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Andrew Ayton
@andrewayton.bsky.social
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Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · Jun 26
This is a splendid resource: just played Moses Finley. An exile from the US, interesting just at the moment.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Jun 26
We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
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jembenham.bsky.social @jembenham.bsky.social · 15h
Fantastic celebration of @gawainsmum.bsky.social festschrift. Lovely to see so many colleagues and students current and past, which speaks to Helen's contribution as a scholar, colleague, and friend. @webstermedieval.bsky.social
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
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Stef Espeel @stefespeel.bsky.social · 2d
New book publication ❗ 📖

Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique.

It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿

#medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges

For the contents, see below 👇
Prices and Crises
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Jo (unfunded hobbyist) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 4d
#MedievalSky #EarlyModernists you may not be aware that I offer several services: transcription (no hand too tricky), archival visits and more. I’m happiest in the period 1200-1700 but will consider anything. Get in touch via my website!

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Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 5d
A short section of the late 3rd century AD stone wall encircling the #Roman Town of CORINIVM DOBVNNORVM (Cirencester) with projecting polygonal tower

Originally extending for 2 miles (3.2 km), enclosing an area of 240 acres (97 ha), this is the only bit exposed today

📷 Oct 2025

#RomanSiteSaturday
Lower courses of stone built wall with foundations of projecting tower on the right and internal square tower to the left. Surrounded by grass. Trees in the background Squared facing stones of a Roman wall with rubble core exposed. Grass in foreground, trees and sky behind Interpretation board set up to explain the Roman walls of Cirencester
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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 6d
It is with a heart full of emotion that I have to announce that my good friend the historian GILLIAN TINDALL died on Wednesday aged 86. In February, Gillian asked me to publish her final work, JOURNAL OF A MAN UNKNOWN, which comes out on 6th November. spitalfieldslife.bigcartel.com
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 5d
Fascinating piece - includes link to OA article in Int J of Nautical Archaeology. #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 5d
Medieval Warship Reveals Secrets of Shipboard Artillery www.medievalists.net/2025/08/medi... #navalhistory
Medieval Warship Reveals Secrets of Shipboard Artillery - Medievalists.net
New research on the medieval warship Gribshunden reveals its powerful artillery, offering insights into naval technology at the dawn of exploration.
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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 5d
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 5d
You beat me to it, Rob; read it again earlier this year with great pleasure.
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 6d
Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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Nic Morton @nicmorton.bsky.social · 7d
Great article on the latest addition to the series "Global Histories before Globalisation" which I co-edit for @routledgehistory.bsky.social with Kristin Skottki.

The book is: Warfare in the Global Middle Ages
Authors: David S. Bachrach and Bernard S. Bachrach

www.medievalists.net/2025/09/writ...
Writing a World History of Warfare - Medievalists.net
A behind-the-scenes look at writing Warfare in the Global Middle Ages by one of its co-authors.
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romanfindsgroup.bsky.social @romanfindsgroup.bsky.social · 7d
New Book Alert: A discussion of Roman Militaria from the South East of England. What can Roman military finds tell us about the actions of the Roman army in the 'civil zone' of Roman Britain. www.barpublishing.com/book/britann...

#Roman #RomanBritian #RomanArmy #Archaeology
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 8d
Dept of History, University of Liverpool - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships

Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences | University of Liverpool
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships application support.
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 8d
I think it was the incidental music that most impressed when rewatching Captain Scarlet recently, including imaginative reworking of a four-note leitmotif, recalling the name of the eponymous hero. Yes, I recall the Guernsey story from @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social 'Sound of Cinema' episode on Gray.
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 8d
Barry Gray really was a fine composer in this genre. That chord sequence! Though I have to say my personal favourite of these Gerry Anderson series is Captain Scarlet, which also has wonderful music.
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 8d
I would say it was Michael Wood who first brought Athelstan to the attention of a general audience - with his TV programme, broadcast about 45 years ago.
www.imdb.com/title/tt1340...
"In Search of the Dark Ages" In Search of Athelstan (TV Episode 1981) ⭐ 8.5 | Documentary, Biography, History
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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 8d
We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 9d
RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians
Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS
The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 9d
It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)
photo of two book covers, one called "Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany", and one called "Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership: Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries", both by Erika Graham-Goering. Princely Power has a green cover with a picture of a medieval document and green wax seal, while Gendered Reputations has a grey cover with a medieval drawing of a crowd of people raising their hands to a man and woman couple.
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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · 9d
Call for applications! 📣

The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 9d
A misty, dew drenched morning: 8.45 @Shugborough.
Middle distance: Hadrian’s arch (right) and a tree (left) stand out, but beyond is shrouded in mist. Sunny, dewy-grassed foreground. Blue sky. Still.
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 10d
The Caerleon Roman fortress is very impressive: ampitheatre, baths and barracks. Family outing.
The grassy area of the excavated amphitheatre at Caerleon on a sunny day. The swimming bath in the the excavated baths; now enclosed and roofed. The excavated foundations of the barracks of II legion fortress at Caerleon. Pretty unique apparently. Me and family ambling; wife took photo.
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Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social · 10d
A day late for #PostboxSaturday - but couldn’t walk past this VR in Caerleon without taking a snap.
Red VR pillar box, with nicely decorated top, sited on the pavement in front of a low brick wall with iron railings.
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Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · 11d
New Medieval Books: Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy, edited by @medievaldaniel.bsky.social and John Hosler published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/09/new-... #militaryhistory #medievalmilitaryhistory
New Medieval Books: Routledge Handbook of Medieval Military Strategy - Medievalists.net
This collection of 31 essays sheds light on the strategies and tactics of a wide range of medieval states and kingdoms. As a truly global history, it brings attention to subjects often overlooked by…
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 13d
What’s a Text Manuscript? Les Enluminures is an art gallery selling illuminated manuscripts. But the majority of medieval miss don’t have much illumination! Yet they're important historical artifacts and so Text Manuscripts was founded to specialize in these less-arty books.
Original Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts Books of Hours and Miniatures from the Middle Ages and Renaissance for sale | Les Enluminures
Leading antique dealer, Les Enluminures offers for sale and buys original illuminated manuscripts illuminated manuscripts leaves books of hours rare books miniatures gold rings and works of art from t...
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