Dr Fiona Edmonds is one of a group of academics working on a project to find out more about the life of Jocelin of Furness. The following article appeared in the Westmorland Gazette: http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/9122495.Mystery_Furness_monk_s_life_to_be_explored/
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Dr Emily Lethbridge: BBC’s ‘From our own Correspondent’.
Dr Emily Lethbridge reports on her research in Iceland as the BBC’s ‘own correspondent’; you can listen to the programme here (just before 11 minutes in). http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01292v1
Continue ReadingDr Nick Zair awarded the Johann-Kaspar Zeuss Prize
Dr Nick Zair, Research Fellow in Peterhouse and Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Classics in Cambridge has been awarded the Johann-Kaspar Zeuss Prize for the best PhD in Celtic Studies of 2011. The title of his dissertation which was completed in Oxford is: ‘The reflexes of the proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Celtic’. We congratulate him.
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