🚨🚨 Announcing: SUMMA 🚨🚨 Simple spreadsheet software for calculating with Early Modern English currency. gjhilton.github.io/Summa/

I feel like it should be more widely unpopular that in the past year we’ve witnessed the creation of an American Stasi required to meet arrest quotas who utilize an AI technology created by a company run by a sweaty raisin of a billionaire who thinks Greta Thunberg is the antichrist.

You're not going to make any money doing this and no one is going to read it, so you must hope for a secret third thing to happen

Hinamatsuri, brought to you by the Fukui Dinosaur Museum.

please don’t lick the archives

JOB ALERT! 📜📚 Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin? apply.workable.com/middleburyco...

As a medievalist, w/nearly 2k years of Church history closer to hand than many this ToC is still breathtaking, and teachable, and also on that 2k year timeline not unprecedented. It's TWO THOUSAND YEARS of legal authority, legal practice, brought fully to bear in a different jurisdiction.

This is adorable! New favorite cat painting.

Things are still scary and uncertain here in Minnesota but the community is strong and so is our love #iceoutcomics #iceoutmlps

The image assets for the next video are getting pretty complex, so I made a visual tracker to organize things. This spaghetti mess is what I ended up with. Is it a better method of organization than winging it? Time will tell, I guess.

He dances in a way I have only seen horses dance. He possesses a power and majesty we will never know.

I crumble to dust and blow away with the wind

My first proper first-author paper has been published in Antiquity! The article is fully open access, so it’s free for anyone to read and share. The research came out of my PhD and uses a “whole-town” isotopic analysis approach to explore diet in Medieval Cambridge🏺 1/4 tinyurl.com/mu8a38zb

historian here! Yes

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

HECK YEAAAAH!!!

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Doing art badly is good and sacred

Current state of the painting I started at the @guildmedmak.bsky.social call yesterday:

Calling All Georgia Medievalists! The GMG Spring metting is set for Sat, Mar 28 at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, GA. #CFP below. Proposals are invited for individual papers of 15-20 min on any aspect of #medievalstudies and their related topics. georgiamedieval.org

738! If I somehow fail to reblog a MS Codex 738 post, report me missing and send out a search party.

Please make it your new resolution to visit AskHistorians once a week, because we've never been this invested in overtaking another community.

Noah is a friend of a friend. Help get him home!

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

Oh, wow. Thank you @brucespringsteen.net www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWKS...

Check out the CFP for the Gender & Medieval Studies conference in Oxford in Sept! Theme is ✨GENDER & CREATIVITY✨ Conf generously support by University College, Oxford; the John Fell Fund (Oxford University); the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship; the GMS group; & @guildmedmak.bsky.social

I'm giving this talk about uncovering aspects of Kufi through practice, and in gathering materials for it I dug up this short video on preparing and using shell gold (overwhelmingly used in Islamic manuscripts, while gold leaf is more common in Western MS). Enjoy!

this is some fox's book of martyrs shit. jesus christ.

It's not a collation statement. It's a curse. That's all you ever get with MR James. ;)

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

There are no short cuts. I'm sorry. There is only long term, consistent, and disciplined organizing.

An exciting day for MS Codex 738 fans!!

HECK YES, THE SECOND FEEDSAX BOOK IS OUT AND IT'S OPEN ACCESS!

Went to a cookie decorating party. Both the host and I privately dabble in being Advent grinches, so...

This is the Modest Proposal of our age. www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t...

this is mesmerizing

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

They have an ENTIRE DEPARTMENT of White House calligraphers! They've had it for literal centuries! It's still there! It was confirmed their offices were moved when they demolished the East Wing, but it's there! FFS, I'm not even a pointed pen guy and *I* could have turned out better work than this!

The beacons are lit! It's on! #CancelSpotify #PillarBusiness

Important Halloween discovery: if divination from animal innards is "haruspicy," then divination from pumpkin innards would be "pumpkin spicy."

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

This is ASTONISHING for an hour's work!

Again, Mark Zuckerberg's kids go to a screen-free school with 14 students total and multiple specialized tutors

30 September is the feast of St Jerome. Here is an initial 'Q' with St Jerome holding a book, and faced by a little lion with a poorly paw! #StJerome BL Arundel 91; Passionale (Lives of the Saints); England, S. E. (Canterbury); 12th century; f.31v

"Manuscript climbing gym" would be *such* a better immersive experience then "talk with an AI model of Van Gogh" or whatever it is they're trying to make happen now

Look at academia giving me a little hope