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📆 BIAA-UoE EDINBURGH EVENT
Hybrid Talk

"Long-term Urban Change at Aphrodisias: New Results from the Place of Palms and Governor’s House"
🗣 Prof Ben Russell (School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh)

Cfp: AHGN Graduate Conference - Asia in the global context | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology This is a call for papers for the 2026 AHGN Graduate Conference, which will take place at the University of Edinburgh in May 2026.

The deadline for submissions to the AHGN Graduate Conference 'Asia in the Global Context', which takes place in May, is 27 February. Full Cfp and link to submit at edin.ac/4082SPJ
#History #Asia #Edinburgh #CFP #Globalhistory @ahgn.bsky.social

micro-CT scan cross-sections of metacarpals from the study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.70209. Credit: Luisa Less.

📣 Published #OpenAccess in AJBA @bioanth.org 📣 “The Use of Micro-CT Analysis of the Second Metacarpal to Assess Cortical Bone Loss in Archeological Human Skeletal Remains” by Luisa Less, @drbutty.bsky.social & Dr SL Newman onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🩻 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 1/3

Photograph of a Soay Sheep lamb with tags in its ears facing the camera, standing on grass. Source - A New Twist on an Animal Model Reveals Environmental Constraints on Selection. Gross L, PLoS Biology, Vol. 4/7/2006, e236. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040236, CC BY 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1479004

‼️Published @royalsociety.org Open Science‼️ "From rugged isles to managed pastures: morphological changes in Soay sheep (Ovis aries) metacarpal bones following anthropogenic translocation" @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social 🐑🐏 doi.org/10.1098/rsos... @soaysheep.bsky.social

🎉 Call for Papers | 2026 Asian Histories Graduate Conference

The Asian Histories Graduate Network invites graduate scholars to submit an abstract for our 2026 conference. We look forward to hearing all your research on the 28th May!

Please use the following link to apply: lnkd.in/eeZsdZeN

Join us for the 2026 Fennell Lecture by Prof. Greg Grandin from Yale, discussing 'Zombie Monroe: How America First's nationalism shifts towards Latin America.' Secure your free tickets at edin.ac/4qyeI0t.

#History #AmericanHistory #Monroedoctrine #SouthAmerica #Edinburgh #Yale #Fennell

Spatial distribution of sites included in the dataset. The size of the circle reflects the number of entries originating from a specific location, while colour intensity reflects their density. The map was created in QGIS 3.34 software using ESRI Terrain basemap.

Nested pie charts of the NEENA data. Distribution of the human and animal stable isotopic measurements in NEENA by isotope type and analysed component. Human data 76% collagen (d13C and d15N data predominantly, 1% d34S), 18% enamel, 6% other. Animal data 57% collagen (27% d13C, 27% d15N, 3% d34S), 41% enamel (19% d13C, 19% d18O), 2% other.

📣 New #OpenAccess Dataset 📣 led by @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's Vera Haponava (PhD candidate), Prof Catriona Pickard & Ricardo Fernandes "The North-Eastern Europe and Northern Asia isotopic dataset of bioarchaeological samples (NEENA)" 🔗 rdcu.be/e2kNw 🧪 18700+ measurements! #IsoMemo #Pandora #NEENA

Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Sam Rutherford (@echomikeromeo.bsky.social) and learn more about the last 150 years of trans history in Scotland. More info and tickets (free): edin.ac/4tecKoD

#Lgbtq #Lgbtqhistorymont #Transhistory #Scottishistory #History #Edinburgh #WorldDayOfSocialJustice

On trial: Jackie Archive, 1964-1993 – HCA Librarian Blogging on library news, resources, services and skills for staff & students in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Interested in adolescence, media, advertising, gender and culture? The School has trial access to the Jackie Archive, 1964-1993, a seminal British weekly magazine for teenage girls. HCA Librarian blog, edin.ac/4bpezZt

#Jackie #PopCulture #MediaStudies #BritishHistory #CulturalStudies #History

🦴 This week's ArchSoc/One Health Archaeology Research Group seminar will be by Simon Mays (Historic England) 'Osteoporosis past and present: Age-related deterioration in the nano-platelets of bone hydroxyapatite'. 🕰️📍 Thurs 5th February, Meadows LT, 16:15pm - all welcome! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

HCA Librarian – Blogging on library news, resources, services and skills for staff & students in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology Blogging on library news, resources, services and skills for staff & students in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Books and journals and resources, oh my! Discover all things library-related on the HCA Librarian blog by Caroline Stirling, Academic Support Librarian for the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.Unearth advice, resources, and more: blogs.ed.ac.uk/hcalibrarian/

#HCA #AcademicSupport

It's International Lego Day. Here's a Lego colosseum held in a secret School of History, Classics and Archaeology location.

