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You’ve all heard of metal type but what about gourd type (yes this was printed with movable type that was made out of the dried inside matter of a gourd)

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I love that Vilnius University sells temporary tattoos of items from its library

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My History Today article is currently free online www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

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four. different. ampersands. !!!! & they all illustrate the origin of the ampersand in the ligature of the latin conjunction “et” (“and”). 222050 • @folger.edu

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Ancient Manuscripts, Modern Science! What links medieval monks, secret ink recipes & ancient cow DNA? Learn how Scientists used X-ray technology and genetic sequencing to uncover the secrets of 1,200-year-old Irish manuscripts in Switzerland Read more: museum.ie/en-IE/Collec... #NMIBlog #MuseumBlog

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'A trilingual Hebrew dictionary co-created by monks & Jewish scholars'!!

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Eeek! I’m so excited for this: hosted by the brilliant @histfest.bsky.social, I’m doing an exclusive preview of Victoria’s Secret at @britishlibrary.bsky.social on the 24th of July - book your tickets now!! events.bl.uk/events/victo...

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Pick up June’s edition of @historytoday.com to read my article out about how early medieval queens came to derive their power directly from God xxx

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Delighted to come across what I sincerely hope is evidence of a Yorkshire accent amongst the C18th aristocracy 🏛️ This noblewoman was one of the Howard family, living just outside of York in the early 1700s

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Back on ProQuest and now it's offering me an AI summary of the 'key takeaway' of this chapter, or the 'concepts discussed'. I ask, again, who is this for?? Because it's not for researchers!

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Outstanding piece by Dr Florence Scott on queenship in the June 2025 issue of History Today. @historytoday.com

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Every humanities PhD reading the Times today: you can write a 167-page dissertation?

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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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13. I've thrown two books across the room, but one was a Latin grammar so maybe doesn't count?

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Latvia, Iceland, Malta and Sweden for me please! #eurovision

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'no orphans crying, no bottles in the ocean, diesel smells like lilac .... HEY, HOP MY SOIL' #eurovision

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it does make me feel good rather than bad! #eurovision

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Just like me with a Romantic reading list, Malta had to take out the Kant #Eurovision

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'I'm a survivor, stay aliver'!!

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The child catcher is doing a Toy Story song? This feels like a trap... #eurovision

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'I am Erika, all eros and stamina!' Always watch #eurovision with the subtitles on

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Me: Can we have the real Jedward? Mum: No they have cheaper Jedwards in Iceland #eurovision

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please know I am equally obsessed with Iceland and Latvia. I contain multitudes #eurovision

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In the words of the late great Terry Wogan: "This skit must have seemed like a tremendous idea at the time, but actually it's covering a commercial break. And if you don't mind me expressing an opinion, I'd prefer the commercials." #Eurovision

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I haven’t watched anything in the run-up to this #eurovision but I’m sat and ready. This parade is promising a VINTAGE year though

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It's absolutely not common sense. It's not only historically illiterate, it also ignores the actual status of languages in the parts of the UK that aren't England.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Just downloaded a pdf chapter from an ebook, which allows you to download 48 pages maximum (frustrating). All the references are in hyperlinked endnotes WHICH ARE NOT ATTACHED. There's not a single reference in this chapter.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 34 days ago • 40 comments

My parents have a small collection of L'illustration from Jun-July 1916 (one slightly moused) which they'd like to go to a good home. Are there any researchers or archives who could make good use of them?

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I, meanwhile, cycled through the full first Christian millennium before settling for the Ronseal option of Pope Pope.

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Discussed this at length with @philistella.bsky.social last week. I’d be Pope Piteous

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So my girlfriend is an amazing stop motion animator, and she recently did a medieval cat themed bumper for Adult Swim! Sharing it here because she only has Instagram and I think everyone needs to see her animations. She's so freaking talented, y'alls. PLEASE go follow her!

submitted 35 days ago • 277 comments

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

submitted 58 days ago • 181 comments

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

submitted 37 days ago • 155 comments

We're launching The Bee magazine today because the UK publishing and writing industries have a bit of a class problem.

submitted 38 days ago • 33 comments

Everything is shit, but I made some porcelain tile cookies🌀

submitted 39 days ago • 603 comments

I just signed this open letter with a proposal for an ME/CFS, Long Covid and Post-Infectious Disease research platform. Please consider signing and sharing! organise.network/s/2605b6fcccde

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THIRST FORKNO WLEDGE

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In memory of Marci, a new fund for @imc-leeds.bsky.social travel bursaries. #medievalsky www.gofundme.com/f/dr-marci-f...

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