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Join us in marking 180 years of New College in a panel event with historian Alec Ryrie. In 'The World’s Reformation’, Ryrie explores the hidden and often problematic history of Protestantism as it spread across the world 🎟️👇 edin.ac/3UiY7DS

🌊⛵ Dr Arturo Rey da Silva & CAIRIM-UEM documented traditional boatbuilding & maritime knowledge in Mozambique Island & Mossuril Bay! The team also led a workshop on managing underwater cultural heritage in World Heritage sites 🇲🇿 #MaritimeArchaeology #Mozambique #UNESCO @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

A reminder that the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Emile Chabal will now take place on Wed 4 Nov. If you are unable to attend we would appreciate it if you could cancel your tickets so that others can attend. You can cancel your tickets at edin.ac/4r6ChhK (Eventbrite) #History #Emilechabal

The School sends warmest congratulations to Dr Mahmood Kooria, Lecturer in the History of the Indian Ocean World, who is the winner of a 2026 Philip Leverhulme Prize. #History

A reminder that the 2026 Gender & History Annual Lecture with Professor Judith Evans Grubbs, scheduled for tomorrow, has been cancelled at this time. #History #Gender #Edinburgh

🦴 Fully funded PhD: The Long Afterlife – charnelling practices & cadaveric agency in medieval Scotland ⛪ Whithorn, Auldhame, Isle of May 🌊 With @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social & National Museums Scotland. Starts Sept 2027, apply by 5 Jan 2027 👉 tinyurl.com/longafterlife #Archaeology #PhD #osteology

A reminder: Professor Stephen A. Small will deliver the HCA 2026 Black History Month Lecture this Thursday. Find out more and book your free ticket: edin.ac/47ujbu0 #BlackHistoryMonth #Edinburgh

Tomorrow! 'Early Modern women take to the stage: Creative responses to the past', 4:30pm, open to all. More info: edin.ac/3TBNPOH #History #Womenshistory #Edinburgh

The 2026 Fennell Forum takes place Thu 12 Nov at 5:30pm: "Writing Scotland's History" with Dr Catriona MacDonald (Glasgow) and Professor Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh), convened by Allan Little. Free tickets on Eventbrite: edin.ac/4zdlOMs #History #Scottishhistory #Edinburgh #Edinburghuniversity

Listened to this on my commute this morning and feel duly mind-expanded. Off to buy one ox and a boxwood comb...

Looking for events? We’ve got plenty — explore upcoming talks, performances and discussions: hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/... #Edinburgh #History

Proofs! A discussion of Rather of Verona, as a contribution to the forthcoming www.cambridge.org/core/books/c..., ed. by Fiona Griffiths and Emilie Kurdziel

Stephen will be giving the 2026 #BlackHistoryMonth Lecture at @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social on 22nd October, 4-5pm. Register for free here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-hist...

Please note that today's lecture 'Children of Athena: The armed forces of ancient democratic Athens' with Leverhulme Visiting Professor David M Pritchard has been postponed. More on Professor Pritchard's national speaking tour can be found at edin.ac/4yLzPkD

The semester 1 programme of the Edinburgh Intellectual History Research Group is now available at hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Giving this blog another push. If anyone has any suggestions for studies (in English*) of Carolingian regalia, I'm all ears! blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/... *yes I know there's shelfloads of Herrschaftszeichenstudien

This project is such a fantastic collaboration between @edincollegeofart.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social & the University library collections teams! We are all learning so much from each other! 📖 📜 ✏️ 🧪🧬🔬🐑🐐🐄🐂 #heritagescience

🏛️ ArchSoc Archaeology Seminar Series Sem 1 2026/27 📅 Thursdays @ 16:15 📍 Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5 (Old Medical School) 🍷 Stay for the post-seminar reception in the McMillan Room! #Archaeology #Edinburgh #ArchSoc #EdinArch 🔽 for individual details 🎓 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

Please join us for the Edinburgh University CMEMS Welcome Event! 

22nd September 5pm at the Centre for Research Collections (Main Library Floor 6) Anyone interested in the activities of CMEMS is welcome! There will be drinks, nibbles and a viewing of items from the CRC’s fantastic collection...

Tagging @historyastheory.bsky.social @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

"an excellent example of, and model for, how to do open-access digital scholarship. The research aims to showcase clearly why a digital edition was preferred over a print one, and the documentation ensures that the project can be replicated in the future". www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Interested in late medieval witches? It's not too late to join sessions on the topic at the IMC2027, co-organised by a @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student, Ana Inés Aldazabal.

