'The Historian's Craft & Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/45l8I2M Selected recent articles from the Society's journal, 'Transactions', on the practice of pedagogy and research. All content available Open Access. New article submissions invited #Skystorians

The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS

The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...

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No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.

Andy Burnham’s No 10 North has a precedent – in medieval York

No 10 North is historic – but not unprecedented. Medieval York shows England has governed from more than one centre before.

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Short courses in #History and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Open Learning: col.ed.ac.uk/lifelong-lea... Booking is open to anyone with an interest aged 16+ #LifelongLearning #Edinburgh

History and Archaeology | Lifelong Learning | Centre for open learning

History and Archaeology short courses.

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Is it coming home? No. But for centuries football, home and identity have been closely entwined, as @aucointaylor.bsky.social reveals in this fab new blog post... manyheadedmonster.com/2026/07/17/b...

Becoming Home: Football and Geographic Identity in Early Modern Britain

This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…

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Livia Visser-Fuchs has done so much for the study of late medieval England & Europe, this is well deserved & no doubt essential reading.

Yorkist History Trust@yorkisthistory.bsky.social · last mo.

📣📣 New book announcement! 📚📚 In 2027, the YHT will publish "Dynasty, Politics and Ceremonial in Late Medieval England and Europe: Essays in Honour of Livia Visser-Fuchs", eds Rowena E. Archer and Margaret M. Condon. More info here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2026/07/01/d... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Enjoyed visiting Cresswell Pele Tower and Walled Garden this afternoon. More info here: cresswellpeletower.org.uk #Medieval #Northumberland

With the plans to retract and close swathes of departments across UKHE, we reaffirm the value of the humanities and other subject areas under threat. A broad and capacious knowledge base is vital for a thriving democracy. rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

"New exhibition uncovers Edinburgh’s lost medieval church" The "Trinity Network's" exhibition shares two years of dedicated research by some amazing volunteers locating and mapping the stolen stones of the medieval Trinity Church in Edinburgh. Story here 👇 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2609970...

Edinburgh exhibition explores lost medieval church demolished for Waverley Station

A new exhibition at the Museum of Edinburgh is uncovering the story of Trinity Collegiate Church, a medieval landmark demolished to make way for…

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A great essay by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social via @creativecritical.bsky.social on creativity especially in times of crisis creativecritical.net/why-im-no-lo... #creativity #creative

Why I'm No Longer a Proper Academic - Creative-Critical

By Irina Dumitrescu. A talk given at the Creative Critical launch event at UCL's Institute for Advanced Studies in September 2022.

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I'm on the "That Shakespeare Life" podcast this week 👇🏻 -- give it a listen! www.cassidycash.com/evil-may-day...

Evil May Day and the Play, Sir Thomas More - Cassidy Cash

Take a look at Shakespeare's section of the play, Sir Thomas More, with fresh perspective provided by the history of Evil May Day

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Possible contender for a list of readings/discussion pieces for 1st-year undergraduates on AI in teaching and learning. At Masters level could be paired for example with Anna Tsing's Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... . Other suggestions welcomed.

The Cost of No Friction

Adolescence happens once.

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Some good news!: New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland carnegie-trust.org/new-carnegie...

New Carnegie Masters Grants to support fair access to postgraduate study in Scotland - The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

The Carnegie Education Fund is launching a new grant scheme to help more people in Scotland access postgraduate study. Carnegie Masters Grants will support students living in low‑income households in ...

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Thanks again to the Northern Dales Richard III Group for inviting me to speak at this event. It was a good day more generally (and Barnard Castle is a great place to visit). More information about the group here, for those who live in the area: ndriiig.org.uk

David Santiuste@dbsantiuste.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I'm looking forward to this event: ndriiig.org.uk/index.php/st... I'll be discussing peaceful aspects (yes!) of 15th-century Anglo-Scottish relations. Other speakers include @mattlewishistory.bsky.social, whose talk will be on Richard, Duke of York 📌 St Mary's, Barnard Castle 🗓️ Saturday, 25 April

New from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, Michael Brown's latest book: boydellandbrewer.com/book/scotlan... I'm looking forward to reading this! #MedievalSky #ScottishHistory #WarsoftheRoses

This is a lovely little book: www.amazon.co.uk/Language-Bad... I received this as a Christmas present, but I've enjoyed reading it slowly, as the year has progressed.

