Illustrations from ‘The Gates of Horn’ (1926) by Bernard Sleigh, a novel about a fictional Fairy Investigation Society that inspired the creation of the real Fairy Investigation Society 🧚‍♀️ #ostension

Wow! 😮🤩 There's a new interactive map of Every Known Road in the Roman Empire!! 🤓 itiner-e.org We might have to have a lie-down.

Yeah you know what, the description of Lugaid beheading Cú Chulainn was really missing hand-drawn emoticons, that's absolutely what we needed in this specific moment

sorry to be that person but the LNER train from peterborough to london hits too close to home (literally)

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

my main takeaway from the past week is that someone will for sure write a media studies phd thesis about dan and phil’s internet careers

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

The University of Glasgow groundspeople are going to be quite annoyed when they come in to work tomorrow...

The hematologist Oswald H. Robertson pioneered the idea of "blood banks" in WWI by packing glass jars of citrated blood from universal donors in an ice-filled chest that he had constructed from ammunition cases. He convinced countless others to donate blood during the war.

It's been a great day for fascinating events! Really enjoyed hearing @chriskempshall.bsky.social, @mimi-mortmain.bsky.social, @drtimpeacock.bsky.social & Fruzsina Pittner (chaired by @enwright.bsky.social) discussing history and fantasy in video games (and books) tonight!

don't underestimate how daunting this task will be, two centuries from now after the internet is gone, when all the data we unquestionably put in the cloud evaporated, the silicon-based electronic storage devices degraded or lost, Windows, Linux and Python languages dead and forgotten

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

it does make me giggle when people online accuse me of having no media literacy, like yes please let’s crack out our copies of Hayden White and Todorov and have a chat about narrativity (I’m not even being cheeky, I am always DESPERATE for someone to talk to about narrative theory)

I hereby deny that I made Beike write my book!

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Me: "I'm so overwhelmed and burned out, how am I supposed to do all of this work???" Also me: "what I need is a Brand New Labour Intensive Project. That'll fix me."

Thomas Sternberg’s ‘Dialect and Folk-lore of Northamptonshire’ (1851), published only 5 years after the term ‘folklore’ was coined, is also one of the first books on the folklore of southern England to have a dedicated chapter on fairies

good lord this is far too many people who have listened to my silly thoughts

enjoying my first #gifcon as a UoG student!! 🐉🧝‍♀️ I had to catch up on the recordings last year because I was away at work and the Museums and Heritage Show, so it’s super fun to see it live!

why was submitting the work for the Annual Progress Review so stressful?? I was having flashbacks to applying to PhDs 💀

I feel this on a spiritual level

people who know me may have heard me threatening to start a podcast 📻 I’m afraid to say I’m in the later stages of planning it all out and this is the first time I’ve been hyped about making content since my Great Burnout of 2024!!

disastrous scenes for my productivity today as spotify went down for two hours

"Its basic biology" Yes. You're right. And in "basic english" we learn "i before e except after c". Then in ADVANCED english we learn that rule is wrong more often than it is right. Just like in advanced biology we learn there are more than 2 sexes

GET ME IN THAT CINEMA NOW 🐺🍿

We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad: - Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation - Challenging ideas about gender - Protests against genocide - Science generally It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.

Think we could coax that lettuce that beat Liz Truss out of retirement?

#TypicalHistorian going to my first symposium as I zip across the country between my university and partner institution (late to this trend because I was having my biannual crisis about whether I’m a historian or a literary scholar. have now settled on literary historian. does that count??)

One of the things I wanted to achieve with BBC You're Dead To Me was to change the public perception of 'typical historians', to show that expertise isn't just a man in a tweed jacket and bow tie

‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

I feel like one of the only people who liked Mickey 17 and I realised it’s because that movie is basically the same vibe as the books in my phd research except they were written in 1940

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

‘they’re running out of job titles’ lmao but for real there are examples here I hadn’t come across already. a lot of the most recent ones are historical novels for niche audiences. I think we need to talk about how the Auschwitz Genre relates to the indie publishing landscape!

removing Holocaust denial comments is not how I thought I would spend my evenings this week but here we are 😬

200,000 views since this weekend on a nearly three year old video and over a 1000 new subscribers. the youtube algorithm really is algorithming 🙈

I accept this may well be confirmation bias but the craziest things always seem to happen around the new year and they usually involve planes, viruses, wildfires or someone threatening world war three

staying with the 🇺🇸 family over christmas has made me realise how much old stuff we take for granted my bf’s Tudor-obsessed mother mentioned Burghley House, a huge palace with amazing grounds, and that Elizabeth I’s spymaster was there. and I was like… that’s where we took the dog out last week 🐕‍🦺

Did...Did Tolkien write this article?

✨ share your favourite photo of yourself from 2024 ✨ the face of someone who got their first phd offer 📖 this was taken from hmsb, part of the imperial war museums where I’ve ended up doing my collaborative phd!

Working at a large museum: Hi I'm the assistant learning interpretation curator for pre-19th century oil paintings. Working at a small museum: Hi I'm the social media manager and the curator, and the conservator, and the events coordinator, and the exhibition designer, and the director, and...

Sometimes working with manuscripts gets us really, really close to the people from the past allowing us to hear their voices. This is a story of a letter from a schoolgirl to her teacher, written probably sometime at the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century. A thread 🧵 #medievalsky /1

As a historian this is amazing. I love the marriage of Padme's fashion with another part of the cultures that inspired it (Mongol, Manchu, and Pre-Modern Chinese fashion.)

*arrives at home for Christmas *immediately falls down stairs

currently deciding which books to take for reading over christmas and realising that they are not very festive and actually quite gloomy

Repurposed Assad tank in Syria.

I’m a historian. We never help

post you from a different era ✨

pleased to confirm that I have now successfully shaped my bsky feed into almost entirely medieval manuscripts and memes 😌

truly blessed to work in a place that looks like this (literally feels like a day out I get paid for) 😌