How about exploring the #landscape of the #Peak District in September? There's still time to register for our day of lectures and field visit on 19 and 20 September organised with @tudorfarming.bsky.social. Details at the link. Please spread the word www.landscapestudies.com/society-even...

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Society for Landscape Studies 2026 conference in collaboration with Tudor Farming Interpretation Group 19th & 20th September 2026 Hartington, Buxton

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#HillfortsWednesday Tre'r Ceiri is a hillfort in the distance, dating back to the Iron Age. The settlement is located 450 metres above sea level on the slopes of Yr Eifl, a mountain on the north coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd 📸My own. #Archaeology #History

@tudorfarming.bsky.social and I are really looking forward to this! Very much hope to see lots of people there and tell them about the amazing story of a small farmstead going back over 1200 years. #Landscape #Medieval #Environmental #History

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Still time to sign up for our 2026 conference in Hartington, Derbyshire. We and @tudorfarming.bsky.social have arranged a day of talks and a field visit focused on Peak District landscapes. Details and bookings at the link. We hope to see you there! Pls share www.landscapestudies.com/society-even...

Still time to sign up for our 2026 conference in Hartington, Derbyshire. We and @tudorfarming.bsky.social have arranged a day of talks and a field visit focused on Peak District landscapes. Details and bookings at the link. We hope to see you there! Pls share www.landscapestudies.com/society-even...

Society for Landscape Studies conference 2026 Hartington - The Society for Landscape Studies

Society for Landscape Studies 2026 conference in collaboration with Tudor Farming Interpretation Group 19th & 20th September 2026 Hartington, Buxton

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In Sept @soclandstudies.bsky.social hold their annual conference to Hartington in the #Derbyshire #PeakDistrict. The conference will focus on the projects of @tudorfarming.bsky.social which are transforming our understanding of the #medieval period in the area including the #landscape & #environment

Sunshine and shadow - golden evening light picks out the folds and contours of the Redlake Valley. I was standing on Shropshire’s ‘other’ Caradoc for this shot, taken a few days ago while I was out with my drone. This is the view looking across the landscape towards the Clun Valley. #Shropshire

The latest issue of our journal, Landscape History, arrived with society members recently. It's full of fascinating research and articles, as you can see from the contents list. Why not join us and start receiving a copy? www.landscapestudies.com/membership/ #landscape #history #archaeology

Join us and @tudorfarming.bsky.social in the Peak District. Our 2026 conference (19–20 Sept, Hartington) explores the upland landscapes of the River Dove — OSL dating, medieval farmsteads & more. Talks & a field visit. Book now! www.landscapestudies.com/society-even... #Landscape #Archaeology

Society for Landscape Studies conference 2026 Hartington - The Society for Landscape Studies

Society for Landscape Studies 2026 conference in collaboration with Tudor Farming Interpretation Group 19th & 20th September 2026 Hartington, Buxton

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The wheels are starting to turn! We have very exciting preliminary results from the #OSL dating and a provisional programme for @soclandstudies.bsky.social is taking shape. It's going to be an important year for us! #Landscape #Envirionment #Medieval

Part of the excavated rampart and ditch of the Iron Age fortifications at Stanwick in County Durham - a major trading centre and power base for the Brigantes tribe. The fortifications are some four miles in length and enclose an area of 766 acres. 📸 My own. #IronAge #Stanwick

Hello new followers! We are the longest-established and most ambitious Local History project yet devised. Established in 1899, and part of @ihr.bsky.social and @chppc.bsky.social, we aim to produce histories of every English place from the earliest time to the ever moving now.

Victoria County History

The Victoria County History is one of the world's longest-running research projects, exploring England's rich local history.

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One day to go! There's still time to register for our online AGM and Conference tomorrow, with bookings closing at midnight tonight. The event runs from 10am until 2.15pm and is free to join via Zoom. Book via the link below and please share this post! www.landscapestudies.com/society-even...

Society for Landscape Studies AGM and December Online Conference 2025 - The Society for Landscape Studies

Society for Landscape Studies: Annual General Meeting and Online Conference - Saturday 6th December 2025

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Have you booked a free place yet at our 2025 online AGM and Conference on 6 December? Only eight days to go. Please share widely!

