🎉✨ Happy Blogger Day! The School has a blog, just saying, and it's packed with info on being a student here, what Edinburgh is like, even a view on The Odyssey! Read more: blogs.ed.ac.uk/shca/ #BloggerDay #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

Is Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Homer’s Odyssey? Dr Calum Maciver, Senior Lecturer in Classics (Greek Imperial and Late Antique Literature), has some thoughts… On our blog: edin.ac/4fzsuxJ #History #Classics #Archaeology #TheOdyssey #Homer #TheOdyssey #Odysseus #GreekMythology

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I'm very pleased to have contributed to this ambitious volume edited by Timo Schaefer (@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social). My own chapter considers the impact of coerced labour and vagrancy laws on Brazilian society in the wake of independence

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 6d ago

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy, 'The Social History of Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America' shows how ordinary people engaged with post-independence legal reforms, including ending slavery and expanding courts: https://bit.ly/4fyqape

By the late Keith Rutter, Honorary Fellow & Professor Emeritus in Classics at the School. The first comprehensive account of the great variety of coinages produced in the Achaemenid Empire. edin.ac/4wqayeG #Classics @edinburghup.bsky.social

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Spent three and a half days with a group of amazing schoolteachers at @jmmontpelier.bsky.social discussing the origins and history of the US constitution. We hit all the hot topics: enslavement, Indigenous displacement, the meaning of liberty, God, guns, and more.

Professor Emile Chabal's Inaugural Lecture has been postponed again to 4 November. All other details remain the same. Please accept our apologies if you are unable to attend this new date. If so, we would appreciate you cancelling your tickets so others can attend: edin.ac/4r6ChhK #History

Dr Kirsty Day, Lecturer in Medieval History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology! #Edinburgh #History

The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · 2w ago

April Article: Kirsty Day @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social and Iben Fonnesberg-Schmidt @aau.dk on 'Anger and Authority in the Letters of Pope Innocent III (1198–1216)' academic.oup.com/ehr/article/... #medieval

🦴 🔨🪨 Experimental Archaeology in Progress! ⚠️ 🔬 MSc student Kemian Liu has been busy in the labs doing experiments to recreate prehistoric retouchers to scan into GIS for analysis 🌍 💻 #archaeology #EdinArch #edinburgh #prehistoric #exarch @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

📢 Ebook sale! We've dropped the price of our ebooks to £9.99/$14.95 for this week only. Yes, that's right: ALL of them! 😍 So if you've had your eye on something, now's your chance. Happy shopping: https://edin.ac/3m0FGgU

Congratulations to @jillburke.bsky.social, Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, who has been elected a Fellow of @britishacademy.bsky.social! You can find out more about her work on her staff profile, edin.ac/4dqC0m6 #History #Edinburgh #Renaissance

Jon Henderson (Prof. of Coastal & Marine Archaeology) and Nicholas Flemming lay out the challenges and strategies for safeguarding Pavlopetri in their new article, "Preserving Pavlopetri." Read: edin.ac/4wLdAtM #Archaeology #Edinburgh

Preserving Pavlopetri: Current Challenges and Future Strategies for Protecting the World's Oldest Submerged Town

The submerged prehistoric town of Pavlopetri, Laconia, Greece, offers a unique lens through which to examine the interplay between coastal environmental dynamics and the preservation of underwater ...

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UK Co-Editors all at HCA: Cordelia Beattie, Kirsty Day, Zubin Mistry, Diana Paton, Emily Ward. #History #Gender #Edinburgh

Gender & History Journal@genderandhistory.bsky.social · 3w ago

We are pleased to say that our July Issue is now out! This Issue includes 22 original articles, 14 #OpenAccess, and 9 book reviews. #Skystorians #GenderHistory Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...

Our mascot, Ethelwyn, set out to find the Flodden Wall by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. #WallsonWednesday #Edinburgh #WednesdayWalls #History

"‘Let the people judge me’: how Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage learned a potent populist tactic from Donald Trump" - Emile Chabal, Professor of Contemporary History, on The Conversation: edin.ac/4wzJsl7 #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Trump #LePen

‘Let the people judge me’: how Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage learned a potent populist tactic from Donald Trump

It’s a gamble for both leaders. But the US president showed how effective this tactic can be.

