Keith Lilley

Tertia and Joana lead a fieldtrip to see local rock art in Faifley, West Dunbartonshire during the RSE funded rock art workshops in 2025 © ScARF

Are you interested in Neolithic and Bronze Age rock art?

Join us at Kilmartin Museum on the 16th of May for a free, hybrid event led by the wonderful Tertia Barnett and @joanavaldez.bsky.social.

In-person places are limited, so book soon if you're interested!

More information: bit.ly/4s85XMi

BBC Scotland - Roaming in the Wild - Episode guide All episodes of Roaming in the Wild

I love watching this pair, brilliant viewing and great music, 'Doon the Kelvin'
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Alfred the Great’s Indian Embassy

How likely is it that Alfred the Great sent two emissaries to India in the ninth century?

⌛️ Last chance to read this recent History Matters for free

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The Monk’s Garden at Avebury Manor, Wiltshire in Spring, with stone walls enclosing smaller areas of planting and topiary bushes with the Manor behind. ©National Trust Images/James Dobson

On the theme of #MedievalMarch we’re exploring some of the gardens in the care of the National Trust with medieval features.

Original gardens dating from this period are rare, but some individual elements such as walls, dovecotes and fishponds, still remain.

Find out more here: bit.ly/40BMoj9

Symposium: Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland

On Sat 11 April we will be hosting, in association with @irishhistorians.bsky.social, a day symposium on 'Peasant Movements and Land Agitation in Modern Ireland'. This is a free event, open to all in-person or online via Teams. More info at www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris... #IrishStudies

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...

How are historians rethinking environmental and social history via improved OCR of imperial archives?

Join us this Wednesday 3pm UK time to hear from @jimclifford.bsky.social and @historyjacob.bsky.social - registration link below.

Carrickfergus - Royal Irish Academy Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 2 Carrickfergus by Philip Robinson was originally published in 1986. The online version contains the cover, general abbreviations, essay, topographical information, sele...

Explore Carrickfergus here: www.ria.ie/irish-histor...

Image credits:
1. Carrickfergus cover
2. Carrickfergus Ordnance Survey map, c. 1840, reconstructed at 1:2500
3. Text extract
4. Text map of defences
5. 'Kragfergus towne', c. 1560 (BL, Cotton MS Augustus I, ii, 42)
#MapMonday #OpenSource

Article in the Journal of Historical Geography with @mudderofpearl.bsky.social and @lizgabbett.bsky.social detailing preliminary findings from the project 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage'

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@heritagecouncil.ie @ulresearch.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social

Thanks, I'll take a look, I strongly suspect the actual layout of the towns in these cases has less to do with lordship and much more about local individuals who were called upon

Gearing up for a lecture in Ludlow on Norman towns, giving it a bit of a de Lacy spin of course, looking for any similarities between urban forms 🧐

Bilingual information for river walk.

Reading the #Landscape - our #rivers and #coast are more than lines on a #map - come join us for this celebration of #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion City of #Literature #UNESCO #Rheidol #RiversOfWales

@hywelgriffiths.bsky.social
@aberuni.bsky.social
#envhistory #Wales #heritage #environment #art #write

#jobklaxon
Lecturer in #digitalhumanities at @ucc.ie
Salary: €42,102 - €72,452 (Scale B) / €44,169 - €68,942 (Scale A).
Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal (ore.ucc.ie).
Maybe of interest to the
@digitalmedievalist.bsky.social community!

Nearly fifty years ago... This was the future

Some very interesting work here on the biodiversity impact of land abandonment during the Black Death. I'd love to see something similar on the Highland Clearances ... it would usefully inform re-wilding chat.

Yes 😍

A small town on Hadrian's Wall? I Dr Tony Wilmott YouTube video by Royal Archaeological Institute

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐬, 𝟏𝟏𝐭𝐡 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐋𝐄𝐂𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄 𝐚𝐭 𝟓 𝐩𝐦
Dr Tony Wilmott will be presenting our next lecture on 'A small town on Hadrian's Wall? - the extramural settlement and bathhouse at Birdoswald’.

At Burlington House and on youtu.be/a87uR2-M3Go

Non-members are welcome - just contact us to join the guest list.

What can biodiversity patterns during the Black Death tell us about our relationships with nature?

