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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 1d

Can anybody perceive time this fast? Have you ever seen anyone do that? Never, nobody can, you've never seen this before

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 1d

My author copies are due to arrive on Halloween!

LITTLE KINGDOMS is on its way...!

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · May 30

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...

LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025

As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)

Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵

Little Kingdoms

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

In my experience there are lots of ‘full time’ museum jobs that are 4-5 hours below FT, so even when they pay minimum or real living wages, it works out not that much anyway because its not true ‘full time’

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Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social · 2d

Very happy to finally see this in the flesh today: the remains of an early tenth-century calendar from Landévennec, Brittany, whose entry for the year 913 contains an annotation that the local coastal monastery of Winwaloe was attacked by vikings during that year.

Copenhagen, KB Thott 239 2°, f.10r

A medieval manuscript page from the tenth century, on vellum. Text in black ink and red rubrication using Carolingian miniscule.

A marginal annotation on a manuscript, containing the (abbreviated) Latin sentence: 'Eodem anno destructum est monasterium sancti winualoei a normannis' (translation: 'In the same year, the monastery of saint Winwaloe was destroyed by Northmen').

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

Nicolas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) stood on a train holding a Japanese peace lily, from the film Hot Fuzz.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

Is the secondary source the houseplant in the background?

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 2d

Finds specialist, field archaeologist, desk-based archaeologist

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

Photo of a Kansas City Chiefs press conference with Andy Reid, Travis Kelce, and Patrick Mahomes. Reid is wearing a gray suit and red tie with a lapel pin. Kelce is wearing a camp-style short-sleeved shirt with a bird print, along with a suede cap, and Mahomes is wearing a white collared shirt, a pink checkered double-breasted vest, and a pale pink tie.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 3d

Some disciplines are also friendlier than others when it comes to accepting tentative, keen-to-learn recruits!

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

Teaching Y8 about the reactions & long-term effects of the Industrial Revolution soon

To contextualise this, we’ll be starting the lesson with a discussion about the allegedly inevitable ‘AI revolution’; are they for or against it? what impacts will it have? Good and/or bad?

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

We’re nearly a month out from release.. the marketing and press machines (so I’m told) are about to start their engines!

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · May 30

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...

LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025

As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)

Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵

Little Kingdoms

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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Reposted by Alex Harvey

Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · May 30

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Little-Kingd...

LITTLE KINGDOMS: AN A-Z OF EARLY MEDIEVAL BRITAIN, my next book, releases on the 30th of November 2025

As of today it is now available for preorder, at a discounted early price of £20 (RRP £25)

Why should you pick up this book...? 🧵

Little Kingdoms

Before England, Wales, and Scotland were created, before Alfred the Great and the Great Viking Army, before even a raid on Lindisfarne, the kingdoms that…

www.pen-and-sword.co.uk

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you very much! They're quite gentle really... now that we're 1200 years removed from the worst of it!

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

Release the grey lit!

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 4d

This is a massive discovery; Oxford in the Roman Period wasn’t really a thing, so this is a really early sign of local if not regional importance

Would love to read more about this

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