Outreach

Reading Time: 4 minutesAdding an Event Who can add an event? Anyone who is a registered member of the website can submit an event for adding to the calendar. You need to be logged in to add an event. To make the events appear on the calendar, they… Read More »How to Add an Event to the NABO Calendar

Reading Time: 2 minutesCredit: Søren Bruun, The Compound, for The National Museum of Denmark It was a land with plenty of opportunities when the Viking Erik the Red settled in Greenland over 1000 years ago. The Vikings brought along all kinds of livestock and lived as farmers. But… Read More »Video: In the footsteps of the Norsemen

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCredit: Regan Alsup: Heritage At Risk: Recording the History of Brora, Scotland Before It’s Washed Away This video was shot by Regan Alsup and shows the impact of coastal erosion on the archaeology of Brora, Scotland. The SCAPE Trust (Scottish Coastal Archaeology and the Problem… Read More »Heritage At Risk: SCAPE Trust–Scotland’s Heritage At Risk Project

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 1 hour 30 minutes BBC4 programme written by Jago Cooper on his research into the collapse of the Easter Island civilisation was broadcast in December 2018. Although the programme is no longer available, there are photographs and clips from the broadcast available on the… Read More »Easter Island: Mysteries of a Lost World

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSUSTAINABILITY and COLLAPSE in the Norse North Atlantic: Implications for Climate Adaptation Today Tom McGovern gave the 2013 Stefansson Memorial Lecture at Dartmouth College on Tuesday, 29th October. Credit: Dickey Center at Dartmouth, via Dartmouth College YouTube Channel This event was co-sponsored by the Dickey… Read More »2013 Stefansson Memorial Lecture by Tom McGovern

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Icelandic Sagas. First written down in the 13th century, the sagas tell the stories of the Norse settlers of Iceland, who began to arrive on the island in the late 9th century. They contain some of the richest… Read More »Icelandic Sagas – BBC Radio 4 In Our Time