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Hold the phone!! 🤩 We've tipped over 10k followers!! 😃😍🥳 That's all the excuse we need to re-post our Death Star-Hypocaust film, because you can see it too often. Thanks to everyone for making it such fun getting here. 😘😘

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This is digital humanities

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Now that I’ve lured in new followers with cat pictures, it’s time for a lesson on medicine and magic in #medieval #manuscripts! Shown are 2 pages from a 12th c. manuscript, now Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.36, which includes St. Bernard's "De Consideratione" and a history of Ireland.

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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

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18 February 2025, 5.00pm, Balliol Online Lecture: join Professor Heather Sharkey for her talk ‘The Sudanese Giraffe Who Went to France: The Life and Afterlife of Zarafa, 1824–2024’. Further info and to register: https://buff.ly/3EDdWgv

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

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Capturing their images and stories, then and now. A fascinating glimpse into the American Revolution. www.bbc.com/reel/video/p...

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A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.

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“Studies also show that the more a person trusts common sense, the more likely they are to be wrong…” Good piece—and part of why I almost always roll my eyes at usage of the phrase “common sense.”

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Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield was an opera singer who toured around America before the Civil War. Author @tiffanylwarren.bsky.social explores Elizabeth’s story in the novel THE UNEXPECTED DIVA, and joins us this week on Vulgar History to share the tale of the “Beyoncé of the antebellum”.

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This is such a great question that I think it deserves a whole thread. The cuneiform writing system included numbers, and we know how to say the names of many of these numbers in both Akkadian and Sumerian (languages that cuneiform was used to write). Let's start with Sumerian.

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Got the new sign installed- exciting!

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New Medieval Books: Not Just Medieval https://www.medievalists.net/2022/01/new-medieval-books-not-just-medieval/ #BookSky

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They really are.

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Deadline: FEBRUARY 1

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Timed in person tests are the worst possible pedagogy. They test nothing that is worth testing. Despite all the practice, I have never once had analyze a passage from Bede without ample time and all my notes since undergrad.

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the premise of Good Will Hunting is so funny. "What if there was a boy who was a once in a lifetime genius, handsome, everybody likes him, but tragically he is from South Boston a handicap that threatens to ruin his entire life"

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The Myth of the Medieval Flail: Separating Fact from Fiction https://www.medievalists.net/2025/01/myth-medieval-flail/ #medievalhistory #militaryhistory #weaponsofwar #flails

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"Cat puke? Sir, I know nothing about this 'cat puke' of which you speak, and frankly I'm offended at the suggestion that I might. Good day, sir. I said, good day!"

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Coming up on 7 February, Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) will give our Medieval Lecture on how women travelled in the medieval world. While our in-person tickets have sold out already, you can still join the lecture online! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1118707587...

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@kittyswink.bsky.social Welcome!

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new email sig just dropped

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Everyday at my house.

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The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation with 6,500+ Fellows & Members, worldwide, representing the diversity of academic and professional history. We welcome applications to join at any time with options for all career stages. Next closing date 24 March bit.ly/45lOzr0 #Skystorians

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Happy end of the Christmas season!

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Sir Pounce-a-Lot has taken his place on my desk.

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We need to up our footnote game to keep pace with our predecessors.

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The @medievalacademy.bsky.social seeks proposals for MAA-sponsored sessions on the following theme at the 2026 AHA Annual Meeting in Chicago: "Shining a Light on the 'Dark' Ages: Creative Approaches to Teaching the Middle Ages" Proposals due FEB. 1, 2025 www.medievalacademy.org/general/cust...

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New Medieval Books: The Latin Continuation of William of Tyre, translated by James H. Kane and Keagan J. Brewer published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/new-medieval-books-the-latin-continuation-of-william-of-tyre/ #CrusadeTextsinTranslation #Crusades #Books

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My new year's resolution is not to fall victim to hubris. I'll do my best to be different. and better. maybe even better than the gods

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Sure you've seen the famous #BayeuxTapestry, but have you seen it in all its sensational high-res thread-glory? Breathtaking online resource, a joint effort of the City of Bayeux, DRAC Normandie, Fabrique de patrimoines en Normandie, University of Caen, & CNRS: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

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Might try, except for writing...

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Can scholars and clerics be manly?, with @maroulix.bsky.social - a new episode of Byzantium & Friends https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/can-scholars-and-clerics-be-manly-with-maroula-perisanidi/ #podcast #history

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For years we’ve all know of the very limited utility of student course evaluations but administrations keep using them nonetheless in an attempt to quantify teaching. Good example of the number being more important than it actually meaning something.

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I hope you’ve all been historically correcting the carol today by belting out ‘Good DUKE Wenceslas…’

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In Search of The Once and Future King: Attack of the Prequels https://www.medievalists.net/2020/12/attack-prequels-perceforest/ #Arthurian #MedievalLiterature

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Happy St. Stephen’s Day! 14th century wall painting fragments from St. Stephen’s Chapel - the Royal Chapel at the Old Palace of Westminster, largely destroyed by fire in 1834. The fragments are now part of the collections at the British Museum. 📷 My own. #BoxingDay

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