Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Recording of this talk available here www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehlu...youtube.comWhen is a Hill not actually a Hill? Medieval Place-Names, Perception and Use of a PlaceYouTube video by Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford 034
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Talking this Wednesday 5pm about key themes from my thesis (hopefully, soon to be published book). Online or in person at Rewley House, Oxford. Free for all but booking required here lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/news/seminar... 020
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I recently somehow managed a convergence of research activities: marshy island-sites with Old English names @cam.ac.uk , teaching at Godstow Abbey @ox.ac.uk , and a new project Rediscovering the Tudor Domesday @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @universityofexeter.bsky.social @uniofreading.bsky.social 1/2 110
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Hopefully, the research report should be coming out soon, but here is a whistle stop tour of the project looking at archival evidence from the Red Boxes about the nature, extent and loss of historical external surface finishes in Cumbria. vimeo.com/1191141031/9...vimeo.com14 Lime symposium - Abigail LloydAbigail Lloyd's talk at the 'What’s the Point 2: lime finishes in a changing climate' symposium, titled: 'What can the Red Boxes tell us? A survey of historical finishes in Cumbria.' 010
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026All the talks from the What's the Point? 2 conference in York are available to watch here: historicengland.org.uk/advice/techn...historicengland.org.ukWhat’s the Point? 2: Lime finishes in a changing climate symposium | Historic England 011
Reposted by Abigail LloydOlaf Bayer @olafbayer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026This week I am teaching analytical earthwork survey to students on the lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk MSc in Applied Landscape #Archaeology. We are recording First World War practice trenches in Wytham Woods. Under beautiful beech trees and ankle deep in bluebells 0111
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Teaching historical building understanding, interpretation and recording, with a good dose of watery place-names, at Godstow Abbey: @ox.ac.uk . Gained some new 'recruits' interested in close inspection of the claustral walls and surviving chapel! 1/2 110
Reposted by Abigail LloydJudith Jesch @judithjesch.bsky.social · 15/04/2026And @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social, recently of this parish @namestudies.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 062
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 16/12/2025Webinar and Q & A with the Urban Design Group on using historical place-names for modern street naming: lnkd.in/edeJRvjQ 010
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 22/11/2025High Bishopseat on the former Rookhope & Middlehope Railway. Self-acting incline. Lead, iron ore and limestone. 1/2 130
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 11/11/2025A free webinar with the Urban Design Group. More details and registration here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/place-name... 000
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Chasing down Gaelic and Norse place-names, Iron Age circles, Máel Ruba's monastery and some Hebridean barns. 1/2 120
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 02/07/2025A cool 38° in Düsseldorf but @isseme2025.bsky.social @hhu.de is proving fascinating. So far, Communities in Early Medieval England @rorynaismith.bsky.social , Old English Andreas as inadvertent rogation and Judith and Holofernes as never before seen via powerpoint animations 1/2 120
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Annual DAC meeting and dinner @stjohnsox.bsky.social @oxforddiocese.bsky.social Inimitable tour from William Whyte. Laud, Juxon, Opus Anglicanum and Rawlinson's heart, not to mention theatrical shrubberies! Great to gather & thank everyone working for hundreds of unique and irreplaceable sites. 1/2 100
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Opening icebreaker... @GeoPlace 2025 @englishplacenames.bsky.social @namestudies.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social 000
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Facilitating a roundtable today at GeoPlace 2025 on using historical place-names to inform modern street naming. Interesting hearing others from public and private sectors as we kick off. @namestudies.bsky.social @uonenglish.bsky.social @ordnancesurvey.bsky.social @englishplacenames.bsky.social 000
Abigail Lloyd @abi-on-a-hill.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Speaking imminently @snsbi.bsky.social - Stirling. Pre-conference walk looking at Logie Old Kirk (Thomas Clancy eprints.gla.ac.uk/135558/1/135... and Simon Taylor eprints.gla.ac.uk/222543/), a standing stone at the county boundaries (now rugby pitch) and a hogback or two. 000
