The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice. Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.

For some of the many compelling reasons why we need English as a discipline now more than ever, see universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat... and support the @univ.eng.bsky.social campaign and the work of the @englishassociation.bsky.social

Reviewing for the @erc.europa.eu is the most stressful thing. I understand that they now have a tw step authentication but this system could not be more user-friendly. This is costing me real time - and remember: it is free labour. I guess no other profession would put up with such rubbish.

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

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Ever wanted to learn how those manuscripts you research were actually made? Give it a go yourself! Bookings close 22nd May, bursary deadline 7th April. buff.ly/GEkudq3 #palaeography #paleography #LIPS26

"A charm offensive is all well and good when it works, but at present the UK is all charm and the US is relentlessly offensive. That suggests it might be time for the British Government to reassess its approach." inews.co.uk/news/world/t...

📢 Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜 Here is our #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 An overview of Playing with Old English: A Playful Pedagogy Resource ✍️ Megan Cavell and Renée R. Trilling 📝 TOEBI Newsletter 2025, vol. 41 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/wp-content/u...

⚠️ Deadline tomorrow ⚠️ Final call for our New Voices in Midland History Conference, for postgraduates, early careers researchers, independent scholars, and heritage, museum, and archive professionals. Saturday 6 June at the National Civil War Centre in Newark. More details below 👇

@virginmedianews.bsky.social was supposed to fix our WiFi. Instead they wrecked our connection. Of course there is no one to fix it now.

🌟New Year exciting new OA paper🌟 doi.org/10.1080/0076... from myself @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, @shakenbeck.bsky.social & TC O'Connell @cam-archaeology.bsky.social "Large-Scale Isotopic Data Reveal Gendered Migration into Early Medieval England c ad 400–1100" using #isotopes & #aDNA🧵⬇️ 1/

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

Our upcoming online talk features Mara Ciuntu talking about old age and infirmity in #Chaucer. Open to all! #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

Today and tomorrow (March 24-25), the three highly fragile sleds from the Oseberg burial are being moved into the new Museum of the Viking Age - a very carefully planned process. #Vikingtidsmuseet @kult-hist-museum.bsky.social www.vikingtidsmuseet.no/english/news...

Job, postdoc, #DH, 2 yrs: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership project: 'Children's reading & cultural engagement across libraries & community spaces in Leeds' - BL & Uni of Glasgow www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/soc.... Now open for student applications! Deadline: 24 April

Just out! New #plague podcast from the Multicultural Middle Ages on "Pandemic in the Medieval World: Teaching a New Black Death Narrative in the 21st Century" with @monicamedhist.bsky.social, Dr. Lucy Barnhouse, and me, interviewed by Will Beattie. www.multiculturalmiddleages.com/post/pandemi...

According to the media, archaeologists are always shocked and baffled by what they randomly find in the ground, but historians uncloak a duplicitous cover-up. Only scientists can prove the truth

Send your #runic queries to @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social for @jaztherunologist.bsky.social to decipher them on the podcast! Great idea: open.substack.com/pub/vikingol... #runology #runes

Collection of medical texts compiled in 1500-1501 during the writer's medical studies. Includes copies of texts in the medical curriculum, at least one copied from a printed edition. The larger writing is the texts; smaller writing is comments (UPenn LJS 424) #medievalsky 🔗: https://bit.ly/4dbbVao

Job opportunity with manuscripts and early printed books! Librarian at Lincoln Cathedral – Cathedral Library £43,722 - Full time applicaiton DL: 14 April 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQX901/l...

