The Institute for Name-Studies is the centre for research into place-names and personal names at @UniofNottingham and home of @The_EPNS.
University of Nottingham
Joined July 2011
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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!
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Day 4! @beccagregs is talking to us about ‘Rewilding the namescape’ - wildcats and beavers and bears, oh my!
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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.
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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
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Back on the #Staffordshire #PlaceNames project today! Looking at a 1629 survey of the Manor of #Uttoxeter 'Ottoxator'!
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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
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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
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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
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👏👏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
📢We are proud of @lucycragg from @notts_psych, @mtheory123 from @UoNEngineering, and the Vikings for Schools team @UoNCSVA from @UoNArts, for making the final shortlist for the Best Schools Initiative Award category.
Read more about their projects here: nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-…
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Speaking in Iceland on Friday, all being well. Free to watch online, if interested: histudentconference.wordpres… @NameStudies @Midlands4Cities @The_EPNS @HIStudentCon
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📚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
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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.…
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In case you missed it, vol. 54 of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society was published in December.
If you're an EPNS member, you should already have your hard-copy journal. If not, you can now view the article abstracts online to see what you're missing!
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It's 2024, which can mean only one thing:
Articles from vol. 53 of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society (2021) are now available open access from our website!
This includes contributions on the Antarctic, field-names in Cumbria, hill names, and much more. Link in bio.
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All these are real medieval or early modern names recorded in England. They may all have referred originally to people born at Christmastime 🎄 - some of our faves are Faythe Yole (1604), Ralph Cristmesse (1185), and Margoria Mydewynter (1379).
Data from: oxfordreference.com/display/…
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*CALL FOR PAPERS*
The call for papers for the 2024 Viking Society Student Conference has been released. Please submit abstracts to [email protected] by the 25th January 2024. Enquiries can be submitted to the same email (or via Twitter DM).
Please circulate!!!
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Look what arrived! Absolutely thrilled to be part of this collection. It's a thing of beauty, creativity, and a whole lotta linguistic fun. Congratulations @israelnoletto, @jessnorledge and @PeterJStockwell - it's a stunner.
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Call for Papers - The English Showcase 2024
We're looking for final year UG and PGT students to present at our annual showcase. Deadline for submissions 20 March at 5pm
CfP and more info ➡️ nottingham.ac.uk/english/pro…
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Very excited that the University of Nottingham will be hosting the 2024 Viking Society Student Conference on Saturday 27th April - mark your calendars!
Call for papers will be circulated shortly.
@UoNEnglish @UoNCSVA @UniofNottingham
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The clue is in the name. Compulsory place-name education required?
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