Interested in towns 1000-1500? Then here's a CfP for #IMC2025 for you, from Jacob Frank Morley HCAatEdinburgh.

Very excited to share the Call for Book Chapters for "Communication in Crisis," edited by me & Lea Pokorny for Trivent Publishing. Details: shorturl.at/4QZga

The Daily Mail is foaming at the mouth about Starmer moving a portrait - so the Today Programme just read out the headline & ran a whole feature on it. Can we please stop letting these papers set the news agenda? Let them howl into the void if they must, but don't run after them

Edward Bruce, Dún Dealgan.

Exciting news! My article looking at violence in the Lanercost Chronicle has been published now in EPOCH History Magazine , check it out here! epoch-magazine.com/post/a-norther… Special thanks to Tom Johnson for supervising the MA thesis it’s based on

Superb new resource mapping Scotland's #ForgottenWoodlands / #CoillteanCaillte through 15, 000 placenames in the languages of Scotland - absolutely fascinating, and such insights into changing #landscapes! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9b790d… #Scots #Gaelic Robert Macfarlane Billy Kay

Huge news for art historians: the first phase of ⁦The Courtauld⁩ Witt Library digitisation is now live. Search the British School artist boxes for images from private collections and pre-internet auction records. French School coming next week. photocollections.courtauld.ac.uk/sec-menu/searc…

Call for Papers for IMC_Leeds 2025. This panel encourages papers which engage with the overlap between worlds of knowledge, especially the application of medieval based research to modern issues. Please share! #IMC25 #medievaltwitter

The 'lost art' of painting hydro-electric stations bbc.com/news/articles/…

Free online heraldry lecture on 11 September: can a griffin be shown in its natural colours? What were they? eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-griffin-pr… @Eventbrite

#OTD in 1241 Marie de Coucy, queen of Alexander II of Scotland, gave birth to the future Alexander III at Roxburgh. The last 'Canmore' king, his reign would see hitherto unmatched prosperity & administrative unity, settlement with Norway over the Hebrides & the annexation of Man.

MS 17 has been redigitized. MS 17 is a computistical miscellany produced in England (Thorney, Cambridgeshire) in 1110(?), but with some later additions. (Pictured: f. 7v and f. 8r) You can view it here: digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/cca30c…

'Slaughter on the Swale' - the Battle of Myton 1319 Friday 20 September, 7.30pm Dr Rachael Whitbread, Joint Yorkshire Region Chair, gives a free talk on the battle of Myton, where an amateur English army met a seasoned Scottish one. Details via 'Events' in our bio.

One of our star finds from Burghead 2023 in the press today! Found by one of our fab volunteers John Ralph bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Join us next week on Tuesday 10 September, 12pm (EDT) for the Frank Watson Book Prize Virtual Lecture with Dr Dr Neil McGuigan on Máel Coluim III and the study of his reign. FREE registration: bit.ly/4fKGRNs birlinnbooks Guelph History Dept

"The medieval church as an economic firm?" David D'Avray takes on some of the recent political science literature on the Middle Ages (via Pseudoerasmus). link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Publication day! If you’ve ever wanted to understand how the far-right (both the ludicrous and the violent and dangerous elements thereof) use the crusades to construct an imagined shared past in service of their desired future, we have the book for you. routledge.com/The-Crusades-a…

For every £1 the government invests in higher education, higher education generates £14. Universities have a total economic impact of £265 billion. Each graduate generates an extra £75k for the country. In a country with a rational media, universities would be celebrated.

We are delighted to announce this year's public history lecture with Gresham College: gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/women… Join us in person in London/online on 5 November to hear Prof Janina Ramirez (author of the bestselling book 'Femina') speak on the importance of writing women into