Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Still depressed about the EHRC and what it says about the decline of feminism in my lifetime. But, to all my trans & NB friends, colleagues & students: try to remember that only a small, genital-obsessed minority want this (however hard the media try to change that). Many many people support you. 💜

Finally, my paper on public responses to Stonehenge in British news is out. "What's the Meaning of Stonehenge?" reveals that archaeological news faces challenges of scepticism & backlash in a post-Brexit, post-pandemic era. Open Access (currently with mistakes in rendering, waiting for T & F to fix)

Solidarity with all trans + people today. And if you're cis like me and have any agency in shaping your institution's policies regarding toilets etc, please exercise it in defence against those who want to take away human rights.

#ADoorAbleThursday from Tolquhon Castle (1580s), main door with wicket. It’s doing well for poss being original door, though areas show clenched bolts passing through both skins. Inside face shows (AFAIK) v unusual joinery: back boards rest in dovetail recesses cut into front board. Skilled work.

#ADoorAbleThursday from Tolquhon Castle (1580s), main door with wicket. It’s doing well for poss being original door, though areas show clenched bolts passing through both skins. Inside face shows (AFAIK) v unusual joinery: back boards rest in dovetail recesses cut into front board. Skilled work.

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Disabled folks are some of the most courageous people. We have to do most everything while afraid.

Reminder - just 5 days left to submit a paper proposal for "Belonging to the Victorians? Community, Collections, and Care", a 1-day conference on 4 September 2026 to be held at Wilton's Music Hall. Details in attached image. 🌟

What were the so-called cooks' fees in elite medieval households? Simply, they were perks of the job. Here, I've translated a section 'Concerning the cooks', which appears in the priory records of Rochester Cathedral, which gives an example of such perks. modernmedievalcuisine.com/translations...

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Surviving the Black Death in medieval England: recovering from illness at Warboys, Huntingdonshire www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur...

Fascinating + beautifully visualised analysis, exploring convincingly why birth rates are crashing everywhere. Spoiler: there are many factors, but the smoking gun is a smartphone. Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once - a limited 🎁 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Joanne Rowling's fellow traveller Kellie-Jay Keen is speaking at Tommy Robinson's rally tomorrow. Transphobia is the engine that pulls the train of fascism.

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Just wondering, Simon, is ‘the Birmingham speech’ better known by any other description? I just feel like people may be more familiar if… oh… I’m sure it’s nothing.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Historians of medieval Scotland 🏰 Does anyone have a copy of Ditchburn, ‘Scotland and Europe’ (2001) handy? I want to look at a page and associated refs, but I’m home-bound today. I think it’s p.259 I’m after.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Historians of medieval Scotland 🏰 Does anyone have a copy of Ditchburn, ‘Scotland and Europe’ (2001) handy? I want to look at a page and associated refs, but I’m home-bound today. I think it’s p.259 I’m after.

Happy #ADoorAbleThursday to all who celebrate. This MS from the Bodleian of c.1000 CE is (I think) one of the earliest depictions of the humble pintle, which does all the heavy lifting (literally) for lovely doors. digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/56af...

Sign please folks c.org/pcXwsDxRM4

www.maptap.gg May 13 95🏅 97🔥 98🎯 96🔥 98🎯 Final score: 970 Enjoy this game but it is cursed that ‘easy’ is cities in the US!

Indiana Jones then: It belongs in a museum!! 🏺 Indiana Jones now: Land Back is both a moral imperative and the only path to survival That's growth 💅

Open access - Free to download as pdf for personal use “Medieval Rural Settlement and Infrastructure Archaeology Across Europe” edited by Carenza Lewis, Neil Christie, Gareth Davies, Aidan O'Sullivan www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

Thought this was a model response from @celiarichardson.bsky.social to a pretty harsh article in the Spectator about the National Trust

I honestly think this is just about the (deeply weird) gendered way in which work is imagined. Steel is masculine, and done by authentic real members of the working class (white men). Academia is effeminate, politically suspect, and employs chiefly women. Ergo it cannot possibly have value.

We have a very exciting opportunity for someone to become our new Community Partnerships Curator! You'll lead on the co-creation of a major public exhibition, exploring and reimagining Britain’s relationship with displaced communities. Find out more and apply: jobs.reading.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

I also find it pointed how Scotland, Wales and NI’s aspiration for a different political order is presented as ‘nationalism’ whereas English nationalism - other than the Far Right - is naturalized as somehow neutral and apolitical. Rather than what it was - imposed and asymmetric.

Reviewing some pics from what’s been a v bus few months w work and I spotted this smiley face from Coldingham Priory. Really interesting place for history of Northumbria and Anglo-Scottish border but also with a jolly face atop a C12 capital.

Eight years since the book was written, little has changed for the better, and a lot for the worse – for dreamers coming of age now, fed on a steady diet of fear, anger, and paranoia, what does the future hold? scroll.in/article/1091... By Sayari Debnath

New post I wrote on the problems with raptus. Enjoy! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/05/08/r...

If anyone’s interested in a new bit of work on Stokesay Castle, check this out! DM for copy. www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

PhD scholarship in History at CCCU closing date 22 May www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f... #skystorians

It was all too foreseeable. And what is also foreseeable is that Starmer will fail to correct course, because he simply doesn't understand - doesn't want to understand, in fact - why he is failing.

👀 St Michael's, Shotwick, Cheshire 15th century door & Norman doorway Of note are grooves in the porch wall. Many sources suggest that these are caused by #medieval archers sharpening their arrows. Other sources …. are more sceptical. 🤔 #AdoorableThursday #IronworkThursday #Romanesque

Back with a new episode! Last week, @rozierhistorian.bsky.social and @rosiebonte.bsky.social were joined by @kateweikert.bsky.social to talk about ‘Leaderships Roles in Academia’ (types of roles, how to get experience, and top tips) Links in bio: tell your friends! 🙏🏻

Hugely excited that my new book, 'Stonehenge: The Story of an Icon', has been published by English Heritage! This has been several years in the making, quite a bit written before I left EH. Very pleased with the end result: www.english-heritageshop.org.uk/stonehenge-s...

Cover Reveal! Coming soon, open access, with Taylor & Francis. Edited by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social, Suzanne Trill and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

2014 REF: 2026: closing UG History

Fully funded PhD studentship with English Heritage and University of York on medieval monastic window glass: www.york.ac.uk/archaeology/...

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🥳New #medievalsky #earlymodern Open Access Article! It's about the roles and lives of women in the Alps, including: - How generic male language in sources hides the presence of women - ⛏️ Female construction workers building roads across the Alps -⚖️ A lord turning women into men (legally speaking)

How foolish - or delusional - do you have to be to think you are talking to a living thing here rather than a machine fishing in a giant bucket of stolen words? God complex meets narcissism - or are they the same thing?

Further Northumberland pod from me, this one on Norham Castle. I was joined by a born-and-bred Norhamite, who shared fascinating stories about the village and the castle, and what he knowingly referred to as ‘traditional fishing activities’ on the Tweed 🎣🥷 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.

Juste un rappel que voilà à quoi ressemblaient (très probablement) les cathédrales au Moyen Âge (ici Amiens recolorisée dans un son et lumière). Oubliez le cliché du Moyen Âge gris, marron, terne. Les médiévaux vivaient dans un monde de couleurs !

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