The Language of the Badger: A year of personal encounters with the wildlife on our doorstep (In Search of a Simple Life)

Buy The Language of the Badger: A year of personal encounters with the wildlife on our doorstep (In Search of a Simple Life) by Houlton, Mary-Jane (ISBN: 9798341478008) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Archbishop, Chancellor, Kingmaker. A Life of Thomas Arundel by Chris Given-Wilson, "a must read for anyone who wants to know more about the fascinating figure that was Thomas Arundel." amymcelroy.substack.com/p/book-revie... @amymcelroy.bsky.social @bec1926.bsky.social #History #BookReview

At Bolsover Castle poems were placed on walls and glass, and other marks were carved into its stonework...how might we think about these traces poetically? #worldpoetryday (4/6) www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/if-w...

If walls could talk: Poetry, marks and traces at Bolsover Castle

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Two CMS graduates, Joanna Laynesmith and Katherine Lewis, have appeared on the BBC Sounds In Our Time podcast on Margaret Beaufort: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Interested in fifteenth-century Scotland, England, Atlantic voyages, or whether Scottish women had the most beautiful headdresses in the world? Then this new edition of Pedro de Ayala's letter from 1498 could be for you! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Tudor England and Stewart Scotland Through Spanish Eyes: A Complete Transcription and Translation of Pedro de Ayala's Letter of 1498 to King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon

Pedro de Ayala served as a diplomat for King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile at the courts of Henry VII, King of England, and James IV, King of Scots. In July 1498, he wrote a ....

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Great piece on football in late medieval/early modern St Andrews. Perhaps unsurprisingly (for those who know me well), I thoroughly enjoyed this!

Taylor Aucoin@aucointaylor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 We all know about the #OldFirm. But what's the 'oldest firm' in the history of Scottish #football? ⚽🏉 The answer takes us back to #medieval and #earlymodern St Andrews, where university and city invested in an unlawful game. 👇 ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/t...

A little plug for the Adornes book, posted on another site by Brepols, so I will add it here! Brepols publishers Now Available 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗺 𝗔𝗱𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹, 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲, 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, 𝗕𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺 Edited by Bryony Coombs, Jill Harrison and Giovanna Guidicini

Publication of my short #PenguinMonarchs book on Henry VII on #WorldBookDay is wonderful. Enjoy the early #Tudor conspiracies, tragedies & @jodyhewgill.bsky.social‘s amazing cover painting. Thanks to the team @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

I'm looking forward to this event: ndriiig.org.uk/index.php/st... I'll be discussing peaceful aspects (yes!) of 15th-century Anglo-Scottish relations. Other speakers include @mattlewishistory.bsky.social, whose talk will be on Richard, Duke of York 📌 St Mary's, Barnard Castle 🗓️ Saturday, 25 April

Margaret Tudor's 1511 pilgrimage to Whitekirk, somewhat revised, vanishedcomforts.org/2026/01/21/w...

Whitekirk and the Great Michael

One Latin household books survives from the reign of James IV, (National Records of Scotland, E32/1). It covers dates from 1511 to 1512, giving daily expenses of food for the households of James IV…

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In case you missed it - there's a preliminary report of the intriguing findings by scholars creating an interactive digital transcription and translation of the fabulous Edward IV Roll: riiiresearch.blogspot.com/2025/12/impo...

Important Yorkist Genealogy Now Available On-Line in Interactive Digital Format

The Yorkist claim to the English throne was based, in large part, on a hereditary argument that the children of Anne Mortimer and Richard, e...

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There are just a couple of spaces left now for the next offering of my one-day course on pilgrimage in late medieval Scotland. The course will take place at the University of Edinburgh's Centre for Open Learning - Friday, 6 March. Further details here: shortcourses.ed.ac.uk/course/pilgr...

My latest article is published in the RHS and is available through Open Access. In which I propose a radical (perhaps controversial) new explanation for how and why English armies and soldiers changed across the Late Medieval-Early Modern divide #medievalwarfare www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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‘The good news is that the fix is not complicated, though it is time consuming and probably best achieved in smaller group teaching: read with your students.’ Excellent advice - and not a waste of time. Reading skills are key skills we give History students. So teach them.

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 8mo ago

“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?” this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️

Are you interested in the roads and bridges of #medieval England and Wales? In our latest #blogpost, Dr David Harrison discusses his fascinating new map that provides crucial insights into the road network as it existed in the 15th century yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/11/10/a... #Skystorians

A Road Map of the Yorkist Age

The Trust On…A Road Map of the Yorkist Age In a slight departure from our normal blogposts, here we present a guest post: Dr David Harrison discussing his fascinating new publication, Histori…

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