REDBAD | Met dr. Sven Meeder (@svenmeeder.bsky.social) maken we in een bonusaflevering kennis met een verhaal uit de tijd vóór Redbad: met Aldgisl en Wilfrid van York! Benieuwd naar dat verhaal? Ook deze bonusaflevering is nu overal te beluisteren 🎧

Er is ✨controverse✨ met ✨bisschoppen✨. nos.nl/artikel/2621...

The annual @imc-leeds.bsky.social football match returns! In honour of Dr Rob Meens, who set up the game so long ago that nobody can remember it (how medieval) Please share and please come along to play! ⚽️🏆

Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social

➡️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6Q6E... ➡️ Apple: podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/m... ➡️ Acast: shows.acast.com/middeleeuwen... 🧵 2/2

REDBAD | In de nieuwe aflevering van ‘Middeleeuwen’ gaan we met dr. Sven Meeder (@svenmeeder.bsky.social) naar de wereld van de Friezen en de Franken: de wereld van Redbad. Benieuwd? Deze aflevering is nu overal te beluisteren 🎧! Links ⬇️ 🧵 1/2

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

It's interesting that despite serious financial problems, Exeter's fundraising pages focus very heavily on STEM and applied sciences, which are not apparently in trouble. (Exeter not alone in this priorisation) publications.exeter.ac.uk/thank-you-re...

'The [UCU] branch told Times Higher Education that the university is looking to cut 115 full-time equivalent roles from the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 20 from the School of Health and Life Sciences, and 18 from the Faculty of Environment, Science and Economics.' 2/3

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities

A few words of appreciation. 600transformer.blogspot.com/2026/06/rosa...

Wil je je masterscriptie Geschiedenis graag omvormen tot een wetenschappelijk artikel? @jongehistorici.bsky.social en Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis helpen je daarbij. Lees hier meer: www.jhsg.nl/tijdschrift-...

“If Rutte’s self-debasing flattery of Trump actually worked, that would be one thing…Unfortunately, Trump takes servile flattery as his due. Giving it to him satisfies his need to feel superior and dominant, but it buys you nothing.” (gift article) www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Rosamond McKitterick passed away over the weekend. She was a leading historian of the Early Middle Ages. This piece from The Historians' Sketchpad offers a thoughtful and personal remembrance of her salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/a... #medievalists

Rosamond McKitterick (1949-2026) A formidable scholar, an inspiring teacher, a generous spirit and a supportive colleague - truly, we have lost one of the great ones. @sidneysussex.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @camedieval.bsky.social

"One of the special objects is a gold ring from the third or fourth century AD... In addition to the gold ring, the archaeologists also came across an... Ottonian fibula... The pin probably dates from the tenth or eleventh century AD" Neat. www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/18524...

God this country is infuriating sometimes. What do you fucking mean it costs £78 to go to Bristol from London. How could it possibly cost this much? Nationalise the rails and force every railway exec to do hard labour.

Een paar weken geleden was ik te gast in de podcast @middeleeuwen.bsky.social. De aflevering staat nu online en gaat over vroegmiddeleeuwse priesters en de lokale kerk en is overal te beluisteren via open.spotify.com/show/1ffecyd... of linktr.ee/middeleeuwen.

“These men came here…to storm these beaches…not to gain anything for ourselves, not to fulfill any ambitions that America had for conquest, but just to preserve freedom, systems of self-government in the world.” ~Eisenhower to Walter Cronkite, “D-Day + Twenty Years,” 1964. Image: Eisenhower NHS.

Looking back at an inspiring #dhbenelux26 conference in Maastricht. Friederike, Gleb, and I presented some preliminary findings of our study into the role of the values expressed in the beatitudes in canon law over time. Read more about it on canones.org/solemne-at-d...

