Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking".

The @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar is on tour! Our next session is in Oxford next Monday 17 Nov, 17.30. Cosima Gillhammer on writing about liturgy for public audiences & Molly Bray on statue dresses, reuse of mss fragments & nuns' kinship networks. @oxmedstud.bsky.social #medievalsky

Last day of a crowdfunder to finish planking the replica Sutton Hoo ship. 'Strake it 'til we make it!' www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/strake-it-...

That's a useful map for an undergraduate lecture. Treasure finds per region 2024... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well, this looks like a reading-list-freshen-uppoer 😜! www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857186...

Dig into a rich record of pre-Norman Wales with this detailed report on archaeological investigations of an internationally important early medieval entrepôt and Viking-age economic hub at Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey. Pre-order your copy ➡️ bit.ly/47ydxqu

The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology

Game designers bring Scotland's mysterious Picts to life. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

An excellent summary of work and introduction to the most important study of Domesday book in a generation - or more. /1

The Courtauld is offering a a new fully funded Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture for eligible projects focusing on England from the eleventh to the early sixteenth centuries. Statement of intents are due by 17 November 2025.

Conjuring Cerne Abbey. One of the graphics done by @shadowtor.bsky.social for @timeteam.bsky.social. 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...

A family's concerns treated with "dismissive contempt". A vulnerable patient treated with "unkindness, harshness, indifference, ignorance, even at times cruelty". And then a **7 month** trial. The compounded harm done to families by those who neither listen nor learn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Out today: the latest @timeteam.bsky.social podcast includes a discussion about the Cerne dig with @hugh-willmott.bsky.social and myself (about 10 minutes in). A pleasure as ever to talk with @helengeake.bsky.social & @martynmnw.bsky.social. youtu.be/M01lCxulfxU?...

Out today: the latest @timeteam.bsky.social podcast includes a discussion about the Cerne dig with @hugh-willmott.bsky.social and myself (about 10 minutes in). A pleasure as ever to talk with @helengeake.bsky.social & @martynmnw.bsky.social. youtu.be/M01lCxulfxU?...

Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social

Monday 17 November, 17.30, @ihr.bsky.social History of Liturgy Seminar will be in Balliol College, *Oxford* to hear papers from Cosima Gillhammer & Molly Bray. Do join us! @oxmedstud.bsky.social

St Eadwold as he's never been seen before! Some of the graphics commissioned by @timeteam.bsky.social. These were drawn by Neil Emmanuel for the special episode on Cerne Abbey. 👇😜 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...

And this is why it matters that lessons *are* learned when things go wrong... and that @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social journalists like @jamesmelley.bsky.social & Alison Holt are able to conduct lengthy, detailed, complex and committed work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

3 seasons digging, 2 summers filming, 1 forgotten groundplan of a medieval abbey, hints at Aelfric's Anglo-Saxon minster, @hugh-willmott.bsky.social gesticulating like a pro, me wielding a trowel, Martin Papworth @nationaltrust.org.uk, Walter the cat & Kate Adie...🧐👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...

A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so... Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...

Is this a golden age of sculptures of, and by, women? Licoricia of Winchester, Jewish business women (d. 1277) & her youngest son, Asser. Sculpture by Ian Rank-Broadley, Jewry Street, Winchester (Hampshire) installed in 2022. Photo: Pat Goodall / Art UK.

Now out! Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant. A @timeteam.bsky.social special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's excavations. It's been a joy to work with Hugh, at Cerne, to do some digging, and to get to know the people and the landscape of so special a place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY68...

The latest @timeteam.bsky.social feature length episode focusing on our excavations at Cerne Abbey has gone live. It's fantastic to see the work we've been doing over the last couple of years shared with everyone! 🏺 🐈‍⬛ youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8?...

