Ryan Foster

Postdoc historical and cultural geographer @LeverhulmeTrust, @GeosciencesEd. Interested in transhumance, Viking settlement, place-names, medieval farming.

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

Reading Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations'. It never fails to calm and put things in perspective. I need to make the effort to read it at least once every year.

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

West Cumbria in the 16th century was a simpler place. I just came across a document where a man was charged for calling another a 'Forsworn fellow'. There would be a double loop around the courthouse today.

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

@orlacraig Well done

[Catherine Tennick @DrCatTennick]

@Jennifer_Bones and her fantastic work using stable isotope analysis to explore animal-human interactions, and how looking at diet reveals that there are differences between Bronze age, Iron age and Viking farming in the Scottish Islands! @UCLanResearch @UCLanArchAnth #research

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

@Rusticulus_R I feel your pain. I often close documents and click dont save when my mind is on autopilot, deleting all my recent work.

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

@antonyaolarsson Congratulations

[Rebecca Boyd @DrRebeccaboyd]

Thanks Neil. I am looking forward to this talk on Wednesday night. I'll be talking through some of the ideas in my new book📖 from @RoutledgeHist
This is based on research carried out during my @IrishResearch fellowship @uccarchaeology & developed from my time @ucdarchaeology

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

Distribution of the ON generic ærgi. The term was one of the few words adopted from Gaelic into ON. It is more likely to have had a similar meaning to the OIr áirge, referring to a dairy shieling, rather than the Scottish Gaelic àirigh with its more generic shieling meaning.

[School of GeoSciences @ University of Edinburgh @GeosciencesEd]

❄️ Got the winter blues?

Check out these free resources for Wintering Well developed by Prof Hayden Lorimer (@Slipshodspeller) in partnership with University of Glasgow, LLTTF and artist-poet Alec Finlay: https://t.co/trzYlV5uvh
#BlueMonday

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

One of the most enlightening bits of data journalism ever. Heat map of scone pronunciation - where it rhymes with gone and with cone. This is why I sometimes feel alone in my London neighbourhood - a lonely scone migrant from the North East. Thanks @infobeautiful @duncanogleskan

[ASNC Cambridge @Department_ASNC]

@Department_ASNC goes north! The @dindshenchas team is really looking forward to giving a series of inter-related papers on how and why Scotland features in Dindshenchas Érenn and to talking about flaming saints, vomiting fish and journeying Picts in the process. Tues 16 Jan 5.30

[Hayden Lorimer @Slipshodspeller]

Well that's Blue Monday done with for another year.
But what about today and then tomorrow?
Wintering Well ought to be a habit!
Warding off the blues means getting creative and staying social. More here...
https://t.co/VOp8tZNFGh
@HesterParr @Dailies54153708 @GeosciencesEd

[Hayden Lorimer @Slipshodspeller]

Blue Monday?
Whatever your view, there's a healthy conversation to be had about Winter Blues and what we can do to help one another through the darker months...info. and access to free creative resources here:
https://t.co/VOp8tZNFGh
@HesterParr @Dailies54153708 @GeosciencesEd

[Ian Giles @ioagiles]

I’m organising the Assembly of Literary Translators – a gathering for literary translators of all persuasions to come together for an afternoon of panels and conversation in central London on 11 March. Full details and registration: https://t.co/6tyadvW0JJ

[SIRFA @SIRFA6]

Interested in working with the SIRFA team? Pationate about Orkney's archaeological resources? We are recruiting a project assistant to work on the SIRFA Orkney Resource Assessment.

https://t.co/t6ZUSNahbl
@uhi_orkney @ScARFHub @ThinkUHI @UHIArchaeology @OrkneyCouncil @UHINWH

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

@AlexHarvv Hi Alex the North Riding has around 11 potential sætr-names and in the West Riding about 7.

[Ryan Foster @M_Ryan_Foster]

The distribution of sætr-names in North-West England would back up the view of relatively large migration of Norwegian Viking settlers.