Swansea - in fact right in front of the university - during the recent heatwave. That flaming yellow thing in the sky seems to have vanished again...

Submitted to the publisher this morning: 'Contested Histories: Global Perspectives on the Past, Present and Future of Public Monuments', edited by myself, @tomasirish.bsky.social and Hannah Lyons. Could also have been titled 'Colston Five Years On' @swanseahistory.bsky.social

One for the Hildegard of Bingen fans out there! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

#OTD in 1099 the armies of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem, killing thousands as they did so - a fateful event with repercussions stretching down to the present. This is how one C19th French painter imagined the scene.

am so thrilled to announce the publication of Beni Kedar’s beautiful and completely revelatory study of the culture of the Latin East. This book will change the landscape of our scholarship.

Me: it would be cool to get students to design an action figure of a person from history as a piece of assessment. AI: I can do that, here's a Gerald of Wales action figure

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Researchers in Germany have opened the tomb of Otto I (d.973) in Magdeburg Cathedral www.wissenschaft.de/geschichte-a...

While I'm disappointed that the hat of my Innocent III action figure has fallen off inside the package, I'm pleased to learn that Innocent had a shock of jet black hair.

Matthew Stanard reviews Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium: The 1848 Monument to Godfrey of Bouillon, by Simon John academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social