We're thrilled to share our Binks Hub Celebration Day, happening at Greyfriars Charteris Centre in Edinburgh on Thursday 8th October! Join us to celebrate five years of community collaboration in research. Find out more and browse the programme of events: edin.ac/4h2ZH58

🚨 We’re HIRING! ☠️ Lecturer in Human Osteoarchaeology* (full-time, 2-year post starting January 2027). 📅 Application deadline: 14 September 2026🔗 tinyurl.com/yrbxrwbh #AcademicJobs #Archaeology #Osteology #Teaching #Edinburgh #EdinArch #HEjobs @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

It was good to work with @willwyeth.bsky.social on this and get this story added to an interpretation panel at Middleham Castle. #WhereAreTheWomen 📜

Delighted to be speaking at the Second World War Research Group's Global Seminar Series on 8 Sept. I'll be talking about the experiences of British servicewomen in SWW Egypt and Sri Lanka. Info here: www.swwresearch.com/post/gendere...

“The retreat to the small, and the jettisoning of grand metanarratives of the kind that Hobsbawm excelled at, has reduced our understanding of who we are.” @johnmerrick.bsky.social on @emile-chabal.bsky.social’s biography of Eric Hobsbawm: unherd.com/2026/08/eric...

The School is please to announce that Dr Joanne Rowland (Senior Lecturer in Archaeology) will be Visiting Simpson Professor at The American University in Cairo edin.ac/45BsXJT #Archaeology #Cairo

Last week @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social's @samleggs22.bsky.social & recently finished PhD Jess Nutt alongside @uoe-llc.bsky.social's Alan Macniven were 3 of Scotland's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 invited delegates to the prestigious 20th Viking Congress in Norway 🇳🇴 www.vikingcongress.net ⚔️🚣🧪🧬🗺️

So proud of my recently #PhDone student now DR Jess Nutt who presented at #VikingCongress this week about her work on Viking activity in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 ⚔️ 🪙 @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social

Ready for the eclipse? Ethelwyn is! Stay safe and DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT THE SUN! #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Eclipse #Ethelwyn

Be like Alice and don't look at the sun directly during the eclipse today! 🌝🌚

My article — “Black is Beautiful”: Gender, Pigmentation, and Political Blackness in Modern Britain — is now available to read! It reinserts the politics of complexion into our narratives of the Black Power and Black Women’s movements. #BlackBritishHistory academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

We know that oaths were important in early medieval Europe: but what about oaths that crossed a line, that were unacceptable? A translation of an interesting case study, provided, inevitably, by Hincmar of Reims (as part of some work-in-progress). blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/...

Lucy Grig, Professor of the History of Late Antiquity, appears on You're Dead to Me to discuss Emperor Constantine the Great. Watch on BBC iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds: edin.ac/4xvmMTM — with @gregjenner.bsky.social. #History #Classics #Archaeology #BBC

Another new book!

New Medieval Books: Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England, published by @universitypress.cambridge.org www.medievalists.net/2026/08/new-... #books

🎉✨ Happy Blogger Day! The School has a blog, just saying, and it's packed with info on being a student here, what Edinburgh is like, even a view on The Odyssey! Read more: blogs.ed.ac.uk/shca/ #BloggerDay #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

Is Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Homer’s Odyssey? Dr Calum Maciver, Senior Lecturer in Classics (Greek Imperial and Late Antique Literature), has some thoughts… On our blog: edin.ac/4fzsuxJ #History #Classics #Archaeology #TheOdyssey #Homer #TheOdyssey #Odysseus #GreekMythology

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I'm very pleased to have contributed to this ambitious volume edited by Timo Schaefer (@hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social). My own chapter considers the impact of coerced labour and vagrancy laws on Brazilian society in the wake of independence

By the late Keith Rutter, Honorary Fellow & Professor Emeritus in Classics at the School. The first comprehensive account of the great variety of coinages produced in the Achaemenid Empire. edin.ac/4wqayeG #Classics @edinburghup.bsky.social

Spent three and a half days with a group of amazing schoolteachers at @jmmontpelier.bsky.social discussing the origins and history of the US constitution. We hit all the hot topics: enslavement, Indigenous displacement, the meaning of liberty, God, guns, and more.

Professor Emile Chabal's Inaugural Lecture has been postponed again to 4 November. All other details remain the same. Please accept our apologies if you are unable to attend this new date. If so, we would appreciate you cancelling your tickets so others can attend: edin.ac/4r6ChhK #History

Dr Kirsty Day, Lecturer in Medieval History at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology! #Edinburgh #History

🦴 🔨🪨 Experimental Archaeology in Progress! ⚠️ 🔬 MSc student Kemian Liu has been busy in the labs doing experiments to recreate prehistoric retouchers to scan into GIS for analysis 🌍 💻 #archaeology #EdinArch #edinburgh #prehistoric #exarch @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

📢 Ebook sale! We've dropped the price of our ebooks to £9.99/$14.95 for this week only. Yes, that's right: ALL of them! 😍 So if you've had your eye on something, now's your chance. Happy shopping: https://edin.ac/3m0FGgU

Congratulations to @jillburke.bsky.social, Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, who has been elected a Fellow of @britishacademy.bsky.social! You can find out more about her work on her staff profile, edin.ac/4dqC0m6 #History #Edinburgh #Renaissance