Join @timeteam.bsky.social at 7pm for the premiere of Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant - with live chat (apparently!) on YouTube tonight. 👇️ youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8

This forthcoming book from @lollardfish.bsky.social looks good: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Join @timeteam.bsky.social at 7pm for the premiere of Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath The Giant - with live chat (apparently!) on YouTube tonight. 👇️ youtu.be/DY68mzYXWK8

The Amos Review will be visiting @ekhuft.bsky.social next week; the invitation to families to attend two listening sessions next Tuesday was posted on the Maternity & Neonatal Voices Partnership Facebook page 2 days ago... where very few will see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

... 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...

c.org/qZcXBxHHGG Sign to show your anger and disappointment in the decisions taken at the University of Nottingham, where Music and Modern Languages are being cut.

'We've spent the last two years trying to investigate our own child's death, rather than ... recovering, or trying to rebuild something of our lives.' 'The list of what went wrong is long.' More from Victoria McDonald @channel4news.bsky.social on maternity at the JR. www.channel4.com/news/oxford-...

'It is also looking to cut its undergraduate nursing courses in child health and mental health. Theology, education, microbiology and agriculture will be affected, alongside a master’s in social work....The courses will be suspended from 10 November.' 2/3

I'm lucky to have worked with one of the many brilliant people in these departments. Henry Parkes in Music is one of the cleverest, most insightful and inspirational historians I know - and one of the finest teachers too. Don't waste such talent @uniofnottingham.bsky.social.

'The antiphoner notebook'! How cool is that 😍

Indescribably awful.

A joint report by @hannahsbee.bsky.social & @channel4news.bsky.social on maternity services at the JR in Oxford. 'I wanted to make a will,' Gothami says. 'I thought I’d die.' 'I did as a last resort this to protect my reputation, my livelihood & my patients.' www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

New: Peter Fergusson PhD Scholarship in English Medieval Architecture @courtauld.bsky.social. Preliminary deadline 17 Nov. For more info visit courtauld.ac.uk/study/postgr... - or DM me.

I've heard and read many awful birth stories but this from the JR in Oxford is truly dire: 'Over 4 days things went from uncomfortable to haunting...ignored, belittled, accused of lying...put on an induction drip & left...[no] monitor[ing] for hours...' www.banburyguardian.co.uk/health/someb...

... starring @sarahsemple.bsky.social and Chris Ferguson on new work at Yeavering - and the Ad Gefrin museum.

Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant will be released this Saturday. A trailer for the @timeteam.bsky.social Special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's Cerne Abbey Research Project. So excited to finally share this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Tm...

Well it's been a while in the making, but this Saturday sees the release of the Time Team feature length episode focusing on our work at Cerne Abbey www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Tm...

Cerne Abbas: Secrets Beneath the Giant will be released this Saturday. A trailer for the @timeteam.bsky.social Special on @hugh-willmott.bsky.social's Cerne Abbey Research Project. So excited to finally share this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Tm...

New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses. If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion. nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...

Flowers for Emily Pankhurst on this monument to her in central Manchester; a startling joy to encounter on a busy urban street. 'Rise up, women' (Emmeline Pankhurst, 1858–1928) sculpted by @hazelreeves.bsky.social.

And another Anglo-Saxon cross pendant, this one from near Leeds, gilded silver, and probably eighth century. finds.org.uk/database/ima... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This was fun! Interviewing @sirtonyrobinson.bsky.social about his new novel The House of Wolf. Alfred, Asser and Wessex as you've not thought of them before, with an actor's ear for dialogue, and some brilliantly creative imaginings of C9th performance culture. goldsborobooks.com/products/the...

Just submitted a review of Wolfram Kinzig's amazing book A History of Early Christian Creeds. It was such a joy reading it and discussing it back in the summer at the book launch. Go read it or perhaps, given the length, browse it - you will never think about the Nicene creed in the same way again.

13th century statues destroyed in the early 18th century 📸 INRAP www.inrap.fr/les-archeolo...

... or, if it's Roman dogs you're after, here are @robin-f.bsky.social's characteristically innovative and thought-provoking @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Ford Lectures on A Social and Cultural History of Roman Britain’s Dogs and People www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/the-ja...