Our first seminar of the season is tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October at 18:00
Tanja Romankiewicz will be presenting on '"Another Wall of Turf": the Antonine Wall in the context of Roman turf building'
Please note that in a departure from the norm we are in the Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre
06.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We are still finalising our lecture programme for 25-26 (due to some administrative speedbumps)
But we can confirm our first three lectures will be held in Edinburgh on the following dates:
7 October
4 November
2 December
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21.09.2025 16:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
The FMSG Committee has had a planning session this evening and we're really excited with the draft seminar programme for 2025-26.
More details in due course when speakers have confirmed
03.07.2025 21:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That's the 2024/25 seminar series wrapped up for us.
We'll be back in October for the 2025/26 series.
As we go about planning this, we would like to know:
- What do you like about FMSG?
- What could be changed?
- Ideas for topics / speakers
- Offers of papers to add to our ideas
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Tim Clarkson. PhD, FRHistS. Historian and author.
Early medieval history and archaeology.
See my books at http://senchus.wordpress.com/my-books/
Dedicated to the preservation and investigation of a nationally-significant early medieval royal palace site at Yeavering, Northumberland. Instagram: @gefrintrust
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
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The School for Advanced Research.
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SAR: The only residential research institution supporting scholars & artists at the intersection of humanities, social sciences, & Native arts.
Anthropology I Archaeology I Humanities I Art
Erstwhile medievalist. Sometime lawyer. The justice system was constructed to protect the powerful. Time for change. She/her No DMs, unless I know you. Vote blue.
Retired professor of Viking Studies, FBA. The Saga of the Earls of Orkney coming out in November: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-saga-of-the-earls-of-orkney/ See also https://uonenglish.substack.com/s/ragnas-islands and @RagnasIslands.bsky.social
She/her. Research Affiliate at the University of Glasgow. Govan Old and OG(H)AM; researching Digital Imaging and Early Medieval Sculpture
Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. Feast days, on this day, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Archaeology in/of/as/through pop culture. Run by @archaeonado.bsky.social, writing at almostarchaeology.com
Archaeology, ancient biomolecules and Ice Age beasts
Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | Doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies
Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
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I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
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Early medievalist, West Highland fiddler, writer & editor based in London (UK). Occasionally posts sculpture on @ASCorpus.bsky.social. Trustee @gefrintrust.bsky.social.
Archaeologist. Research Fellow. Iron Age and early medieval material culture .Horses and sharp pointy things, mostly. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic even if cynical. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
SGSAH-funded PhD researcher @ Glasgow Uni exploring the Picts in medieval, insular manuscripts. 📚
Outside of the office, you can usually find me in, on, or around Scotland's seas, rivers and watery places. 🐟 🌊 🛶
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures.
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