(hint: its not all bad!)

Read more in our new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🌏🧪🌐

The book 'Building Modern Scotland' on a shop bookshelf, between other books. The cover shows the title, the subtitle ('A social and architectural history of the new towns, 1947-1997') and the authors' names. The image shows some new town housing. A group of boys is gathered with their bikes. One is mending a flat tyre. A smaller boy watches on, perhaps wanting to be part of the group.

Publication day for the paperback edition of 'Building Modern Scotland'. Pictured here in Blackwells Edinburgh! It's a social & architectural history of Scotland's post-war new towns, collaboratively written by a @leverhulme.ac.uk funded team from @edincollegeofart.bsky.social and @glasgow.ac.uk

Postgraduate Funding Find out about postgraduate funding opportunities within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College London at Universi... PhD Project - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – ‘Urgent rescue curation of space heritage in a time of world crisis’ with The Science Museum Group and University College Lond...

We have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised!

Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Historic Environment Scotland is looking for a new Digital Documentation Officer. F/T. Permanent Role. Stirling, Scotland.

#HeritageJobs #DigitalDocumentation

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) at University of York Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate (Ancient DNA) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

34 month PDRA position on my Roman Britannia: Mobility and Society project, based with fab project co-lead Dr Sophy Charlton at @york-bioarch.bsky.social - come join our interdisciplinary Cardiff-York team and reshape narratives of the Roman period in Britannia.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...

Screen grab of a call for papers at Leeds IMC. The text reads: TIME FOR CHANGE: TEMPORALITIES & CASTLES Call for Papers - Leeds IMC 6-9 July 2026 - 'Temporalities' What is a castle in time? Is there a time of castles, for castles? Can castles be atemporal? What does a castle studies engaging with questions of temporality look like? Whose castle temporalities matter? Can we call time on the castle studies of yesterday, yesteryear? Can the lens of temporality challenge castle knowledges and interpretations? This panel welcomes proposals which examine temporalities and temporalities in castle studies as a field of inquiry at the intersection of (among others) medieval studies, architecture, archaeology, history, heritage and medievalism. Papers of between 15-20 minutes, by researchers at all career stages, discussing any aspects of castle studies research including but not limited to the following, are welcome: • Temporality in castle studies; • Remembering and memorializing in castle Obscured history, identities and heritages in spaces, communities, themes: past and castles past and present present; • Medieval temporalities and the heritage • Temporally situated antiquity, novelty and innovation in castles; • Planning, timing, scheduling, recording in • castle communities, lives, societies; • Ruined, lost and fictional castles in time Parallel and contradictory times; • Time and temporality in the reception of castles; Please send proposals (a title and abstract of no more than 200 words; short biography of 50 words or less), or any questions, to Dr William Wyeth (william.wyeth@english-heritage.org.uk) by 15 September 2025. This session is organised by Emma Fearon (Nottingham Trent University) and William Wyeth (English Heritage)

Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC.

If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social

Original CfP below ⬇️

Data Coordinator (Post-Ex) - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources Salary: £35,457.99-£37,778.88 (depending on experience) + generous benefits packageClosing Date: 27/03/26Location: Based in Headland Midlands & West (Hereford), South & East (Silsoe), Scotland (Edinbu...

Data Coordinator (Post-Ex)
Headland Archaeology
Salary: £35,457.99-£37,778.88 (depending on experience) + generous benefits package
Date: March 27, 2026
Based in Midlands & West (Hereford), South & East (Silsoe), Scotland (Edinburgh) or Yorkshire & North (Cleckheaton).
www.bajr.org/job-ad/data-...

A map is shown, with the logo of the Historic Towns Trust in the top left corner. The words "Mapping our Past, Shaping our Future" are written in the centre.

Join us on 31 March to learn about family history in late Medieval Brecon!

This webinar is hosted in collaboration with the Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-f...

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll

We know these are exactly the sorts of subjects that breathe life into humanity and future intellectual interest and curiosity...

University courses should be about acquiring skills, not just a job | Letters Letters: Pete Dorey and Pat Stevenson respond to a letter that made the argument for employers funding universities

Spot on. "If fee-paying students want to study geography, English literature or history, why shouldn’t they?"
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...