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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 5h

If you like audiobooks, The Far Edges of Known World now has its own landing page!

RBmedia | The Far Edges of the Known World

Listen to the audiobook The Far Edges of the Known World, written by Owen Rees, narrated by Gareth Armstrong.

rbmediaglobal.com

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François Dominic Laramée, PhD 🇨🇦 @fdlaramee.bsky.social · 1d

Today's loot is somewhat eclectic.

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@markwaddell.bsky.social
@badancient.bsky.social

The covers of four books: Enshittification by Cory Doctorow, Higher Magic by Courtney Floyd, Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World by Mark Waddell, and The Far Edges of the Known World by Owen Rees.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 1d

I just did an interview with a podcaster who also had adhd and it was rather liberating to just follow our tangents!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 2d

I was recently interviewed for the Tides of History podcast with @patrickwyman.bsky.social, which was great fun to do and times in nicely for the US release of my book: #ancientbluesky 🗃️🏺

wondery.com/shows/tides-...

Tides of History: S5 E148: Interview with Dr. Owen Rees (Book, The Far Edges of the Known World releases 9/30/25)

The ancient world was a lot bigger than Greece and Rome. Dr. Owen Rees joins me to discuss his new book on this broader conception of antiquity - The Far Edges of the Known World - and we traverse the...

wondery.com

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 2d

I was recently interviewed for the Tides of History podcast with @patrickwyman.bsky.social, which was great fun to do and times in nicely for the US release of my book: #ancientbluesky 🗃️🏺

wondery.com/shows/tides-...

Tides of History: S5 E148: Interview with Dr. Owen Rees (Book, The Far Edges of the Known World releases 9/30/25)

The ancient world was a lot bigger than Greece and Rome. Dr. Owen Rees joins me to discuss his new book on this broader conception of antiquity - The Far Edges of the Known World - and we traverse the...

wondery.com

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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!

joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

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…

joanneedge.co.uk

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 7d

The Far Edges of the Known World is now available in North America! If you like ancient history, global history, reading about different cultures, or just fancy an escape - give it a look.

The Far Edges of the Known World

A revisionist history of the ancient world that shifts our focus from Athens and Rome to the long-ignored societies on the borders., The Far Edges of the Known World, Life Beyond the Borders of Ancien...

wwnorton.com

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 6d

This month's ancient history roundup is live. I particularly enjoyed the ancient frog sculptures found in Peru!

Ancient History Roundup

Frogs, burials and bears, plus much more.

open.substack.com

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 6d

This month's ancient history roundup is live. I particularly enjoyed the ancient frog sculptures found in Peru!

Ancient History Roundup

Frogs, burials and bears, plus much more.

open.substack.com

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 6d

(22) Ancient History Roundup - by Owen Rees - Our Ancient World
owenrees.substack.com/p/ancient-hi...

Ancient History Roundup

Frogs, burials and bears, plus much more.

owenrees.substack.com

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 7d

The Far Edges of the Known World is now available in North America! If you like ancient history, global history, reading about different cultures, or just fancy an escape - give it a look.

The Far Edges of the Known World

A revisionist history of the ancient world that shifts our focus from Athens and Rome to the long-ignored societies on the borders., The Far Edges of the Known World, Life Beyond the Borders of Ancien...

wwnorton.com

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 7d

*theme of the day.

One day, I will post on here without a typo ... but today is not that day

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 7d

Up bright and early on on my way to Uni of Glasgow to give a paper. There of the day - why retrospective diagnosis is innately flawed. @hagenilda.bsky.social you will be proud.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 8d

ICYMI yesterday, this is my contribution to the @literacy-trust.bsky.social National Year of Reading. Loki's instructions on becoming a terrible reader. In the Galadriel sense of beautiful and terrible as the morning and the night all shall love you and despair. #Lokifesto #KidLitUK #Edusky

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 9d

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

A poster of a manifesto about reading, by Loki, with 6 points on reading "bad" books, short books, comics, audioooks, webcomics and fanfic, plus not finishing bad books cos life is too short.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks! I was very excited when it came through.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 9d

I had one big hope for my book and that was for it to be translated into Vietnamese (ancient Vietnam is the topic of one of the chapters) - today I have signed that deal! #tinyjoys

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 9d

This is my Lokifesto #KidsConf #UKkidlit #edusky lokibooks.com/lokifesto/

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 10d

It is going to be a good one - I can feel it in me bones.

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 10d

Oh good point ... I need to get better at this side of things

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 10d

Argh! Amazing!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 11d

Today was the first day, since my book came out, that I asked a book seller if they fancied having some copies signed. I have seen it in lots of shops but never had the courage to ask. Today I hoicked up my big boy pants and did it.

They did not say no, which was the fear!

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 11d

Today was the first day, since my book came out, that I asked a book seller if they fancied having some copies signed. I have seen it in lots of shops but never had the courage to ask. Today I hoicked up my big boy pants and did it.

They did not say no, which was the fear!

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 12d

“What makes a perfect monster?” The Borg Collective from Star Trek is my answer: “the ultimate terror they pose is that they monstrify those whom they assimilate.”

Check out my essay in @reactorsff.bsky.social for #psychology, cyborgs and more. 1/3

#sff #StarTrek #TNG #AI #histsci #histmed 🗃

“Resistance is futile.” Why Star Trek: TNG’s Borg Collective Is the Perfect Monster for Our Time - Reactor

35 years on, what can we learn from the Borg and "The Best of Both Worlds"?

reactormag.com

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Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social · 14d

First class of the Applied Humanities MA degree was yesterday. Our activity was to design an AI policy as a group for the degree - I wanted to get a feel for how students felt about it really, plus co-creation! But we never got to that, because they thought AI was unethical and replaced learning.

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