⚔️ 9th-century sword hilts ⚔️ Left: Eigg, Inner Hebrides, Sco. (copper-alloy, silver, gilt) Right: Søndersø, Jutland, Den. The immense expense of, and status associated with, the swords owned by Scandinavian elites across the Viking world is self evident here. My 📷 NMS | NMD

This was the Averil Cameron I knew, telling it like it is, here on social media. She was one of the least pretentious and straightforward academics I knew, which is also how she wrote, making her work easily engaging as well as fascinating

Happy book birthday *Trans Biblical*!! @wjkbooks.com

The picture here says it all. Many of us are more than grateful to Averil Cameron for all she helped us with, Here's a review of her autobiography tinyurl.com/3bx2p47x

RIP Dame Averil Cameron. She was an epitome of the best of the grand dames of our field, in that she was generous, brilliant, incisive, and did not suffer fools.

She would always make sure there was good coffee. Here she is with GWH and RW at Keble, all looking amused.

It is with great sorrow that we share the news that Averil Cameron has passed away. She will be deeply missed by all who knew her and her work. Further information will be shared in due course.

The great historian of Late Antiquity Averil Cameron, who has died, reminding us that class matters alongside gender in British society wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

Join us on 14 April at 5:30pm at the Art Workers’ Guild for a special panel discussion! We will be in conversation with Professor David Nirenberg (IAS, Princeton) to mark the 30th anniversary of his seminal publication "Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages". 1/3

Did you know? In the Victorian era, Frances Power Cobbe lived openly as an intellectual, built a national reform career, and spent over thirty years in a devoted partnership with another woman? Cobbe rejected the conventional life expected of her and chose freedom instead. #Victorian #history

For Good Friday let's go back to the time of early Christianity: a silver plaque and a gold disc from the Water Newton hoard carrying Chi (X) and Rho (P), the first two greek letters of Christ's name, a symbol frequently used by early Christians. The hoard...🧵1/2 🏺

#WindowsOnWednesday #photography #travel Belvedere Schlossgarten, Vienna.

Fellowships! The National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam has published a call for proposals to conduct research into its maritime historical collection. More information, including the English translation of the call texts, can be found here www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.nl/collectie/on... #skystorians

Yesterday was the "official" release day for Esther Keeps the Score, and I am anxious and excited to share my words with you all. Many thanks to @scmpress.bsky.social for making this process so enjoyable. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies Vol. 5, No. 1 (2026) www.euppublishing.com/toc/jlaibs/5/1 @edinburghup.bsky.social

Hesperia Vol. 95, No. 1 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56603 @projectmuse.bsky.social @jennifersacher.bsky.social

"Split into five parts, the handbook portrays the evolution of slavery from antiquity to the contemporary era and encourages readers to realise similarities and differences between various manifestations of slavery throughout history." Elihu Yale is mentioned, as are many others.

Wikipedia - officially an AI free zone. Will we see an uptick in course assignments now too? Could benefit more marginalized people/topics/themes which was the reason I explored #wikiedu in the classroom.

Doing more than most universities.

March 26, 375 CE: Honoria, a 30-year-old mom is buried in the city of Salona (Croatia). She is buried in the sarcophagus with her parvula ("little girl") who died earlier—likely after childbirth (CIL III, 9506). mappola.eu/index.php/20... 0.5-2% of Roman women died in childbirth (versus 0.01 today).

Fourteenth century glass at Worplesden Church, Surrey.

For the feast day #otd that's in it: The Annunciation, Francesco di Valdambrino, c. 1423 (Rijksmuseum) This hardwood figure was part of a group made to flank the high altar of the church of San Francesco in Pienza in Tuscany. I love it. And she has her book in her hand.

25 Mar 1586: St. Margaret Clitherow taken to the toll-booth on Ouse bridge #York & pressed to death under 700-800 hundredweight #otd

🗣️ new Element in Religion in Late Antiquity! 🗣️ @monikaamsler.bsky.social's EDUCATION IN RELIGIOUS CONTEXTS OF LATE ANTIQUITY ⚡⚡⚡ free through April 8! ⚡⚡⚡ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

25 Mar 1556: Reginald Pole new Archbishop of #Canterbury receives the Pallium on the third day after his consecration on the feast of the Annunciation & first day of the New Year #otd (National Trust images)

Read the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, which includes a cluster of themed articles on Thucydides, and general articles on the geranos dance, Diogenes Laertius and the origin of philosophy, Plutarch's Late Republican Lives, and more! academic.oup.com/bics/issue

