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Patrick Gleeson

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Archaeologist and Deputy Head of School Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast. Munster fan, coffee enthusiast. New book with FCP: Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/patrick-g…

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QUBstaff @qubstaff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congratulations to Dr Alison Garden @notsecretgarden.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social - runner up (and one of only two prizewinners) in The Conversation Prize for writers 2026! ✒ Read Alison's article: ow.ly/EAz550ZQBcr 👉 Read the Awards announcement: ow.ly/pf9350ZQBQf #LoveQUBstaff
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These stories of forbidden love and devotion during the Troubles reveal a more intimate side of conflict in Ireland
Baptisms, schools, church services – how ordinary families navigated love and marriage across taboo lines.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc as part of my ERC project - the deadline is tomorrow noon GMT, apologies for the little notice If you have interest but can't make the deadline, please DM/email me immediately and i can try extend the deadline a few days
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Connecting talent with opportunity in higher education
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Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The IAI is seeking the assistance of its members and the wider archaeological community to complete a short survey on capacity, for both fieldworkers and specialists in the commercial sector. For more info please see the image. You can complete the survey using the link below: buff.ly/feX4K41
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Paperback version of my book available for pre order for the exceptionally low price of €26. Absoloute bargain if I do say so myself, thanks to the good people of Four Courts Press. www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l...
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Four Courts Press | Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland AD 400-1150
by Patrick Gleeson
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 27/07/2026
📰 Was Haughey's Fort in Northern Ireland "one of the most significant centres of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe"? 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @heritagedaily.bsky.social www.heritagedaily.com/2026/07/bron...
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Bronze Age hillfort in Northern Ireland was a centre of power and ritual
Archaeologists have uncovered compelling new evidence that Haughey's Fort in County Armagh was one of the most significant centres of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe,…
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Tudor Skinner and Durham colleagues doing a GPR survey of Yeavering today with our new QUB MALA MiRA HDR GPR and ATV. Such an iconic and amazing site.
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
One solitary copy of my book left, sans dust jacket: www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/l... get it while you can 📖
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 08/07/2026
They found the landscape was covered in many more earthworks than previously known, suggesting Navan was already a significant prehistoric centre as early as the Bronze Age 5/12
Topographic map of the Navan landscape, annotated with potential Bronze Age finds and monuments in the landscape after this work was undertaken. Many more earthworks have been identified.
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 08/07/2026
NEW Best known as the mythological capital of Ulster, Navan Fort was one of the five ancient capitals of Ireland. New research finds the landscape's significance stretches all the way back to the Bronze Age, indicating it was a major prehistoric centre. #AntiquityThread 1/12 🧵 🏺 #Archaeology
Aerial view of a green landscape, annotated with the locations of three Bronze Age features no longer visible (Haughey's Fort, The King's Stables & Tray Bog).
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 02/07/2026
📰 ~400 years before nearby Navan Fort became one of Ireland's five ancient capitals, Haughey's Fort, Co. Armagh was “one of the most extensive and coherent Late Bronze Age landscapes in western Europe” 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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One of Europe’s oldest organised settlements may be located in Northern Ireland
The 3,000-year-old Haughey’s Fort ‘was a thriving and complex hub’ some 400 years earlier than previously thought, academics say
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
📣Call for papers TAG Exeter 2026 Join Nelson J. Almeida, Eleanor M. Swallow, and Joanna Brück for our session: "Fragmented Bodies, Enduring Relations: Complex Post-Mortem Processes Across Species in Prehistory". Find the full abstract and more info at: tag2026.square.site/sessions #tagexeter
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 01/07/2026
📰 New research at a prehistoric centre in Ireland uncovers "a level of scale, organisation and connectivity in Bronze Age Ireland that has not been fully recognised until now." 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @glasgow.ac.uk @jodarchaeology.bsky.social www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
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Anthropology.net @anthropology.net · 01/07/2026
3,000 years before Navan Fort became legend, Haughey’s Fort may have been one of Europe’s first proto-urban centers, with 200+ structures, a ritual pool, and a 109-hectare enclosure. #BronzeAge #Archaeology #Ireland www.anthropology.net/p/haugheys-f...
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Haughey’s Fort: Did Ireland Have a City Before the Bronze Age Ended?
New survey work on a hillfort near Armagh suggests a planned settlement of houses, workshops and ritual buildings far larger than anything that “hillfort” usually implies.
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James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Our new paper on Haughey’s Fort, N Ireland, is out in @antiquity.ac.uk! This massive 109 hectare site has it all, from a purpose ritual made pool, to gold & bronze production, and a large, possibly ‘proto urban’ settlement @papgleeson.bsky.social #hillfortsWednesday www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Haughey’s Fort: a major complex of power, production and ritual in Late Bronze Age Europe
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 30/06/2026
Prehistoric ‘town-like’ settlement in Armagh may be one of Europe’s oldest
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Prehistoric ‘town-like’ settlement in Armagh may be one of Europe’s oldest
The 3,000-year-old Haughey’s Fort ‘was a thriving and complex hub’ some 400 years earlier than previously thought, academics say
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Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
why we are funding arts and humanities to be a full part of the UK's future anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...
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Why an industrial strategy needs arts and humanities (and why UKRI are funding us to deliver it)
I joined UKRI six years ago because I was deeply attracted to the ambition of unifying curiosity led research and strategic or mission led interventions with the power of science to drive a just ec…
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Universities that aren’t fully committed to arts and humanities as a flourishing part of their science offering aren’t committing to the future.’ @christophersmith.bsky.social anatomiesofpower.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/w...
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Why an industrial strategy needs arts and humanities (and why UKRI are funding us to deliver it)
I joined UKRI six years ago because I was deeply attracted to the ambition of unifying curiosity led research and strategic or mission led interventions with the power of science to drive a just ec…
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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · 25/06/2026
Upcoming call: The @royalsociety.org – Research Ireland University Research Fellowship will open for applications on 14th July 2026. Supporting outstanding early-career scientists to become future leaders. For more information visit: www.researchireland.ie/funding/roya...
Young adult female scientist wearing safety glasses and blue gloves, carefully pipetting liquid into a petri dish during an experiment
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 19/06/2026
📕 #BookReview 🏺 #Archaeology How did royal power shape the emergence of early historic Ireland? @papgleeson.bsky.social's 'Landscapes of kingship in early medieval Ireland AD 400–1150' explores the social organisation underpinning Ireland's early medieval kingdoms. (£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 1/2
Cover of the book reviewed, depicting a medieval abbey under a blue skey, with the text 'Book Review, Antiquity'.
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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Ireland’s National Cultural Institutions @nationalgalleryirl.bsky.social @immaireland.bsky.social @crawfordartgallery.bsky.social generate €209m annually but their true value goes beyond economics. From wellbeing to social cohesion, culture shapes stronger societies www.museum.ie/en-IE/Press-...
From the left, Dr. Éimear O’Connor, Interim Director of the National Museum of Ireland, Ali Curran, Chairperson of IMMA- Irish Museum of Modern Art, Genevieve Wyeth, Board member, National Library of Ireland, Mary McCarthy, Director of the Crawford Art Gallery, Patrick O'Donovan TD, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Cathal O’Donoghue, Chair of the Board of the National Museum of Ireland, Caroline Campbell, Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, Annie Fletcher, Director at IMMA - Irish Museum of Modern Art, and Audrey Whitty, Director, National Library of Ireland gathered in Dublin to mark the publication of an evidence-based report on ‘The Economic and Social Contribution of Ireland’s Collecting Institutions: Beginning a new Conversation’ by Fitzpatrick Associates Economic Consultants.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org
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UCU @ QUB @ucuatqub.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
If you've immediate concerns about campus safety, contact Security Control Room (02890975099, 24-hr). If there is an imminent and serious danger, contact emergency services (999). From a Uni telephone, use 2222 to contact the University Control Room or 9-999 to contact emergency services directly.
