I’m pleased to announce that I’m joining the Archaeology Department at the University of Glasgow to work with Dr Susanna Harris as the textile Post Doc’ on the 3 year AHRC funded National Museum of Scotland & University of Glasgow ‘Unwrapping the Galloway Hoard’ project. I can’t tell you how excited I am about this... Continue Reading →

I’m pleased to announce that today I’ve been accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

I’m really excited about this! My first ever peer reviewed journal article, ‘Embroidery and it’s early medieval audience: a case study of sensory engagement’ has just been published online in World Archaeology. It can be accessed via this link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2020.1835530 Here’s a short abstract: Sensory archaeology is used to access the early medieval ‘mindset’ to... Continue Reading →

Welcome to December and the 'most wonderful time of the year'. Thank you to everyone who has read and followed the blog since its inception in August. I really do appreciate that so many people are interested in early medieval (and other periods) textiles in all their forms and uses. The sharing of knowledge and... Continue Reading →