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #InternationalLegoDay

Congratulations to Dr Anja Slawisch, Senior Lecturer in Greek Archaeology in the School!

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Britishschoolatathens

🚨 Still time to apply to our post-doc - Deadline 3rd February 📜

You will be working with Zachary Horne, @acerbialberto.com, @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social, @johnmartindale.bsky.social
on the @leverhulme.ac.uk -funded project Weaponised Pasts.

Rise of the Nazis - Series 1: 1. Politics Delving into the corridors of power where Germany’s top political mastermind sees an opportunity to use the popularity of the Nazis for his own ends.

Dr Stephan Malinowski, Professor of Modern European History within the School, was a contributor to the BBC series 'Rise of the Nazis. You can watch it now on BBC iPlayer at edin.ac/4qQEkqw

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Holocaust Memorial Day

This Thurs 29 Jan the ArchSoc Archaeology research seminar is by Anna van der Weij PhD candidate @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social "Constructing the Limes: Burial Culture in Roman Period Netherlands" 🇳🇱 🕰️ 4:15pm in the Meadows LT @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social All welcome! #EdinArch #Roman #archaeology

A 'lost' portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn has been uncovered, and is now on display at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/news/raeburn...

If you’re in/around London next week & want to hear me speak about lots of fun early medieval isotopes + aDNA come along on Tuesday! ⚛️🧬☠️

Reminder - Emile Chabal's Inaugural Lecture, scheduled for tomorrow, will now take place on 7 October 2026. Please accept our apologies if you are unable to attend this new date. If this is the case, we would appreciate it if you could cancel your tickets so that others can attend, edin.ac/457Aroi

Still one week to apply! Come work with us!

📢 ✌️ We're kicking off our event programme for this semester off with two CMRS sessions!

🎨 📜 First join us tomorrow as our own @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social discusses depictions of Judas in medieval art and literature.

📅 ➡️ Then later this week ...

Emeritus Professor Judith Green from the School joined Patrick Geoghegan on Talking History to discuss the impact of the Norman Conquest on England and Ireland. Tune in: edin.ac/3LMpUbq

#NormanConquest #Podcast #Edinburgh #History

Emile Chabal's Inaugural Lecture is rescheduled to Wednesday, 7 October 2026. All other details stay unchanged. Our apologies if this date isn't convenient. You can cancel your tickets at the following link if you can't attend, to allow others to join, edin.ac/457Aroi (Eventbrite)

Dr Sarah Naramore, Lecturer in 19th-century US History, was a guest recently on Ben Franklin's World (@bfworld.bsky.social) to discuss the life and work of Benjamin Rush, a founding father of American medicine. Listen: edin.ac/3LznQn8

#History #AmericanHistory #BenFranklin #BenjaminRush #Edinburgh

Tomorrow marks the kick-off for this semester's research seminars! Discover more details on our site: edin.ac/4epxDoM

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

No doubt about the message here, in North Leith Burial Ground #mementomorimonday

Enclaves of inequality: Brasiguaios and the transformation of the Brazil-Paraguay borderlands

The most downloaded publication for December 2025 is ''Enclaves of inequality: Brasiguaios and the transformation of the Brazil-Paraguay borderlands’' by Jacob Blanc.

edin.ac/3N6CuTm

Congratulations!

Really excited that our *new paper* is finally out 🔥 This study is the first to quantitatively investigate museum visitors’ perceptions of historical analogies that compare concepts from the deep past to modern political ideas.
doi.org/10.1057/s415...

Graphical abstract for the paper. Skeletons with male & female grave goods (sword and brooches with bead string), with arrows to a tooth showing the type of analyses & subsequent information you can get from them. First arrow goes to isotopes which tell about individual migration; strontium is linked to food and underlying soils/geology; oxygen is linked to drinking water and to the climate. The second arrow goes to DNA which informs about ancestry and relatedness. To the right is a map of Europe, Western Asia and Northern Africa with a big oval of arrows to indicate movement around all areas of the map, and a map pin in England with arrows from various regions leading to it, to show that people moved from all across the map into England in the early medieval period.

🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/

Peace, joy, and light from and to everyone in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #EdinburghUniversity