Congratulations to Dr Ben Guy, who has been awarded an AHRC standard grant to fund a major collaborative project on the early Welsh charters and their boundaries! www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/news/2025/09...

We've recorded nearly 100 hours of oral histories from British South Asians across the UK—spanning generations, identities & regions. Archived with the @britishlibrary.bsky.social & free to access: southasianbritain.org/oral-histories/project-collection/ @UoBArtsMatter @BL_Learning @QMULsed

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, win a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, Reynard the Fox & accompanying journal, A Fox for All Seasons, Apple & Blackberry chocolate, cinnamon knots, Caramelised biscuit tea & a fine fox companion. Follow, like & repost to win! 🦊🍂

Went for a walk today. The path went over this lovely late medieval or 16th century pack horse bridge. #medieval historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...

Radio 4 Today programme about language learning (1:22:02), which then went on to Latin learning (1:23:50). Might be of interest, @brunellus.com ? www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I've imported Royal Commission data (from @jrdollery.bsky.social and @scottlloyd.bsky.social) into @mappingthemarch.bsky.social for @latemedievalist.bsky.social and @mattlampitt.bsky.social ) and I'm becoming slightly obsessed with the fragmentation of Caernarfonshire and Denbighshire!

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live! Visit southasianbritain.org @qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Captain it's Wednesday

Listen to a discussion of my forthcoming @YaleUniversityPress book, The Maginot Line, 28 July 2026, 15:00 www.youtube.com/live/mpFyt0J... #MaginotLine #WorldWarII #Fortifications #Architecture #ModernFrenchHistory #20thCenturyFrance

#CfP: Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Exeter, 30-31 October 31, 2025. Abstracts by September 5, 2025 @earlymodernwar.bsky.social #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents #MiseryOfCivilWar www.rensoc.org.uk/event/confli...

Our database of people and their connections to places and manuscripts across the Welsh Marches is progressing! Starting to reconstruct individual networks from piles of rolls is very exciting as there's so much potential for how users of our database/website will use the data for their own research

We’re pleased to announce that our database has reached 2,000 person entries! 🎉 #MedievalStudies #DigitalHumanities #ResearchMilestone #medievalbluesky #medieval #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

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Yup. We lost an image-rich digital resource for a few hours last month. The bots often don't make multiple requests from the same IP address making throttling requests difficult. Web Application Firewall (WAF) solutions aren't cheap.

This is happening to pretty much every university site btw. Trying to block AI bot waves is a regular thing now for uni IT networking teams. We (quite literally) had to block ALL web traffic from Brazil very briefly a few weeks back.

A couple more pictures from my visit to Acton Court. A grafito representing a ship. A central wooden post in a spiral staircase thought to be from a mast of a ship. #medieval #maritime #history

Visited Acton Court today. Only part of the house has survived, but what has survived includes the apartments built by Sir Nicholas Poyntz for the visit of Henry VIII in 1535. Very pretty! #tudor

Don't forget to email us at [email protected] for the link to this seminar today at 16:00 BST @bristolcms.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

Next week (11 June, 7.30pm), our PDRA @mattlampitt.bsky.social will be talking to the Mortimer History Society Online Seminar about his new book - join us there!(mortimerhistorysociety.org.uk/society/onli...) #medievalbluesky #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalseminar #mappingthemarch #Skystorians

Went up Kelston Roundhill for the sunset. Also popular with the local youths!

Visited the Red Lodge in Bristol. I can’t believe I hadn’t visited before.

Playing with importing @jrdollery.bsky.social and @scottlloyd.bsky.social 's Historical Boundaries of Wales data in MOWLIT (@mappingthemarch.bsky.social) and wondering if Denbighshire officials lost a bet to Caernarfonshire officials ...

Fancy a dip? 🌊 Today's books share the refreshing topic of ports in #EnglishHistory Richard Stone's 2024 monograph on #Bristol & the birth of the Atlantic #economy 1500-1700 analyses #EarlyModern trade in Britain, based on the Bristol Port Books #History #EconomicHistory #BlueHumanities

Any thoughts on the contracted Latin word after Richard Fletcher? #medievalsky #latin

Happy Friday Everyone! We've been working hard to recreate the historical townships of Wales from various historical sources and map. The pre-1840 Township boundaries for Denbighshire, Flintshire, Montgomeryshire & Radnorshire are now available on the Historical Boundaries of Wales website!!!

