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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting gender balance there.

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 10h

This is what peak performance looks like.

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, indeed! A monumental achievement. She's a very good thing.

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 6d

0,75 Universitätsassistent:in Praedoc "Hochmittelalter" (Univ. Wien) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

0,75 Universitätsassistent:in Praedoc "Hochmittelalter" (Univ. Wien)

Als eine der größten Forschungseinrichtungen Europas bietet die Universität Wien einen ungewöhnlich breiten Fächerkanon und damit eine hervorragende Infrastruktur für geisteswissenschaftliche Forschun...

www.hsozkult.de

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Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · 7d

The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

ANT Homepage | ANT

www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 9d

#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.

Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.

Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust

Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 10d

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Are you passionate about early medieval Britain? Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing? If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

jobs.kent.ac.uk

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Ingram Braun @ingram-braun.net · 15d

#Stellenauschreibung: Die Stadt #Göttingen sucht einen Archäologen für die #Stadtarchäologie (offenbar Nachfolge Betty Arndt).
#Archäologie 🏺 @Archaeodons group
📷 Göttinger Marktplatz mit altem Rathaus, Gänseliesel-Brunnen und Fußgängerzone ( Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 2.5)

Archäolog:in | Stadt Göttingen

Online-Bewerbung

www.goettingen.de

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 16d

Quite. All you can do is play your hand and hope for the best.

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 16d

This is why I naturalized before having children here. ILR never felt truly safe. (Though I'd love to live in a world where it was!)

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 17d

Yes, and frankly what we do see looks very similar to what's going on elsewhere in Europe in that regard (Ireland, France, Netherlands, Germany).

Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 20d

The long arm of American Puritanism...

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 20d

Articles may be good, but pizza is better! (And certainly goes better with a beer.)

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 20d

The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.

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formlitchart.bsky.social @formlitchart.bsky.social · 23d

Grüße aus München: Der heutige Tag der MGH-Herbstakademie ist den frühmittelalterlichen Formelsammlungen gewidmet. Es unterrichten Horst Lößlein und Christoph Walther!
mgh.de/de/blog/post...

Eingangsportal der Monumenta Germaniae Historica in München

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Francesca Tinti @francescatinti.bsky.social · 24d

Very excited about this new project on early medieval correspondence starting in January 2026

Robert Gallagher @hwaetspur.bsky.social · 24d

Really grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my upcoming project on letter-writing in early medieval Britain. You can read about it in the current Leverhulme newsletter www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... Info on postdoc positions coming soon 🙂

Leverhulme Trust Newsletter – September 2025

Flipsnack is a digital catalog maker that makes it easy to create, publish and share html5 flipbooks. Upload a PDF or design from scratch flyers, magazines, books and more.

www.flipsnack.com

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Rory Naismith @rorynaismith.bsky.social · 27d

Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Offa

An authoritative biography of Offa of Mercia, revealing his importance as the king who stood at the turning point of Anglo-Saxon history Offa ruled the Merci...

yalebooks.yale.edu

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · Sep 9

To London, to the 29th annual @britishacademy.bsky.social Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium! #charterrific

Screenshot of the programme of the annual charters symposium.

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magistraetmater.bsky.social @magistraetmater.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hadn't realised that the Connecting People book is OA as a pdf - have grabbed it from trivent-publishing.eu/home/197-369....

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · Sep 4

The UK hasn't achieved a sustained period of net emigration since the 1970s. This is not a phenomenon associated with a successful country.

James Heale @jaheale.bsky.social · Sep 4

"Reversing recent low-skilled migration will likely mean a sustained period of net emigration. I would support that."

Punchy Robert Jenrick interview with my colleague Tim Shipman in this week's Spectator

www.spectator.co.uk/article/robe...

Robert Jenrick: ‘Asylum seekers should be detained in camps’

On a table in Robert Jenrick’s parliamentary office lies the first part of Ronald Hutton’s biography of Oliver Cromwell, a conventional MP who became radicalised by events and usurped a monarch. The s...

www.spectator.co.uk

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David Woodman @davidwoodman45.bsky.social · Sep 2

On publication day for The First King of England, enormous thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social and Doug Young of PEW Literary for making it possible

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · Aug 29

Please tell me you sing, 'let me see that O-o-ong!', as part of this.

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Dan Armstrong @historydan1066.bsky.social · Aug 29

1/20 A thread about the appearance of the ‘Papal Banner’ in episode seven of #KingandConqueror. In an article that was published in 2021 in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal, I expressed some scepticism about the veracity of William of Poitiers’ claim that the papacy sponsored the Norman...

Papal Banner depicted in the BBC series King and Conqueror

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · Aug 29

Do your students still know who Sisqo is?

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 25

It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July.

No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests

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