Richard Purkiss

PhD student in History, with focus on Urban history The Department of History at Stockholm University is one of the larger departments within the Faculty of Humanities with about 70 employees. The Department has about 15 active PhD students. There are

PhD opportunity in modern urban history at Stockholm University (sharing for a friend who's not on here) su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Book cover text: Studies in Regional and Local History Volume 23. Landscapes and Producers in Medieval England - Essays Presented to Rosamond Faith. Edited by Richard Purkiss and Hannah Boston. Book cover image: three figures moving with scythes, two working and one resting, from BL Cotton MS Tiberius B. V, Part 1, f. 6v.

Finally able to share: A Festschrift in honour of the one and only Ros Faith. Twelve essays on peasants and rural society in the 7th-14th centuries, edited by @hannah-boston.bsky.social and me, coming later this year with UHerts Press.
www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...

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Of course, this could have been (probably was) an ephemeral site with nothing in the way of hard structures. Sadly we can't even guess at the size of the groups involved, which would presumably affect the chance of small finds.

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The Limits of the Danelaw* Abstract. The Danelaw is commonly understood as the largest of three legal provinces in tenth- to twelfth-century England, extending from Yorkshire to Midd

Delighted to see this out with @enghistrev.bsky.social: A new look at the thing we call the Danelaw. What's behind the idea that England had three legal provinces, one of them Danish? And what did contemporary writers actually mean by 'Dena lagu'? (Open Access) doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...

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Hi, I'd love to be added!

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