Institute for Name-Studies

The Medieval Onomastics panel returns to @IMC_Leeds 2025, again kindly sponsored by @NameStudies! Get your proposals in on all things personal and place names, and for a great chance to talk to other name nerds. Please RT!

Day 4! @beccagregs is talking to us about ‘Rewilding the namescape’ - wildcats and beavers and bears, oh my!

The rise of Muhammad: One in every 42 boys are now named after the founder of Islam, with rate having doubled since the mid-90s. Dr Rebecca Gregory, Assistant Professor in Historical Linguistics @UoNEnglish, speaks to @MailOnline about the popular name. ow.ly/9Aks50Sp0mS

At this year's @IMC_Leeds we are running not one, not two, but THREE panels on medieval onomastics, sponsored by @NameStudies. Make sure you are there with all the Cool Kids™️ to discuss all things Names

@DrMJWarren @chiffchat @BloomsburyBooks Congratulations, Michael! Really looking forward to seeing it published

It's the INS research seminar this evening, and we're delighted to have Prof. Richard Coates (@uwelingo) with us to talk about 'Naming archaeological sites: the case of Hampshire hillforts'

Back on the #Staffordshire #PlaceNames project today! Looking at a 1629 survey of the Manor of #Uttoxeter 'Ottoxator'!

Really interesting to see and chat with the huge variety of people using mapped data to understand the landscape. Historical time-depth awareness is vital (as well we enriching)! @The_EPNS @NameStudies @esriuk @HattieJaneGwilt

Abigail Lloyd, U. of Nottingham, has opened this morning’s proceedings: ‘Learning from Celtic predecessors or creation from scratch: What then is a dūn?’ @SNSBI @logainm_ie

We're at the @MedSettRG spring conference today in Nottingham, on the theme of 'Bringing Disciplines Together in Medieval Settlement Studies'. And what better way to begin the day than with place-names? Our @kilby_susan is presenting on 'Knowing your place'

Very excited to be joined tomorrow @UoNEnglish by one of our Hon. Research Fellows @CamillaBalshaw, along with the brilliant @helen__jukes for an event all about life writing and place. including a sneak preview of Camilla's forthcoming memoir NAMED.

Fancy finding out more about our online MA English and meeting some members of the teaching team? Head to our next information session, taking place online on Saturday 4 May. Registration and plenty more at linktr.ee/appliedenglish

👏👏to the whole Vikings for Schools team for being shortlisted for the @UoN_Institute 'Best Schools Initiative' category! Best of luck! 🤞🤞 @JudithJesch @beccagregs @Tcfairfax @jaz_runologist @UoNEnglish @UoNCSVA

Speaking in Iceland on Friday, all being well. Free to watch online, if interested: histudentconference.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/str… @NameStudies @Midlands4Cities @The_EPNS @HIStudentCon

Dr Ayokunmi Ojebode specialises in literary onomastics, especially in an African cultural context. Ayokunmi has been an Hon. Research Fellow with the INS since 2021, and we're very pleased to have his appointment renewed. View Ayokumi's research at: researchgate.net/profile/Ayokun… 3/3

Camilla Balshaw (@CamillaBalshaw) is a writer and journalist working on the intersection of names and identities in modern Britain. You can find out more about Camilla's published and ongoing work on her website: camillabalshaw.uk 2/3

Delighted to announce the appointment of two Honorary Research Fellows in the Institute for Name-Studies, joining our @UoNEnglish research community. 1/3

📚Review - Adolygiad 📚 ‘This is a scholarly work of great importance not only for the field of Welsh place-names but also for Welsh history and the language itself...I thoroughly endorse this work’ Guto Rhys, Journal of Celtic Linguistics 2024

Speaking at this in just over a week's time (illustrated powerpoint in preparation as we speak). Still time to register, I think, for online or in-person attendance, if interested. @Department_ASNC @NameStudies @The_EPNS @Midlands4Cities asnc.cam.ac.uk/ccasnc/index.h…