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Will Wyeth
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Archaeologist & historian (mainly castles). Curator of History @ English Heritage. (Mostly) Recovered Long Covid. Views mine, he/him.

Work stuff: https://linktr.ee/willwyeth; header: Sanam Khatibi.
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Angelic C15 portal for #ADoorAbleThursday from The Courtauld Gallery. An apparently frame-built door w ledges & studs as ornamentation. A pull-ring is visible on the middle ledge.

While the door is square-headed, the masonry doorway has a more ornate shouldered arch. The door swings away from us.
Photograph of a 15th-century image depicting The Annunciation in The Courtauld Gallery, London. The Label reads: Master of the Judgement of Paris (active around 1400-1450) The Annunciation Around 1430-40 Egg tempera and gold leaf on wood Although small in scale, this work is full of colour and drama. The angel Gabriel announces to the Virgin Mary, sitting in the courtyard of her house, that she is miraculously pregnant with the son of God. Nearby, the Holy Spirit appears as a dove. The rich composition and lively details encourage viewers to explore the scene and contemplate the importance of the event. Mark Gambier-Parry bequest, 1966 Zoomed-in image of the same item, focussing on an ajar door on the background.
January 22, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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goodlawproject.org
This is official Reform Party policy. 👇🏻
mrjamesob.bsky.social James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 1d
‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
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January 22, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 AM
willwyeth.bsky.social
From lunchtime wander.
Photograph of a rocky bay with sea water rushing in.
January 21, 2026 at 2:13 PM
willwyeth.bsky.social
First episode of #AKOTSK was great fun, and departure from Game of Thrones and HotD. Low key, slow, quiet. Looking forward to next one!
January 20, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
Written in 2022, revised in 2024, published in 2026!

Trill, S., Beattie, C. (2024). Alice Thornton. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/978-...

#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚
January 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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joeharleyhistory.bsky.social
Promo time.

My book 'At home with the poor' is now available in paperback! Plus all books on MUP are 40% off at the mo so you can get it for £15...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526194749/
Manchester University Press - At home with the poor
At home with the poor - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of At home with the poor by Joseph Harley
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January 15, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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kwilsonlee.bsky.social
The unapologetic Perpendicular of Burwell Church in Cambs on a glorious winter day. Built in 1460s prob under direction of Reginald of Ely - free due to hiatus in King's College Chapel works bc of the Wars of the Roses; the best feature is the wooden panels under roofs, carved like misericords.
January 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM
willwyeth.bsky.social
Fun new find: a 1549-50 list of repairs at Chester Castle records the name of the best-surviving tower (‘Julius Cesares Tower’) on site today. C19 records call it smthg similar.

I’d assumed the tower’s modern name, Agricola T, was a recent coining. The name’s actually over 450 yrs old!
Detailed view of TNA, E 314/66/25, with yellow highlight over word ‘Julius Cesares Tower.’ View of London, TNA, E 314/66/25: repairs to Chester Castle, 1549-50. Photograph of the north side of the inner ward at Chester Castle. On the right is a tall medieval gatehouse of red stone: the Agricola Tower.
January 17, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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ihr.bsky.social
Are you an early career researcher looking for research training in history and related disciplines? You might be eligible for an IHR bursary of up to £500 to help cover the cost of one of our fantastic short courses! Deadline for applications is 31 Jan 2026. www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...
Research Training and Short Courses
We deliver high-quality training programmes and unique learning opportunities to a wide community of historians of all career stages and historical interests.
www.history.ac.uk
January 14, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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rorynaismith.bsky.social
The wonderful @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social has a hugely interesting new article just out in Early Medieval England & its Neighbours, all about Alfred the Great's embassy to India - free to read here #India #AlfredtheGreat #medieval www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon Embassy to Southern India in the Ninth Century | Early Medieval England and its Neighbours | Cambridge Core
King Alfred and India: an Anglo-Saxon Embassy to Southern India in the Ninth Century - Volume 52
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January 14, 2026 at 10:03 AM
willwyeth.bsky.social
Post your least proper museum stuff, everyone!
Photograph of a recreated Viking sauna on an interpretation board in Orkney. A seated nude Viking man holds a drinking horn and looks towards the viewer. The overall impression is humorous.
January 13, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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bobmarshall.co.uk
Hi #PortfolioDay. 🖌️I'm an Architectural Illustrator from Edinburgh. I enjoy visually reconstructing old buildings and monuments using 3D models and digital paintings. My work is guided by archaeology, measured survey data, and collaboration with historians/archaeologists.

