2026 basically

@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.

Hello! It's two years since Thomas, my gorgeous son, died. Next month, Alison and I, along with around 30 friends and family, will be doing a memory walk in support of Children's Hospice South West. If you could spare a few quid in sponsorship, that would be 😍 www.justgiving.com/page/thomas-...

Join me (and other very special guests) on 4-6 March to explore historic townscapes and urban buildings in history. We'll be looking at architecture, urban development and the ways in which we as researchers can use resources like planning and historic protection as tools for historical work. 🗃️

New from Bristol Record Society: Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade archive.org/details/bris... Really great to see BRS publish #OpenAccess on @archive.org ! #History #EnslavedHistory

Today the @softwaresaved.bsky.social alongside our international partners launches the 2026 Research Software Engineering Survey. If you write code for academic research we want to hear from you - even if you have a different job title. @society-rse.org @ukiedh.bsky.social @dariaheu.bsky.social

What’s this? A second new book in two days? Towcester Hundred is the eighth VCH volume for Northamptonshire, including the town of Towcester and its rural neighbours. Available soon from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and @ihrlibrary.bsky.social. #Skystorians #LocalHistory

Double book launch 📚 Celebrating new books by @latemedievalist.bsky.social and @mattlampitt.bsky.social, with introductions by Professor Christian Liddy & Professor Miranda Griffin. Food and drinks provided. 🗓 26 Jan 2026, 5–7pm 📍 The Mount Without, The Crypt, Bristol All welcome to attend!

We are VERY excited to announce the call for papers for our 2026 conference! 🎉🎉🎉 This year, we invite paper and poster proposals on the themes of power and/or performance! All proposals to be sent to [email protected] by 17:00 on Friday 9th January. #medievalsky #skystorians

In 2025 the Society was pleased to add 5 titles to its 'New Historical Perspectives' book series for early career historians bit.ly/4qh8eDt This year saw publication of the 25th NHP title and the 200,000th download from the series. All books are available free Open Access @uolpress.bsky.social.

I went to see them this morning. They were beautiful. The exhibition is associated with @themedievaldrk.bsky.social's scholarship: boydellandbrewer.com/book/medieva...

A Christmas present for myself. The lesser spotted three volumes of Emden.

JGI Seedcorn follow-on funding 2023-25 blog post now available! 📰 'Irish Financial Records from the Reign of Edward I: What Applying Data Science Techniques Can Reveal' Blog post by Mike Jones and Brendan Smith @mikej1971.bsky.social Read more now: tinyurl.com/y2zdd9vm

Consistory Court documents are new to me and seem to have a whole new level of abbreviated Latin hell. Taking this slowly. Does it start with "In t[erm]i[n]o ad r[esp]on[den]d[um] li[bel]o ...", do you think? Any pointers appreciated. Goodrich is suing Lyster over a pension #medieval #latin

The walk today aborted due to flooding. In another part of the walk a friendly ferried ten of us through some flooding in his Landrover

For this week's CMS seminar, we are lucky enough to be joined by Bristol's own Dr Kathleen Thompson for a paper on 'Leperhouses and Lordship: Some Ideas from Medieval Bristol'. We can't wait to find out more! #medievalsky #skystorians

This week we published the 25th volume in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC Rachael's new book is available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2

Yesterday, the CMS were lucky enough to see a snapshot 🧑‍🔬📷 of Dr Alexander Zawacki's (@achillghost.bsky.social) work in his seminar on ‘Analysing Manuscripts with MSI’. Thank you for such a fascinating talk Alexander, and thanks also to @benpohl.bsky.social for chairing! #medievalsky #skystorians

Is there anything better than a post-seminar discussion in the Highbury Vaults? Also proof, if it’s needed, that the CMS welcomes medievalists of all ages!

Q for UK #skystorians - has anyone who is NOT AN ECR won a 'traditional' style grant recently, e.g. pays for your time & expenses to go to archives/do oral history, write up findings, run a workshop for colleagues, do small amount of community feedback/forward and/or public engagement, or similar?

In a bishop's register, I have a new incumbent swearing upon the 'Holy Gospels of God' (ad sancta Dei Evangelia) to pay the retiring priest a pension. A related Chancery case (the pension stopped being paid) refers 'an othe upon the holy Ev[a]ngelist'. This is the New Testament? #medieval (1/3)

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 ...