Society for Landscape Studies@soclandstudies.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Don't forget to register for our online AGM and Conference on Saturday 6 December! It's a free session and you can find out more at the link. Please share with anyone you think would be interested. #landscape #history #woodland #Constable #watermeadows

#RomanFortThursday with Birdoswald along Hadrians Wall

It's #HillfortsWednesday !! Here's the Iron Age enclosure of Belsar’s Hill #Cambridgeshire, remodelled as a Norman fortress in the early 1070s, before being incorporated into a field system and overlain by a road It's still impressive however, especially from the air 🤩 📷 Bill Blake CC BY-SA 4.0

It’s #HillfortsWednesday! Did you know that there are more than 150 hillforts, hilltop and hillslope enclosures recorded on land cared for by the National Trust? They're amazing archaeological sites, but also real havens for nature. 🧵

Don't forget to register for our online AGM and Conference on Saturday 6 December! It's a free session and you can find out more at the link. Please share with anyone you think would be interested. #landscape #history #woodland #Constable #watermeadows

Society for Landscape Studies@soclandstudies.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join us on Saturday 6 December, 10:00 to 14:15, for our online AGM and #Conference, where we'll explore topics including woods, land use, John Constable and watermeadows. It's free to attend. More details and bookings at www.landscapestudies.com/society-even... Please share! #landscape #history

This month we’re sharing different ways in which you can learn more about the archaeology at the places in the care of @nationaltrust.org.uk. As the colder, darker nights set in it can be nice to curl up with a good book, so here are some recent publications you might find interesting. 📚🧵

Hello all, the Oxfordshire History Centre is now on Bluesky!

The area around Howden and Selby is remarkably rich in its history and heritage but is often overlooked. That includes Wressle Castle which was constructed in the 14th century for Sir Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, who was executed in July 1403 after taking part in a

☄️Out of this world. 🔆A bit of warmth and light for the darker days. The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.

Join us on Saturday 6 December, 10:00 to 14:15, for our online AGM and #Conference, where we'll explore topics including woods, land use, John Constable and watermeadows. It's free to attend. More details and bookings at www.landscapestudies.com/society-even... Please share! #landscape #history

The very impressive remains of the Doune of Invernochty - a 12th century castle site of the Earls of Mar.

A small 12th century church and a 15th-century castle at Kilcash, Tipperary. This historic landscape is perhaps best known for the Caoineadh Cill Cáis [The Keening of Kilcash], a famous lament.

Earlier this week I spoke to London Centric about the Ringways Map and all things unbuilt London - they’ve dedicated the whole of their latest edition to the story! substack.com/home/post/p-...

Would your home have been under a motorway?

"The most astonishing and destructive thing never to happen to London," says the man who has spent twenty years researching the first true map of the unbuilt Ringways.

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This looks like it might be really useful for anyone interested in building history and recording buildings.

Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society@sanhs.org · 10mo ago

*WEBINAR* Photographing old buildings (and other things!) 7.30pm Thursday 20th November Tony Harding shares some tips and tricks gained from his experience photographing buildings for various SANHS-related and other projects. Full details: sanhs.org/event/sanhs-...

Members of the Society for Landscape Studies will have received their latest twice-yearly newsletter this week 📰 To start receiving a copy, why not join the society? Full details can be found at www.landscapestudies.com/membership/. Please share with anyone you think would be interested.

Our Co-General Editor, @adamchapman.bsky.social, joined us in 2013. Since then, we have published just over 40 books and Adam has edited or co-edited 37 of them. The most recent is our 250th #BigRedBook, Westmorland volume 1. Join us on Wednesday to learn more.

Celebrating Local and Place-Based History: Westmorland and the 250th VCH ‘Big Red Book’

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Adam Chapman@adamchapman.bsky.social · 12mo ago

That's 12 and a bit years' worth of my labour. You can measure that in millions of words, volumes of tea, or hours of communal endeavour. More prosaically, that's more than 2 metres of shelf space. And an awful lot of footnotes.

Early bird registration and bursary applications are now open for Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG) conference 2025 in lovely York: tag2025.hosted.york.ac.uk/en/registrat...

Registration - TAG 2025

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With regret, we have to postpone the Peak District conference and field weekend on 27/28 September 2025 to next year. Taking place in this beautiful part of England, the 2026 programme will be exciting and varied. If you have any questions, please contact our Events Organiser through our website.