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⚡ OUR NEW DIGITAL HOME IS FINALLY LIVE! Discover the Heritage Minds Research Lab @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, at our brand-new website. 🌐 Enter Heritage Minds 👇 www.heritageminds.org 🙏 Thank you @leverhulme.ac.uk for supporting us through the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology 2022!

Signatory of the American Declaration of Independence, physician, alumnus of the University of Edinburgh. Dr Sarah Naramore introduces Christopher Rush on our blog, edin.ac/4vSxdQN #American250 #History #Americanhistory #Medicalhistory #Edinburgh

Co-ordinating editor, Professor Charles West and editor, Professor Lucy Grig, both of HCA! #EarlyMedievalEurope

Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · last mo.

With impeccable timing, on the first day of #IMC2026, the latest issue of Early Medieval Europe is out! Featuring articles by, amongst others, @katefalardeau.bsky.social and @medievaljon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680254...

Professor Catriona Pickard, Head of Archaeology, is collaborating on excavations in Wogan Cavern beneath Pembroke Castle, with 11 HCA students taking part in this season’s dig. Read more: edin.ac/4vdSBij #Archaeology #Edinburgh

Shetland's long serving archivist Brian Smith - the “embodiment of the scholar-archivist” - was awarded the Degree of Doctor honoris causa during this morning's HCA graduation ceremony. Read more, edin.ac/4p0VmCb #History #HCA #EdinburghGrad #Edinburgh #Shetland Image: Andrew Perry

Tune in at 11am and 3pm for the graduation ceremonies for History, Classics and Archaeology: edin.ac/3TiLZyF #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #EdinburghGrad #Graduation

🚨New Series Alert! 🚨 Series editors Louise Blanke and Anja Slawisch and I are excited to launch Edinburgh Studies in Classical Archaeology, which is seeking proposals for new books! All the deets: edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb... @edinburghup.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Huge congrats to history alumna Alice Loxton — a well-deserved Somerset Maugham Award winner for Eleanor: A 200-mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen. Photo credit © Adrian Pope/Society of Authors #history #literature

📖 Online author talk Amy Blakeway explores the impact of the largest Tudor invasion of Scotland on the lives of ordinary folk. 🔖 Register:

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Dr Amy Blakeway is Senior Lecturer in Sixteenth-Century Scottish History in the School of History and the Institute for Scottish Historical Research. Her research focuses on sixteenth-century Scottish political life in local, national and international contexts.

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Last chance to see the exhibit “We have always been here. And we always will be” curated by HCA students, on display at the Informatics Forum for Pride Month. Read about the project on the HCA blog: edin.ac/43hrhoX #Pride #Edinburgh

Happy Juneteenth! In 2021 the Fennell Lecture was given by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed - Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University - author of "On Juneteenth”. You can watch Professor Gordon-Reed's lecture at edin.ac/4kyckVa #Juneteenth #History #Blackhistory #Edinburgh #Fennell

Professor Frank Cogliano, Professor of American History. Rock Star. #History #AmericanHistory #America250 #Edinburgh

Frank Cogliano@frankcogliano.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Big week coming up with events in Southampton, Lymington, Edinburgh, and Belfast before heading to the USA at the end of the month. Pete and I have some dates available in the summer and autumn in the US (and online). DM or email me.

Professor Jill Burke, HCA Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures! #History #Renaissance #Edinburgh

Ideas Roadshow@ideasroadshow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Watch an illustrated video podcast with @jillburke.bsky.social about the nude in Italian Renaissance art & changing beauty standards for women related to the newly fashionable statues from Antiquity. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #art #academia #ArtHerstory #womenartists 🏺 youtu.be/5tLubAF_X2Y

'Gaming trend shares insights into Viking ruler' - How research within the School is exploring the life of Harold Hardrada, 'the last Viking ruler', in a fifth-century cistern. Read more, edin.ac/4vchMm4 #History #Gaming #Cthulhu #Edinburgh #Friday @chaosium.bsky.social

Gaming trend shares insights into Viking ruler | News | The University of Edinburgh

The Mediterranean adventures of an 11th-century Norwegian king known for his invasion of England will be brought to life as part of a gaming-inspired initiative led by historians from the University.

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Bit of a niche one, but the School is sandwiched between two trig points - TP9008 - McEwan Hall Dome and TP9011 - Royal Infirmary Clock Tower. #TrigpointTuesday