📢 Deadline extended: 30 April 2026‼️ 📜 Theme: All Kinds of People 📚 TOEBI is a supportive and collegial conference open to anyone involved in the teaching of Old English at any level. 🏫 Host: University of Nottingham 📅 Date: Saturday, 24th October 2026 #️⃣ #CfP #TOEBI #medievalsky #OldEnglish

📢 #TOEBI GRANTS DEADLINE EXTENSION ‼️ ⏰ Deadline: 5pm on the 30th April 2026. 💻 Members who are graduate students/recent PhDs without a full-time post are encouraged to apply. 📝 Application forms are available to download here:⤵️ 📲 www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-g... #️⃣ #medievalsky

The deadline for the 2026 TOEBI conference is fast approaching. Nottingham is hosting this year. Come and join us in the Midlands for 'All Kinds of People' @toebi.bsky.social

Reminder that our third CSVA reading group of the term is taking place today, 12-1pm, Trent A49! We hope to see you there as we explore Brian McMahon’s “Remembrance of Things to Come: Memory and Prophecy in Old Norse Literature.”

The 2026 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme closes tomorrow 25 March. Apply to date up to five samples. Info + application: www.ria.ie/grants/archa... Explore past grantee reports in the @dri.ie : repository.dri.ie/catalog/cj83... 📷Image: © @nmireland.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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'.

Hello everyone - sorry for a long radio silence. I am back :-)

Senior Professor School of Celtic Studies position now open for applications. More information can be found on www.dias.ie/senior-profe... #DIASdiscovers

We are please to announce our History & the Humanities Research Training for Feb - March 2025. Our first online session on 17 February will focus on Peer Review and Reviewing your Peers with colleagues from the IHR. Find out more and register for the sessions at: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

Applications open for a Junior Research Fellowship in Manuscript and Text Cultures @queenscollegeox.bsky.social to work with the Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures! www.queens.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/ju...

The LEIGHEAS project Medical Manuscript of the Month series is back for another year! Our January 2025 entry is @ria.ie MS 23 F 19, containing an original Irish treatise on anatomy, an Irish version of the Trotula texts on women’s medicine & much more👇 leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...

Join us on Friday 7 February for the first Society lecture of 2025: 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World', with Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) bit.ly/4gLj28g. Booking is now open, for in-person & online attendance #Skystorians #medieval

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']: Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

A very exciting SSNS Seminar coming up this Thursday (16 Jan, 7pm GMT), as Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm will be discussing ‘Frisia and the Viking Age‘. Online, free, and open to all! Sign up now at www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...

📣CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Contributions are invited (in various forms/media) to Islands Symposium - Island narratives of kinship, place, and the weather. 3-4 April 2025, at Ceòlas (South Uist) and online. DL for proposals 15 Jan. For further details, visit bit.ly/3DKqO3W

If you are an early career historian, you really should be following @historylabplus.bsky.social

Our International Max Planck Research School is offering two PhD fellowships, funded by @maxplanck.de & hosted at @mpi-nl.bsky.social, to carry out innovative research projects on language & genetics, & on multimodal language. Application portal closes 6th Jan 2025! 🧪 www.mpi.nl/imprs-phd-fe...

Happy New Year! May there be hope and light.

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Frohe Weihnachten! I know it is hard to feel festive this year, but let's keep up the hope. I hope you are all with people who love you.

This time of year can be a bit much - so here is a non-exhaustive list of some UK numbers that might help a bit. Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 CALM - 5pm-midnight 0800 58 58 58 Plus bonus restful cat photo.

A brief dose of #runes for the holiday season – and what better choice than the fantastic Dynna stone from Gran in Hadeland, from around the mid-eleventh century. #runology

Applications invited for the Society's Workshop Grants, 2025. Grants provide £1,000 for historians to come together to pursue a project relating to their work bit.ly/3Omeg4T Not just research, but also grant writing, networking, teaching and others. Closing date: Friday 24 January #Skystorians 1/2

My department is advertising 3 doctoral positions in history and 1 in archaeology! Check out the calls below, circulate widely, and let me know if you have any questions about Oslo!

As promised... here's our first festive instalment from the Saga of the Earl's of #Orkney (aka Orkneyinga #saga)... 'The Host with the most'! #Christmas blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/ragnasisland...

Dear all, the German government has not “collapsed”. That happened a month ago. Today’s no confidence vote was an entirely usual procedure in keeping with our constitition. The outcome was clear, as were the elections in February. Enough drama in the world without construing it.

Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care: 1. I have just downloaded your app. 2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account! 3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2