24 June 2016. The day after when EU citizens across the UK were told to ‘go home’; when the then PM said he would not protect our rights. Stories largely forgotten. BLEA - Brexit Lived Experience Archive - which I am launching today, is here to preserve this history. #Brexit brexit.migravox.org

Bangarang!

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Among the things I collect are scholarly biographies of early medieval English kings, written by friends of mine (most recent acquisition on the right). @proflroach.bsky.social @davidwoodman45.bsky.social @rorynaismith.bsky.social

🚨FESTIVAL EPISODE🚨 Before England, there was Offa👑 @rorynaismith.bsky.social explains how he dominated southern Britain 💥 🎧 Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/3fa95f 🎟️Gloucester History Festival (19 April): www.gloucesterhistor... #History #Podcast @yalebooks.bsky.social

#CfP Euro-Mediterranean Entanglements in Medieval History 📌 Online #Seminar series | organised by @dhi-paris.fr, @dhiroma.bsky.social, @ghilondon.bsky.social and #GHIWarsaw | online via Zoom | Sessions will take place every two months 📅 June 8, 2026 🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...

Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.

Join us on Tuesday, 24 March, at 5:30pm for the next lecture in our GHIL Spring Series! Alison Beach (University of St Andrews) will speak about 'The Religious Women of Medieval Westphalia: From Manuscript to Microscope'. The lecture will take place at Pushkin House (with Zoom option).

Das Programm für unser diesjähriges Forum zum britisch-irischen Mittelalter (19.–20.3.2026, Innsbruck) ist da: fobim.hypotheses.org/forum-2026. Eine Online-Teilnahme ist möglich, alle Infos auf der verlinkten Seite. #medievalsky #skystorians

Are you a Post-Graduate Researchers, Early Career Researchers or someone starting out in a field involving the past? Join us on 16 Jan for a free event to consider how the Society could contribute to early career support! www.sal.org.uk/event/early-...

This is absolutely fucking outrageous. You can’t just overthrow and kidnap the leaders of other countries and then effectively conquer them and suspend their own democratic systems. Trump is a despicable fascist who should be impeached immediately.

Only a few days left to apply! Join our team as an Assistant to the Director/Assistant Events Officer: karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/7... Deadline: 14 December 2025 #academicsky #jobad #londonjob

As somebody who's been through this, I kind of wish passing the test would be a requirement for British people to be allowed to vote as well.

1 week to go until the final lecture in our autumn/winter series! Join us next week for a lecture by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages': www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #skystorians #medievalsky #medievalhistory

For anyone interested in resources for German Studies in the UK, may I draw your attention to this one-day colloquium at the British Library on 15 December: gslg.org.uk/2025/10/31/g... I will be speaking about the @ghilondon.bsky.social Library and the programme as a whole looks very interesting.

Sorry but Currywurst with Sauerkraut is an offence against all that is good.

📣 Only 1 month to go until the first event in our upcoming GHIL Autumn/Winter Series! Join us for a lecture by Benno Gammerl (@eui-eu.bsky.social) on 'Queering German History: Still a Vital and Viable Endeavour?' on 21 October at 5:30 pm (BST), either in person at Swedenborg House or via Zoom. 1/6

Nice to open a book that I bought out of personal interest and find this. This is why my colleagues and I do what we do. It makes me so happy to read this. (From 'Central Europe: the Death of Civilization and the Life of an Idea' by @ljukic.bsky.social) @ghilondon.bsky.social

anyone recognise or know anything about this seal/stamp?

It is obscene and shameful to see Newnham Cambridge excluding trans women from fellowships. Nearly all the trans women I know in academia are precarious, and trans women are criminally underrepresented in every field relevant to the talent they have. This is pure nastiness (and that's the point)

@charliejane.bsky.social explains just how much dark academia owes to A.S. Byatt’s Possession. buff.ly/8dVQ52k

Judas Deacon

Dear colleagues and friends, A quarter of a century after its last major refurbishment, the GHIL is embarking on a new project to renovate and modernise its building. In a few weeks the builders will move in to make the public facing rooms of the Institute ready for the coming decades. 🧱🔨

Currently on pre-order at my local independent bookshop: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson The First King of England: Æthelstan and the Birth of a Kingdom by David Woodman This reflects my interests pretty well.

I have a free spare ticket for tonight’s @pilottvpod.bsky.social’s live event. (www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/wor...) I’ve caught a bad cold and can’t go but don’t really want to see the ticket go to waste so if anybody wants it or knows anybody who might want it, let me know.

Top of the league, we’re top of the league…!

"Hemp. Mead. Hemp." England playing like a wild medieval night out.

Rather amusing find (inscription on house in Scalloway, Shetland). More information here: newcleckitdominie.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/w...

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Careful where you put the commas in your salary range when advertising jobs...

Feministly arguing that people assigned male at birth are innately better at strategy games than those assigned female at birth. Sensational women’s rights movement you’ve got there.

Happening tomorrow! Sign up now to join us in person or virtually for the last lecture in our Summer Series: www.ghil.ac.uk/events/lectu... #zeitgeschichte #nation #skystorians

@ihr.bsky.social has released a lovely set of videos on Youtube of interviews with eminent historians; made in the 80s and 90s, these are a lovely snapshot of titans in the field from a generation ago. www.youtube.com/@instituteof...

I think one of my main takeaways from #Bibliocon25 is that it's a fools errand trying to build sustainable research infrastructures, particularly on the national level, on the basis of projects with short-term funding and no clear idea of what happens after the end of the funding period.

Intrigued to hear at #Bibliocon25 about several cases in which "traditional" librarian roles have been replaced with media designers, in the context of library-based scholar-led OA publishing and as a research support role in a medical faculty.

At a library conference in Germany, attending my usual share of Open Research panels and I feel we’re still having the same conversations about OA and research data management that I was having 10 years ago when I started working on this at Cambridge (at least in the context of the humanities).

Weeding discourse - yet another topic that never seems to die. 🤦‍♀️ Why can people not accept that librarians know how to do our jobs and don’t just chuck stuff away for shits and giggles?

It's my birthday! 🎂 To celebrate, can I invite you to check out the charity auction for trans rights that @ngjeannette.bsky.social and I are running with verrrry covetable donations by brilliant genre creators, ending 1am BST 7 June. bit.ly/genrefortrans

Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

First we take the title, then we take Berlin.

Don't know how I managed to sleep on the fact that the German #Eurovision song is an absolute banger. I shall be voting early and often tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF_s...

I am in this article.

Congratulations to Prof Helen Fulton, Prof Ad Putter & Dr Anna Havinga who have received a GW4 Generator grant! 🥳 Their project, Medieval Studies Mobilising Digital Humanities, will develop new methodologies for research in medieval studies using emerging technologies Read more 👉 bit.ly/44DUICr

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

Any voter bleating on about immigration should be forced to take the 'Life in the UK' test that immigrants must pass, and see how they get on

In the meantime, happy Eurovision week to those who celebrate! ✨🎶🌈

Always nice to hear that I've done incalculable damage to the country I live in by being here, paying taxes and helping people. 🤷

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Early exit polls suggest the new pope did particularly well with male voters aged 45-79.

Wishing everyone a happy Early May Bank Holiday Weekend! 🪻 The GHIL and our library will be closed on Monday 5 May and will reopen on Tuesday 6 May. ☀️