Not many people know this, but the Head of Stonehenge is responsible for rearranging the stones (all of them in just 24 hours!) twice a year because of daylight savings time. 🙃

It’s my little one’s first day at daycare. Who’s cutting onions?!

Next weekend is going to be rough. Grading laddered assignments during condensed (7-week) summer classes sucks. Students need the feedback pronto so they can begin working on the second part of their research project asap. In other words, I won’t be getting much sleep next weekend.

A friend gave me this pin. I like it.

Hilarious! Almost makes me want to start reading emails in my junk folder.

Jedi knights existed in the Middle Ages. Here's one with a lightsaber depicted in the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter. 🧵1/2

Yoda was born over 900 years ago. Here's a picture of him from the mid 1300s, when he was young and still had webbed hands. 🧵2/2

Can’t wait to read this!

So I see @theonion.com is now openly attacking me.

Not many people know this, but 13th-century knights loved Tae Bo.

Reminder: stop buying US goods and stop travelling to the US. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Wouldn’t this just be a collection of the tv shows people watch while eating dinner in front of the tv because no one can afford to rent – let alone buy – a place with enough space for a dinner table anymore?

Or, what people look like when they finish their PhD versus when they began it.

If universities think AI can and should replace faculty and the basic skills students used to be taught, then why not replace all varsity athletes with robots? Who needs humans to play varsity football when robots can do it for us?

Let’s chat about medieval law.

If universities think AI can and should replace faculty and the basic skills students used to be taught, then why not replace all varsity athletes with robots? Who needs humans to play varsity football when robots can do it for us?

This looks great. In particular, I’m excited to read the “Law and History” chapter.

He who smelleth it, dealteth it.

I'm thinking of setting up an automatic away-from-office email reply for weekends (from 4pm on Fridays until 9am on Mondays). Thoughts?

An Italian friend once told me that I eat too much pasta. I think about this after I've eaten pasta three days in a row. Then I eat leftover pasta for breakfast the next day.

End of Year Advice for Profs: Never check your Rate My Prof reviews. Most are probably from students who either hate you bc they didn’t earn the grade they wanted or are big fans of you & submitted a stellar review bc they like you and/or think you’re cool. Either way, it’s unhealthy to read them.

A hungry hellmouth being fed. BnF, Français 13096, fol. 86r (early 14th century)

I’ll be laughing about this post for days.

Enjoy yourself. Have that second horn of ale and skewer of beef. (From the Hyde Abbey Psalter, c.1300).

Two creatures firing arrows at each other on opposing pages/folios in a late 13th-century Belgian Psalter. (Morgan Library & Museum, MS M.155, fols. 6v-7r)

People at my university are so kind and generous. For example, a colleague gave me this manuscript leaf yesterday.

Why draw the penis? 🧵 This dog from a late 14th-century French breviary looks like a sexual predator.

A unicorn – with a striking resemblance to the Claymation reindeer – from the Martyrdom of Ptolemy of Antinoe (c.800-920).

In those days, Brits used to queue at reception when they stormed hillforts. But by the third century CE, people began to run at them from all directions in a state of frenzy. Besieging hillforts has become so uncivilized nowadays.

Trump: “I could be Pope, you know, if I wanted. And they’re saying I should be. Isn’t that right? Some people said this. They say I’d be the most powerful pope the world has ever seen. Who knows? I might do it. I like white clothes. But I’d probably change it to 24-karat gold. It’d be so expensive.”

A crowned king, hanging from the gallows (from the 14th-century Roman de la Rose).

What the Easter Bunny really looks like.

Images of fetal positions from a late-13th-century medical text. Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 399, ff. 14r–v.

Learning manners was much different in the 1950s. Take this children’s book I was given. It really does provide you with advice on manners for all occasions – even when someone pulls a gun on you. 🧵1/4.

Timeline cleanse.

Out of whisky.

Which one of you told every editor on the planet to request that I review an article or book for them in the past few weeks?

Not many people know this, but Harold and his horse had wobbly legs from their long sea journey south after the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Because of this, he fell from his horse at Hastings and landed face first onto an arrow. Anything that says otherwise is just history lying to you.🤭

An excellent read!

Just wonderful! Adding this video to my lecture on handling manuscripts next year.

Job: Modern British History and Public History at York. Great opportunity to work with amazing people and live in a beautiful city!

She invited Reviewer 2 for dinner.

It’s both hilarious and unsettling how well Donnie is impersonated here.

What's the perfect GIF for your Bluesky persona?

How’s sleep training our baby going? Just fine. We’re fine.

Did you read the Guardian’s piece on Tom Licence’s claim that Harald sailed (rather than marched) south in the days just before the battle of Hastings? Then you’ll want to read this new post by @marcmorris.bsky.social on the matter. 👇

Saw sea lions at the beach today (Neck Point, on Vancouver Island). I loved their noises, but not their smell.

Tom Licence was able to research this topic because the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was available for study rather than being sold to a private, anonymous individual. IYKYK. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Show somebody who absolutely rocks a hat and isn’t Indiana Jones.

People frequently ridicule medieval writings on health and healing. Thankfully, 21st-century remedies for pain actually work, like the one in this advert for relieving pain in the knee due to arthritis.