Do you live in fear of feral Vikings infesting your back garden, trading lead, renaming local landmarks, making war, and then peace? If so, our team is here to help.

Many congratulations to one of my Rabbithole Detectives cohosts Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 on gaining the Nordic Person of the Year award yesterday at the Norwegian Embassy. I had the privilege of sitting next to a wonderful man - a 102-year-old Norwegian fighter pilot from WW2. 🇳🇴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

CoScan/Confederation of Scandinavian Societies Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 Norway in the UK And here we are.

🎙️ NEW podcast! Dr. Jane Kershaw of Oxford School of Archaeology and Prof. Rory Naismith of ASNC Cambridge talk about numismatics, the Remarkable Journeys of Early Medieval Silver, and the revolutionary 🅰ntiquity Journal #OA paper, 'Byzantine plate and Frankish mines' 💰🔬

youtu.be/WrUFsi1UwLo

For anyone interested in all things Scottish: T

he Scottish Society for Northern Studies' (Scottish Society for Northern Studies) Summer Conference (26-28 June) has a stellar lineup.

Open to all, full programme here! ssns.org.uk/events/aberdee…

New #rabbitholedetectives is out! Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 is in ancient Egypt with Hatshepsut! Charles Spencer has gone over the sea to Skye with Bonnie Prince Charlie! And I’m not far away steaming down the Clyde on the shite boat! Wherever you get your podcasts!

A river swim fixes many things.

Tickets for our next live show are available now!
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In today’s #RabbitHoleDetectives , I used my holiday to research Cape Verde’s history (any guesses on what the picture below is from??), Charles Spencer ponders bank robberies and Richard Coles admires Lincoln cathedral.

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The Phaistos disc: is the consensus now that it’s genuine?

River Kings by Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 is absolutely fascinating and has been essential reading for me as I plot Cadman’s journey south in Book 2 of the Honour Bound trilogy.

amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CVRSPYB7

The Vasa! Described as “Sweden’s Biggest Fiasco”, as featured in this week’s #RabbitHoleDetectives alongside Toppy Paget & his 90 poodles by Richard Coles and Charles Spencer on some very unique cookbooks.
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New episode of the Rabbithole Detectives podcast out today. This is “Toppy” Paget - an eccentric aristocrat who is the topic for Richard Coles this week. Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 goes Scandinavian - & looks at the Vasa ship, while I examine cookbooks, ancient and modern. Please listen -

A rather recent study of this spearhead can be found in “Botfus the Gute and the Production of Viking Age Weapons on Gotland” (Androshchuk & Källström, 2020):

journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ak/a…

Back to normality after a gorgeous week in the Cape Verde islands. I’ve wanted to go since I was 7, when a girl I was great friends with at school moved back there with her family. We lost contact and I don’t remember her name anymore, but at least I finally got to go!

New episode of #RabbitholeDetectives out today! Dr Cat Jarman FSA💀 is on dodgy Trojan, Herr Schliemann, Charles Spencer is UFO spotting, and I’m on the assassination of the first Duke of Buckingham, the hottest man in Jacobean England podfollow.com/1671879772/view