Trump Jr & Brad Pascale have arrived in Bosnia to meet w/ Milorad Dodik’s Russian-backed secessionist regime. Dodik, a long time Serb militant & Bosnian Genocide denier, secured US sanctions relief in Oct after hiring Blagojevich & Mike Flynn as lobbyists. www.klix.ba/vijesti/bih/...

Medieval floor tiles, presumably 13th Century, seen at Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire yesterday. The community had a workshop making the tiles on site. #TilesOnTuesday

Through some sort of tech mess I’ve somehow been included in a thread called ‘Dogs of Historic England’ and let me tell you, this is a great start to my working week.

Obviously this is a false flag op in which Serbia is involved. But what is salient is how it illustrates how emancipatory the fall of Orban would be far beyond Hungary. His allies in the Balkans - Vucic and Dodik, especially - would feel his loss acutely. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Happy Easter! If you're stuck indoors and bored due to the stormy weather, you can always colour in my drawing of Cambuskenneth Abbey ;)

🔴NEW: Scottish prosecutors have received more than 100 reports of alleged terrorism related to Palestine Action in seven months, more than for any other proscribed group in the 26 years since the Terrorism Act was introduced http://theferret.scot/more-palestine-action-supporters-charged-terrorism

Great review, I shall read the study with great interest! Save My Beer www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hanging with Huginn at the outdoor gym. 🐦‍⬛

Workshop announcement - free but booking essential www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/every-timb...

Spotted this 15thC boss of the last supper in the cloister at Norwich Cathedral when visiting recently. It's making wonderfully varied use of perspective but I was most intrigued about the table spread, which says rather more about late medieval England than Roman Judea. Let's decode it! 1/5

"During the Nazi occupation of Bosnia, the [Haggadah] was saved...by Bosnian Muslims, most notably Derviš Korkut, who risked his life to conceal the text rather than allow it to be seized or destroyed...a powerful example of interfaith solidarity". washdiplomat.com/bosnias-priz...

Workers restoring St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, found a box of bones, believed to be those of the saint, concealed within a pillar #OTD in 1919. In 2025, the pine box was carbon-dated to a period contemporary with the 12thC earl of Orkney's martyrdom. 📸Orkney Library & Archive #medievalsky

Occasional series from me, titled: ‘When you take a photo with flash of a dark covered space in a castle and some mad bastard has put something there to scare the crap out of you.’

Please make my day (year) and subscribe to my #history and #archaeology newsletter! Sharing is also (very much) caring, thanks!

Food, conservation and community: perfect short Sunday read. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Torness power station a bit like the South Bank in London. Greater smell of manure and a very cold wind coming off the North Sea though.

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Enfin, tout est question de modération. Pantaleone conclut son traité sur un proverbe : « Tout fromage est sain, qui vient de chiche main ». Autrement dit, le fromage est bon pour la santé, à condition de ne pas en abuser… Un conseil qu'on n'est pas obligés de suivre 😉

Bass Rock from afar. Weekend woohoo!

Aujourd'hui c'est la journée nationale du fromage ! Un aliment très répandu au Moyen Âge, mais pas forcément bien vu des médecins... Un thread ⬇️!

Here’s my contrib to #ADoorAbleThursday: the ‘Dacre postern’ on the S face of the curtain at Carlisle Castle. It’s cut into the wall plinth course of the nice C12 curtain here complete w clasping pilasters. On the ext face of the lintel are the Dacre arms: three scallops. Poss originally painted.

The Abingdon Road residents said it well. I hate this shit

Here’s my contrib to #ADoorAbleThursday: the ‘Dacre postern’ on the S face of the curtain at Carlisle Castle. It’s cut into the wall plinth course of the nice C12 curtain here complete w clasping pilasters. On the ext face of the lintel are the Dacre arms: three scallops. Poss originally painted.

