Ceci n'est pas une French national cricket team. At least, not according to the French government. Yet FRANCE is written across their blue, white and red kit, and FRANCE are moving up and down the ICC official rankings as the tournament goes on. Is this even legal? I found out: f24.my/BqmF

Some good news - a new issue of Early Medieval Europe has dropped! And it's a bumper issue, with six articles, not the usual five. Here's a quick thread on the delights awaiting you: 1/9

if you can’t keep it inbounds it shouldn’t count as a catch, sorry. cricket gets this one right

We're in Bury St Edmund's for our annual Spring Conference. This evening a keynote talk was given by Professor Mark Bailey on the estates of the Bury St Edmund's Abbey 1250-1450. Violent uprisings, intriguing data gleaned from manorial documents, and more... research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/m...

This is incredibly cool.

Have just found out that University College Cork has the largest collection of stone Ogham inscriptions

Seems a bit off given the provenance of many items IN these museums, right?

Just dropped: @richardpurkiss.bsky.social on thegns in tenth- and eleventh-century England. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#jobklaxon 10 postdocs available at @psl-univ.bsky.social in #AI. Working language: English. Btw. #digitalhumanities also happen under the AI hype these days, so get in touch and walk by this very building on your way to work. Join me in being #touristatwork #juniorProfInParis

A very happy St Cuthbert’s Day to all the haliwerfolc.

The tribes of Britain c. 540 in the time of Gildas.

We are thrilled that the important research carried out by Julia Hillner, Pia Wiegmink and Jamie Wood is making waves!🥳 www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/048-...

Nick Clegg unveiled a portrait of himself at the National Liberal Club yesterday and it's hard to tell which one looks less like Nick Clegg, the portrait of Nick Clegg or the actual Nick Clegg

Jesus fucking Christ

Spot on that the battle for the right is not Tories vs Reform but liberalism vs grim authoritarianism.

Every single bullet point makes me more excited to order the Calming Carrot

#jobklaxon Do you want to do a PhD in #history and/or #philology and #digitalhumanities? Come to work with us in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social 3 funded posts: www.chartes.psl.eu/gazette-char... Perhaps of interest to the @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social community.

☘️Did you know that St Patrick's own words are the only surviving Latin narrative texts of his age to have been composed outside of Roman imperial territory? Have a listen to the latest episode of the podcast with brilliant lexicographer Dr Anthony Harvey @ria.ie 1/3☘️ open.spotify.com/episode/3ffC...

For anyone who is nearby, I am giving a talk about researching place-names on Monday, 23rd March 2026 at the North Lincolnshire Museum Society (Local History and Archaeology Section) at 7.15pm. The talk is called 'Digging for Lincolnshire - Axholme's place-names, a journey of interpretation'.

32,000 medieval manuscripts now transcribed by an algorithm.

Google Translate got better and better overtime and had a short window of being brilliant, before getting, one assumes, AI slopified, and coming up with stuff like this - (the word I'd googled was "muchacho")

Final call for the @bsrome.bsky.social and Early Medieval Europe early career fellowship, for a month's stay in Rome plus some travel costs to get there. Deadline tomorrow. bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...

Check your learning time! Obviously it's multiple choice. What does AI stand for? a) Artificial Intelligence b) Archive Intelligence c) Actual Intellect d) Ahhhhh Interesting 5/

*Not so fun fact. Matt Goodwin was my dissertation supervisor. Only briefly mind. I swapped after he said that my idea - a study and survey on the politics of the homeless (less than 1% vote) - was of "no academic interest". I got a 1st 🎓

The wonderful @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social has a hugely interesting new article just out in Early Medieval England & its Neighbours, all about Alfred the Great's embassy to India - free to read here #India #AlfredtheGreat #medieval www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Squeezing my research and teaching work in the gaps between academic misconduct meetings

It's set to be a gloomy day tomorrow, so how about some medieval loyalties instead! We have a very promising selection of 20-minute papers and 5-minute presentations, with a general discussion for all to join at the end. Bring a hot drink and join us online 1.30-4.30pm GMT! (zoom link at request)

You're watching BBC Scotland.

It is amusing that, despite how academics *have* been saying for c.40 years that the ancient Britons weren't labelled Celts, most normal people have just carried on assuming they were called Celts so this is only a big reversal for *us* We're very important and impactful, honest

We had a blast yesterday launching A Companion to Rome (c. 400-1050) into the world. Thank you to our kind hosts, the KFG Religion & Urbanity, Jörg Rüpke and Susanne Rau, our respondents Mateusz Fafinski and Cinnamon Ducasse, and the audience. And our authors and further collaborators, of course!!

Or consider being born to parents who can give you a role in the family firm? www.ft.com/content/c894...

Finally had a chance to go through some of our finds from last year's excavation at #CerneAbbey & thought I would share this gem. Book clasps are quite common finds on monastic sites but this little fella is the finest I've ever excavated & must have come from a pretty fancy prayer book or psalter

As I was saying... open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/w...

always a lot of panic about right wing young men, the second most progressive demographic in britain

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

I feel like we should all take a moment to remember that Ukrainians are still dying and this guy is just spitting bilge about fucking Greenland being "unprotected" from Russia.

Very sad news indeed.

Surprise, surprise. Yusuf talking nonsense. Here's the graph with pensions stripped out. The complete opposite of what he claims. Keep numbers away from Yusuf as you would fire from a toddler.

In the face of European leader after European leader meekly invoking “rules-based order”, “international law”, “closely monitoring”, “the UN Charter”… It’s almost alien to see someone say “yeah, no, that was a lie and we all knew it.”

UK users of Ancestry - how easy is to search census data by settlement/street rather than individual? Seems all set up for family history- but I need the data for a place study. Don't want to pay for access if I can't get the info I need

Using or teaching literature in the language classroom? Come and talk to us in Nottingham: 30th March

It's also all a bit...'Franz Ferdinand's assassination an embarrassment for the 'Visit Sarajevo' tourism campaign', it is certainly *true* but it is missing the point.

Tomorrow, 21 January, 4-6pm, in person and online! Until March, you will also be able to get a 35% discount, see below. (I realise that the volumes are still prohibitively expensive 😢)

11% of British people hold a favourable view of Robert Jenrick, according to new YouGov polling

Some good news, though, if anyone has mislaid medieval Britain.

The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

This "open borders" line is *infuriating* - these people came here to study or work, because they had a uni place or a job to come to. They paid visa fees, student fees, NHS surcharge - and many of them are doing challenging and important work - staffing our care homes, for example, including Mum's.