Website: bobmarshall.co.uk
ALT: A digital reconstruction of Bury St Edmunds Abbey showing work being completed on the Chapter House around 1220. A group of Benedictine monks inspects the progress of the workmen under the supervision of a master mason. B Marshall, C Lemos, S Brindle 2022. © English Heritage Trust / Historic England 2022. Contact Historic England Archives for licensing enquiries. A digital reconstruction view of the nave of Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island, as it might have looked in the early 1500s. The view looks from the nave towards the east end of the church. A group of Benedictine monks gather in front of the decorated rood screen and pulpitum. Large piers of decorative masonry support arcading, a clerestory and a rib-vaulted ceiling above. © English Heritage Trust / Historic England 2022. Contact Historic England Archives for licensing enquiries. ALT: A digital (3D) reconstruction of the interior of the nave of Glasgow Cathedral as it might have looked in the early fifteenth century. The view looks from the nave towards the east end and chancel of the church. The interior is shown richly embellished with brightly coloured pigments (polychromy) and fictive (false) ashlar masonry - a common decorative style throughout the Middle Ages. Chantry chapels with painted, portable altarpieces or triptychs, fill the bays between the piers of the nave. These chapels were either dedicated to a particular saint or to a wealthy benefactor. A decorated font with a cover or canopy is shown in the centre of the nave. A procession of church canons and choirboys approaches from a richly decorated rood screen and pulpitum. A gathering of layfolk and pilgrims watches on. Artist: Bob Marshall © Historic Environment Scotland (2019). A digital (3D) reconstruction of the nave of St Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, Co. Cork, as it may have looked in 1820. The nave and aisles are lined with box pews and galleries to accommodate more worshippers. The long objects on the floor in the centre of the nave are radiators and were part of the church's earliest central heating system. A man and woman dressed in early nineteenth-century clothing are talking to each other in the center of the image. © Bob Marshall / Cork County Council / Scroope Design (Ireland) 2020
January 13, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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susannaheckersley.bsky.social
I'm very happy to see this #openaccess paper out to start off 2026! It was mostly written almost two years ago, when I was reflecting on 20 years of research and teaching in Museum Studies in the UK, but also increasingly facing questions from academics...
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The value of the ‘undisciplined’: Critical Museum Studies
This paper explores the discipline of Museum Studies considering its relationship to History. It addresses key differences between understandings of academic Museum Studies internationally, its dis...
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January 12, 2026 at 7:25 AM
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catrees.bsky.social
An absolute masterpiece in research by Tess using FOI requests to piece together the costs of 'rewards' paid to detectorists and the sheer volume of material lost and leaving the country because museums don't have the funds to buy. Feels like a massive kick in the teeth given all the heritage cuts
January 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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davidandress.bsky.social
The evidence is also clear that “elite” universities do not offer objectively better education. There is no Secret Extra Learning obtained there. Just a route into other kinds of elite that is closed, by definition, to everyone else.
wokestudies.bsky.social Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 15d
"The evidence is clear: when talented students who have faced greater barriers gain access to elite universities, they flourish precisely because opportunity, not ability, was the binding constraint."
Prof Lee Elliot Major, University of Exeter
#highered #edchat
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Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment
Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students
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January 8, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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heritagecommunity.bsky.social
This is staggering...... its an eye watering £11.739.00 a day folks ! .... "A day"
This needs looking at, our heritage is becoming increasingly financial
January 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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CFP | Empires and War
Royal Military College of Canada & University College Dublin
📍 Newman House, UCD | 🗓️ 17–18 September 2026

Papers invited on imperial war from Antiquity onwards. Panel proposals welcome.

📝 Deadline: 15 March 2026
📩 Submissions to: [email protected]

Details below ⬇️
January 5, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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seanmadd.bsky.social
For a lot of people, particularly in the global south, the international rules-based order was obviously a facade but such open, proud, outright criminality, hooliganism, and banditry almost defies analysis. It's hard to find the words but we really do need to.
January 3, 2026 at 5:12 PM
willwyeth.bsky.social
Anyone else see a dolphin in the middle cloud? #pareidolia
willwyeth.bsky.social Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 21d
Went for a walk in the cold this afternoon; it was chilly but it brings out the best landscape!
Photograph of a choppy bay, blue sky and whispy white clouds.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 AM
willwyeth.bsky.social
Went for a walk in the cold this afternoon; it was chilly but it brings out the best landscape!
Photograph of a choppy bay, blue sky and whispy white clouds.
January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
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marcusrediker.bsky.social
I’ve finally decided that my next book will be “How to Write History from Below” – one part on the tradition of historical writing, one part memoir, one part how-to-do-it, and one part an intervention in the “history wars.” Thanks to all of you for your encouragement on this topic over the years.
January 1, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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I've published something (finally)! It's been in my head for a long time. Relieved to have it out in the wild. On to the next thing. #medievalwales #pottery

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Material Connections in Medieval Lordly Households. New Ceramic Evidence from South-Eastern Wales
THIS PAPER DISCUSSES MATERIAL EVIDENCE for 13th-century lordly communities using four zoomorphic jugs depicting rams found from manor and castle sites in Glamorgan, South-East Wales. The paper also...
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January 1, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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seanmadd.bsky.social
If the leader of the Fabians, a purportedly leftist think tank, can't have a serious conversation about the impact of billionaires, what does that tell us?
goodlawproject.org Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 23d
Amazing interview attacking Polanski as a "fantasist" "selling unicorns".

But Polanski has not said "squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need.” He has simply argued, as many tax economists do, for a wealth tax.

So who is the fantasist?
A wealth tax – an annual levy on the assets of the super-rich, which Polanski strongly backs – “won’t solve the kind of fiscal challenge that we face,” Dromey says. “We won’t be able to fund the public services that we need just by a wealth tax that affects the top 0.1% of the population.” He adds: “The idea that squeezing a tiny elite of billionaires will pay for everything that we want and everything that we need is fantasy and we do need to expose that.”
December 31, 2025 at 10:08 AM