Charles West
LightNews LightNews
banner
pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West
@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
4.3K followers 440 following 2.1K posts

Professor of History

Videos

Charles West (1816–1898) was a British physician, specialized in pediatrics and obstetrics, especially known as the founder of the first children's hospital in Great Britain, the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, London. .. more

History 43%
Philosophy 19%
Posts Replies Media Videos

Reposted by Charles West

ghilondon.bsky.social
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 3h
Save the date of the last GHIL lecture in our winter series given by Stefan Esders (@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social) on 'Ethnicity and Legal Pluralism in the Early Middle Ages':

📅 9 December 2025
📍Pushkin House, London
⏰ 5:30pm GMT
🔗 Sign up: www.ghil.ac.uk/event...
1/7

Reposted by Charles West

edinburghup.bsky.social
Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 6h
📚 New on the blog!

@arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.

Have a read:
The Warehouse of Bamiyan: Q&A with Arezou Azad - Edinburgh University Press Blog
Arezou Azad rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan.
edin.ac

Reposted by Charles West

drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 8h
This has me picturing a miniature gallows for moths

Reposted by Charles West

bunyaminanderson.bsky.social
Benjamin Anderson @bunyaminanderson.bsky.social · 9h
I’m thrilled to share my new article, online and open access in Medieval Encounters! It’s called “Beyond Belief: Byzantine Statue Stories and their Absent Objects,” but it could be called “A Tale of Two Boars” 🐗 🐗

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Cas Mudde, Ben H. Ansell , and 66 more

rutgerbregman.com
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 10h
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Reposted by Charles West, Rory Naismith

rmblf.bsky.social
Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 13h
Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto

rmblf.be/2025/11/25/p...
Publication – « Aristocratic networks. Elites and social dynamics in Italy in the age of Lothar I », éd. Giuseppe Albertoni, Manuel Fauliri, Leonardo Sernagiotto
This volume collects the proceedings of a conference held at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento from 13 to 15 October 2022, as part of the initiatives of the PRIN 2017 project…
rmblf.be

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22h
An interesting historical take on the term 'culture war' by Rob Priest academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...
Culture War: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?
Abstract. Now ubiquitous in public debate, the term ‘culture war’ has become increasingly unmoored from models that were developed when the concept first s
academic.oup.com

Reposted by Charles West

fbgotha.bsky.social
Forschungsbibliothek Gotha @fbgotha.bsky.social · 1d
#SaveTheDate An anonymous world chronicle originally composed in 713 CE, likely by a Syriac monk from Apamea, has remained almost unknown until now. In his Gotha Manuscript Talk, Adrian Pirtea speaks about the rediscovery of the only surviving copy! Wednesday, 26 November 2025, 6:15 CET
A photo showing the ancient ruins of Apamea

Reposted by Charles West, Ewan McGaughey

eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d
'Kendall told a UKRI event on 24 November that nearly a fifth of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s budget will be earmarked for research aligned with Labour’s missions, with £8 billion of UKRI’s £38.6 billion budget over the next five years “targeted towards the UK’s national priorities”.' 1/3
Kendall: Haldane not breached by research spending direction
Science secretary defends decision to dedicate nearly a fifth of UKRI budget to policy priorities
www.timeshighereducation.com

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d
Super exciting!
carolinepennock.bsky.social Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d
Eek! My episode doesn't technically air until 8 December, but the whole series of the new BBC Arts Civilisations series is out now on iPlayer, including this episode on the Aztecs with me and friends @amyfuller.bsky.social & @restall.bsky.social (& others not on the Sky). Airs Mondays at 9pm, BBC2.
Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Series 1: 3. Aztecs
The Aztecs battle to save their civilisation from Spanish invaders – but is the real threat from the enemy within?
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Charles West

carolinepennock.bsky.social
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 1d
Eek! My episode doesn't technically air until 8 December, but the whole series of the new BBC Arts Civilisations series is out now on iPlayer, including this episode on the Aztecs with me and friends @amyfuller.bsky.social & @restall.bsky.social (& others not on the Sky). Airs Mondays at 9pm, BBC2.
Civilisations: Rise and Fall - Series 1: 3. Aztecs
The Aztecs battle to save their civilisation from Spanish invaders – but is the real threat from the enemy within?
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Charles West

hopesteffen.bsky.social
Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 1d
I find it very pleasing that sometime around 1040, an Icelandic skald addressed the king of the Norwegians as "sinjórr", showing that already at this early stage the French vocabulary for lordship had entered the Nordic world.

Reposted by Charles West

cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social · 1d
🎨 In our final seminar of the semester, Neil McClelland joins us from @uofglasgow.bsky.social to discuss his ongoing doctoral research into the the history of art commissions from across the social strata from late medieval and early modern Naples.