#MedievalSky I received a very important announcement today. Feminae, the bibliographical database on medieval women created and run by Margaret Schaus for the past couple of decades, is going offline as of 1 April. Download as much as you can ASAP: inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/Feminae/Adva...

I'm appalled by some replies to this. I've repeatedly made my views on Israel's vile policies known. I should be able to condemn an antisemitic arson attack on ambulances in my hometown without smug replies implying I have double standards or that Jews in London are responsible for Israeli crimes.

So, historian here looking for more freelance work over the next few months. I’m a very experienced RA and have done lots of things, including numerous oral history interviews, editing, co-authoring a book, public history journalism, archive work…

Another jolly bit of ironwork in a door reveal at Norham. Not wholly convinced this isn’t a primary-phase feature, in spite of clearly being cut into a jamb block rather than, perhaps usual, sandwiched between two blocks in the process of construction (see earlier post).

Bonnie day at Norham yesterday, including a nice C12 fireplace. Even a bit of time for some pintle-slot spotting.

Well now this is interesting. The forced march always seemed a bit far fetched, and it's unlike the Victorians to get stuff wrong. Hold your nose a bit for the academic involved though www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a...

At Bolsover Castle poems were placed on walls and glass, and other marks were carved into its stonework...how might we think about these traces poetically? #worldpoetryday (4/6) www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/if-w...

A blessed Eid al-Fitr to all observing the holiday. These are difficult and frightening days for so many. Which is why I hope the past month of reflection has only renewed your commitment to mercy, charity, community, and service; that which all the great traditions ask of us.

Another certified banger for #ADoorAbleThursday from the Sherborne almshouse: originally a two-leaf door, each unusually built of a single very broad board; later made into a single door with folding leaf fixed by ironwork hinges on backing frame ledgework; then, made a single leaf door at last.

Another certified banger for #ADoorAbleThursday from the Sherborne almshouse: originally a two-leaf door, each unusually built of a single very broad board; later made into a single door with folding leaf fixed by ironwork hinges on backing frame ledgework; then, made a single leaf door at last.

wellcomecollection.org/stories/medi... Examples!

6 years ago today I went on my last run (pic left) — today I’m 36 and I’ve spent my entire 30’s with #LongCovid struggling to walk up and down the block, or work more than 1-2 hours a day. Heres 4 things I never thought I’d lose at this age:

For months now my work has blocked use of IA: countless edited collections of charters, primary sources, and antiquarian vols, out of print books and guidebooks, are now out of reach. Sigh.

Wes Streeting is planning a Cass review for neurodivergency. We are the latest group targeted for public punishment in Labour's vain quest for rightwing support. Lives will be ruined and lives will be lost if they get their way. Please sign this petition. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Officially published today! (I would write something but I seem to have the lurgy…)

Thus is a brilliant piece of writing. People ask me where labour history writing is. It's in journals like this.

#ADoorAbleThursday Was in Dorset for work last weekend, stopped off at almshouse by abbey in Sherborne. Spotted this nice door when having tea. Front face has three broad vertical boards with moulded ribs covering the join (typical late med/Tudor thing), sitting with a moulded frame too. But…

Work your way through these posts. These are people, just trying to live their lives, just like me. Except the government aren't trying to legislate me out of existence. These are people.

'The Old Battersea Power Station' (c.1938) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Private collection)

BIG STAR WARS UNLIMITED NEWS! 🌌🏆 We are thrilled to announce that Bad Moon Cafe will be hosting a Planetary Qualifier for Set 7: A Lawless Time! We are the ONLY store in London hosting one of these massive events. 📍 Where: Borough 📅 When: June 6th Stay tuned for ticket info!

'Lord Paul Boateng said the findings exposed UK museums and universities as “imperial charnel houses where the bones of Indigenous peoples torn from Britain’s empire in the past, with little or no regard...continue to be retained to this day in circumstances that beggar belief”.'

Keep politics out of heritage!

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Yesterday evening, for the second time in a year, the Met Police raided Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrested a number of young nonviolent activists. STATEMENT: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...