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Yes yes yes!! I’ve been Saying this my whole degree 🤸🤸🤸

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Ethnogenesis and Kingship AD300-900, presented by Professor Gordon Noble. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethnogenes...

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‘You Talk, We Act’: A Remarkable Dialogue from the Middle Ages https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/you-talk-we-act-middle-ages/ #Beguine

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Call for film and TV reviews! Have you recently seen a historical film or series and wanted to write about it from a historian’s perspective? We are inviting reviews of 500-1000 words on historical films and TV series to be posted on our website. DM us or email [email protected]

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Women in Love: The love lives of a two women, Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster and her granddaughter Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots #WomeninHistory #ScottishQueens historytheinterestingbits.com/2021/11/06/w... via @Thehistorybits

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Apply now for The London International Palaeography Summer School: 9-13 June 2025! A 🧵 on all the exciting courses available this year!

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Vikings and Cats https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/vikings-cats/ #Cats #Vikings

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Australopithecus at Sterkfontein had primarily plant-based diets similar to herbivores, with no regular consumption of mammalian meat, shown by enamel-bound nitrogen and carbon isotopes. The authors suggest this indicates meat intake did not drive brain expansion in early hominins. - Lüdecke et al.:

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Lecturer in Early Modern Art History (1400-1800) - AC2505RXLS University of St Andrews - School of Art History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU715/l...

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Last week @davidolusoga.bsky.social gave the annual National Humanities Lecture at the University of London. This was a superb account of how public history promotes and communicates academic research beyond HE. David's lecture is now available and is highly recommended bit.ly/3Qd1x5i #skystorians

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Voting closes SOON! 🏛 The Grove #Roman villa complex for which I coordinated Communications has been nominated for the @currentarchaeology.bsky.social Rescue Project of the Year Award. 🗳 Please vote 'A VILLA UNVEILED' for Rescue Project before VOTING CLOSES on FEB 10th! archaeology.co.uk/vote-now

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Simulations show Australopithecus afarensis could run bipedally but at speeds below modern humans, with a limited endurance range. Energy costs aligned with similarly sized animals. Enhanced running likely evolved via changes in muscle anatomy and body proportions. - Bates et al.:

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🚨JOB | Chichele Professor of Medieval History, All Souls College | @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social | The Chichele Professor will play a leading role in researching and teaching Medieval History within the Faculty of History | Closes 3 March www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...

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Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

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Inside you are two She-Wolfs. One is the Queen of England. The other is just the regular kind of she-wolf.

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Come hang with us at Leeds this year. We're holding a roundtable discussion on #bodies, #gender, and #religion. It's gonna be lit. #Skystorians #medieval #earlymodern #IMCLeeds #womenshistory #saints #childbirth

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The World Wide Web, early medieval style 🌐 - Indian Buddha statuette - Egyptian Coptic ladle - Irish crozier All of these were found at the Vendel and Viking Age trading centre at Helgö, on Lake Mälaren in central Sweden. Photographed in 2015 at the Historiska museet, Stockholm.

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New episode of the podcast: Rome’s Greatest Defeat. Catastrophe in the Teutoburg. Please listen here: podfollow.com/dan-snows-hi...

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My next book, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, is now available to wish for on #NetGalley Alternatively, you can preorder in the usual places, but if you'd like a signed and dedicated bookplate, then @foxlanebooks.bsky.social is the place! 🦊 www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/product-page...

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#FrescoFriday Hera and Zeus decide to make a go of things with a wedding. Let’s not ruin the magic of their special day by telling them just how things are going to turn out! 📍House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii 🏛️MAN Napoli #AncientBluesky🏺

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#epictheithacasaga is out and it’s phenomenal I’m just walking around #Japan on holidays crying #epicthemusical #theodyssey #Odysseus #Penelope #Telemachus #Antinous @JayHerrans a masterpiece ⚔️ open.spotify.com/album/4pCY75...

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By far the most viewed article I have written this year was looking at recent Margaret Beaufort-related discoveries in Pembroke, Collyweston and Cambridge. You can read more about them below (and don't forget so subscribe - big plans in 2025!) nathenamin.substack.com/p/margaret-b...

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Cod was regularly caught by early modern fishers. It was the most widely eaten fish across Europe (esp in the form of 'stockfish'), but was less popular in Britain.🎣 In 1685-1704 records suggest that the Shetland fishery failed due to The Little Ice Age.❄️ Map from my #AtlasOfEarlyModernWildlife 📗

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If you don't sign this, we are fighting.

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I am both ridiculously excited and honoured to have been asked to participate in events surrounding the opening of the ‘Pompeii’ exhibition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra next month. Cannot wait! 🇦🇺

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Loving being back in Canberra for the Pompeii exhibit…!

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Have you ever wondered where Perkin Warbeck's mortal remains ended up? Well, in the article I explore just that. nathenamin.substack.com/p/perkin-war...

