Between 1485 & 1603 Devon and Cornwall experienced 5 major rebellions: how were they remembered regionally, over time and across social divisions? And how are they being commemorated today? 'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West': bit.ly/3YXxbbz: a new TRHS article by Prof Mark Stoyle 1/2

A wonderful profile of the late, great Norm Breyfogle by @leekeeler.bsky.social - an artist who deserves more acclaim and remains underrated. But he's definitely on my Batman artistic Mount Rushmore. littlevillagemag.com/peak-iowa-no...

These folks are the BEST. I was not expecting this package before the big day, but Leeds’ finest elves have done it again. Merry Christmas @okcomics.bsky.social and @danielletute.bsky.social

This is sad indeed. Paul was not only a dynamic and creative leader but a witty and kind man, to boot.

This might be my favorite yet ...

Here is just another weird space created by a finger image removal technology trying to autocorrect the finger of the scanning person. #bookhistory

What makes historic collections difficult? And how do researchers work with “difficult” collections? New CFP from Paper Trails here: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll... Deadline for proposals 31/1/2026 🗃️

This is a really good comprehensive overview of the current evidence on Devon being the cradle of world civilization Well worth your time, good maps too

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Spot on.

We forget, amid all the noise, how incompetent Putin is. Would've been a piece of piss to keep Trump onside, pause for a bit, rearm, undo sanctions, reap the economic benefits, then simply restart the invasion a year later. But he just couldn't help himself. Master strategist my fucking arsehole.

Word.

Remembering when Matt Hancock showed his contrition and deep reflection on all those lost to covid on his watch by going on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here". #CovidInquiry #MattHancock

Baby wake up new worst Long Nineteenth Century dropped

ISS transits are a hoot to catch!

Hot on the heels of the also-excellent @brianmbendis.bsky.social bundle, I can't recommend this one enough. It's for the Hero Initiative, so consider paying a tad more than you have to - even just a pound/dollar or two. You'll still be getting an amazing deal AND helping support creators in need.

Some highly justified use of bullet points here. @jonnelledge.bsky.social pretty much nailing it in terms of how a lot of people feel this week.

Talk to your sons

Huh. Well I never. Just when you think @davidallengreen.bsky.social must surely have run out of ways to pleasantly surprise and generate respect. Now I'm wondering. Car Wars? Toon? Illuminati? Awful Green Things? ... O.G.R.E.?

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

Why was this not the headline in every newspaper this morning?

Look upon the visage of the Cave Bear, drawn on the wall of Chauvet Cave 30,000 years ago. Do you feel kinship? Do you feel emotions stirring in your heart? Do you feel the crushing weight of history? Its artistic legacy is yours to inherit, as long as you stop fucking generating images in ChatGPT.

One small example as to why I think this is important, "Our goal is to reverse engineer how these models work on the inside, so we may better understand them and assess their fitness for purpose."

100% this. It's a constant of all crises and affects commentators across the political spectrum. They start with whatever hobby horse they have and work backwards to why it's the one and only answer to the problem at hand.

Updated @jisc.bsky.social records retention management guide provides advice and guidance to UK further and higher education. www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/awa...

The salient point here is the ‘chicken and egg’ question. It seems very likely that none of these weirdos did this performative s**t until they could afford round-the-clock childcare or bully their sycophantic minions into always being available for 5am meetings.

Next time you are on EEBO or ECCO and see a thumbprint in the corner, remember it is likely the hands of women digitizing books in London basements during the blitz. They didnt know if the books would survive.

Mark Zuckerberg never really cared about the facts www.thetimes.com/article/62aa...

Plenty of Christmas spirit in evidence already from the folks at the best little comic shop in Britain. Especially kind as I was something of a a nit-picking customer this week … 😬 (If you still need a gift for the sequential art fan in your life, head to @okcomics.bsky.social in person or online!)

Very happy to be part of one of the 16 new UK-German Research Projects in the Arts and Humanities announced today. Looking forward to working on ‘Project StoryMachine: exploring implications of recommender-based spatial hypertext systems for folklore and the humanities’! #DigitalHumanities

Can we take a moment to admire the extraordinary attention to detail in the costuming for #WolfHall from the incredible designer Joanna Eatwell? A flawless interpretation of Jane Seymour’s bonnet and gown from the Whitehall Mural 🙌

The New York Times today, inadvertently revealing they've never heard of oranges ...

Very relatable. Full disclosure though - I *would* drink the beer, too.

“Attack ‘em”s … ? Nice to know the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex has a sense of humour.

Lot* of new followers in the last couple of days. Whatever your reasons for joining this place, I hope it works out for you. In a few days, I’ll be taking a close look at my follower list. If I see no profile info AND no posts- you’ll be blocked. Real people only, please. (*Relatively speaking)

My first reaction to this was "What?!" but then I realised that I do the same thing (in my head) with Stanley Kubrick and major world events. So maybe HM's articulating a common way of responding to a changing world ... ... or it's just the two of us. www.theguardian.com/culture/2024...

Only 10 days left to apply to the DCDC2025 conference call for papers: dcdcconference.co.uk/dcdc25/call-...

Very pleased to see Ben Chu on the 10 o’ clock bulletin, tonight, in his role with the excellent BBC Verify - but it’s another sad reminder of the corporation’s gutting of Newsnight, where he also did a terrific job.

Very pleased to have received this in tip-top condition from Unbound. Very much looking forward to reading it, after I’ve finished Philippe Squarzoni’s graphic novel adaptation of David Simon’s ‘Homicide’. Not sure how much tonal whiplash to expect tbh …

Anybody hoping to write the defining horror story of 2024 can just take the rest of the year off. It's already been done and cannot be topped. You be the judge: should my wife’s family stop using my toothbrush? | Family | The Guardian

Disorientating‘Proust-squared’ moment [memory of a memory]. I too went to that exhibition and felt the same rush of nostagia from these 70s paperbacks - a hugely formative part of my childhood reading - loved as much (if not more) than my fancy h/c ‘complete’ volumes.

The annual reposting of the Goodies’ unkillable festive earworm. You’re welcome.

I keep urging people to watch this brilliant piece of television and then frustratingly realising that most of them don’t have Apple TV. ☹️ Huge pity as it feels genuinely different and innovative.

Genuinely surprised to hear that they were still there in the first place. Can’t remember the last time I saw a major brand advertising on the hellsite. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I feel like with DREAM SCENARIO and Apple TV‘s FINGERNAILS, we’ve finally reached a point where a “Charlie Kaufman film” no longer requires any participation from Charlie Kaufman whatsoever.

If I’ve learnt one thing from @jonnelledge.bsky.social, it’s that HS2 is about increasing track *capacity*. Continuing trains from B’ham to Manchester on existing rails (as is being rumoured )will achieve pretty much the the opposite of that.