Today in Parliament we discussed Myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) - a serious, complex & woefully misunderstood illness. Those suffering deserve proper care and treatment. That's why it's so important we educate healthcare professionals & the public on the realities of this debilitating condition.

It’s #ADoorAbleThursday, and a great chance to share pics of *two* probably medieval doors still hanging in Ludlow Castle. First is at entrance to great hall: a large single-leaf door w lattice framing & a prob later wicket inserted. Looking up, you can see how the outer boards are joined: V-edged.

It’s #ADoorAbleThursday, and a great chance to share pics of *two* probably medieval doors still hanging in Ludlow Castle. First is at entrance to great hall: a large single-leaf door w lattice framing & a prob later wicket inserted. Looking up, you can see how the outer boards are joined: V-edged.

Key points include: High exit rates among carers and early to mid-career workers: Professionals aged 35 and under are significantly more likely to leave & Those with caregiving responsibilities - often women - face disproportionate challenges of low pay, out-of-hours work and limited flexibility.

I'm glad to have signed this statement in support of queer and trans staff at the National Library of Scotland, who by the sounds of it are going through an awful time at the moment: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Some seriously good castle-bothering to be had at Ludlow Castle, from earlier this week.

Great thread.

🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 I'm pleased to say my article 'Cis-Supremacist Pasts: Constructing a History Against Contemporary Trans Equality' has been published today with International Public History and it is fully open access! Check it out here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Am back on the March today (not that one 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 the other one 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿). Driving from Lancashire to Shropshire, I stopped by Beeston Castle. Lovely set of buildings, great views all around, ridiculous bridge.

To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

Extremely windy on the coast at lunchtime.

Heritage Recording Officer Historic Environment Scotland Salary: £32,255 - £38, 500 Closing Date: November 30, 2025 Location: Edinburgh www.bajr.org/job-ad/herit...

Think that reparations are just the absurd idea that hard-up white Britons who never enslaved anyone pay trillions to back people who were never enslaved? If you’re open-minded enough, maybe consider this open access review of the arguments for & against? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Guess what I've spent the morning doing?? TLDR it's all getting worse: number of Treasure finds up, number of donations and acquisitions down. #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting

Breaking research news www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

1446 #Treasure cases in 2024. Up from 1266 in 2023 - that's a c.14% rise. How much will end up in museums? At what cost? Where will rest go? Private collections? eBay? If previous years are to go by, less than 1/2 will find a safe place... #Archaeology #Detecting 🏺 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Are we there yett? #ADoorAbleThursday Big iron yett from Dunbeath Castle in Caithness, at National Museum of Scotland.

New #OnHistory blog, IHR Fellow Chris Lewis writes about new publication, "Making Domesday: Intelligent Power in Conquered England" by Stephen Baxter, Julia Crick, and C. P. Lewis, and Domesday scholarship in the IHR. blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/dome...

Given this is a House of Galloway stan account, good to see more credit given to Dervorgilla. theconversation.com/medieval-wom...

Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.

Soup making and 🎶 evermore this morning 🥘

Bottom of the article 🤦🏻‍♂️

I know this is a soft bit of journalism, but a quick Google would reveal that “[Castle builder] Matheson made his fortune trading in China”, per this piece, actually means his firm smuggled opium from India into China. This isn’t mentioned. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

York Clifford’s Tower plans offer ‘once in a generation’ chance to commemorate 1190 Jewish massacre. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Did you know there's a website dedicated to helping you discover more about the archaeology and heritage cared for by @nationaltrust.org.uk? NT Heritage Records Online has been developed to promote, and provide access to, the National Trust’s archaeological and historic building database. 🧵

“Israel does not allow news organisations to report independently from Gaza. Today it took a group of journalists, including the BBC, into the area of the Strip occupied by Israeli forces. The brief visit was highly controlled and offered no access to Palestinians, or other areas of Gaza.”

I don’t speak Irish but I know enough to reckon my new second hand book is a cast-off from NUI Galway!

Not a good day for @jewishchron.bsky.social. Yesterday we read the nonsense that Little Hugh of Lincoln was killed at pesach for his blood (thus demonstrating that nobody has read the case or knows the English ritual murder tradition) and then this rubbish is printed without question.

It’s #ADoorAbleThursday! Here’s the main door into the primary stair of the Town House or Tolbooth at Dunbar. The building is late C16, but think the door is younger. Wicket threshold worn. Rather unusual inner skin of boards set diagonally. Section shows evidence of tongue and groove jointing.

It’s #ADoorAbleThursday! Here’s the main door into the primary stair of the Town House or Tolbooth at Dunbar. The building is late C16, but think the door is younger. Wicket threshold worn. Rather unusual inner skin of boards set diagonally. Section shows evidence of tongue and groove jointing.

Can’t imagine spending £7 mil to build a castle for it to be faced w rough-cut stones no larger than a CD. Unreal. Anyway, the Viking longhouse episode before is a total palate cleanser but also emotionally devastating. #GrandDesigns. sothebysrealty.co.uk/properties/b...

Call for Papers for an excellent series. The editors are great and the journal open access. #CfP “The Public Curatorship of the Medieval Past” olh.openlibhums.org/news/863/

The latest @folkloresociety.bsky.social newsletter FLS News is out today, and contains a CFP from me and @magicnotwitches.bsky.social inviting proposals for our new @universitypress.cambridge.org series 'Elements in Folklore':

HELP US PRINT: ‘Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland’ This nationally important monograph by Professor Gordon Noble FSAScot will only be printed if we hit our crowdfunding target by 6 December. Please support the campaign by registering your interest: www.kickstarter.com/projects/soc...

New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses. If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion. nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Well done, Prof Murphy.

Sudan is in a famine, and people are dying from it. The Khartoum Aid Kitchen initiative feeds the hungry, about 1250+ people daily, in the greater Khartoum area. They are at 93% Update below: gofund.me/bbbc084c

We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...

Very exciting news for those interested in early medieval England: a hugely important new volume on crops and food supply (by Helena Hamerow, Mark McKerracher & the FeedSax team) is now available Open Access academic.oup.com/book/61548?l...

One of the original 15th century west doors of St. Albans Cathedral in Hertfordshire. 📸 My own. #AdoorableThursday #StAlbansCathedral

Cherokee? Thinking Cherokee.

Detached from its building but still looking fab, this early 16th-century door and doorway from Ipswich has a few features stylistically typical for that era, including vertical moulded fillets of wood hiding the joints of the timber boards on its outer face. From v&a. #ADoorAbleThursday

#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!

Detached from its building but still looking fab, this early 16th-century door and doorway from Ipswich has a few features stylistically typical for that era, including vertical moulded fillets of wood hiding the joints of the timber boards on its outer face. From v&a. #ADoorAbleThursday

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc