Excited to have started overseeing the book reviews section of 'The Journal of Ecclesiastical History'. A reminder that suggestions of books and offers to review can be sent to [email protected] @universitypress.cambridge.org @cambridge.org

"What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham... your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings ... are, to Him, mere bombast, fraud, deception..."

If you don’t like the running down of arts degrees you can sign this petition, it’s very easy c.org/XbNrQnjfVW

Our prize announcements were preceded last Wednesday by the Society's 2026 Prothero Lecture given by Prof Rebecca Earle on: 'The Last Voyage of the Santiago: A Ship and its World in the Age of Revolution’ bit.ly/4pjdlnz Our great thanks to Rebecca for her excellent lecture #Skystorians

c.org/KGmTvZw7Ry Save Humanities at University of Herts

From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni

'What is perhaps remarkable about the Exeter cuts is that they are targeted at some of the university’s most successful departments, many of which turn over a profit even after they have made enormous and increasing contributions to the central university budget.' Read, rage and weep.

Canada is failing the Jewish community and Jews are being targeted, Carney says https://fascinating.news/r/EQC2FBxx

Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, 17-20 August 2026 The 2026 Symposium will take place at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, with the theme The Rural Parish in Late Medieval England. The Pamela Tudor Craig Lecture will be given by Ian Forrest. For more: harlaxtonmedievalsymposium.org/harlaxton-me...

Diwrnod diddorol a chynhyrchiol iawn hyd yn hyn @aberuni.bsky.social gyda haneswyr o bob cwr o Gymru. Y sesiwn foreol @librarywales.bsky.social ystyriodd addysgu ac ymchwil hanes Cymru, ac mae ein paneli prynhawn yn mynd i'r afael â moeseg hanes llafar a dulliau o ymdrin ag AI #Skystorians 1/2

Yesterday, @mirierubin.bsky.social gave a fabulous talk at @aberuni.bsky.social as part of a @royalhistsoc.org event. Amazingly, she delivered the first five minutes in flawless Cymraeg.

What a devastating article.

Join us for the EHS Summer Conference! Whether you’re a long-time member of our Society or joining us for the first time, this is a great opportunity to connect with other #historians who share a love of #churchhistory. 📅 13-17 July 2026 📍 Royal Holloway, University of London shorturl.at/5Gi0i

Looking forward to this!

A Synagogue in North London was targeted by an arson attack overnight. I shouldn't have to say this, but after the ambulance attack, I clearly do. If you start talking about a "false flag", or blaming "Israel" for this, you're a despicable human being. www.jewishnews.co.uk/police-inves...

Just had my office full of students, gathered around to listen to the radio, much like Americans on the home front did, absorbing with stunned silence Edward R. Murrow’s 1945 report from the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. Listen here: perspectives.ushmm.org/item/edward-...

We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself. Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis. What stories have you uncovered in the historical record? #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

Finally, @mirierubin.bsky.social Cities of Strangers is a great primer on inclusion and exclusion in medieval cities (again, largely because we have more sources from urban communities, not because cities were necessarily more tolerant) www.cambridge.org/core/books/c... fin

Call for papers: @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social 🗃️ conference on The Church and Race @royalholloway.bsky.social, 13-15 July 2026. #CFP deadline 15 April. Keynotes from incoming EHS president @mirierubin.bsky.social, Herman Bennett, and Rowan Williams ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/

I'm in the process of writing 2 presentations - for the Reformation Studies Colloquium 2026, & the IHR @ihrscb.bsky.social seminar. At the IHR on May 7th I will introduce the project and give an airing for some of our preliminary findings. Hybrid, sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📢MARCH WILL OF THE MONTH📢 Out today, our latest featured will is that of David de Crasto, a prominent Jewish Londoner who was the cantor or hazzan of the Sephardic synagogue. #EarlyModern 🗃️📜 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Lewis is right that raising the repayment threshold is the best way to help low and middle income students. But I think Badenoch can defend the principle of lowering interest rates on fairness grounds even if it primarily helps better off graduates.

