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For today’s #BreakfastPaleography, by popular demand, let’s learn to read every paleography student’s nightmare, Luxeuil Minuscule! But don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be scary.

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The Beast in the Jungle.

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All governments are imperfect but they are NOT "all the same". The lazy trope that "it doesn't matter who you vote for" isn't just false; it feeds the nihilism on which the radical right prey. It's like a burning tyre, coating everything in acrid smoke, choking off any meaningful democratic choice

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'I’m not suggesting that when students say “I hate exams”...we should adopt a “but we know best” attitude. I am saying that there’s a real danger that in reacting to preference, there may well have been a failure to engage students in...conversations about the aggregate impacts and trade-offs.'

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"There are fears that German could die out altogether as a language choice among British pupils, with the number of children taking the subject at GCSE this year representing around a quarter of those sitting either French and Spanish." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06...

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Delighted that some of my recent PhD research has just been published in Historical Research! It explores connections between the chronicle written at Burton Abbey in the mid-C13 and the royal chancery More here: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

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Publication – « The Book of Raymond of Aguilers. Historia Francorum qui Ceperunt Iherusalem », trad. James Currie rmblf.be/2025/06/12/p...

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"One level up is the pork pie (a lump of cold pork meat wrapped in gelatin and pastry)". This does not make it sound very appetising.

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So I read this and it's completely fine. I don't know what the deal is with the snark, it's a perfectly okay and informative piece

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Can anyone think of women who lived past 80 before 1500?

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On Tues 17 June (17:00-18:00), our Leicester colleague Danielle Park will be giving an online public lecture on 'Anger, Shame and Politics in the Kingdom of Jerusalem: William of Tyre on King Fulk and Queen Melisinde' Attendance is open for all via Teams: ID: 352 938 628 958 8 Passcode: FV62CJ3d

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This week on the blog: @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social looks at the early history of Croatia: salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/t...

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Looks like a must-read.

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This fabulous study uses the Bonn hoard to find evidence of artisanal craft repair and recycling work on military equipment in the vicus south of Bonn’s legionary fort (more or less where myself, @akjp89.bsky.social and @writinghelena.bsky.social have our offices).

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Good @tommctague.bsky.social Starmer profile. Whenever I read stuff like this I just think “no thank you”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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What can the shipping container tell us about the history of capitalism? Hege Høyer Leivestad unpacks these icons of global labour and goods. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/capitalism/c...

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"Where’s Walh-y? Searching for ‘Invisible Britons’ in Early Medieval England". Strong title game by James Chetwood eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

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Why can't we have an AI that does some useful stuff for research? Like it could tell me which books on my list are in which libraries without me manually searching them all on Library Hub and then separately checking the BL catalogue to know how long they take to order. Please?

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Surprisingly mealy-mouthed responses from commentators with pretty obvious axes to grind. With friends like these… well, good luck to any centre-left party.

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I love these kinds of puzzles.

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To see #Kyiv & to die? The final farewell of archbishop Bruno of Querfurt before his #martyrdom : His bitter letter to king Henry II in 1009. The scholarship report of Oleksandr Fylypchuk: https://dhip.hypotheses.org/4577 #MedievalStudies #MissionaryHistory #LatinLetters #Christianization […]

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La nécrologie de Pierre Toubert signée Laurent Feller www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...

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You can listen to a great discussion with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social we ran a while back @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social here.

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Great to see that Early Medieval Europe published my review of Daniel Melleno's 'Franks and Northmen' (2024), which I greatly enjoyed reading! doi.org/10.1111/emed...

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Excellent news. www.ft.com/content/b1e9...

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Welcome to the archives.

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🏺 Interesting study on different Yersinia pestis (plague) strains in the 5th-7th Centuries ('Justinianic') and 14th Centuries ('Black Death') suggesting that the bacteria adapts to initial high mortality and rodent population fragmentation by becoming less virulent. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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"This is an extremely valuable contribution to the study of early medieval agriculture and an important landmark for the FeedSax project." New Perspectives on the Medieval ‘Agricultural Revolution’ is available #OpenAccess on the LUP website: bit.ly/4e1FlXa @clarelitt.bsky.social #MedievalSky

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So many commercialisation possibilities!

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Finally Reform finds a migrant it wants to house.

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Today is the feast of St. Columba, d. 597, Iona's founder! This manuscript, Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, MS Gen. 1, is the oldest copy of the Life of Columba by Adomnán, abbot of Iona, d. 704. The MS was copied on Iona no later than 713. 🕯️🧵 Full MS here: www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/...

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Just been to the launch of @uofglasgow.bsky.social's amazing new interactive Iona place-names map. So much excellent functionality - this must be a new gold standard in presenting place-name data. Congratulations and well done to all the team!

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'More than 400,000 civil servants will be informed of the training on Monday afternoon, which is part of a drive by the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, to overhaul the civil service and improve its productivity.' 1/2

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Research proposes a significantly later date for the burial of the Thetford hoard. Read ‘Rethinking the date and interpretation of the Thetford treasure: a 5th-c. hoard of gold jewelry and silver spoons’ by Ellen Swift: 📚 https://cup.org/4kBabbe #openaccess

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It had not really sunk in that this is the first medieval book covered by H-env roundtable! networks.h-net.org/arnold-medie...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social reviews 'The Merovingians in Historiographical Tradition', by Yaniv Fox @yanivfox.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

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A Carolingian folding wax tablet, from the Netherlands. Who knows what was written on here... hdl.handle.net/21.12126/144...

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