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Last remaining copies of my book, get em while you can before they are officially collectors items
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Dr Susan Greaney @suegreaney.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Come join our team in Exeter! We're looking for a Lecturer in Archaeology for a three year teaching post, focusing particularly on practical skills and fieldwork (closing date 30 June): careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/95...
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Lecturer in Archaeology ​(Education and Scholarship) in Exeter | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Lecturer in Archaeology ​(Education and Scholarship) vacancy in Exeter. Lecturer in Archaeology (Education and Scholarship) This full-time post is avail...
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The @yai.ie Sustainability Statement has has a permanent doi: zenodo.org/records/2059...
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Young Academy Ireland Sustainability
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Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026. Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...
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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Note: relatively stable institution; HAPP's a supportive (even harmonious) School; there's another Ancient History colleague; and pay at Queen's is now relatively high (starting salary is junior; post confirmation-in-post, lecturer starts c. £52k, SL starts c. £66k). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP030/l...
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Lecturer in Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Ancient History on jobs.ac.uk!
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NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
If you are in the Cardiff area next week - don't forget I'll be giving a British Academy lecture on our work at Burghead! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/lectu...
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Delighted to have been shortlisted for the EAA Book Prize, alongside some fantastic books by colleagues. Landscapes of Kingship is also a collectors item as down to its last 30 copies with Four Courts Press: www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Awards/B...
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Book Prize 2026 Shortlisted
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 20/04/2026
NERC and ESRC are launching the Doctoral Focal Award in Environmental Evidence Synthesis. Help equip the next generation of researchers with a strong foundation in advanced evidence synthesis methodologies, to inform effective evidence based environmental policy and practice👇
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Doctoral focal award: environmental evidence synthesis
Apply for funding to deliver a doctoral focal award in environmental evidence synthesis.
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of building ‘The building housing the National Museum of Ireland’s collection … is “at full capacity” and not at the standard required to safely preserve the items, the museum board’s chair has said.’
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National Museum’s collection at ‘significant risk’ due to inadequacy of storage building
Dublin centre ‘at full capacity’ and lacks ‘environmental and structural standards’
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School of Archaeology @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
🚨Job alert! Our new @erc.europa.eu funded project 'MEMELAND' needs a #palynologist Postdoctoral Research Associate #PDRA for 3.5 years. You'll help transform our understanding of the impact of #medieval farming on biodiversity! Full details & to apply 👇 #archaeobotany www.arch.ox.ac.uk/job-vacancies
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Landscapes of Catastrophe, our @ukri.org AHRC project in the Great Irish Famine is recruiting: 30 month Palaeoecology PDRA to look at environmental context of the Famine working with some brilliant labs and colleagues www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRB941/p...
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Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Landscapes of Catastrophe) at Queen's University Belfast
Apply for the Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Landscapes of Catastrophe) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
We are currently working with a collaborative team on a Conservation Management Plan for Glendalough. If you've visited the site in recent years, we would love to hear your thoughts: www.surveymonkey.com/r/3HSKHYR #Ireland #Glendalough #Wicklow @nationalmons.bsky.social @opwireland.bsky.social
A picture of St Kevin's Church at Glendalough with the overlaid text 'Glendalough Have Your Say!' with a QR code
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
30 month palaeocology Research Fellow on our new Famine Project, Landscapes of Catastrophe, open for applications. Get in touch and please circulate; successful person will be doing some really cutting edge multi-proxy analyses www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...
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Palaeoecology Research Fellow (Landscapes of Catastrophe) - Belfast, Northern Ireland job with QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST | 409353
Successful applicants will have responsibilities for independent and directed research, supervision of technical analysis ...
