Murder Map project, which visualizes 355 homicide cases derived ...

Someone out there needs this.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Original Artwork - Surprised Eel Mapping Original hand-drawn artwork, made of abstract shapes and lines, usually in black and white.

Fun news! I’m adding my artwork to the list of things you can buy! Maps, diagrams, and now drawings!

You’ve been playing along with “what did the Eel Guy just draw?” for years. And now you can commission your own personal drawings, or buy one of your favorites!
surprisedeelmaps.com/original-art...

‘The Supernatural and the Ethereal in the Character of Milady de Winter’ by Josephine Wilkinson A history blog by Dr Josephine Wilkinson, author of Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen.

🏰 A bit of Milady spookiness for the weekend

dr-josephine-wilkinson.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-...

A photograph of four clay pendants of a trowel, an amphora, a bivalve shell half, and a colour scale bar, each attached to loops of black cord

Happy National Archaeology Week!

This year's craft in celebration of Archaeology Week is little clay pendants - the scale bar is 4cm

#2025NAW #archaeology #craft

Women in Archaeology

May 24 Sydney (CCWM, 3pm) Women in Archaeology: A National Archaeology Week panel discussion www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats... Book (free) www.eventbrite.com.au/e/women-in-a... #2024NAW

Eighty Years On: World War II Maritime Heritage in Australasia Celebrate National Archaeology Week with an online seminar commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, with a focus on ships and submarines.

📣 Join us on 24 May for this online event, "Eighty Years On: World War II Maritime Heritage in Australasia", part of National Archaeology Week and featuring speakers from @seamuseum.bsky.social @flindersmap.bsky.social #WAMuseum #UWA & Kyoto Uni

#NAW2025

👇👇👇
events.humanitix.com/eighty-years...

Bake It! Make It! — National Archaeology Week Bake or make a creation inspired by archaeology! Knit a scale bar, bake artefact biscuits, model a monument, the only limit is your imagination.

Get crafting and cooking for National Archaeology Week! The Bake It! Make It! competition is back on. The prize is a fabulous swag of archaeology books! #NAW2025 🏺

National Archaeology Week

If you're interested in space archaeology, there are many more videos out there. I've chosen a selection for National Archaeology Week. I'll also post some podcasts and papers later in the week!
🧪 🏺 #SpaceArchaeology

National Archaeology Week has started in Australia!!!

Get around the instagram takeovers from our university societies across the country!!

www.instagram.com/nationalarch...

#naw2025
#nationalarchaeologyweek
#australianarchaeology

P.S. you can meet both of them and hear about the Body Politics project @archanchistleic.bsky.social at the Midlands Viking Symposium on Saturday! www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/gro...

P.p.s. and you can read the article open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ivar the Boneless Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 13/05/2025 · 1h 5m

New podcast with @goingmedieval.bsky.social on Viking king Ivar ‘the Boneless’ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g... #medievalsky

Ivar the Boneless Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 13/05/2025 · 1h 5m

Listening to the latest episode of the Gone Medieval podcast and it’s so so good! @downham.bsky.social is talking with @goingmedieval.bsky.social about Ivar the Boneless.

Dr Downham is also behind a lot of the research behind my debut #RansDaughters 🔥

Go and listen to this episode!!

Femininity, race-making and gender non-conformity in Queen Henrietta Maria’s court performances (1625-42) with Royal Museums Greenwich, Northumbria University and Historic Royal Palaces at Northumbria... PhD Project - Femininity, race-making and gender non-conformity in Queen Henrietta Maria’s court performances (1625-42) with Royal Museums Greenwich, Northumbria University and Historic Royal Pa...

A rather wonderful PhD opportunity with a fantastic supervisor: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🔥🔥🔥

YouTube video by Amy Powell ECHOES OF THE NORSE: SCOTLAND'S VIKING PAST

We were honoured to have Amy Powell visit the museum to speak with Dr Tom Horne, as part of Amy's video project, Echoes of the Norse: Scotland's Viking Past, which also features Dr Ragnhild Ljosland.

youtu.be/M-wsCFCtrt8?...

Announcing the theme of the twentieth annual conference of the Australian Early Medieval Association - Tempestuous Times!

What Happened On A Medieval Wedding Night? Podcast Episode · Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · 2025-04-22 · 43m

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/b...
A fun romp with Kate Lister. #medievalsky

The Queenship of Mathilda of Flanders, c. 1031-1083: Embodying Conquest Laura Gathagan analyses Mathilda as a consummate practitioner of representation through embodiment.

Join us online May 10th for our May speaker, Laura Gathagan discussing her new book, The Queenship of #MathildaofFlanders which analyzes Mathilda as a consummate practitioner of representation through #embodiment.

#Medieval #MedievalSky #HistorySky #Skystorians #bodies

tinyurl.com/ywp39dpp

SKYTHES. RED-FIGURE KYLIX WITH LYRE PLAYER, C. 520 BCE. VILLA GIULIA This Attic wine-cup or kylix is signed by the artist Skythes, "the Scythian", whose work we know from a corpus of about 25 pieces, of which only this one has a full signature. Skythes' work is defined by his expressiveness and energy, unlike the restraint and dignity of his contemporary Epiktetos. Here we see a red-figure musician, nude, against a black hackground, his staff leaning against the red curve of the circle which defines the pictorial space. He's facing right with his knees bent, playing a lyre (more like a cithara) like a rock star, head thrown back in ecstasy, his instrument sticking out like an extension of his phallus, which we can also see as Skythes has made the body of the instrument transparent, just so we don't miss the metaphor. Sometimes a cithara is just a cithara, but this is not one of those times.

For #PhallusThursday we have a naked musician rocking out, with a vine wreath in his hair, on a red-figure #kylix in the National #Etruscan Museum of the #VillaGiulia in #Rome. The naughty vase painter #Skythes turns subtext into text - this is an ecstatic #Dionysiac image. #AncientBluesky 🏺

I’ll always show up for Renaissance slander.

Had a great time speaking w/ Anthony Kaldellis about studying the people of ancient Rome using archaeogenetics and allied disciplines. At Isola Sacra, the necropolis for Rome’s primary port, genetic ancestry and mobility isotopes tell *very* different, but complementary, stories

LIVERPOOL 5-1 TOTTENHAM - We are champions of England! Read here.

NEW: Liverpool 5-1 Tottenham: We are champions of England! #lfc

#LFC #Anfield #LIVTOT #Liverpool #Champions

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