Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name

Resharing this from the weekend: I'm sorry for all the constant promotion, we're just really trying to rebuild after moving from Substack. If you're interested in: Film reviews Media literacy American history Academic community building Public scholarship & More Please subscribe and/or share!

If anyone lost a bag of books from LRB Bookshop on the Metropolitan Line between Baker St- Watford, I handed it to a cleaner when the train terminated at Watford tube station. And if you have far more followers than me, please share this status. LRB bookshop is not cheap!

GUYS one of the downsides of doing this is that I have to listen to myself a lot. the upside is that my guest are amazing and I get to learn from them AGAIN can't wait to share with you all - first episodes drop Wednesday 11/12 #medievalsky

So who am I and what am I doing? I am a historian of medieval Europe and am writing a book on the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187). It is under contract with Basic Books. The goal is to write a narrative history the incorporates cultural, religious, apocalyptic, and romantic (!) material

Who doesn't love a Tudor or Yorkist Christmas decoration? Well, thanks to Plantagenet Prints, you now have a range of deccies to order as well as many other gift ideas. Check out their store at www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Plan...

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy out today in the US as an audiobook published by @tantoraudio.bsky.social and read by me #womenwhoruledtheworld

Thanks to those who have reposted! She's at 248 responses now - up 50 in past 12 hours! Full disclosure: I misunderstood - grade tracks % of responses she gets, so she's now up to an 85% even if she doesn't get to 300. Phew!

Child 1 has a marketing project about restaurants and needs 300 survey responses. She can't earn higher than 70% if she doesn't reach the target. Seems unfair - some kids just don't have as many friends/family! Could you take 2 min to take the survey? Due in 2 days and she needs 100 more. Thanks!

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THE article that traces the years-long dev of Net.Create w @jdanish.bsky.social is out! "Design Based History Research” blends iterative traditions of Design Based Research educational methods w historiography and digital-history tool-design practices. journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/notebook-...

New Banksy artwork appears on court building showing judge attacking protester

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

To punish critics and to intimidate dissidents, the communist parties in the Soviet bloc would conduct raids on their apartments, searching for more pretexts to put them on show trials.

What did Medieval Ladies-in-Waiting do all day? cambridgeblog.org/2025/08/what...

This is maybe the worst part about being an educator in the AI era. AI companies are *stealing your time* by making you work around it/find it/adjudicate it. Time that, 4 years ago, you would have used to improve your materials, or stay up-to-date on some area of research.

Israelis are starting to acknowledge that the hunger in Gaza is real—yet it remains unclear whether the recognition of the crisis marks a real tipping point or merely an occasion for momentary concessions.

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

Another one for the Latin 1 final. Should be Ararum Subversor. But musically this is high-caliber raw black metal from Florida.

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Wow! Amazing grace and skill. Also kudos to the choreographer

Thanks to @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social for this crucial reminder about serenity, courage, and wisdom, as the entire US is in the same boat now: dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/serenityar...

The DOJ says it will investigate a US citizen for saying “fuck Isr**l” to a guy in an IDF shirt. Absolutely the most anti-free speech admin of my lifetime. Probably since the Red Scare, if not earlier.

Was watching @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jbf1755.bsky.social for a few minutes and their comments got me to thinking about the responsibilities of citizenship, comparisons to other countries, and the typical response of the Trumpian right.

Indeed, there is evidence from randomized controlled trials of large introductory classes, that student course evaluations are negatively correlated with how well students learned the material. maa.org/math-values/...

Another teaching prompt for historians: What are the guiding principles of your survey courses? Not "outcomes." What ideas, approaches, orientations to the material do you want them to keep in mind during the term?

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

i have updated my anti-ai resource list to include a tab full of memes and social posts people can share (including ai fails, posts with analysis and framing) as well as a tab about taking action. i'm open to suggestions if people have ideas for things i should add: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It's #Tudor Time

CFP: “Women, Lordship, and the Culture of War” A Haskins-sponsored session at the 2026 ICMS in Kalamazoo, MI (14–16 May) Apply by 15 Sept. 2025 at icms.confex.com/icms/2026/pr... @kzooicms.bsky.social #MedievalSky

I wasn't able to attend the medieval conference in Leeds this year so I didn't get to see my book in the wild, but FYI Cambridge is offering a 30% conference discount through July, with code 102417

Quick visit to Hylton Castle. Would love to know whose heraldic device this is with the fiish (era of Richard II). Anyone know? #medievalsky #heraldry

The at home assassination of a state lawmaker should be getting a bigger reaction from the President than someone throwing a rock at a Tesla dealership.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

Please, for God's sake, if someone has lied, spread misinformation, made offensive statements on your air/in your paper in the past, do not interview them again. Even if they are a senator. Regardless of party.

Hey MAGA, if I told you she was a Fox News reporter would it make her more believable?

Any Medievalists want a copy of the newest edition of Debating #Medieval Europe - The central and later Middle Ages - for... free? Our DME books serve as an entry point for understanding the distinctive historiography of their periods. Hit repost and we'll add you to the giveaway 📗👇 #booksky

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

the point of this is that the way forward is solidarity. collective action to resist authoritarianism works and it begins with an alliance of all university members - faculty, students, and administrators. they've beaten monarchs in the past and we can beat wannabe monarchs again in the future.

Personality cult authoritarianism

Hello historians - this is going to be a moment when you can pitch “why ICE is in fact like the Gestapo.” And if you’re up for writing that, you should. Much as “it’s rude to call them concentration camps” discourse in 2017, we need you.

It smells of rejection, grading, and committee work

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

not just a climate pope, but an all caps petition sharing climate pope

People are always saying on social media that gen-AI is here to stay and that it’s retrograde and standing in the way of progress if we reject it. But there are plenty of things that were once the embodiment of progress that we collectively decided to reject, from cocaine in soft drinks to eugenics