A must-read: A veteran journalist reflects on the hidden traumas he has witnessed over a quarter of a century of hosting refugees in his Bristol home thebristolcable.org/2025/10/at-h...

Enjoying some time with Jean Mabillon and his extremely approachable transcriptions of Merovingian scripts, in addition to the other joys of De re diplomatica (1681)—the work first establishing the science of paleography.

Locked out of FB so here I am again

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

I've decided to make sandcastles on the beach and sell them for a living.

We don't see English papers so I hope all is well with the Stock Market.

At 3.00 A.M on Sunday the girls were dancing the hokey pokey so we have not had much sleep.

Researchers Unearth Oldest Known Human Facial Bones Ever Found in Western Europe 🏺🧪 www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r... The upper jawbone and partial cheek bone represent a mysterious, unknown species that lived in present-day Spain between 1.1 million and 1.4 million years ago.

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

"The Library" by American illustrator Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954), who shared a communal household in Pennsylvania with fellow artists Violet Oakley and Jessie Willcox Smith. See Alice A. Carter's book The Red Rose Girls for more information on these remarkable women. #SomethingBeautiful

Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.

Just cancelled my midjourney sub to SAVE ELECTRICITY. What is the point in covering all our farmland with solar panels and wind farms JUST TO PROVIDE ALL THE EXTRA ELECTRICITY THAT AI USES. Not to replace oil but to provide vast amounts of electricity JUST for AI?

Scary Place

Tomorrow Yanis Varousfakis and Michael Hudson will be giving the David Graeber Institute a talk. They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page. Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...

Graeber, Varoufakis, Pettifor, and Hudson’s argument: lasting change requires not just debt relief, but a radical redefinition of economic systems—one that prioritizes collective well-being over creditor demands.

Read the original research in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Ever since looking up the medical examiner's record for my great-grandfather, I've been reading through the volume of 1920s coroner's records. Should be mandatory reading for the "doing my own research" crowd. This kid was 16 years old and died of tetanus after scraping his little finger on a rock.

OTD in 1848, some 150,000 Chartists met on Kennington Common to present their third petition to Parliament. Mark Crail on how tracing Chartists, a working-class movement for political and economic reform, became a point of connection between family and academic historians: http://www.historywo...

The EU has issued an alert for everyone to stock up a 72 hour supply of food (and presumably flock to the nearest fortified castle) in case of invasion. My nearest castle (Castellar) as we await the mystery invasion.

We Are Duped Into Blaming Our Problems On Everyone Except Our Rulers Your enemies are not in Moscow, Beijing and Tehran. Your enemies are in Washington, Virginia, New York and Los Angeles. Your enemies are in London, Paris, Brussels and Tel Aviv. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-are-dup...

right?

what could possibly go wrong? Resembles what USA is doing now much?

I never usually subscribe to things but in this case I am and have just signed up for this: www.stopwar.org.uk Should you wish to donate: www.stopwar.org.uk/donate/

Trump Sends Netanyahu Weapons While Talking Tough To Zelensky What we witnessed on Friday was Trump speaking to Zelensky in public the way Adelson probably speaks to Trump in private. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-send...

Increíble el silencio mediático de las protestas en Grecia 🇬🇷 Esta semana se ha producido la huelga general y la manifestación mas grande en la historia contemporánea del país heleno Viva el movimiento popular que vuelve a renacer de los rescoldos de las luchas pasadas ✊

“Humanitarian aid should never be used as a tool of war.” Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says the Israeli decision to stop the entry of all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip is “outrageous and will have devastating consequences”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/66nsyl

The Sarcophagus of the Spouses (530-520 BCE) is actually an urn intended to hold the material remains of the deceased. The work represents a couple lying on a bed (kline), their busts raised frontally in the typical position of the banquet. 📸 Museo Etrusco Villa Giulia #Rome #archaeology #Etruscans

Most people don't really understand just how much money billionaires hoard. If you count to a million non-stop, at the rate of about a number a second, it will take you about 14 days. If you count to a billion non-stop at the same rate it will take you 37 years.

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

Jimena de la Frontera: ship paintings from Laja Alta are the oldest in the western Mediterranean. ....naval representations dating from between the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. #cavepainting #Andalucia canal.ugr.es/noticia/pint...

There exists in this world a category of people called historians who are highly trained in the skills needed to make sense of complex source material. Maybe, just maybe, these scientists should actually talk to them. www.earth.com/news/ai-stru...

No matter "how often you think about the Roman Empire", identifying a #RomanSalute is even more awkward, considering there's no ancient source clearly describing it. There's *one* ambigous depiction of an outstretched arm on Trajan's column, there's *one* vague passage in Josephus. That's it. 🤷‍♂️

My piece is out! A history of archaeological scholarship on the potential for matrilineal societies in Iron Age Europe.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

Final hours of install before press descend on #GladiatorsOfBritain @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social One of the amazing BM objects is this #Roman lamp with a personalised name written into the wet clay - Gaius Maximus. A rare instance of a named #gladiator, or perhaps a fan of this retiarius? #FindsFriday

Mica is a silicate-based mineral, widely utilised today for electrical and thermal insulation. This mica sheet, however, was found in a Nubian Neolithic burial in the Middle Nile Valley. It appears to have been shaped into a tilapia fish #FindsFriday 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.199

Something a bit different from me - I hope you don’t mind. I’m having a few days away from the Peak District in southern Italy, and on Sunday I fulfilled a long-held dream to see Pompeii. It was as fascinating as I expected, and also I met possibly the most smug cat in the world.

Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.

I’ve found something interesting in an old register of the #Brussels parish of St. Katelijne. Queer people have always existed. A 🏳️‍🌈 thread 🧵. (1/10)

Buen momento para recordar y darle amor al Starter pack de Bluesky Historia (+ arqueología, arte, cultura..) creado por @arqueocerva.bsky.social go.bsky.app/L8HA64

How Neandertal DNA May Affect the Way We Think. DNA inherited from Neandertals may influence modern human cognition www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

"Fascist Spain threatens peace" Another one from 1946 demonstration in New York. The black guy at the front is carrying a banner with "Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade"

Our FB group The Forgotten Messages Project in the news: "The family of a globe-trotting butler who mingled with royalty has been reunited with his lost postcards from the 1920s. ..eight postcards have been found .. on the Isle of Wight and reunited with his family." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The #peakdistrict village of Hathersage yesterday, as the snow fell softly and the lights twinkled. Only a few hardy souls were out, and me in my wellies. Hathersage has strong associations with Charlotte Bronte, and The George Inn (pictured here) is featured in her classic novel ‘Jane Eyre’.