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Tom Fairfax

@tcfairfax.bsky.social

Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | UoN PhD | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies

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University of Nottingham UCU branch@uonucu.bsky.social · 3d ago

What a gorgeous day to stand in solidarity with your community. Thank you all for standing with us and showing this university what courage and determination looks like. Here's to our strength as the fight continues. But more importantly, here's to us winning. Solidarity, UoNUCU

A photo of the crowd at today's rally
Fiona Campbell-Howes@fortrenn.bsky.social · last wk.

Still time to get your tickets for our @pictishartssociety.bsky.social conference next weekend! A fantastic line-up of experts looking at the 'Pictishness' of Pictish art, new findings from Burghead, and approaches to representing Picts and Pictland in the role-playing game Carved in Stone.

The Pictish Arts Society@pictishartssociety.bsky.social · last mo.

Have you got your tickets yet? Our online conference on 3-4 Oct will focus on the 'Pictishness' of Pictish art, with expert speakers on Pictish sculpture, symbols, metalwork, archaeology and representation in popular culture. Book now! #EarlyMedieval #MedievalSky

Judith Jesch@judithjesch.bsky.social · last wk.

🧵 A reminder #OTD that 'Hardrada' makes no sense in any language. The Norwegian king who died at Stamford Bridge in #1066 was called Haraldr harðráði in Old Norse. Such bynames or nicknames can (and should) usually be translated. His means something like 'Hard Ruler' or 'Stern Ruler'.

Christian Cooijmans@ccooijmans.bsky.social · last wk.

Very concerning that they don't mention which models were used in the process, and whether/how applications were protected vis-à-vis data ethics, GDPR, AI training, etc. It not only risks that no human will read what you have spent months working on, but that your work is hoovered up along the way.

Clare Downham@downham.bsky.social · last wk.

Funded PhD opportunities with a short deadline. Join our early medieval cluster at Liverpool with 7 PhDs currently working with the Institute of Irish Studies on all aspects of Irish, British and Icelandic topics and connections www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky

Collaborative PhDs | Research | National Gallery, London

As part of collaborative consortia, the Gallery hosts a cohort of PhD students funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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Claire Boardman@claireboardman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Continuing the theme of UK HERs, the next Groam House Museum online talk will look at 'The Black Isle in the Highland Historic Environment Record' - October 1 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm BST. groamhouse.org.uk/event/the-bl...

The Black Isle in the Highland Historic Environment Record - Groam House Museum

Join Emily Freeman, Head of Treasure Trove Operations at National Museums Scotland for Groam House Museum's Online Lecture.

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Claire Boardman@claireboardman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Talks are a great way to support small, independent arts and cultural organisations. Accessible, affordable, find your thing and get involved! 💪 A few tickets left for tonight's Groam House Museum ONLINE talk (£3-6) by Dr Oisin Plumb @insuhi.bsky.social www.tickettailor.com/events/groam...

Christian Cooijmans@ccooijmans.bsky.social · 2w ago

'Vikings in the Mediterranean' (ed. Price et al.) has been out for a few years now, but happy to see my review on it in the new issue of Northern Studies, which landed on my doormat this week. DM me if you'd like a PDF.

The cover of the new volume of Northern Studies, featuring an 'upside down' stylised map the North Sea regionA review of 'Vikings in the Mediterranean' (2023)
Clare Downham@downham.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just got the proofs back for this baby, now to check through and index (the publisher keeps checking that I actually want to index it myself, which makes me feel like I have some weird indexing kink) Publication in April #medievalsky

The Vikings in Britain and Ireland

The impact of Scandinavian invaders on the peoples of the Britain and Ireland was incalculable. Raiders on a sometimes large scale, they initially attacked coastal and river settlements, but ended up ...

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Jonas ZA@jonasza4.bsky.social · 4w ago

10 days left to submit your abstract for our @imc-leeds.bsky.social session on the communities of medieval Norway -- organised by @marycoconnor.bsky.social and me! Please share widely 🤗 #medievalsky #oldnorse

Jonas ZA@jonasza4.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Let's revisit medieval Norway at #IMC2027! @marycoconnor.bsky.social and I are back with another call for papers, this time on 'Communities of the Realm: Shaping Thirteenth-Century Norway'. #medievalsky @imc-leeds.bsky.social

CfP: Communities of the Realm: Shaping Thirteenth- Century Norway In the wake of civil wars which racked Norway throughout much of the twelfth century, the monarchs of the ‘long thirteenth century’ strove to reshape and define the communities of the Norwegian realm. Their efforts ranged from defining the ranks of the king’s retainers, to reforming the laws circumscribing Norway as a distinct legal community, to transforming its literary landscapes and creating new cultural values aimed at elite communities. Communities beyond the courts were affected by these movements or actively reshaped themselves independently. This session seeks to explore such questions as: how were communities in thirteenth-century Norway imagined? How did they change or remain static across this period? How effective were royal efforts in achieving changes in the political and cultural communities of their realms? We invite papers which address any aspect of community taking place in Norway during the thirteenth century, but also in Iceland as its political status changed over the course of the century. - Political change and legal reform - Norwegian imperialism - Foreign diplomacy - The hirð - Communities of elites - Military communities - Rebellion against new political communities - Cultural communities - Religious communities - Literary communities - Linguistic communities - Indigenous communities - Marginalised and excluded communities Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words and a brief biography by Friday 18th September to Mary Catherine O’Connor (maryoconnor@balliol.ox.ac.uk) and Jonas Zeit-Altpeter (j.zeit-altpeter@student.uib.no).
Christian Cooijmans@ccooijmans.bsky.social · 4w ago

Probably would have been drier to swim, but the site of the viking burial mound at Kingscross Point, overlooking Lamlash Bay on Arran, is worth the trek. A furnished cremation grave was excavated here in 1909, and has been dated to the mid/late ninth century

A photo of the viking burial site at Kingscross Point, Lamlash, Arran, during a cloudy, rainy day. Holy Isle is visible in the bay, and the cloud-covered Goatfell range is seen in the distance.
Adrián Maldonado@archaeonado.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A Viking-age boatyard on Eigg - new page on some old finds in National Museums Scotland. Inspired by the @seamuseum.bsky.social Galloway Hoard exhibition, which features a new 3D-printed replica of one of these boat stems. Don't miss the two incredible new 3D models by @hugowhymark.bsky.social

A Viking Age boatyard on Eigg | National Museums Scotland

Two oak boat stems dating to 880-1050 AD from the isle of Eigg show the arrival of Scandinavian seafaring technology to Scotland.These rare survivals revea

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Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 3mo ago

"To accountants, some courses or departments may be viewed as cost centres. But to lecturers and students, and the places in which they are based, they are cultural resources – repositories of knowledge built up over decades." bit.ly/4gOTZo2 #Skystorians

The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial

Editorial: Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

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