[John Baker busting through the wall like the Kool Aid man] WHERE!

getting ready for “demanding accurate footnotes is popery” discourse

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

8 February, 1590, Jane Money of Rainham, Kent was fatally wounded by the discharge of a 'snapphawnse' which was resting on a table when a small pet dog jumped onto it and set it off (TNA KB 9/676b m248 - reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/857912/) mutatis mutandis

READ THIS THREAD!!!!

I'm going to say my thing regarding this, and then leave it alone. 1/

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

In other news...

🏰 Uncover the secrets of medieval fencing—no sword required. Just log in and learn! medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/fenc... #HEMA #MedievalMartialArts

Just published in Acta Periodica Duellatorum: bop.unibe.ch/apd/article/...

In my happy place today, looking at King's Bench Plea Rolls. This beauty is from Easter term 1662. TNA KB 27/1842

On the last two chased crowns for the Fat Henry VIII mouse armour project. It’s been an entire week of very careful work to get this far. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #crowns #miniatureart #chasingandrepousse

Assigning this piece for day 1 of my ancient magic course in the fall!

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Was just confronted by the Monty Hall Problem, in the wild (as a test question, not an actual game-show experience).

Pleased to see this out! Really enjoyed reviewing this volume, which makes an important contribution to the theorisation of lordship

On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

unmute, this is 100% right

welcomed back from my maternity leave by my article appearing in advanced access for HWJ! open access an’ all. it’s about what we learn about the early modern state if we think about arrests as a performance, and draws on four years’ worth of practice-as-research. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Wowee zowee, you can buy the paperback for under $20! What a steal! www.pennpress.org/978081222484...

"He wanted to invade a European Union country not long ago, Greenland...and now he needs us. Frankly he can go fuck himself."

I also have a museum joke but you can't have it because of the British Museum Act (1963)

💥Every Monument Will Fall UK Paperback Tour Spring 2026 Thur 30 April Birmingham Fri 1 May London Tue 5 May Oxford Wed 6 May Manchester Thurs 7 May Bristol More details/tickets here >> www.danhicks.uk/talks

Adding this to the list of "things easier to accomplish than finding an academic job" while looking for an academic job (or any job that uses some of the post-nominals I foolishly collected).

While it's likely Hegseth is just using the words for their rhetorical weight (tough words, gurr, war yeah), it is right for anyone listening to this (say, Iran, for one) to understand those words for what they mean in practice, which is a spectacularly dangerous thing for him to say.

holy shit

This is going to be a fun event. I’ll be talking about fictional book trade crime as well as theft, fraud, and conspiracy against and by London’s rare book sellers. 👇 @thelondonarchives.bsky.social @ies-sas.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crime-and-...

Starting next week: En Garde! Fencing in Late Medieval and Early Modern England medievalstudies.thinkific.com/courses/fenc... #HistoricalEuropeanMartialArts

Here she comes #booknews @lollardfish.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Someone, hire me to teach history and save me from my compulsion to spend my days in my workshop making pointless world-building things like these

Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky

PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏 The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes. www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...

well...

An honest to goodness Hey Nonny Nonny in a 1680s King's Bench case. Lovely stuff [TNA KB 33/5/5]

I had great fun bringing together material from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social with the England's immigrants database to look at people immigrating to and between England and Ireland in the middle ages.

New candidate for best article title just dropped 😂

Obsessed with this, from @curtisdozier.bsky.social’s excellent new book on the misuse of Greek and Roman antiquity by white nationalists

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

I am very sorry to hear of the passing of my PhD supervisor at Cambridge Professor David Abulafia. A very talented historian as well as a great supervisor and mentor who gave me sound career advice when I needed it. May his memory be a blessing. www.cai.cam.ac.uk/news/david-a...

Now that's a cover I can't resist. Blasted, just what I need, more books.

Since they have all deleted their original posts, I want to make clear that this was said in response to some AI enthusiasts arguing that existing AI could do the job of a historian in part because all existing information you would need to do history research was already on the Internet.

A small sign of the times: at some point a couple of years ago, we Canadians stopped using the NORAD Santa tracker for our go-to Christmas Eve joke, and started going unilateral. No one wants to hear from some American colonel on Christmas Eve.

IT'S A CHRISTMAS TRADITION! My face hurts from smiling so hard www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_jR...

Ctl+F this

I know no-one wants to think about next term right now, but please remind students to book their places on the Latin palaeography online short courses at beginner or intermediate level taking place in February 👇 #MedievalSky 📖🧑‍💻👩‍💻👨🏽‍💻👩🏻‍💻🧑🏿‍💻🧑‍💻 📚 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...