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Dr Florence H R Scott

@florencehrscott.bsky.social

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Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · Mar 27

Thrilled to announce etc. etc. etc.

Allen Lane signs Florence Scott's fresh take on Medieval queenship

Allen Lane has signed Florence Scott’s “bold and original” history of Medieval queenship, Monarchia: A New History of the English Royal Dynasties, Through the Queens Who Built Them. Tom Penn, publishi...

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 13h

alright, pretty smooth

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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 15h

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 14h

The best dressed woman on earth just died, meaning that position is now taken by the girl reading this

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 16h

Looks like someone took the last train home xxxxx

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, and instead of latin homework it's his child he's neglecting

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to alienate people with this take, but mead is DISGUSTING. It was surely a con by Big Viking Chief to get people to want to die in battle

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

The cough medicine I'm taking tastes so close to mead that I'm being blasted back to my medieval-studies-postgraduate days with every spoonful. One more dose and I'm going to load up Crusader Kings II and have a panic attack about not doing my Latin homework

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

I just practice non-monogamy, ethical non-monogamy is incompatible with john major roleplay

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

I won't rest until I've bedded every political parody account on the internet

Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

not hot enough

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

a common pitfall of non-monogamy that nobody ever talks about: my other partner is extremely concerned that people might think he ever operated a john major parody account

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 1d

If you think you're posting too weird? Double down, you're not posting weird enough

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

STOP IT

Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

I know you're trying to set me up to say something else is long and I would never be that vulgar on social media

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 1d

I think the moral of this story is Never Stop Posting

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

I need everyone to understand that I don't actually fancy John Major, just John Major as portrayed by Jonny Lee Miller and as portrayed by Rob Palk

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

we've done it more than once, rob

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

he wanted to be my boyfriend as mr pastry

Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

nobody thought this

except me

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

IS IT

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

ok ok I take it back

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 1d

domino effect meme. Interacting erotically with a john major parody account > falling deeply in love

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Stefan Mohamed @stefmowords.bsky.social · 1d

I'm all for letting people enjoy things, I like plenty of trash myself, but the phrase "the THIRD Harry Potter Draco-Hermione friends-to-enemies fan fic to be turned into a bestselling novel in 2025" is violently disgusting

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 3d

losing steak, am I right

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 3d

I almost prefer Covid Stratus FXG to the ubiquity of trodden-on minced beef in a brioche bun drenched in hot honey