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Senior Professor School of Celtic Studies position now open for applications. More information can be found on www.dias.ie/senior-profe... #DIASdiscovers

We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025.

Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR.

Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

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Applications open for a Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures @queenscollegeox.bsky.social to work with the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

Es ist so bitter.

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month series is back for another year! Our January 2025 entry is @ria.ie MS 23 F 19, containing an original Irish treatise on anatomy, an Irish version of the Trotula texts on women’s medicine & much more👇
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Es ist einfach nur noch gruselig. Ich hätte vor 5 Jahren nie gedacht dass wir einmal wieder hier sind.

'Dangerous Journeys: Framing women’s movement in the medieval world' The Royal Historical Society's Medieval Lecture 2025 will be given by Professor Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University).

Join us on Friday 7 February for the first Society lecture of 2025: 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World', with Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) bit.ly/4gLj28g.

Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance

#Skystorians #medieval

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

SSNS Seminar - Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm - 'Frisia and the Viking Age' - Scottish Society for Northern Studies The SSNS Seminar Series continues on 16 January with a talk by Dr Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm on 'Frisia and the Viking Age'.

A very exciting SSNS Seminar coming up this Thursday (16 Jan, 7pm GMT), as Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm will be discussing ‘Frisia and the Viking Age‘. Online, free, and open to all!

Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...

Greenland is beautiful.

Call for papers – Islands symposium We invite contributions (in various forms/media) to a symposium which considers Islands as sites of geo-embodied knowledge mediated through experiential engagements with weather. Click here for Isl…

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣

Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online.

DL for proposals 15 Jan.

For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W

If you are an early career historian, you really should be following @historylabplus.bsky.social

Front covers of the first one hundred PhD theses of the International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences (displayed as a ten-by-ten grid) spanning multiple disciplines from linguistics and psychology to neuroscience and genetics.

Our International Max Planck Research School is offering two PhD fellowships, funded by @maxplanck.de & hosted at @mpi-nl.bsky.social, to carry out innovative research projects on language & genetics, & on multimodal language. Application portal closes 6th Jan 2025! 🧪
www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

Happy New Year! May there be hope and light.

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

I am still grateful that Latin was my second foreign language.

Psst! Don't tell them!

Frohe Weihnachten! I know it is hard to feel festive this year, but let's keep up the hope. I hope you are all with people who love you.

grey cat in the snow

This time of year can be a bit much - so here is a non-exhaustive list of some UK numbers that might help a bit.

Childline: 0800 1111
Samaritans: 116 123
Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247
Mind: 0300 123 3393
CALM - 5pm-midnight 0800 58 58 58

Plus bonus restful cat photo.

A tall, slim redbrown sandstone with a runic inscription along one narrow side and rich ornamentation on one of the wide sides. Photo: Eirik Irgens Johnsen, Museum of Cultural History CC BY-SA 4.0

A brief dose of #runes for the holiday season – and what better choice than the fantastic Dynna stone from Gran in Hadeland, from around the mid-eleventh century. #runology

Slide promoting the RHS Workshop Grants. Supporting projects and networking by historians. New Calls for Projects, Friday 24 January 2025

Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T

Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others.

Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2

Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124) | University of Oslo Job title: Thee Doctoral Research Fellowships in History (271124), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 16, 2025

My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!

Christmas in Orkney: the most wonderful time of the year (for killing someone) - Ragna's Islands: A New Saga Christmas (ON jól) is perhaps not the first thing that springs to mind when we think of the Saga of the Earls of Orkney (Orkneyinga Saga) and yet it is referenced fifty times within the text(s). Over the next few days we will take a look at some of those instances… 1. The host with most ...

As promised... here's our first festive instalment from the Saga of the Earl's of #Orkney (aka Orkneyinga #saga)... 'The Host with the most'! #Christmas blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

Dear all, the German government has not “collapsed”. That happened a month ago. Today’s no confidence vote was an entirely usual procedure in keeping with our constitition. The outcome was clear, as were the elections in February.
Enough drama in the world without construing it.

It was really nice to see you!

Many congratulations again!!

Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care:

1. I have just downloaded your app.
2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account!
3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2

This! Thank you for this thread.

I can now never unread this!

Because Canada requires the same from UK citizens.