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To be a person of no consequence, to speak without power, is a bewilderingly awful condition, as though you were a ghost, a beast, as though words died in your mouth, as though sound no longer traveled. It is almost worse to say something and have it not matter than to be silent.

First World War Studies is very happy to finally have arrived on Bluesky! please follow for news on our publications and activities

Wir suchen eine*n Wissenschaftliche*n Mitarbeiter*in für unser Zentrales Fundarchiv in Rastatt. www.alm-konstanz.de/stellenangeb...

There should be a law against forcing people into subscribing to things like software and movies that they used to buy and then removing access to them. I'm looking at you, Claris, and the way you pulled the version of FileMaker Pro that my Uni purchased just 25 months ago. #ripoff #capitalism

An advance copy of Cath Hanley’s new book arrived today. It’s about one of my favourite French kings, and as I say on the back cover, it’s lively and learned and a must read if you love medieval history. #medievalsky #booksky

Glad to see Lisa Demets’s good work highlighted and happy to have another nail pounded into the coffin of ´medieval women weren’t involved in warfare’.

Not for the first time in recent days, I thank an informed reviewer for reading/watching something so that I don’t need to. I’m sure that @medievalrevolt.bsky.social is right to suggest that such books find ‘an enthusiastic readership’, though I do wonder whether that really means ‘listenership’.

And Open Access, too! 😁

I keynoted a conference in Finland and the organisers gave me Moomin mittens as a thank you. Sometimes academia is a-okay.

Job in British history 1500-1900! www.christs.cam.ac.uk/college-lect...

Making the Medieval Archive: Celebrating Elizabeth A. R. Brown at Penn In-person & online conference Sept. 12 2025 Penn Libraries www.library.upenn.edu/events/makin...

Graduate outcomes and incomes as well as course satisfaction in History are all actually strong. Suggesting that Humanities degrees are not 'career-related' is simply bizarre. 2/2

Funding universities via fees that stay flat for years is the main reason higher education is broke but doing stupid shit like this doesn’t help. I wish I could say it’s an isolated case.

At my own institution, where we had often been awarded 3 PhD scholarships in History, there will now only be 3 scholarships for the entire university.

one of the most effective and highly bought corporate propaganda campaigns ever was convincing individual people that turning off the lights and recycling were the solutions to climate change and not dismantling corporate polluters brick by brick and demanding policy and regulation

Brilliant, sweeping, magnificent and highly recommended! Glad @thetudortimes.bsky.social enjoyed House of Lilies

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Medieval History- University of Exeter - Department of Archaeology and History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT434/p...

Finally able to share: A Festschrift in honour of the one and only Ros Faith. Twelve essays on peasants and rural society in the 7th-14th centuries, edited by @hannah-boston.bsky.social and me, coming later this year with UHerts Press. www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...

The National Archives are looking for two Records Specialists to join their Collections Expertise & Engagement department #jobs

I am very sorry to say that my PhD advisor Thomas N. Bisson has died. He was a great scholar, a kind man, and a central figure in my life. I will miss him.

Corpus of Early Medieval Latin Medicine getting some attention today in the Times! If you missed it last week our handlist of "new" pre-1000 medical manuscripts can be found here cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/handlist/ #medievalsky

Publicity for the corpus of early medieval medicine project, which can be found here: cemlm.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

There’s an article in @thetimes.com today on @jtpmedieval.bsky.social ’s early #medieval medicine project. (Himself pictured therein making actual medieval potions behind our house)

Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16. 🗃️

Why did wars happen in #medieval #France, you ask? I have some answers. ⚜️⚔️⚜️ New out on the Why Wars Happened Podcast with Emily Ross www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Qw... apple.co/3xUA1Em

St Catharine's College Cambridge (known as Catz) @stcatharines.bsky.social have a new bursary to support Scottish undergraduates - if I have any followers working in schools in Scotland it would be wonderful if you might share this as widely as possible: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/study-us/und...

AKA, the We are Racist as Fuck category

(All of this data crunching began when I just wanted a quick answer to the question "how unusually fast *was* the canonization of Charles de Blois?", so I might as well shamelessly plug my mini-book that discusses his canonization trial, out next month with luck! Watch this space...)

Quand le XIXe siècle réinvente le Moyen Âge, ça donne quoi ? ✨ Venez le découvrir dans l’exposition "Le Moyen Âge du XIXe siècle. Créations et faux dans les arts précieux" du 7 octobre 2025 au 11 janvier 2026 ! Plus d’infos 👉 www.musee-moyenage.fr/activites/ex...

And stay down!

The Scottish History Society has extended the deadline for the Alasdair Ross Prize to 1 July! Apply for up to £500 towards archival research costs! Go, go, go, we can't wait to hear about all the amazing projects going on & would love to help researchers! scottishhistorysociety.com/prizes/the-a...

This is a loss

Delighted to learn that yesterday I was elected as an associée correspondante étrangère to the Société Nationales des Antiquaires de France www.antiquairesdefrance.net

Goddess, how I hate this shit

Holiday reading by @medievalrevolt.bsky.social Highly recommend, readable, rigorous and informative. I really wish I'd had this as an undergraduate to make sense of France before the 13th century royal consolidation.

Or maybe just go back to 1997 altogether. I feel tricked about adulthood

Personally, I want to go back to WordPerfect ca. 1997 and I am not even joking

Do take his word for it! ⚜️

Habemus papam!

Going to uni is about learning to think coherently and for yourself. Having AI write your papers is like having a robot go running for you. It might best 'your' times, but it won't make you healthy or hot.

Hey gang! For your entertainment I've got a new piece on the Merovings in this month's History Today magazine - enjoy! #medievalsky

Some very nicely preserved polychrome in the Saint Martin Chapel of Salamanca’s old cathedral #MedievalSky #MedievalArt

I’m on the tarmac in Edinburgh bound for Madrid…

A fun interview and Aaron's a great host! Great fun for fans of #MedievalSky

Circumference of the earth according to the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, written ca. 1370: 20,425 miles, only about 4,500 miles off. Not bad for a monk calculating with Roman numerals and an astrolabe.

Publication – « Vita et lettres de Lanfranc », éd. Véronique Gazeau rmblf.be/2025/04/19/p...

Unique interdisciplinary opportunity. Apply now! Applications close 22 April.

This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.