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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 5h

Nice! Did you take any pics? Beautiful building.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 13h

The book gods are definitely smiling on me right now. I’ve never seen this below £100 until finding it on eBay for 20.

St Cuthbert and the Normans by William M. Aird.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 21h

William, duke of Normandy, defeated Harold II, king of the English, at the Battle of Hastings #OTD in 1066. Harold’s pregnant second wife Ealdgyth then withdrew to Chester while, in London, Ealdred, archbishop of York, rallied support for the boy Edgar Ætheling.

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry showing one warrior with an arrow in his eye while another is cut down by a horseman beneath the words HIC HAROLD REX INTERFECTUS EST, ‘Here King Harold has been slain’.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 21h

A Pictish cross-slab was moved from Benvie Churchyard, on the outskirts of Dundee, to the city’s McManus Galleries #OTD in 1991. The 9thC Benvie Stone bears a cross with angels and intertwined serpents on one side, and mounted warriors with drooping moustaches on the other.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Bloody hell! Wishing you a full and speedy recovery, Ste.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Oct 13: Feast of Comgan (8thC), abbot. Irishman who founded a church at Loch Alsh, near Skye, where his cult still flourished in the early 16thC. Dedications are predominantly in the west of Scotland with important outliers in Easter Ross and Turriff, Aberdeenshire. 📸Eusebius

Clouds reflected in the still waters of Loch Alsh.

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AnnieSAnderson @anniescottarch.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Small horse for a large man ... questions to ponder for #MeigleMonday

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Michel Summer @leafandstream.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The paperback version of my book is released today! Many thanks to @livunipress.bsky.social, who have again done a fantastic job! Hard to believe it's been out for 2 years already! Very grateful for the reviews & feedback it has received so far: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Hand holding a book in front of a book shelf.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct 12: Feast of Wilfrid (c.633-709), Northumbrian bishop. One of the most colourful prelates of the time. He championed the Roman dating of Easter at the Synod of Whitby. Frequent thorn in kings’ sides but acted as foster-father to boy-king Osred (†716). 📸Ripon Cathedral

The early medieval crypt beneath Ripon Cathedral.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Oct 12: Feast of Edwin (584-633), first Christian king of the Northumbrians. He came to power with the aid of Rædwald, king of the East Angles. He died at the Battle of Hæthfelth against Penda, pagan king of the Mercians, and British king Catguollaun. 📸DaveWebster14

A stained-glass depiction of a crowned Edwin bearing a sword in one hand and a model of a church in the other.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oct 11: Feast of Cainnech (†c.600), founder-abbot of Achad Bó (Aghaboe, Ireland). He appears several times in Adomnán’s Life of Columba. Pádraig Ó Riain has argued Cainnech is merely an alias of Iona’s founder. Scottish dedications include Inch Kenneth, Mull. 📸Andy Waddington

Inch Kenneth, a small, grassy island off the west coast of Mull.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oct 11: Feast of James the Deacon (7thC) companion of Paulinus of York. He remained in the north when Paulinus withdrew to Kent in 633, and as an old man championed the Roman dating of Easter at the Synod of Whitby. 📸Paul Lakin

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Glad I caught 1984 on its final day at Dundee Rep. It is indeed a theatrical tour de force! Think it’s off to Aberdeen next.

Cast members of the new production of 1984 in action on stage.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Oct 10: Feast of Paulinus (†644), bishop of York. He baptised Edwin, pagan king of the Northumbrians, in 627. When Edwin died in battle in 633, Paulinus withdrew with the widowed St Æthelburh to Kent, where he became bishop of Rochester. 📸Paul Lakin

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I dive-bombed during my morning cuppa, and I see I’m in good company 😊

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oct 8: Feast of Iwig (Ywi) (7thC), monk. A disciple of Cuthbert at Lindisfarne who decided to follow the practice of peregrinatio pro Christo, ‘exile for Christ’. One day, he boarded a boat which took him to Brittany, where he lived the eremitical life until death. 📸xlibber

Lindisfarne Castle sitting atop Beblowe Crag.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oct 8: Feast of Cú Chuimne (†747), monk and scholar of Iona. He and Rubin mac Connad (†725) of Dairinis, Ireland, compiled the Collectio canonum Hibernensis, the first systematic western collection of canon law. 📸August Schwerdfeger

Iona Abbey between hills in the background and the sea in the foreground.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oct 8: Feast of Triduana (4thC), virgin. She accompanied St Rule when he brought the relics of St Andrew to Scotland. She later lived devoutly at Rescobie, Angus, and escaped the unwanted advances of a Pictish king by plucking out her eyes. St Triduana’s Chapel, Edinburgh 📸HES

The approach to St Triduana’s Chapel, Edinburgh.

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Corinne Mills @corinnemills.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Autumn is on its way Reekie Linn waterfall on the River Isla

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The first recorded British sea battle took place #OTD in 719. Donnchad Becc, king of Cenn Tíre (Kintyre), brought to a halt the ascendancy of the Lorn king of Dál Riata, Selbach mac Ferchair. The standard Dál Riatan naval ship was the ‘seven-bencher’. 📸Gary Sutherland

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Part of a cross-shaft from Holy Island in Northumberland. Dating to the 9th century, the cross-shaft is part of the collections at the Lindisfarne Priory Museum. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #Lindisfarne #Northumberland

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Northumbrian rebels led by thegns Gamelbearn, Dunstan and Glúniairn stormed the absent Earl Tostig’s York home #OTD in 1065, slew his retainers and raided his treasury. It was partly in revenge for the execution of thegns Gospatric, Gamel and Ulf. 📸York Archaeological Trust

Thatched wooden houses huddled together in an artist's impression of 10th-century York.