'Data from...(Hesa) shows that 288,010 students at UK institutions in 2024-25 came from families in the top tier of the UK’s socio-economic classification system. This group is defined as those working in higher managerial and professional occupations, such as doctors, lawyers and engineers.' 1/2

'Graduates who received free school meals will earn almost £3,000 a year less than their more affluent peers with similar qualifications working at the same companies, says a new report that suggests class influences pay disparities more than demographics or degree outcomes.' 1/2

Tomorrow! #WCCWiki

One of the recently-excavated late antique wallpaintings from this monastery - from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism's facebook post about it. Sounds like they have also found figural images too. Anyone seen pictures of them? Or of small finds?

The Yates Thompson Divine Comedy has been returned online. Commissioned by Alfonso V, King of Aragon, Naples and Sicily, this copy of Dante's work has illuminations on every single page (Yates Thompson MS 36) Consult the whole manuscript online now: searcharchives.bl.uk/catalog/040-...

March’s #WCCWIKI editing session is happening next week! Tuesday 24th at 1pm. Join with the link below!! 🏛️🏛️ Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168.

The Black Cultural Archives in Brixton are holding an open day next Sunday blackculturalarchives.org/events/open-...

Medieval misericord from St Laurence’s Church from Ludlow in Shropshire, possibly depicting Richard II. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Ludlow

Follow the live stream here: youtube.com/live/BktIfz-...

The #WCCWiki meet-up for March is happening online on Tues 24 March, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Editing session on Zoom, with training if needed. Join Zoom Meeting us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168. Email [email protected] for more info. @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social

The Roman mosaic in Nennig, Germany, is one of the largest of Roman mosaic art of the 2nd and 3rd century. North of the Alps, this mosaic is one of the very few that remained at their original site. A local farmer discovered it in 1852 by accident. The mosaic was in a Roman villa. #MosaicMonday

Stuart's work on curse tablets is fantastic, his talk on Thursday sounds great!

Dr Stuart McKie on "Curse tablets and demons: a sense of the weird" - join us for our next research seminar on Thursday 19 March 2026, 17:15-18:30 UK time. All very welcome to attend in person or online! Joining instructions and in person venue in the thread!

Looms were one of mankind's first machines, but intact finds of the perishable wood constructions are extremely rare. In @antiquity.ac.uk, a Spanish team reports finding the remains of a Bronze Age weaving workshop, including one of the oldest looms ever recovered. @science.org

AAH Conference 2026: Discover Our Sessions Identity: Gender, Feminism, Trans Studies 📍University of Cambridge 📆 8-10 April 2026 🔗 https://loom.ly/6Dt-NdI

Celebrating Women in Classics: Ten Years of the Women’s Classical Committee UK Join the ICS and WCC on Wednesday 22 April for a round table discussion and Q&A on the theme of ‘Celebrating Women in Classics’. Drinks reception from 5pm; panel discussion at 6pm: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Reminder: sign up for the @womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social 10th anniversary celebration, April 22nd @ics.bsky.social! Free & all welcome; travel bursaries available for grad students & un-/under-employed Classicists attending wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/01/29/c... #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky 🏺

Our newest blog post is now live! Check it out below 🏛️🏛️ wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2026/03/10/w...

This golden inscription states: "Aelfred mec heht gewyrcan"/ "Alfred ordered me to be made". In keeping with the Old English riddling tradition, a voice is given to an artefact, in this case the Alfred Jewel. The dragon, also wrought in gold, perhaps protects the figure #WyrdWednesday #MedievalSky

Two attendants from a banqueting scene from the South West Palace at Nineveh. The panel dates from 700-692 BC, and is part of the collections at the British Museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday

Back editing with the #WCCWiki crew today after a phd-related hiatus. Started an article for Carmen Alfaro Asins who was head of numismatics at Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. She sounds PHENOMENAL - two sylloges, reinvigorated the whole dept, medallist 🪙🩷🪙 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_...

This is the biggest act of cultural and political vandalism in the UK in recent history. It will lead to unprecedented damage. Unnecessarily but ideologically committed against one of the few sectors in which UK remained world leading. Labour have deliberately allowed this to happen.

"The ideal academic is now officially defined ... as being capable of working without time limits and without primary care responsibilities. The new capitalist academy imposes expectations of performativity that only a care-less worker can fully satisfy“. (Lynch, 2010) doi.org/10.1177/1474...