In my lunch today, I found a happy chickpea with a very unconvincing comb over.

More proofs. This time for a review of a gem of a book.

Exciting new series from @livunipress.bsky.social , Translated Texts from Antiquity (TTA to join TTH and TTB) , launches with two excellent volumes on #pomponiusmela and #suetonius I'm very honoured to be involved in this new venture.

#readingcharitably I just finished Bernardine Evaristo's _Girl, Woman, Other_. (Purchased for a quid in the Swansea British Heart Foundation shop.) What a revelation of a book: a life affirming, celebration of a Britain enriched by multiculturalism and intersectionalities.

Summer reading 2025, eclectic as ever. (Not shown: articles, typescripts, student drafts.)

Hunting the (bitter and belligerent) legacy of antiquity in Place Vendôme, Paris.

Not only have I made the TTH book cover drawings into t-shirts, but today I wore one (Conference of Carthage 411) to visit its inspiration, Van Loos' Augustine disputing with the Donatists, Note Dame des Victoires, Paris @livunipress.bsky.social

Congratulations to Dr Croman @croeuan.bsky.social

Further adventures in wearable book covers: tie-dye Hormizd II #TTH @livunipress.bsky.social

This dropped into my inbox from the Climate History network and might be of wider interest. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#readingcharitably A surprise purchase (from Oxfam Books in Swansea, naturally). I think Mario Vargas Llosa was the first "grown up" author I read for fun, with his "Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter". This one gripped me from beginning to end.

Wearable book covers! I turned a few of my Translated Texts for Historians cover drawings for @livunipress.bsky.social into summer attire.

I know it's only part time, since this is cover for Alison Cooley being made head of Warwick Institute of Advanced Studies (take it up with the powers who decide these buy outs), but there is a 3 year teaching gig at in Roman history at Warwick. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX770/a...

Celebrating 40 years of Translated Texts for Historians with @livunipress.bsky.social

Happy International Day of Ogham! Although the OG(H)AM project has sadly now finished, work on ogham continues. Here is a sneak preview of our digital corpus, still under development, but due to be launched in September! #InternationalDayOfOgham #OG_H_AM

Coming to a bookshop or more likely a library near you later this year, in 2 volumes brill.com/display/titl...

With the team from @livunipress.bsky.social at the @imc-leeds.bsky.social

Research fellowships in Early Christianity at ACU in Melbourne: an opportunity to work with a fantastic team! candidate.aurion.cloud/acu/producti...

Open access version of Harry Mawdsley‘s & my study on the changing reasons for & conditions of the banishment of women from antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Based on our dataset of 84 cases from 260-641 and 45 early imperial cases collected by Frank Stini. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

In the midnight hour she cried Moore, More, Moore With a rebel yell she cried Moore, More, Moore

Thanks to the amazing team @livunipress.bsky.social for putting this together in honour of the 40th anniversary of Translated Texts for Historians. More details at www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Guess what? Because I am still pretty rubbish at Blue Sky, I completely missed this. My thanks to the brilliant team at Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social

🎨 The Translated Texts for Historians Colouring Books is available now! To celebrate 40 years of the iconic series, we have collected a selection of Mark Humphries' incredible line drawings that adorn the covers of TTH volumes for readers to colour in. Discover more here ⬇️ bit.ly/TTHColouring...

Translated Texts for Historians at 40: 1985-2025 liverpooluniversitypress.blog/2025/02/10/t...

My drawing of Gaza depicted in the eighth-century mosaic pavement from the church of St Stephen at Umm er-Rasas, Jordan. For the cover of Childers, Rapp, and Whitby (intro., trans., and comm.), Mark the Deacon: The Life of Porphyry of Gaza.