A wonderful new review of Fulvia: the Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome from Publishers Weekly! Apparently, it is “A fresh, insightful, and at times spellbindingly romantic chronicle of ancient Rome’s power players.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780300278040

I honestly don't care how he's alive, I'm just glad he is (insert disclaimer about how he's evil and awful and so on). youtu.be/09l-Vwha48c?...

Haven't read the novel, but can say that @jldraycott.bsky.social 's book is a fascinating and illuminating one, giving a view of late Republican politics from an angle we don't often see. Highly recommended. (And since I'm in the UK, recommended *around the world*.)

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

There was a wonderful review of Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome in the New Zealand Listener over the weekend, paired with Kaarina Parker's new novel Fulvia. Why not check one or both of them out? www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

Ancient History Podcast - Fulvia with Jane Draycott www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/...

Fulvia was, in ancient Roman times, as famous and notorious as Cleopatra. She's mostly forgotten today - what happened? Author @jldraycott.bsky.social joins us on the podcast to spill the tea about this VERY schemey, very dramatique, vengeance-fuelled woman! episodes.fm/1489560920/e...

We are *all* Ben Affleck.

If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma

An open letter has been launched today (27/7/25) for members of the UK academic community (academics and other university staff) to sign, to press the UK Home Office to facilitate safe passage out of Gaza for 40+ students with offers for UK universities. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sorting out holiday reading. Alas, no Dan Brown.

My book Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome, published by @yalepress.bsky.social, is now available as a hardback, e-book, and audiobook in North America!

A wonderful review for the Dutch translation of Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome, published in the Netherlands by @uitgeverijomniboek.bsky.social, in @nrc.nl if you happen to read Dutch! ⭐⭐⭐⭐ www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

My book Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is published by @yalepress.bsky.social in the US tomorrow! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

So great to see my book out in translation. Sandwiched between two great books by @drdragases.bsky.social (thanks for sending this to me!) and @jldraycott.bsky.social.

#Onthisday, precisely 490 years ago, Thomas More was tried for treason. Today, my biography of More is out in Canada and the US. "I ask only this of the great good God, that by His help I may be able to persevere in my right opinion until death." www.simonandschuster.com/books/Thomas...

Wow. If a former Director of the BSA and a distinguished academic of many years standing (not to mention a brilliant and inspiring lecturer, as I know from personal experience) doesn't warrant an Emeritus title, who the hell does?

In use at many UK universities right now

I feel this.

REF2029 in a job crisis full stop. Carrying on with this mostly pointless exercise while the sector implodes is a ridiculous waste of resources. Cancel it and revisit in 2035.

I am going to guess most, if not all, historians have an origin story. Mine starts around the time I got hold of these two beauties as a kid!

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is currently an Amazon Kindle monthly deal, priced at 99p as opposed to £20 for the newly published hardback. Why don't you give it a try and brace yourself for one of the most dynamic women of the Roman Republic (and Empire, frankly)?

Fulvia is one of my fucking heros. Absolutely chaos of a woman. 💙

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is currently 99p on Kindle - that's a massive discount as the hardback is normally priced at £20. Why not give it a go, even if you think historical non-fiction isn't your thing - you never know, you might love it! shorturl.at/RKHSF

Read this whole thread. I have lost count of the number of times that I've said my institution needs to be proactive in preventing mental illhealth. HE leadership across the sector deems poor staff mental health acceptable collateral damage and I'm tired of it (have been for years). 1/

Today marks nine years since Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right extremist, a terrible loss to those who knew and loved her and to politics. Zero lessons were learned though and the far-right continues to be pandered to. With more political assassinations in the US it all feels too familiar.

'Gladiator Crab' by Emanuele Biggi - a victorious pose is struck in Trajan's Forum (#Rome) by one of the freshwater crabs who live in the Cloaca Maxima, Rome's ancient sewer system; they're clearly at home in the city though! (📷 Emanuele Biggi) AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

Yes YES The foxes are occupying Google.

Shambolic. If teachers can use AI to mark, why can’t students use AI to write? And here we go: students not doing the work and teachers not doing the marking. Why don’t students not bother to go to school and teachers can stay at home? How about we all don’t get out of bed in the morning?????

I go back and forth between thinking the IDF wouldn't have the nerve to assassinate Greta Thunberg and the rest of the activists (incl. a French MEP!), and thinking of course they would, because why wouldn't they assume they'd get away with it just like they've gotten away with everything else?

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

I mean, I’m boring myself by banging this drum, but almost every university in this country employs more people than British Steel, and the fact that Labour refuses to recognise that is simply intentional ignorance at this point.

It’s publication day for Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England with Michael Joseph @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Pop by your local bookshop or order now - uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781...

Nick Clegg proving (yet again) that he is (and has always been) the worst. Ed Davey would never.

Spicy conversation with Dr Jane Draycott @jldraycott.bsky.social about her new book Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome. Clip below covers Cicero's head For the full video see YouTube: youtube.com/live/6hnNHnS... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5x3T...

#Books #Archaeology with @flintdibble.bsky.social The Roman Woman Who Broke All The Rules with Dr Jane Draycott What does the story of Fulvia tell us about ancient Rome? Dr @jldraycott.bsky.social about her new biography on Fulvia & women in the ancient Roman world www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hnN...

📢 I was very lucky to be asked to be an expert on ABC Kids’ Imagine This. I help answer “How is glass made” and we go back to Egypt and Jerusalem during the Roman Empire to find out! Thanks to Nij and Soumia at ABC Kids - this is the best thing I've ever done. www.abc.net.au/kidslisten/p...

Worth calling out a few of the talented people who brought us these works: @gamingthepast.bsky.social @drsepinwall.bsky.social @felixzimmermann.bsky.social @toreolsson.bsky.social @robehoughton.bsky.social @katexe.bsky.social @jldraycott.bsky.social @eugenpfister.bsky.social

Only three weeks to go until Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is published in North America by @yalebooks.bsky.social! Available to pre-order from all places where you can buy books in that part of the world.

Mark Zuckerberg saying “actually no one has friends” is at “the female orgasm doesn’t exist” levels of telling on yourself

This "debate" about who should use what toilet doesn’t benefit anyone. It doesn’t fix the underfunding of women's refuges, NHS waiting lists leaving women in terrible pain, mums skipping meals to feed their kids. How about we get on with tackling the real issues affecting women?

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Today is the last day of April, so it's the last day that Fulvia is @hatchards.bsky.social Non-fiction Book of the Month. Thank you so much for supporting me and Fulvia, I really appreciate it. The pictures people sent me of the shops' fantastic window displays made me so happy.

Empecé ayer esta "biografía" de Fulvia a cargo de @jldraycott.bsky.social en @atlanticbooks.bsky.social, llevo unas 70 páginas y está realmente bien... atlantic-books.co.uk/book/fulvia/

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is one of World of Books' Non-Fiction Books of the Month! Why not make yourself a lovely meal (main course and dessert), put a bouquet of beautiful flowers on the table, and settle down to read it? 🍛🍫💐📖 www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/pages/...

Lions Who Lunch in York 🦁 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Just under a week left to get your copy of @hatchards.bsky.social Non-fiction Book of the Month Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome! Well-reviewed by @thetimes.com & @financialtimes.com in the last two weeks.