Historian aka dastardly re-writer of history, chiefly Britain/Ireland, focus on Scotland & n. England pre 1300 | Author of 500-page + award-winning monograph on the Age of Máel Coluim III | Disability parent | https://st-andrews.academia.edu/NeilMcGuigan
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Today, finally, the UK publication of the paperback version of *Máel Coluim III, 'Canmore: An Eleventh-Century Scottish King* with John Donald/ @birlinn.bsky.social
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Neil McGuigan
June 9: Feast of Colum Cille (Columba) (†597), founder-abbot of Iona. Irishman who anointed Áedán mac Gabráin as king of Dál Riata, preached to ‘the tribes of Tay’, became apostle of the northern Picts and reputedly banished a monster from the River Ness. 📸Bodleian Libraries
Pterōtón Stratópedon, 'Winged Camp', on a 13th-century Byzantine map(ping of Ptolemy) of Scotland. Suggested identifications have included Burghead and Inchtuthil. The visualization of the fortifications are something else!
Pterōtón Stratópedon, 'Winged Camp', on a 13th-century Byzantine map(ping of Ptolemy) of Scotland. Suggested identifications have included Burghead and Inchtuthil. The visualization of the fortifications are something else!
Paperback of Máel Coluim III book is now available to pre-order from publisher:
birlinn.co.uk/product/mael...
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It's a shame the Scotichronicast ended, Kate was doing such a useful thing. Here is my solitary appearance, being interviewed in one of the last episodes, talking about Máel Coluim III and the Anglo-Scottish borderlands (as well as myself!).
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Paperback of the Malkie book, it's finally here (although arriving a bit earlier than expected)!
Paperback of the Malkie book, it's finally here (although arriving a bit earlier than expected)!
Fact of the day, did you know that over the last century historians have uncovered evidence that the Roman Empire once sponsored the foundation of a colonial settlement in New England? See the dedicated Wikipedia article for the detail:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Eng...
Neil McGuigan
Neil McGuigan
Podcast Episode · Scotichronicast · October 31, 2022 · 48m