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A fantastic resource for all #earlymodern scholars: if you haven't done so already, please take a look at the Early Modern Female Book Ownership site. It builds a wonderful, diverse picture of women's relationship with books and reading. #HerBook

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#Spotify telling me I am in my #historyhotgirlera #epicthemusical #gonemedieval #notjustthetudors #theancients #youredeadtome #dansnowshistoryhit I really wish they also did audiobook stats ⚔️⚔️⚔️ #medieval #earlymodern #ancienthistory #classicalhistory #vikings #witches #greeks #romans #TheOdyssey

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NEW PODCAST🎙️ Sensational Early Anglo-Saxon estate and Viking Great Army camp in northern Northumbria! Join me and @thebigelbee.bsky.social as we chat some of the team behind the discovery of the nationally-important Near Felton site, wherever you get your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/5tVg...

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If you are interested in Old English, Old Norse and Viking Studies at MA level, please come and join us tomorrow at 7pm GMT for a virtual information event. More here: www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/pros...

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New on the IHR Blog! Read about our #London #SummerSchool 2024 on 'Rivers' - including video, and participant feedback. And discover more about our upcoming 2025 London Summer School on #Rebels. blog.history.ac.uk/2024/11/my-t...

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I hope this is Anne Boleyn - it's certainly by Hans Holbein - as it's my favourite portrait of her #Tudors

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For Aussie #classicists the #Canberra (#ANU) Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at #Athens has an amazing funding opportunity!! Contact [email protected] for more details #archaeology #ancienthistory #ancientgreece #bronzeage #ancientworld

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🌲1️⃣🎁 4ᵗʰ c. I-MEA-004 (Sí an Bhrú/Newgrange, Co. Meath) [ᚋ]ᚐᚊᚔᚐᚃᚔᚕᚑᚂᚒᚔᚕᚑᚔ [M]AQI AVI KOLUI KOI ‘of the son of the descendant of Collae? (Collovias?) here’ It is unknown when the writing system ogam was invented. The earliest extant, archaeologically datable texts are from the 4ᵗʰ century ᴀ.ᴅ. ᚐ

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Reminder that there's a full day early medieval and viking conference coming up in just over two weeks, with a free live stream 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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And William Marshall enters the chat ❤️❤️

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Our latest book review on Rhea! @fallaxharuspex.bsky.social reviews Marco Benoît Carbone "Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity: The Strait of Scylla and Charybdis in the Modern Imagination" (@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 2022).

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#review @ BMCR by Aimee Turner (MQ @draimee.bsky.social): Franca Ela Consolino, After #Ovid: aspects of the reception of Ovid in literature & iconography bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2024/2024.11... "much of interest to the scholar of Ovidian reception within the individual chapters" #classicalreception

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I don't know this song but maybe some of you hip young folks do. Either way, bardcore is always fun, so enjoy: youtu.be/V7jOobdrdGo?...

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#1000TudorPeople V is for Ralph Verney, chamberlain to Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond. In 1477, he married Margaret’s half-niece, Eleanor Pole & in 1503 he was appointed to head Princess Margaret's household for journey to Scotland to marry James IV. amzn.to/3X5KVBp

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Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

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#OnThisDay 1273 Alphonso, son of Edward I, was born in Bayonne, Gascony. He died in 1284. Had he lived and reigned, Alphonso would now be a popular English name.

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#postdoc - Freiburg - ~4yrs FT - #Empire/post-#imperial studies - uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb... [English uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004... - Research Training Group (RTG) 2571 “Empires: Dynamic Change, Temporality and Post-Imperial Orders”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

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🌟⭐️GIVE AWAY ⭐️🌟 Get your hands on a copy of the 2nd Edition of my book 'Cumbria's Prehistoric Monuments. 🌟⭐️🌟⭐️🌟⭐️🌟 TO ENTER, LIKE AND REPOST THIS POST!! 🤩 [A winner will be randomly selected a week from now! Good luck!] #archaeology #StandingStoneSunday #giveaway

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This gold #Thracian pectoral features a very abstract image of a lion, presumably giving strength to whomever wore it. It was laid across a cuirass in a high-status warrior's tomb in the Bashova Tumulus, Bulgaria. 475-425 BCE. 🏺 #Ancientbluesky Plovdiv, Regional Archaeological Museum (1514) 📸 me

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Anyone looking to understand the Social War and Sulla: this is the most up-to-date narrative we have. And it’s cheap as!

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My book, Early English Queens, 850-1000, is currently 25% off at Routledge. As an added bonus, it also now comes with fewer typos - one of the benefits of the move to ebooks & print on demand.

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As is often the case with Richard III, whenever anything relating to him hits the news, there's a lot of noise. Science and linguistics hurts my modest brain, but THANKFULLY, as usual, Matt Lewis is here to explain the Voice for Richard III project in depth medievalmatt.substack.com/p/a-voice-fo...

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Thrilled to have already received over a thousand responses to the Great Viking Survey within the first week! 🎉 But we're only just getting started! If you haven't had the chance yet, do let us know how you feel about the vikings and their legacy at vikingsurvey.org!

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