Waiting impatiently for my copy of the Ricardian Bulletin to arrive at this side of the world. I knew what Jane Austen said about Richard III, but didn't know about the connection to Horace Walpole.

There is still room in the Zoom talk this Saturday by Joe Robey on 'The Black Death 1348-9' for members of the Richard III Society. Joe Robey will give an introduction to the Black Death and the doctors who tried to fight it. Check your emails for details on how to sign up.

On this day in 1154, a monk from St Albans Abbey, Nicholas Breakspear, was elected as pope. He chose the name Adrian IV. To date he has been the only English pope. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/n...

Niño durmiendo en la barca, Joaquin Sorolla, 1895

This deed of King Richard III from January 1485 came to us on deposit earlier this year. It's granting Sir James Tyrell (yes, that one!) the Lieutenancy of Guines Castle in the Marches of Calais. This meant he didn't take part in the Battle of Bosworth. #EYAMedieval @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social

A woman teaching a child to stand. c.1635-1637 Rembrandt Just beautiful. (British Museum)

Finally listened to the recording of this fascinating talk. Thank you, @richardasquith.bsky.social! And thank you to ‪@richardiiisociety.bsky.social‬ for the recording. It means I don't have to get up in the middle of the night!

In 1423, Abbot Wheathampstead of St Albans and his fellow travellers stayed for 7 weeks in Cologne. They arrived in late November, and left again mid-January. A speculative post about their adventures in “holy Cologne”. dottietales.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/a...

After a short excursion into ebooks, I am very much back to printed ones. It's so much easier to page back to something you read earlier and didn't pay much attention to. Should we ‘get over’ print books in the digital age – or are they more precious than ever? theconversation.com/should-we-ge...

An oak mantelpiece, which had once stood in More Hall, Brookmans Park, was found again in November 2019. Find out more about its former home and its history in a post from the archives. dottietales.wordpress.com/2023/02/16/m...

The Times is at it again this week, insisting we disturb historical graves 'because DNA'. Here's me complaining back in 2015 about the same issue #richardiii www.historicalreputation.au/the-princes-...

A few photos from Godstow Abbey yesterday! Now in ruin, Godstow Abbey was founded in around 1115 by Ediva of Winchester. Rosamund Clifford is buried nearby, though the exact location of her grave is unknown.

Are you interested in the roads and bridges of #medieval England and Wales? In our latest #blogpost, Dr David Harrison discusses his fascinating new map that provides crucial insights into the road network as it existed in the 15th century yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/11/10/a... #Skystorians

Members of the Richard III Society will be pleased to know that there are places available for the talk by @richardasquith.bsky.social on 'Death of a Yorkist Mayor: Executing the Will of Sir Ralph Verney (d. 1478)' This zoom meeting is on 22 November. Check your email for details on how to register.

Just added an article I wrote back in 2022 after watching Netflix's new adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion. With Netflix's new 'progressive' Pride and Prejudice coming up, I am still asking the same questions (and of course Shakespeare gets a mention)

Today we remember William Bingham, the founder of God’s House in Cambridge, who died on 17 November 1451. The college is regarded as “the first secondary school training college in England. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/12/01/w...

"Why are we all so pleased about digging up a king? Perhaps because the present is paying some of the debt it owes to the past, and science has come to the aid of history."

On 12 November 1949, the Kennedy Bridge in Bonn was officially opened. It replaced a 19th-century bridge, which had been destroyed during WWII. dottietales.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/b...

11 November is St Martin’s Day. In Bonn, you can find a series of 4 bronze reliefs by artist Ernemann Sander telling the saint’s story. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/s...

More on my research on #RichardIII #Shakespeare etc. here: www.historicalreputation.au/publications/

New open access (free to download) monograph published in New Historical Perspectives series. #Skystorians

In this week’s Miscellanies: how #medieval scribes balanced the books. 📬 Sign up for our newsletter at mailchi.mp/historytoday... and we’ll send you the article on Thursday.

