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Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
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Congratulations to our PGR Siobhán Beatson, who has recently been granted this year’s Dorothy Dunnet Centenary Award! She is currently working on her PhD, ‘Life on the Margins: A socio-economic analysis of the sea loch communities of the northwest Highlands in 16th century.’ @thinkuhi.bsky.social

The Templar Catastrophe at Cresson https://www.medievalists.net/2024/02/the-templar-catastrophe-at-cresson/ #Crusades

"If the President of the United States is doing things that are against the British national interest and against our values, someone has to point them out." @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

OUT TODAY! Amazing work by colleagues at OSU on the archaeobotany of a #SilkRoad caravanserai in #Armenia-- on what travelers ate, who fed them, and how food shaped the world of the #medieval silk road 🍇🍑🌾 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

My co-author, @FancyNahyan.bsky.social, and I are happy to announce that, after an 8-month delay, our essay “Plague History, Mongol History, and the Processes of Focalisation Leading Up to the Black Death” has finally been published. It’s open-access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #histmed 🧪

Calling Zelensky a “Dictator” must be where the line is drawn. It is my sincere hope that the whole political spectrum in the United Kingdom will speak with one voice in opposition to Trump’s lies.

I need to tell you about Internet Archive Scholar, which is a fulltext search index with over 35 million research articles & other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive -- and has the most synthwave logo ever scholar.archive.org

"This wouldn't have happened if I were president", the cartoon of the day in #Ukraine by artist Maksym Palenko

Following the publication of ‘Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire’ Dr Ann-Marie Foster, @juliarsct.bsky.social, and myself will be discussing its approach to ‘Writing Fictional History’ at the @ihr.bsky.social on 26 February 2025. www.history.ac.uk/events/writi...

Prof Donna Heddle & Dr Paul Malgrati @thinkuhi.bsky.social to edit new volume exploring the rich ties between French & Scottish #Literature @degruyterbrill.bsky.social see blog tinyurl.com/bp6zrt52 @asls.org.uk @iassl.bsky.social

Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

13 March, the John Bannerman Memorial Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Prof Deborah Hayden (Maynooth). Details 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-banne... #histmed #GaelicHistory #MedicalHumanities #CelticStudies #LámhscríbhinníGaeilge

Here’s what I want to see from Universities UK: a massive publicity campaign celebrating the multi-layered contributions higher education makes. We do research that improves medicine, technology, culture and the arts. It’s hard, slow, sometimes expensive, but it makes life better. The benefits 1/?

This is the nub of the article that I disagree with. Sticking to the evidence *requires* picking a side on many issues that should never have been politics but now are: climate change, vaccines, public health... Staying neutral denies the science and that can't be scientific or right.

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures

'Drawing on survey responses from 104 university libraries, the Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) finds about three-quarters of libraries (73 per cent) are making cuts in their budget ranging from 1 per cent to 30 per cent, with an average mean cut of 8 per cent.' 1/2

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

In my ‘SE #Scotland Oak #Dendrochronology’ project, I set out to fill a gap in our reference data but ended up revealing the impacts of prolonged warfare on the region’s environment & buildings, plus a 600 year reliance on imported timber #MedievalMonday Case study here scarf.scot/regional/ses...

Hey, Medieval History/Games fans [& everyone else!]. The next HGN discussion panel is happening 19th March 2025 with special guests @robehoughton.bsky.social, Blair Apgar, James Baillie, and Katie Newell. Sign up: ⬇️🏰🎲🎮 buytickets.at/historicalga... #gamingthepast #historicalgames

"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way. Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."

What do illuminated manuscripts and "the funnies" have in common? Come find out with us on March 1st and hear @jessehurlbut.bsky.social talk about "Comic Book Theory for Medievalists"! manuscriptevidence.org/wpme/episode...

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

wild that there are historians that think they can just opt out of “DEI” as though inclusive history isn’t the gold standard for cutting edge work in our profession.

'The American state has been captured by a group of people who do not see the world as we do, who are hostile to the world as we want it to be. We must see them for what they are to their credit they don’t pretend to be anything else. To our discredit we lie to ourselves that they do'. Excellent.

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1/ 🧵 Excellent new @TheAtlantic piece reveals shocking details about how Murdoch media handled #Brexit: Nobody actually thought it would pass – they were just “having a laugh” (including Boris Johnson)

Around 400,000 people work in universities across the UK, and more then 200,000 of them are academics. The closures and job losses we’re seeing in the sector just now are a major industrial crises affecting the key workplaces and economic drivers of hundreds of towns and cities.

Complying in advance by removing actual history from museums if it’s not glorifying white men is next level. What is most striking to me is the about near universal acquiescence. Where is the pushback? www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

I see the press is reporting the VPOTUS Europe speech as if he were not a mendacious piece of scheming fascistic dogshit, for some inexplicable reason. And yet, he is a mendacious piece of scheming fascistic dogshit, and that is the lens through which all his words must be viewed.

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

Putting it down to my lack of musical knowledge, but I'd never heard this before. It's...quite something. And, all things considered (still) very relevant... youtu.be/OLkPwxcIji0?...

We have a groundbreaking story for you this week. Our member @clairehistory.bsky.social has been researching one of Peterborough's first known openly transgender residents. peterboroughwomenshistory.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/n...

It would be quite nice if editorials and opinion pieces on the current UK universities crisis would condescend to insert the word 'research' even just once into their texts, to signal a glimmer of recognition of what universities foundationally do (including when they teach their students).

University staff all knew this was coming. It was wage and pension cuts, workloads, REF, ballooning class sizes, no readvertising vacant posts in teaching or admin. The bubble will burst, and it will be no sweat off the back of the VCs and govt who made it happen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Some higher ed organizations who are loudly circling the wagons against federal funding cuts were oddly silent or circumspect about the earlier attacks on CRT and DEI. I wish there was a better understanding that these attacks are coming because we failed to repel those.

Not in Oxford, calendar conflicts? Fear not! The Ford Lectures by Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne--French in Medieval Britain--are wonderful AND recordings of the first three are already online at www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l.... #medievalsky

MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”

Some more of me discussing Game of Thrones with Anthony le Donne, alongside Carolyne Larrington and Kate Olley. A fun time was had by all! baldmove.com/game-of-thro... #medievalsky

Call for Papers for the 6th 'Middle Ages in Modern Games Asynchronous Conference' on 3-6 June is now available. The central themes this year are ‘Globalities’ and ‘Regionalities’. A great opportunity to share work in the field @midagesmodgames.bsky.social middleagesinmoderngames.net/announcement...

Very excited to be speaking at the @ihr.bsky.social Late Medieval seminar later this week (Friday 14th), presenting some of the findings of my PhD thesis! Link to sign up here (online or in-person): www.history.ac.uk/events/loyal...

Teaching history divorced from the concerns of the present is actually doing a bad job at teaching history.