A force of nature: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jail for whoever colourised this photo, Fitzjames was a GINGER. Sigh, the paperback that should never have been. Buy the original hardback if you want to read Battersby's Fitzbio. Or just wait for my infinitely more accurate one! 🙃 #NavalHistory #FranklinExpedition

Some images of beautifully preserved medieval wicker #fishtrap from #Hemington, #England. The area around Hemington is known to have a large number of early #fishweirs. Weirs dating to the mid-4th millennium BC have been claimed to exist from the #RiverTrent. #coastalhistory

Huntingdon - This comment from Simon Calder is worth repeating. My thoughts with all involved

Pentre Ifan c.1910, with the Cardigan Library & Debating Society #StandingStoneSunday

The Mysterious Tombs of the Knights of the Round Table www.medievalists.net/2025/11/the-... #medieval #Arthurian

What’s on at the Mary Rose Museum this Christmas? 🎄 Garland/Wreath making workshop: 6th Dec 📖 Story Telling: 6th & 7th - 13th & 14th Dec 👼 Make your own Angel Garland: 6th & 7th - 13th & 14th Dec 🥁 Christmas Carols with the Royal Marines Band: 6th Dec maryrose.org/christmas/

An autograph book I bought simply said it was from the #WW1 "era" but I decided to take a risk and see if it would be of interest. I immediately saw that it was linked to the King George Hospital in London - here is the 1st soldier I researched and he’s a gem! historicalclues.blogspot.com/2025/

The remains of Bridgnorth Castle Great Tower. Founded in 1101 by Robert de Belleme, possibly on the site of a burh founded by Æthelflæd in 912. The castle was slighted by Parliamentarian forces during the civil war. The castle was subject of one of the earliest @timeteam.bsky.social I can remember

'Fireworks, Cremorne Gardens, London' (1859) by Walter Greaves (Private collection)

🎉We are pleased to announce new Applied History Fellowships in partnership with @royalhistsoc.org & @findmypast.bsky.social. Join us on the 19 November at our launch event to find out more about the Fellowships and how to apply: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Joachim von Sandrart, The Month of November (Staatsgalerie, Schleissheim), 1643

‘I try to make them feel as ignorant as possible’: German museum’s ‘grumpy guide’ is surprise hit

So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it. Advanced copies available thru www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc

www.bajr.org/deep-concern... Trove is virtually useless and the inaccessibility of the sites is a real issue.

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'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

Putting the finishing touches on my slides for the Traditional Airs and Tunes Conference at Cecil Sharp House next weekend! Can’t wait to hear everyone’s presentations - it sounds like a fantastic programme ⚓️🎶

Peter Watkins gone. He was a hugely important filmmaker. Best known for The War Game but his 1964 Culloden film still influences way history TV is made today. It’s not perfect but it’s amazing and on YouTube as a good print. Watch it in his honour! youtu.be/-1TZq6DfKKA?...

🚨BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security quietly formalized sweeping changes to a federal immigration database, turning it into a national “voter verification” tool that appears to sidestep federal privacy protections and will make it easier to remove large numbers of voters from the rolls.

Several REF Impact Case Studies no doubt now taking inspiration….

Archaeologists say a hilltop settlement near Perth thrived during the Iron Age before mysteriously fading away. Broxy Kennels Fort was first identified in the 1960s on aerial photographs taken along the proposed route of the A9 trunk road. www.bajr.org/exhuming-gho...

It is of course the Rushton crucifixion, commissioned in 1577 by Sir Thomas Tresham, the sole surviving post-Reformation English crucifixion scene

If you’re in London and want to learn more about how aged and disabled sailors were declared ‘unfit for service’ and invalided from the Navy, join me on 26 November. I’ll be giving a public talk in Greenwich based on my Caird Research Fellowship. More info here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/que...

Every year on #Halloween we carve a #Pumpkin from our collection of Penguin Books. 🎃 We're up to our elbows here in juicy plots and seedy characters. Luckily there's not much pulp fiction. 🎃

Lead musket balls found at Culloden Battlefield, near Inverness could have been from a small number of troops that saved thousands of Jacobites' lives say archaeologists. More than 100 projectiles were uncovered earlier this month. 👇 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is a brilliant book, and Dr Eleanor has twice been a hugely popular guest on BBC You’re Dead To Me 👇👌😁

Archaeologists are excavating at the historic palace of Benin City, best known for the Benin Bronzes, for the first time in 50 years, shedding light on the urban development and artisanal crafts of the powerful West African Kingdom of Benin. Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

Another one for the reading lists from @northernpicts.bsky.social! 'New radiocarbon dates from the key ‘transitional’ settlement of Buckquoy, Orkney, reveal that traits previously published as indicative of incoming Norse influence pre-date the start of the Viking Age...' bit.ly/4ntBlkY

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

For those who have the app, the podcast version of an interview Derek Alexander & l gave at Culloden during recent dig. Includes our interpretation of what we think the team of volunteers and archaeologists found over a week of hard work. Think a shorter version will go out on radio this weekend.

I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.

Archaeologists in Hungary have unearthed the remnants of a rare iron saber, jewelry and other artifacts in the 1,300-year-old tomb of a warrior. Photo credit: Szent István Király Múzeum www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...

Back to proof-reading today, and I'm delighted to share the cover of my new book, featuring an angel with an arquebus. Out in April 2026.

#Medievalsky Anyone going to be in the TNA map room this week who could check some Latin for me? Or alternately, anyone who has pics of C 77/7, m.7d., they could share by any chance? Gratitude and acknowledgement shall be thine!

I repost this each October in the hope that the complexity of Halloween's origins and customs are more widely appreciated. Claims of a simple historical & mononational genealogy for this celebration are themselves examples of contemporary folklore/mythmaking. limerick1914.medium.com/customs-vary...

Today's highlight in the manuscript reading room of the @nlireland.bsky.social. is this example of an impaled coat of arms belonging to Margaret de Typetot which shows her own coat of arms with those of her husband John Cheyne. Attached to a charter from 1378.

Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

Look what arrived today! I can't wait to read it! Thank you @headofzeus.bsky.social for the copy! #thetwohundredyearswar

Lock https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/471724

Just two days to go! If you haven't already, remember that you can still register to attend as a non-speaker - it's free, and you can join us online or in-person and for as many or as few panels as you like ⚔️ Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Publication – « The Cambridge Guide to Global Medieval Travel Writing », éd. Sebastian Sobecki rmblf.be/2025/10/26/p...

Here is a blog I wrote awhile ago about the Disarming Acts archives.blog.parliament.uk/2021/04/23/t...

Welcome to BlueSky. Our website is currently down for maintenance and improvement), but you can check out some of our transcriptions for English High Court of Admiralty records late C16th/early to mid-C17th here: github.com/Addaci/HCA

Telling tales: Objects from the wrecks of the French 1788 expedition to the Pacific as.cornell.edu/news/objects...

An Explosion in Portsmouth, Hampshire, 1809 In early June 1809, the second battalion of the 8th regiment returned to Portsmouth with preparations being made for them to sail out towards the end of the month. Their baggage and ammunition were placed on Point Beach. About 11am on 24 June there was a…

I've recently started an Instagram account- if anyone would like to follow me I can be found at @nearlyknowledgeable It would be great to see some of you over there! #folklore #folktales #history #localhistory #medieval

Bronze cannon removed from #Elizabethton monument for road safety www.johnsoncitypress.com/downtown-eli...