em horne
Landscape and Ecology in Old Norse | Doctoral Researcher, University of Nottingham | Place-Name Enthusiast | she/her
- 📢 #CfP #medievalsky #TOEBI 📜Theme: All Kinds of People 📅Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026 🏫Host: University of Nottingham ⏰Submission deadline: 30 March 2026 📚TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level.
- Possible Vikings in Cambridge, including a very large lad?! Exciting stuff from @cambridgeppf.bsky.social and @cam-archaeology.bsky.social (including Girton's @ecbrownlee.bsky.social)
- Archaeologists and students from @cam-archaeology.bsky.social and @cambridgearch.bsky.social unearthed possible Viking remains on a training dig at Wandlebury Country Park. 🔗 cam.ac.uk/stories/wandlebury-…
- Interesting project about house names by Ragnhild Ljosland being discussed on Around #Orkney this morning! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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- Stile with added chesspiece. #Lewis
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- Just one week until UHI Institute for Northern Studies Mapping Identities Conference hosted at UHI Perth and online 10/02/2026. Full programme now confirmed. Still time to register www.uhi.ac.uk/en/research-...
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- .esrever ni gnihtyreve gniod er'ew os yaD drawkcaB lanoitaN si yadoT #NationalBackwardDay ⏪️
- Read @thinkuhi.bsky.social UHI PhD candidate Tara Athanasiou recent article in the Journal of Medieval History published by Taylor & Francis reviewing UHI INS Visiting Professor Judith Jesch book 'The Saga of the Earls of Orkney'. tinyurl.com/322u762z
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- I love Stephen. The face of a doomed WW1 officer and the wardrobe of John Travolta. #thetraitors
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- Delighted to have this project out there for people to read! I'm very grateful to all the contributors and the team at @apardjon1.bsky.social. A special thanks goes to @medivalist.bsky.social for all her hard work in turning our Bishop Adam conference into this special volume! #MedievalSky
- Apardjón is pleased to present its newest special volume, Connections and the Church in Late Norse Scotland, edited by Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax. We would like to thank all authors for contributing, and Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax for their work. #MedievalSky www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/researc...
- Apardjón is pleased to present its newest special volume, Connections and the Church in Late Norse Scotland, edited by Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax. We would like to thank all authors for contributing, and Caitlin Ellis and Tom Fairfax for their work. #MedievalSky www.abdn.ac.uk/dhpa/researc...
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- open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi... Moving my runes blog over to Substack to see if it’s a better platform. If you’ve got Substack and want to learn about runes, then go give me a follow!
- One of the reasons I’ve done this is because there’s almost no actual runology on Substack, only nonsense magic-centred ‘information’ about runes… let’s hope I can change that!
- open.substack.com/pub/jasminhi... Moving my runes blog over to Substack to see if it’s a better platform. If you’ve got Substack and want to learn about runes, then go give me a follow!
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- SSNS recently supported a visit for Dr Jasmin Higgs to the 36th Field Runologist Meeting in Orkney. A report on the conference (by Dr Jasmin Higgs) is now on our website. www.ssns.org.uk/featured/ssn...
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- This Thor's day, as we're working our way through the vast ocean of data produced by the Great Viking Survey, we can already share that the number of variant spellings so far encountered for the word 'Mjölnir' is 58.
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- Scottish history books for sale. usual flat rate is £5pb/ £10hb + postage. rare books maybe priced separately - cannot post out until Feb so just collecting reservations (no payments) email claredownham360@hotmail.com #scotland #skystorians #history #booksky see link www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/tkgc6...
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- I've done a few podcasts recently and particularly enjoyed this one with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-saga-of-...
- This a good listen! And a great intro before delving into the new translation!
- I've done a few podcasts recently and particularly enjoyed this one with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-saga-of-...
- Listening to this with a cup of coffee and a mince pie... ooh and my copy of the fab new translation...
- I've done a few podcasts recently and particularly enjoyed this one with Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-saga-of-...
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- Some news - I've graduated! 🥳 Bonus news - you can now read my thesis here: 📖 eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/82711/
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- Special thanks to @jakestattel.bsky.social and @em-ehx.bsky.social for organising a highly engaging series of panels!
- Last night's @thinkuhi.bsky.social excellent Public Seminar by Tom Fairfax is now online. Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of Orkneyinga saga youtu.be/r2Tgd4HBkzI
- November and December is a busy month for seminars @thinkuhi.bsky.social On Thursday 27th November 2025 at 7pm, Tom Fairfax discusses 'Families, Networks and Informants: The Making of the Orkneyinga Saga' in our free online Public Seminar Series. tinyurl.com/yc5ave7f
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- We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
