The Skaill team are back in #Rousay on November 16, 2024, for a free walk and talk about the ongoing excavations. archaeologyorkney.com/2024/10/31/ska… .#archaeology #SkaillFarm #Orkney #Rousay #excavation #ThinkUHI #UHIOrkney #UHIResearch

I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?

🇺🇸Watching the #USAElections2024 from a European POV is a trip

Northern Lights over Kirkwall, #Orkney.

Well done, that The Guardian notification writer

The older I become, the more uneasy I get about Children in Need. Disabled kids shouldn’t be relying on a once a year pity party to gain access to services or live the life they deserve. Surely we’re past the point of disability being seen as either tragic or inspirational 🤷‍♂️

OK, quick game for all those who are staying on here. Share this post and for every ten retweets we will add a book to form our next (potentially modest, potentially mega!) give-away raffle to our dear followers!

On the same day that you can enjoy the Geoff Egan Memorial Lecture (make sure you register), we also have the deadline for the PG dissertation prize. Encourage your department (UK & Irish universites & colleges) to nominate dissertations before Dec 15

Please share this opportunity for a 2-year F/T Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History, working on our major Arts and Humanities Research Council funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Loads of lovely archives to work in 😃 hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…

One of the outrageously important runic inscriptions on the Viking-style Galloway Hoard arm-rings, deposited c. AD 900. The kicker is that the runes are ANGLIAN, not Old Norse, likely made by an Anglo-Saxon Northumbrian. Images created from photo I took at Treasure Trove Unit viewing.

Yesterday saw a very rare event: the relics of Eanswythe of Folkestone, one of the earliest Anglo-Saxon saints, were translated into a new shrine. Her remains were hidden at the Reformation, rediscovered, and recently confirmed to date to the 7th century. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A fragment of #Roman terracotta pottery, into the surface of which someone a incised a sketch portrait of a man, some 1900+ years ago - a very round-headed bald man, with a big nose & bushy eyebrows. This is one of my favourite pieces of ancient graffiti! #Archaeology

We are delighted to be able to offer the BSECS/Georgian Papers fellowship again this year. £1,000 to support a project drawing on the papers of the Georgian Papers Programme Georgian Papers Programme **DEADLINE 1 FEBRUARY 2025** #18thC #twitterstorians #history

🎙️ For anyone interested, I’m starting a podcast on all the things that makes #Orkney such a special place, including its incredible history. I’ve recorded an introduction on the link before soon to be followed by the first episode - on St Magnus. open.spotify.com/episode/4sEGjk…

Wool has been central to Britain's economy for thousands of years. It is enshrined in our constitution. The Lord Speaker of the House of Lords sits on a (tarted up) sack of wool to this day. So this is sad in lots of ways to lots of people. What should we do about it?

Day 1. No one wants to be a refugee.

The 9th century Warminster Jewel - an aestel (a manuscript pointer) from the time of King Alfred the Great of Wessex. Now part of the collections at Salisbury Museum, the jewel was found by a metal detectorist at Cley Hill, Warminster, in 1997. 📸 My own. #FindsFriday

When I read things like this I can't help hoping Norway with take #Orkney back. It sounds amazing! 😁 #Orxit

A quick look back at #orkney in 2024 🤩