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d
Many sympathies.

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d
Can't wait to read this!
jbwaagmeester.bsky.social Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social · 1d
Can't get enough of local priests? I hope not, because my book 'Pastoral Works. Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period' has just been published by Brepols (doi.org/10.1484/M.US...). You can read the book's introduction on my website (libripendis.eu/posts/26past...).
Cover of the book 'Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period'

Reposted by Charles West

jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Bastiaan Waagmeester @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social · 1d
Can't get enough of local priests? I hope not, because my book 'Pastoral Works. Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period' has just been published by Brepols (doi.org/10.1484/M.US...). You can read the book's introduction on my website (libripendis.eu/posts/26past...).
Cover of the book 'Priests, Books, and Compilatory Practices in the Carolingian Period'

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 1d
Fascinated by the 1950s brands in the Beamish living history museum.
Shelf of household goods.

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 2d
Listening to a BBC adaption of Wuthering Heights, and finding it gripping.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
BBC Sounds - Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Available Episodes
Listen to the latest episodes of Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë on BBC Sounds.
www.bbc.co.uk

Reposted by Charles West

transmedhistory.bsky.social
Transmediterranean History @transmedhistory.bsky.social · 2d
AotW: Johannes G. Stolk and Theresa Jäckh, 1009: Adémar of Chabannes on the Destruction of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, in: Transmediterranean History 3.2 (2021), DOI: doi.org/10.18148/tmh....

*We are looking for authors: ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/ind... !*

#medievalists #medievalsky
plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Adomanàn’s De locis santis (9th century), today Vienna, ÖNB, cod. 458, fol. 4v.

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 3d
Cuthbert tests the defences of a castle.
Spaniel and castle

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin backs US plan for ending Ukraine war as Trump gives Kyiv deadline to accept
President Zelensky says Ukraine faces one of the most difficult moments in its history, as the White House pushes its plan.
www.bbc.co.uk

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d
Congratulations Laury! Wonderful news, richly deserved.

Reposted by Charles West, Klaus Oschema

nicmorton.bsky.social
Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social · 4d
Review copy just landed!

"Becoming Arab: The Formation of Arab Identity in the Medieval Middle East"

by Yossef Rapoport
@princetonupress.bsky.social

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d
The languages in particular? No, I'm not aware of any specific work on why he seems to have wanted this information (It's a terribly neglected source!). Maybe it was his agents who thought it was something he should know.

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d
What languages did the 35 hermits living in Jerusalem in 808 pray to God in? Charlemagne wanted to know, so he found out. (Mostly Greek and Syriac)
Table from McCormick

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d
Refreshing to see university media teams promoting History research.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11...
Oxford research reveals how papal dithering supercharged Henry VIII’s
A new study from Professor Paulina Kewes, Faculty of English, and Dr Frederick Smith, Faculty of History, of the University of Oxford, argues that the Pope’s fatal hesitation in excommunicating Henry
www.ox.ac.uk

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d
Fascinating to see how a top London law firm now expects its graduate applicants to be familiar with using AI. www.shoosmiths.com/careers/emer...
What’s AI got to do with it?
Whether you’re applying for a training contract or designing early careers strategy, in this article, Samantha share insights for both candidates and career professionals on Shoosmiths’ AI-enhanced re...
www.shoosmiths.com

Reposted by Charles West, Elaine Treharne, Kathleen Kennedy

picklebee.bsky.social
Beth 💜 @picklebee.bsky.social · 4d
It's the most wonderful time of the year: Scotland's gritter tracker is back! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❄️🧊

www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...
A map with gritters on it called William Wall-ice, grit tok, Gritney Spears and The Grittist Snowman A map with gritters on it called I've grit a crush on you, grit a bit, polar patroller, I want to break freeze A map with gritters on it called bear chills, thistle do icely A map with gritters on it called Gritallica, Olaf snow free roads, salt shaker and sled zepplin

Reposted by Charles West, Pauline Stafford

proflroach.bsky.social
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 4d
Hot off the press, my review of Doublier's (excellent) 'Reich ohne König?'. The book is an absolute game-changer for how we approach politics in 11th and 12thC northern Italy.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Ein Reich ohne König? Akzeptanz, Deutung und Repräsentation königlicher Herrschaft im regnum Italicum zwischen dem 11. und 12. Jahrhundert. By Étienne Doublier. Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Schriften 84. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. 2024. LXXIV + 666 pp.; 45 colour figures and 10 b/w maps. €115. ISBN 978 3 447 12274 0.
Click on the article title to read more.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 4d
Churches in Jerusalem c. 808, mentioned in Charlemagne's survey
Map from McCormick