Upcoming event of interest at UHI. Exploring Monarchy in Medieval Europe, 1000-1500: A Conversation with the Co-Authors : www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...

An idea on medieval 'Law and Love' that's been on my mind for a few years now, very happy that my first proper foray into legal history is now out OA in @lawandhistrev.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S073... #MedievalSky

Love or Law: Viking Foundations of Medieval English Dispute Settlement | Law and History Review | Cambridge Core

Love or Law: Viking Foundations of Medieval English Dispute Settlement

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Big beautiful coursebook, for new module. Just completed. 340+ glorious pages!

Apparently my Máel Coluim III book is £5.79 on UK kindle just now : www.amazon.co.uk/M%C3%A1el-Co...

Just finished Neil McGuigan's @neilmcguigan.bsky.social doorstep of a book on Mael Coluim III (Malcolm Canmore to you and I) and hoping even some of it will stay in this aged brain. But what a journey! Fascinating! And an abiding awe at the sheer volume of learning and scholarship brough to bear.

It’s the 6-month “anniversary” of my most recent article ‘The First Anointing of a Scottish King: the Inauguration & Consecration of David II in 1331’ in the @scottishhistreview.bsky.social! You can read it here: www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3... #medievalhistory #scottishhistory

The First Anointing of a Scottish King: The Inauguration and Consecration of David II in 1331 | The Scottish Historical Review

In November 1331, David II became the first Scottish king to be anointed during his inauguration at Scone abbey, marking a pivotal moment in the history of Scottish kingship. This article offers the f...

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With Scotland v Morocco coming up, here is an 11th-century connection. About the time the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin cofounded Marrakesh, the Scottish king Máel Coluim III founded a monastery at Monymusk. And there, in modern times, a gold dinar from Marrakesh, minted c.1097, has been found!

With Scotland v Morocco coming up, here is an 11th-century connection. About the time the Almoravid ruler Yusuf ibn Tashfin cofounded Marrakesh, the Scottish king Máel Coluim III founded a monastery at Monymusk. And there, in modern times, a gold dinar from Marrakesh, minted c.1097, has been found!

June 9: Feast of Colum Cille (Columba) (†597), founder-abbot of Iona. Irishman who anointed Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata, preached to ‘the tribes of Tay’, became apostle of the northern Picts and reputedly banished a monster from the River Ness. 📸Bodleian Libraries

Today, finally, the UK publication of the paperback version of *Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore: An Eleventh-Century Scottish King* with John Donald/ @birlinn.bsky.social .

Pterōtón Stratópedon, 'Winged Camp', on a 13th-century Byzantine map(ping of Ptolemy) of Scotland. Suggested identifications have included Burghead and Inchtuthil. The visualization of the fortifications are something else!

Pterōtón Stratópedon, 'Winged Camp', on a 13th-century Byzantine map(ping of Ptolemy) of Scotland. Suggested identifications have included Burghead and Inchtuthil. The visualization of the fortifications are something else!

Paperback of the Malkie book, it's finally here (although arriving a bit earlier than expected)!

Paperback of the Malkie book, it's finally here (although arriving a bit earlier than expected)!

Officially released TODAY!!!

It's a shame the Scotichronicast ended, Kate was doing such a useful thing. Here is my solitary appearance, being interviewed in one of the last episodes, talking about Máel Coluim III and the Anglo-Scottish borderlands (as well as myself!). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Episode 47: Dr. Neil McGuigan and Scottish Borders and Malcolm Canmore

Podcast Episode · Scotichronicast · October 31, 2022 · 48m

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Paperback of Máel Coluim III book is now available to pre-order from publisher: birlinn.co.uk/product/mael...

Fact of the day, did you know that over the last century historians have uncovered evidence that the Roman Empire once sponsored the foundation of a colonial settlement in New England? See the dedicated Wikipedia article for the detail: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Eng...

Happy St Cuthbert's Day. Annual excuse to repost article on 'Cuthbert’s relics and the origins of the diocese of Durham', *Anglo-Saxon England* (2021). Warning: contains some dastardly revisionism about Cuthbert's history (at Chester-le-Street) & the 'Viking Age' Northumbrian church cup.org/4ssGyNq

Thurs 26 March, Prof. Fiona Edmonds will deliver the 2026 John Bannerman Memorial Lecture (in-person and online), on a topic close to Bannerman's own work: 'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Tuilleadh fiosrachaidh | More info 👇 hca.ed.ac.uk/john-bannerm...

John Bannerman Lecture 2026 - Professor Fiona Edmonds | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology

'Dál Riata and Northumbria, c. 700‒1000: Connections and comparisons'. Hybrid.

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Mar 6: Feast of Balthere (Baldred) (†756). Anchorite from Lindisfarne linked with Lothian sites Aldham (Auldhame), whose monastic community he may have founded; the Bass Rock, his likely retreat; and Tinangeham (Tyninghame), whose religious centre eclipsed Aldham by mid-10thC. #medievalsky

Very pleased to receive author’s copies of Offa, King of the Mercians from @yalebooks.bsky.social today. Looking superb, and an excellent publishing experience!

For those who don't have the time to read this piece, it includes a new theory about the origins of Earl Harald & the politics of northern Scotland in the later 12th cent. See illustration (by Tom) for modified/suggested genealogical relations between Harald & other members of the Scottish dynasty.

Neil McGuigan@neilmcguigan.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Published open access with other new articles (link below) in a special issue volume *Apardjón Journal for Scandinavian Studies - Connections and the Church in Late Norse Scotland*, thanks to the great editors @medivalist.bsky.social and @tomfairfax.bsky.social : www.abdn.ac.uk/media/site/d...

Details of Steve Boardman's forthcoming *The First Stewart Dynasty: Scotland, 1371–1488*, the long awaited Late Middle Ages volume in the New Edinburgh History of Scotland. Discount code from EUP on flyer.

See link for detail on the recently published Historical Map of Perth. This & detail about a forthcoming equivalent for St Andrews (see flyer) can be acquired via the website of the Historic Towns Trust: www.historictownstrust.uk

New publication from myself, 'Haraldr Maddaðarson and Scoto-Orcadian Politics before 1222': www.academia.edu/149771345/Ha...

Haraldr Maddaðarson and Scoto-Orcadian Politics before 1222

Haraldr Maddaðarson and Scoto-Orcadian Politics before 1222

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The Church of Scotland has confirmed that the Old Kilpatrick Parish Church, which sits on the northern bank of the Clyde near the Erskine Bridge, is set to close later this year after 214 years of service to its local community. Read the story here 👇 www.clydebankpost.co.uk/news/2575942...

Historic 200-year-old Category B listed church to close this year

A historic 200-year-old church is set to close and it's building put up for sale

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The wonderful @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social has a hugely interesting new article just out in Early Medieval England & its Neighbours, all about Alfred the Great's embassy to India - free to read here #India #AlfredtheGreat #medieval www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Demons & the undead reaching up from Hell to grasp the world? Perhaps a metaphor of some kind, or perhaps I've been watching too many horror films #Infantino #PeacePrize #FootballUnitesTheWorld

2025 Frank Watson Book Prize in Scottish History! Catriona M.M. Macdonald, The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History. Edinburgh: John Donald, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., 2024. ISBN: 9780859767200. Congratulations, Dr. Macdonald! 🏆🎉 Read the jury's citation: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/scottis...