Tonight's supermoon. As luck would have it, the whole day, the sky was completely clear, and then in the evening, some clouds came up.

I am delighted to announce that my co-authored article on Mamluk maqamas on #BlackDeath has just been published in a lovely special issue of JAIS. journals.uio.no/JAIS/article... #plague #MedievalSky #GlobalMiddleAges #EnvironmentalHistory #histmed 1/2

No hurry. My @smh @theage cartoon.

📬 In our November blog post, Jamie Wood, former BCDSS Guest Researcher and Prof. of History and Education at Lincoln University (UK), shares insights into the research he conducted during his stay in Bonn: buff.ly/XBlQiLo #Intermediaries #Christianity #Visigoths @unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social

Today is not only Halloween, but also Reformation Day. This is the door, where Martin Luther is said to have posted the 95 Theses on 31 October 1517.

Our latest #blog post provides an update from Dr Philip Muijtjens on his research in the #archives of the Venerable English College in Rome, which will eventually be published by the Trust. Read here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/10/30/t... #Medieval #Skystorians #MedievalSky

Don't we all feel like this?

A very special evening celebrating @yorkisthistory.bsky.social!

Käthe Kollwitz, Mother with a Child in her Arms, (Mutter mit Kind auf dem Arm), 1916 #WomensArt

New on the blog: 'Diverse Tales of Slaves, Sex, & Female Owners' In this post, James explores how late antique sources show female masters exploiting the bodies of their slaves. It follows from the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency' workshop in Bonn. Link: www.dosseproject.com/diverse-tale...

Melbourne’s skyscraper falcon chicks set for first flight as livestream audience becomes ‘permanent watch parties’

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

I played a modest role in this digital humanities project. Check out this jaw-droppingly gorgeous piece of shameless propaganda. #medieval docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Nicholas Breakspar, to date the only English pope, died on 1 September 1159. A Dottie Tale tells the story of his background. dottietales.wordpress.com/2015/12/04/n...

Do the right thing put Nazis in the bin

While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal! JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/

#DYK that the Battle of Bosworth Field took place #OTD in 1485? A major battle of the Wars of the Roses, where Richard III met his death and Henry Tudor was affirmed as Henry VII. However, as #HistParl explores, there were more winners and losers:

Growing up in Germany, we were constantly told just how great our tap water is. I guess they weren’t lying…

I found a cool Shakespeare thing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Whoa! Thanks for the tip. For other folks wanting to do this, here are screenshots of what I just did. Start by going to you "Account Settings." Then follow the screenshots below. And yes, when given the option "Are you sure you want to proceed?," you better believe I hit that sucker!

"No, Jesus" sighed Satan a little impatiently: "You put your RIGHT leg in, your RIGHT leg out, in, out, in, out, you shake it all about -- that's what the Hokey Cokey is all about!"

A date with a personal connection. On 21 August 1390, Henry Bolingbroke (later Henry IV of England) arrived in Insterburg on his ‘Reise’ with the Teutonic knights. More about his “Reise” here. dottietales.wordpress.com/2016/01/03/h...

On his way to the Battle of Bosworth, Richard III stayed in Leicester from 19 to 21 August 1483, according to tradition at the Blue Boar Inn. There is a Dottie Tale about this inn. dottietales.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/t...

Happy Vinalia Rustica! The #Roman festival took place #OnThisDay every year to celebrate the annual grape harvest (or maybe to ensure good weather just before it took place). The harvest is depicted in this mosaic from Cherchell, present-day Algeria #MosaicMonday 🏺 1/3

And I didn't even feel it, though my husband did. He was standing still, while I was moving around. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The silent Richard III film from 1912 is the oldest surviving American feature length film and thought to be the first feature-length Shakespearean adaptation ever made. Its star Frederick Warne used to appear at screenings and read excerpts during reel changes #richardiii #shakespeare

I love it that Edward V reigned for 78 days but some Victorian antiquary still managed to produce an edition of documents relating to his reign