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Speaking in Iceland on Friday, all being well. Free to watch online, if interested: histudentconference.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/str… Institute for Name-Studies Midlands4Cities English Place-Name Society HI Student Conference on the Medieval North

👏👏to the whole Vikings for Schools team for being shortlisted for the Nottingham Institute for Policy and Engagement 'Best Schools Initiative' category! Best of luck! 🤞🤞 Judith Jesch Becca Gregory @Tcfairfax Jasmin Higgs Nottingham English UoN CSVA

Fancy finding out more about our online MA English and meeting some members of the teaching team? Head to our next information session, taking place online on Saturday 4 May. Registration and plenty more at linktr.ee/appliedenglish

Our new project 'Ainmean Charraige/Carrick Names' is in full swing. Please spread the word, follow us on FB, and - if you're available on 14 Sept - come along to our conference on 'Carrick's Gaelic Heritage' (link in the tweet below). facebook.com/groups/9545328…

Very excited to be joined tomorrow Nottingham English by one of our Hon. Research Fellows Camilla Balshaw, along with the brilliant Helen Jukes for an event all about life writing and place. including a sneak preview of Camilla's forthcoming memoir NAMED.

We're at the MSRG spring conference today in Nottingham, on the theme of 'Bringing Disciplines Together in Medieval Settlement Studies'. And what better way to begin the day than with place-names? Our Susan Kilby is presenting on 'Knowing your place'

Abigail Lloyd, U. of Nottingham, has opened this morning’s proceedings: ‘Learning from Celtic predecessors or creation from scratch: What then is a dūn?’ @SNSBI Logainm.ie

Really interesting to see and chat with the huge variety of people using mapped data to understand the landscape. Historical time-depth awareness is vital (as well we enriching)! English Place-Name Society Institute for Name-Studies Esri UK Hattie Gwilt

Back on the #Staffordshire #PlaceNames project today! Looking at a 1629 survey of the Manor of #Uttoxeter 'Ottoxator'!

It's the INS research seminar this evening, and we're delighted to have Prof. Richard Coates (UWE English Language and Linguistics) with us to talk about 'Naming archaeological sites: the case of Hampshire hillforts'

To count down to the publication of #thecuckooslea I’ll be posting a bird place-name every day between now and then. Spread the place-name love! Today, the special place that begins the book: CRANBROOK (Kent). OE cran + broc. Cranes’ brook (or possibly bog). #birdsandplace

Bird place-name of the day 2: CRACKPOT (Yorks). Norse kraka + Middle English potte. 'Crows' or ravens' gorge/rift (in the limestone)'. Love this. Great example of how modern spelling of a name can have nothing to do with original; no lunatics here! #thecuckooslea #birdsandplace

Bird place-name of the day 4: from Robert Humm & Co today we have DUFFIELD (Derbs). OE dufe + feld. 'Open land frequented by doves' (probably wood pigeon, but perhaps stock dove too--dufe was a general term for the family). #thecuckooslea #birdsandplace

The rise of Muhammad: One in every 42 boys are now named after the founder of Islam, with rate having doubled since the mid-90s. Dr Rebecca Gregory, Assistant Professor in Historical Linguistics Nottingham English, speaks to Mail Online about the popular name. ow.ly/9Aks50Sp0mS

At this year's IMC_Leeds we are running not one, not two, but THREE panels on medieval onomastics, sponsored by Institute for Name-Studies. Make sure you are there with all the Cool Kids™️ to discuss all things Names

Day 4! Becca Gregory is talking to us about ‘Rewilding the namescape’ - wildcats and beavers and bears, oh my!

The Medieval Onomastics panel returns to IMC_Leeds 2025, again kindly sponsored by Institute for Name-Studies! Get your proposals in on all things personal and place names, and for a great chance to talk to other name nerds. Please RT!