With one month to go until #IMC2026, here's a re-upload of my little non-exhaustive thread of tips and tricks for first-timers (including a link to a great blogpost by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social at the end!) #MedievalSky

De Heilige Familie in Egypte: op de vlucht, zoals we kunnen lezen in het evangelie van Mattheüs. Maar is er meer dan dat verhaal? Zeker! Met prof. dr. Petra Sijpesteijn kijken we naar de verhalen over de Heilige Familie in Egypte. Benieuwd? Deze aflevering is nu overal te beluisteren 🎧 Links ⬇️

🎆Job Klaxon!!🎆 Full-time, permanent lectureship in Old and Middle Irish at Maynooth University @maynoothuniversity.ie. Application deadline 26 July 2026. Tar ag obair linn i Roinn na Sean-Ghaeilge @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Happy to announce that @livunipress.bsky.social will publish 'Willibrord between Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690-739)' as a paperback in October. Pre-orders are already open: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #MedievalSky

De universiteit wordt te veel geleid als een bedrijf, zegt een vertrekkend decaan van de Radboud Universiteit. Haar statement kan op veel bijval rekenen: ook bij andere universiteiten zouden consultants steeds vaker de koers bepalen. advalvas.vu.nl/campus-cultu...

The Society's President and Council have released the following statement on the proposed closure of undergraduate degrees at the University of Hertfordshire, in #History and the wider humanities bit.ly/4dmV5oO This comes at a time of further bad news from Essex and Nottingham #Skystorians

"Ten years of dropping this commodity to see where the pieces land is not an education policy worth of the name. It is neglect bordering on vandalism." 🗃️ Solidarity to everyone - something has got to urgently change.

Sinds het laagje morele vernis er de voorbije jaren afgehaald is, is het volstrekt helder dat in Nederland ondernemersbelangen belangrijker zijn dan mensenrechten. De VOC mentaliteit, daar moesten we trots op zijn, toch? www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid...

This government could have enacted anything it wished, acting in total defiance against Con and Reform, and demonstrated how socialist and left-wing values result in immediate benefits for most Britons. But instead they sit on their hands and try to do feeble Farage impressions. I hate them for it.

SOLEMNE's own Gideon de Jong published his OA article in @peritia.bsky.social in which he subjects the Irish canonical collection Hibernensis to contemporary legal theory, arguing that laws can be understood only from a participant perspective or ‘internal point of view’. canones.org/peritia-arti...

A long interview with the early medieval historian Rosamond McKitterick, reflecting on her life and work, ably conducted by Richard Pollard youtu.be/pvBdJyUAwyY?...

This is amazing. Brilliant way for people to comprehend the enormity of the files with these visuals. Glad the survivors were acknowledged with the bright light of the candles 🕯️

Wtaf.

Kim Jong Un Was Right – and Everyone Else Is Taking Notes – The Diplomat thediplomat.com/2026/05/kim-...

Hertfordshire runs wonderful history programs & are especially strong on heritage, public and local history, which is exactly what this country needs more of. What's being allowed to happen to humanities in the UK HE sector is going to have dire consequences for generations to come.

Help, #MedievalSky! There's an opening on our #IMC2026 Panel on Abbatial Identities within and without the Cloister. Do you like abbots/abbesses or another kind of 'monastic leader', and are you having second thoughts about skipping the IMC this year? Let me know and we might have a session for you!

My university hasn’t reached this level of clarity yet. Managers tell themselves it’s all going brilliantly *because* they’ve sacked so many people.

“By shifting the vast majority of university funding into the hands of the aggregate decisions of 17-year-olds, the English system of choice has become an enormous machine for finding out who has the best (or best resourced) marketing department.”

Reading a book published in 2025 by a Nobel prize-winning economist, and the start is ... not promising. None of this is true, and the scholarship cited here is conspicuously out of date (Mitterauer first published in 2003).

Fucking omgekeerde wereld. De schijf van vijf is er niet voor de boeren. Onze gezondheid moet dus lijden zodat anderen er anders geen financieel gewin uit kunnen halen? Ik weet dat dit vaak zo werkt, maar dit is wel heel erg in your face. Kunnen we talkshows niet gewoon afschaffen?

We are sad to note the passing of Averil Cameron, historian of late antiquity and Byzantium www.medievalists.net/2026/04/aver... #history

Some good news - a new issue of Early Medieval Europe has dropped! And it's a bumper issue, with six articles, not the usual five. Here's a quick thread on the delights awaiting you: 1/9

The great historian of Late Antiquity Averil Cameron, who has died, reminding us that class matters alongside gender in British society wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2017/05/22/s...

Doe mee als je ook een andere universiteit wilt. #WOinActie