Come to this @rshc.bsky.social!

“Theories, Frameworks and Concepts” led by JHSE trustee and President emeritus @mirierubin.bsky.social @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social conference 30 Mar 2026

31 January 2026 at Birkbeck from 2 to 6 pm.

The back cover of the new issue of @mediumaevum.bsky.social features my predecessor, the late great Nigel Palmer, with an appeal for the travel fund being established in his name. For more on that, visit mediumaevum.org.uk/donate/palme... .

Book launch for Love & Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance on Tuesday 25 November, 5.30pm @iashedinburgh.bsky.social - please share & consider coming along! I'll be chatting to @kateai.bsky.social & Carol M Richardson. Sign up for in-person & online: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

This sounds incredibly exciting www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Breaking the tax pledge is the right call...and politically sulphurous. Reeves must argue, far more forcefully, that taxes are *the* essential downpayment we all pay for a fairer society. Patrick Diamond and I wrote for @renewaljournal.bsky.social. Key points in 🧵 👇 renewal.org.uk/blog/if-labo...

Publication – Étienne de Bourbon, « Tractatus de diversis materiis predicabilibus. Quarta pars. De dono fortitudinis (tituli 1-7a) », éd. Jacques Berlioz, Luc Ferrier rmblf.be/2025/11/09/p...

... and Leicester... Languages, History... It's so easy to destroy, so hard to create. So much talent. So many lives. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

For anyone who is interested in an extensive discussion of what “social democracy” means, we asked the current & former editors of @renewaljournal.bsky.social to proffer their definitions & thoughts: renewal.org.uk/blog/renewal...

Applications are open for Folger Library short-term fellowships! Deadline January 15, 2026. www.folger.edu/research/the...

TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩 #NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)

Currently bed bound so to have this wonderful book by @odavies9.bsky.social and @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social turn up in the post is a double joy. Accessible, erudite and insightful as you would expect, but also gloriously entertaining and engaging.

Offre d’emploi – Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World (Brown University) rmblf.be/2025/11/01/o...

#Sephardic Homelands: Spanish and Portuguese #Citizenship and the Question of Belonging Today jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino... hybrid: www.youtube.com/live/xcCPgcu... #EspañaJudía

Lecturer in Modern History (Part time 0.6 FTE, Fixed term until 31 August 2026) University of East Anglia - Faculty of Arts and Humanities - School of History and Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA129/l...

What David said. I read @sachahilhorst.bsky.social and @demofuturist.bsky.social's pieces on a recent flight, alongside the excellent conversation between Jack Jeffery and Alan Finlayson on why the left doesn't understand the internet. These three pieces alone worth the sub.

Yes, my guess is that while it would not be a perfect fit, the Main Panel PCE solution would work better at many places, and would also make it easier for many disciplines/subjects that have been restructured and/or had redundancies one or more times in this REF cycle to make a good submission.

A Vermont state senator has resigned over his involvement in a Young Republican group chat after racist and antisemitic chat messages shared among its members were made public.

It was a pleasure, nay, an HONOUR to celebrate the launch of @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social 's monograph from @universitypress.cambridge.org , Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile.

See full review by Dr. Juanita Cox via this link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Jobs For Medievalists Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts (Full-time) The Morgan Library & Museum invites applications for the position of Melvin R. www.themedievalacademyblog.org/jobs-for-med...

Shana Tova everyone. Off to Rosh Hashanah dinner.

Interesting job opportunity at my alma mater Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University share.google/hEFeXF6kHjGj...

this is a quite excellent episode of BBCRadio4 The Long View, where @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social & guests explore the parallels between the current #Flags debate & what is in imv a seriously neglected moment in British history: the Gordon Riots www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Slightly short of words today but happy to echo this from John who, with Teresa and Phil, slipped in under the wire for what turned out to be a fitting close. Great edition www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...