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Very pleased to have worked on this fascinating group of finds with the wonderful @francescatinti.bsky.social , and thanks to the comms team @cam.ac.uk for putting together the release. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/angl...

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Anglo-Saxon expats got special treatment in Rome’s 'Little England'

The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests the Anglo-Saxons in Rome were a thriving and valued expat community.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tilberht was consecrated as bishop of Hagustaldes ham (Hexham) by Eanbald II, archbishop of York, at a place called Wulfeswelle, ‘well of the wolf’, #OTD in 780/81. 📸Kevin Wilbraham

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can currently download my Norman Conquest book for only 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Super pleased to see this out (and open access!). Moluag was clearly an important figure in Pictland, here we got to help the team who made such important discoveries at Moluag's monastery get the word on the street about the importance of Lismore and the new findings! tinyurl.com/5cb9vf3p

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A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

A major monastic centre? Rethinking Lismore’s place in the ecclesiastical landscapes of early medieval Britain - Volume 100 Issue 413

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Scottish journalist George Buist, who brought the Norrie’s Law Hoard to public attention, died #OTD in 1860. Found near Largo, Fife, in 1819, much of the Pictish silver was illegally sold and the rest kept secret for 20 years until Buist investigated. 📸National Museums Scotland

The Norrie’s Law Hoard spread out for display.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Eadwig, king of the English, died #OTD in 959. He lost the allegiance of Northumbria and Mercia to his brother Edgar in 957. A seemingly peaceful split in the nascent kingdom of England ensued, later to be mended when the teenage Edgar became rex Anglorum. 📸York Museums Trust

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Osprey Publishing @ospreypublishing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In a few weeks award-winning historian Angus Konstam will be giving a webinar with History Scotland exploring his new book, "Lords of the Salt Road: The Norse Earls of Orkney". 14th October 6:30pm (BST) 🎟️ Book your place: bit.ly/4AjCu6H #NorseHistory #MilitaryHistory #Vikings

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Lords of the Salt Road: The Norse Earls of Orkney

Drawing on his acclaimed new book, award-winning historian Angus Konstam reveals the dramatic story of these Viking warriors.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Viking-Age gold hoard discovered in the Hebrides in the 1860s. Local landowner and respected antiquarian Erskine Beveridge narrowed its provenance to Oronsay, off North Uist, which seems to be confirmed by local memories. 📸National Museums Scotland

The hoard comprises gold finger-rings, most of which are plaited, and gold ingots.

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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aberdeen peeps - I'll be talking all things Picts and Rhynie at Aberdeen Waterstones on 2nd November - sign up here for the talk or a copy of the book (and talk!). Please share to all those who may be interested!

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Æthelred I, king of the Northumbrians, wed Ælfflæd, daughter of Offa of Mercia, #OTD in 792, reportedly after putting away his first wife. In 796, he was slain at Et Corabrige (Corbridge) by a group of conspirators including ealdormen Ealdred and Wada. 📸North Lincolnshire Museum

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Easterton Of Roseisle Stone - a Class 1 Pictish Symbol Stone discovered at Moray in 1894. The stone probably dates to the 5th or 6th centuries, and is now part of the collections at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. 📸 My own #StandingStoneSunday #Picts

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A 6ft Pictish stone engraved with a male figure holding a spear was found during construction work near McDiarmid Park, Perth, #OTD in 2017. The 6thC Tulloch Stone is reminiscent of two others found at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, and Newton of Collessie, Fife. 📸Aberdeen University

Images of the stone next to a drawing of the armed man.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records a great sea-flood #OTD in 1014, the tide ‘reaching inland further than ever before, submerging many homesteads and drowning many people’. 📸Dave Fergusson

A river in spate as it passes through woodland.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Wulfstan II, archbishop of York, called on his entire Viking-blighted nation to fast for three days on bread, herbs and water starting #OTD in 1009. The aim: ‘that we may obtain God’s mercy and His compassion and that we may through His help withstand our enemies’.

Artist's impression of Viking longships, with round shields arrayed along the gunwales, sailing along a river.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Bagged this wee beauty, which I have long coveted, for just £17 second-hand 😍

Writing History In The Community Of St Cuthbert by Charles C. Rozier.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Harold II, king of the English, slew brother Tostig and Haraldr Harðráði, king of Norway, at the Battle of Stamford Bridge #OTD in 1066. A lone Norwegian held the bridge for some time in one tale. Of the 300 ships that had descended upon Northumbria 24 returned. 📸Angus McBride

Artist's impression of an axe-wielding Norwegian defending the bridge.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sept 25: Feast of Ceolfrith, former abbot of Uuiremutha (Wearmouth) and Gyruum (Jarrow). He died on pilgrimage to Rome at Langres, France, #OTD in 716. He hoped to gift the Codex Amiatinus to the pope. It is named after the Tuscan monastery where it late appeared. 📸Remi Mathis

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sept 25: Feast of Finbar (c.560-c.610), bishop, patron of Corcaigh (Cork, Ireland) and of Barra, Outer Hebrides. He founded the monastery at Cork, round which the town developed. His patronage of Barra, pictured, is probably due to journeys by members of his community. 📸GerritR

The undulating form of the island of Barra viewed from the sea.

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North Ages @northages.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I just don't see how Brexit can go on being the elephant in the room. We're eye-wateringly worse off and polling suggests the majority favour rejoining. Manifestos are launched in the weeks before an election.

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