Thrilled to see that this is now available online (for free)! academic.oup.com/book/59910 @mappingthemarch.bsky.social

This evening saw the book launch of ‘Medieval French on the Move’, a doorstop of a Festschrift published with @degruyterbrill.bsky.social in honour of Keith Busby, scholarly gentleman extraordinaire and all-around great guy. Gefeliciteerd! @bristolcms.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

Is there a list of abbreviations for DLMBS logeion.uchicago.edu/cumulare ? For example p. ppl. … present participle? #latin #medieval

I'm the Research Software Engineer on the @mappingthemarch.bsky.social project. I'm currently experimenting with integrating @jrdollery.bsky.social 's GIS data, starting with the historic parishes of Wales. I thought I'd messed up something with the parish of Aber ...

Just a reminder that the @mappingthemarch.bsky.social project have a fascinating seminar this afternoon. All welcome! @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolantharch.bsky.social

Started rewatching The Expanse earlier in the week only to find last night that Amazon no longer have the rights to the first three seasons 🙄

I know several excellent medieval Latinists, but Mark is arguably the most impressive of the lot. Seriously amazing scholar.

Mark (@brunellus.bsky.social) is helping me improve my Latin. He is knowledgeable, patient and generally awesome.

Remember, Luciana is convening the French of the Celtic Worlds conference alongside Dr Matt Lampitt this April in Bristol. Definitely not to be missed! 😊 Use the following link to find out more and register for the conference! #medievalsky blog.mowlit.ac.uk/french-of-th...

Can anyone recommend any books or articles on the history of astrolabes? I’m partial interested in their use by theologians/ priests in the late medieval and early Tudor period. Thanks. 🙏 🗃️ #history

Just a reminder that registration is open for The French of the Celtic Worlds Conference (9-11th April)! This promises to be a really brilliant conference, with a fantastic range of speakers and activities. Definitely not to be missed! Find out more at: blog.mowlit.ac.uk/french-of-th...

First day at work after a two-week absence. I spent a week in a hospital due to a horrendous throat infection, followed by a week at home with antibiotics. I'm now ready for a nap 😴

OpenAI is not making money on GPT, but it's not trying to: its goal is to create AGI that will reveal to them some magical new way to make money (or dramatically cut costs). Its investors are investing in the dream of the singularity. The products are just demonstration points on the way.

Bureaucracy… just too many vowels for my brain to cope

If you are in Bristol and want to hear me talk about sex you are in luck. I will be giving a talk called "What Every Medievalist Should Know About Medieval Sex and the Law" at the CMS Research Series on 27 February from 16:00-17:45. Arts Complex Research Room 6. Yay!

Congratulations! Very exciting. It also seems very relevant to @mappingthemarch.bsky.social !

I should add for the medieval Wales crowd--I THINK this project may've turned up TWO 12thc Tintern Abbey books (incl the cover volume), and we've VERY few earlier medieval Welsh books and (until now) ZERO Tintern heyday books. No one had looked in Bristol for them before, apparently.

It’s been a baking kind of day

This year’s Leeds IMC has 49 parallel sessions. Here’s where I’ll be after lunch on the Tuesday. Be there or be elsewhere! #Wyclif #medievalSky #IMC2025

hello hello! are you in or near Bristol? would you like to come to a public event where I will try and make the case that the pandemic turned the world into a more introverted place but that's an urge we need to resist? are you free on March 3? then do come along: www.meetup.com/bristol-huma...

Today is the seventh anniversary since my boss bought me a coffee but somehow upset the barista.

I'm looking forward to @mattlampitt.bsky.social and @latemedievalist.bsky.social using it in anger (as long as they don't get angry with me).

My #data newsletter "Quantum of Sollazzo" (yes, excuse the pun) goes out every Tuesday with a set of the best recent articles, curated and commented by me, including uses of data in the media, tools and tutorials, #dataviz, #AI, and an Ask Me Anything #AMA section. puntofisso.net/newsletter

I’m going to have another go at cryptic crosswords this year. Hopefully they won’t cause rage, despair and bewilderment this time. 😥

Oh dear.