Lucy Grig, Professor of the History of Late Antiquity, appears on You're Dead to Me to discuss Emperor Constantine the Great. Watch on BBC iPlayer or listen on BBC Sounds: edin.ac/4xvmMTM — with @gregjenner.bsky.social. #History #Classics #Archaeology #BBC

🎉✨ Happy Blogger Day! The School has a blog, just saying, and it's packed with info on being a student here, what Edinburgh is like, even a view on The Odyssey! Read more: blogs.ed.ac.uk/shca/ #BloggerDay #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

Is Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Homer’s Odyssey? Dr Calum Maciver, Senior Lecturer in Classics (Greek Imperial and Late Antique Literature), has some thoughts… On our blog: edin.ac/4fzsuxJ #History #Classics #Archaeology #TheOdyssey #Homer #TheOdyssey #Odysseus #GreekMythology

Professor Emile Chabal's Inaugural Lecture has been postponed again to 4 November. All other details remain the same. Please accept our apologies if you are unable to attend this new date. If so, we would appreciate you cancelling your tickets so others can attend: edin.ac/4r6ChhK #History

Congratulations to @jillburke.bsky.social, Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, who has been elected a Fellow of @britishacademy.bsky.social! You can find out more about her work on her staff profile, edin.ac/4dqC0m6 #History #Edinburgh #Renaissance

Our mascot, Ethelwyn, set out to find the Flodden Wall by the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. #WallsonWednesday #Edinburgh #WednesdayWalls #History

Signatory of the American Declaration of Independence, physician, alumnus of the University of Edinburgh. Dr Sarah Naramore introduces Christopher Rush on our blog, edin.ac/4vSxdQN #American250 #History #Americanhistory #Medicalhistory #Edinburgh

Professor Catriona Pickard, Head of Archaeology, is collaborating on excavations in Wogan Cavern beneath Pembroke Castle, with 11 HCA students taking part in this season’s dig. Read more: edin.ac/4vdSBij #Archaeology #Edinburgh

Shetland's long serving archivist Brian Smith - the “embodiment of the scholar-archivist” - was awarded the Degree of Doctor honoris causa during this morning's HCA graduation ceremony. Read more, edin.ac/4p0VmCb #History #HCA #EdinburghGrad #Edinburgh #Shetland Image: Andrew Perry

Tune in at 11am and 3pm for the graduation ceremonies for History, Classics and Archaeology: edin.ac/3TiLZyF #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #EdinburghGrad #Graduation

Huge congrats to history alumna Alice Loxton — a well-deserved Somerset Maugham Award winner for Eleanor: A 200-mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen. Photo credit © Adrian Pope/Society of Authors #history #literature

Last chance to see the exhibit “We have always been here. And we always will be” curated by HCA students, on display at the Informatics Forum for Pride Month. Read about the project on the HCA blog: edin.ac/43hrhoX #Pride #Edinburgh

Happy Juneteenth! In 2021 the Fennell Lecture was given by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed - Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University - author of "On Juneteenth”. You can watch Professor Gordon-Reed's lecture at edin.ac/4kyckVa #Juneteenth #History #Blackhistory #Edinburgh #Fennell

Bit of a niche one, but the School is sandwiched between two trig points - TP9008 - McEwan Hall Dome and TP9011 - Royal Infirmary Clock Tower. #TrigpointTuesday

Curated by HCA students, the exhibit “We have always been here. And we always will be” is on display at the Informatics Forum for Pride Month. Read about the project on the HCA blog: edin.ac/43hrhoX #Pride #Edinburgh

Professor Colin Barr delivers the 2026 Justin Arbuthnott Lecture: "Ireland's Pope: Cardinal Paul Cullen and the making of Irish Catholicism." Free tickets: edin.ac/3Rmwjwv #IrishHistory #Edinburgh #History

International Tea Day is tomorrow! Join Huirong Cheng, PhD Candidate in Economic & Social History, for a global history of Chinese tea and a traditional tea-making demonstration. Free: edin.ac/49cQe72 #TeaHistory #Edinburgh

Welcome to everyone attending the 7th International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies. #History #Classics #Archaeology #CLAIBS #Byzantine #Edinburgh #Extraordinaryedinburgh

Welcome to everyone attending the 3rd IRAAR Conference 'Quarries and rock-cut sites through the lens of archaeology' at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. #Archaeology #IRAAR #Edinburgh #EdinburghUniversity #Extraordinaryedinburgh

Upcoming: "Divine anthropomorphism in ancient cultures" — a three-day conference exploring anthropomorphism across ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern cultures up to the Roman era. Info: edin.ac/3P7XbiX #Classics #History #anthropomorphism

Congrats to Jon Henderson, Professor of Coastal & Marine Archaeology, on receiving a britishacademy.bsky.social/@leverhulme.ac.uk Senior Research Fellowship Award for "The Human Sea: Marine Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Ocean." More: edin.ac/4dg2W6t #MarineHeritage #Archaeology

One week until the 3rd IRAAR Conference 'Quarries and rock-cut sites through the lens of archaeology' at the School. edin.ac/4mWnsNM #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

"Id est nulla luna quod videmus." #Maythe4th #StarsWars #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

Join Professor Sorana Corneanu for the inaugural Gaukroger Lecture - 'The art of thinking: Towards a new practice turn in the intellectual history of early modern logic' - on Tue 26 May. Hybrid & free. Register: edin.ac/483F2cv #IntellectualHistory #Edinburgh #History #Edinburgh

One week until the next Munro Lecture. Professor Naveeda Khan will speak on 'Bangladesh and the (Im)Possibility of Climate Justice'. Tickets (free) at edin.ac/4lw4j4p #History #Classics #Archaeology #MunroLecture #Climate @uoe-sps.bsky.social

Not long to go until the 3rd IRAAR Conference 'Quarries and rock-cut sites through the lens of archaeology' at the School. Free. Find out more, edin.ac/4mWnsNM #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh

Acclaimed and award-winning 2024 documentary film directed by Johan Grimonprez, 'Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat', is at the Filmhouse on 26 May, with a Q&A panel of Dr Megan Hunt, Dr Elizabeth Banks and Dr Deborah Cohn. More, edin.ac/4dYGErP #History #Blackhistory #Coldwar

Have you encountered Poe and Tiny Tim?

Not long until 'Crossing Currents': History PGR Conference 2026. This hybrid conference will feature current postgraduate researchers in History from the School. Find out more and register (free), edin.ac/4eE9Ggz #History #Postgraduate #Phd #Edinburgh

Ethelwyn Explores, an occasional series. We took the new School mascot to see the plaque marking the position of the Flodden Wall on Forrest Road, just around the corner from the School. #wallsonwednesday #wednesdaywalls #history #edinburgh #unicorn