The deadline for The Scottish Historical Review's Scottish Historical Review Trust annual article competition is approaching... Submit your article for a chance to be published in the journal and receive a £500 award! Submission deadline: 6 September 2024 scottishhistoricalreview.org/news/scottish-…

let's play a game of 'spot the difference', shall we? all screen caps from the Economist. (and yes, Dr Quinn is, in fact, a PhD)

✨📖Call for Papers!📖✨Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison & I are organising a conference on Scotland's Manuscripts: Making and Finding, 5-6 December, University of Edinburgh, funded by The British Academy ECR Network & including a workshop Centre for Research Collections. Please share & consider sending us an abstract!

I’ve never seen anything like this in a English church, a mermaid combing her hair with an audience of fish, by the leg of St Christopher in a 15th century wall painting Church of St Botolph, Slapton

Caught looking for apotropaic marks inscribed in to the lead bowl of Luppitt’s bizzaro Norman font in Devon. I could make something up or copy a Wiki entry but I’ve no idea what the head sacrifice, centaurs, upside down rabbits, beardy masks and knot-work that lash it all

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…

Join us in Sept for 'Mary of Guelders and the Story of the Trinity Collegiate Church: Queenship and female power in 15th Century Edinburgh' A free lecture to celebrate #Edinburgh900: City of David. #Edinburgh #ForeverEdinburgh Book here: edinburghmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/mary-…

Move over interior design bots. THIS is an AESTHETIC.

Wander to Fast Castle this weekend with the inestimable Dr Will Wyeth. C15 and C16 remains (+bonus Iron Age well). Must have been a brutal place to be stationed but check out those views!

Get me your castle-y submissions for next year’s Leeds IMC! Castle Studies Group Castle Studies Trust could you RT pls?

A remarkable Pictish ring has been discovered at Moray fort after more than 1000 years in the ground by a University dig volunteer who thought he only had a knack for finding 'shiny pebbles' abdn.io/U1

I wonder what it is about Europeans that seems to make Tony Blair think they're preferable to Asians and Africans...

Surprised and properly chuffed to have a full auditorium for my talk on Mary of Guelders and Trinity as part of Edinburgh Museums’s series celebrating Edinburgh’s 900th! It was such fun. If you’re putting together some talks or a seminar series then please get in touch!

Before the dye-pot gets heated I put the plant-stuffs outside on a sheet to check for beasties. Glad to have spotted this caterpillar in time, what camouflage.

The non-profit I run that excavates historic Romany Gypsy sites to teach present-day Romany people archaeology skills could do with a few more pro archaeologists for 16th - 22nd in the New Forest! Can pay a decent wage though accommodation is down to you, so local is better!

💫Today is a VERY exciting day💫 A box has arrived with advance copies of my new book and I am delighted with it! With enormous thanks to Edinburgh University Press for being such a fantastic press to work with! 📚🎉🍾✨#culminationof10yrswork!