To mark the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings here are four Sussex scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry: 1. Bosham Church. 2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey. 3. Castle built at Hastings 4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺

I am grateful for the return of the remaining hostages, may their return bring relief to their families and loved ones. There are many more people who still mourn and suffer. I hope that this day is the first step towards a just and lasting peace for Palestine and Israel. truah.org/press/north-...

👇🎯💯 We should fund them again like the triumph of civilization that they are: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Saturday timeline cleanse

If you're in Ohio the biggest Roman and Medieval reenactment, Days of Knights, is tomorrow in Alley Park outside Lancaster! I will be there! #ClassicsSky #MedievalSky

hey! you can hear me blather on about the medieval world, and now for 50% off!!!! click link below for the discount code and link to the course... #medievalsky

It's Friday! Let's end the week with a map & some eels! Here is John Speed's 1611 map, "The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland." There are Dutch eel ships on this map. Can you find them? (the answer is at the end of the thread) Wait, you ask...WTF is an eel ship? 1/5 🗃️🧪

I need you to read this thread to understand why so many historians are revolted by this regime's crimes against the past

Shanah Tovah! May the new year be sweet and may it bring just and lasting peace!

#Miniatures #miniatures Two mounted 25mm cavalry (likely from Mega Miniatures in the early 2000’s). Fun to paint and a nice addition to a late medieval historic or fantasy command stand.

Happy Friday! (timeline cleanse)

Friends! It's the feast day of St. Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess, polymath, mystic, & eel truth-teller. Medieval thinkers agreed that eels reproduce asexually. But Hildegard suggested that eels mate at sea, where we can't watch. No one listened to her. But she was right! 1/2 🗃️🧪

At a breakneck speed of 0.008 knots (or 25cm/min), the Oseberg ship is once again on the move today, for the first time in almost a century.

Great job opportunity here in Vienna at the Natural History Museum. @nhmwien.bsky.social jobs.nhm.at/Curator-for-...

#Miniatures Ranger captain and soldier. I think mostly Grenadier figures from the 80’s with new bows, etc

I am very excited to announce (and show off the awesome cover of) a new edited volume coming in December! Just the perfect stocking stuffer or gift for your favorite Carolingian aficionados! #Medieval

#Miniatures #miniatures Knight/noble of Rohan.

Here is my main opinion on AI, in every capacity: What is the point of technology? Is it to make our lives better and easier, or is it to make a very small percentage of people richer? The latter is what AI is doing. The people actually doing the coding are making themselves redundant.

My favorite medievalist and our daughter R on her first day at Grinnell! I’m so very happy for her to begin this next step, miss her though I will

Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.

Saturday morning activity committee says it’s time to go out again :)

Gimme a minute. I'm working up an alt version. D-C Sandwich guy Let's raise our footlongs to the sky Still cooking ...

David Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social just gave a BRILLIANT presentation for graduate students on writing public scholarship, op-eds, etc. He’s doing a great service for the historical humanities and the dissemination of scholars’ work to the public.

The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander

This was a wonderful session and a wonderful way to remember and reflect on both Jinty and Jinty's research. Kudos to the organisers, authors and editor(s), and to the memory of Jinty Nelson.

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

When people say “we must go back” why do they always mean racism and not whatever this is

friends and enemies, the ebook of mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE BRIGHT AGES is once more on sale from @bookshop.org! Only $7.99! get you one or a few, maybe a baker's dozen! #medievalsky #booksky bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR By Elena Shao and Benjamin Mullin www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Ornate Saxon copper brooch intricately decorated with gold and garnets, AD 650-670. Found in a woman’s grave during excavations in Floral Street, Covent Garden, once in the heart of ‘Lundenwic’, the early Saxon town of London. Museum of London 📷 by me #Archaeology

Epic solicitors' advert in the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival guide 🪶 🏰

Hey #MedievalSky #EarlyModern history friends: can anyone explain why the English @Wikipedia page for the Guelph-Ghibelline conflict lists the date 1392 as the end of the feud? It doesn’t list any specific event/death/etc. & I can’t think of one in that year. Ideas? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guelphs...

For my Raleigh-Durham area friends!

the punchline at the very end of this is a master class, I am begging you all to watch it. sound on. you need this laugh today, I promise you do

yoooooooooo flash sale of the ebook of THE BRIGHT AGES by me and @lollardfish.bsky.social only $2.99!!!!! #medievalsky #booksky bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

From my favorite medievalist and Wahoo: "Fellow Wahoos and anyone interested in protecting universities’ freedom to hire and retain the presidents they deem most qualified: please consider signing. Thanks!" www.wahoos4uva.com/letter?fbcli... #UVA

Timeline cleanse

So cool to get local props for our Project that is global in reach!

The Franco Scottish Host arrayed for battle 🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Now that’s it’s been given, an anniversary/Speculum article gift for my frog and GOT inspired favorite medievalist: (magnets not visible)

#IMC2025 may be 4 weeks away, but the #IMC2026 Call for Papers is officially open!!! 🎉 This year our Special Thematic Strand is 'Temporalities'! Click here: www.imc.leeds.ac.uk/imc-2026/ to find out how to submit papers and sessions, and also to learn more about our Padlet page.😊 #MedievalSky

Stealing from creators and burning the planet to a cinder for not-even-money. JFC. "Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds ‘no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation’" fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

Rabbi Jacobs was here in Dekalb early in her career and I appreciate her wisdom and perspective in troubled times.

Finally, my photo review of Partizan 2025. I focus mainly on the best of the Demo games because that's all I managed to get around. I missed most of the Participation zone because I was chin wagging most of the day and ran out of time!! 🤣

“At least I have chicken” is my favorite. You can’t respond to that. Lmao

Thank you, @legaldefensefund.bsky.social, for the incredible honor at the National Equal Justice Awards Dinner, celebrating 85 years of inspiring work and leaders fighting for justice. The theme #AllRise was a reminder that now more than ever, we must stand united. #NEJAD2025