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 31/03/2026
Today, UKRI has announced that Professor Christopher Smith will continue as Executive Chair of AHRC. After being appointed as Executive Chair in 2020, his term had been due to conclude in August 2026, but he will now remain in post while a succession plan is developed. Read more ⬇️
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AHRC Executive Chair to extend tenure
Professor Christopher Smith will continue as Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 27/03/2026
The RIA is working to ensure our Archaeology Grants are accessible and supportive for women. In recent years, we have seen fewer applications from eligible women & we want to understand why. Please take our short survey: www.jotform.com/251114411909... 📷Cave archaeologist Emma Hawkes at work.
A woman looking down at an animal bone in her hands which she excavated from Hyaena Land, Castlepook Cave.
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Very excited to get up and running with this one: awarded £1.5m AHRC Standard Grant for Landscapes of Catastrophe, a project examining the context and impact of the Great Irish Famine www.qub.ac.uk/schools/NBE/...
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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 02/03/2026
NEW Wooden beam from late 10th-century-AD Ostrów Lednicki, Poland, depicting a human face. Part of a preserved fortification, it sheds light on the construction of early-medieval defensive fortifications during the formation of the Polish state. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology
3D model of a wooden pillar from the front and sides (both with and without a texture), engraved with a depiction of a human face.
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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We have a new episode of Amplify Archaeology Podcast out today! I was delighted to be joined by Professor John Waddell, who discusses how our understanding of the Celts has developed, Celtoscepticism, the politics of the past and present, and how the story of the Celts is told today #Archaeology 🏺
The Corleck Head on display in the National Museum of Ireland, with text reading:

Celtic Ireland with Professor John Waddell, Amplify Archaeology Podcast
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Andy Brockman @andybrockman.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Trade Union Unite is seeking a Sectoral Employment Order (SEO) to raise pay for Archaeologists working in development in Ireland to €45k pa, a level broadly equivalent to building workers in skilled trades.
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James O’Driscoll @jodarchaeology.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This evening I will be talking about the development of densely populated Bronze Age hillforts in Ireland and Temperate Europe for @tuatha.ie @neiljackman.bsky.social, a topic which has recieved some press after our @antiquity.ac.uk paper on Brusselstown Ring, a massive 41ha site with 600+ houses!
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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
New article out by Stephen Hewer et al on decolonising medieval Irish history www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #history #medievalsky #ireland
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‘Decolonising’ medieval Irish history? The (im)possibility of challenging existing practice
The ‘Decolonial’ turn has come to the discipline of Irish history. How will it be used? As a liberal metaphor or decolonial praxis? As the turn proceeds through the discipline to pre-modern studies...
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Come hear me speak about my book
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Archaeodeath @archaeodeathprof.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Exciting news! I'm the incoming Executive Editor for 'World Archaeology' and here is my first CfP! Call for Papers for ‘World Archaeology’: Debates and Emerging Issues in Archaeology howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com/2026/02/14/c... Direct link here: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · 12/02/2026
The NERC Peer Review College is now always open. With broader, more inclusive criteria and a quick 10–20 minute self-nomination process. We welcome academic and non-academic experts, at all career stages, in the UK and internationally. Apply now: engagementhub.ukri.org/nerc-funding...
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Patrick Gleeson @papgleeson.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Come join our Ecologies of Governance team: we have a 30 month fieldwork based PDRA advertised @newcastleuni.bsky.social as a part of our AHRC funded project. Will work at Rendelsham, Dunadd, Navan Fort, Llangorse, Milfield royal palace sites for project. Pls RT: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQM271/f...
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Fieldwork Research Associate at Newcastle University
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Fieldwork Research Associate at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Congrats to our own Dr Anita Radini and her colleagues on their paper “Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
The AHRC are looking for a new executive chair, as Christopher Smith's term comes to an end. An amazing, and hugely important, role fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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AHRC - Executive Chair
AHRC Executive Chair | Band X | London or Swindon
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