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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 · 21m

losing steak, am I right

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 22m

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

Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 26m

there's a smash burger epidemic in York and it's now the only burger available

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 32m

he was quite a charismatic guy, it's a real shame nobody thought to film him when he was alive

The Guardian headline: Robin Williams' daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: 'stop doing this to him'

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

Okay this is a good point because I actually loved the mill on the floss (as much as middlemarch?) and that has loads of childhood stuff but it's not either in a country house or a boarding school so doesn't feel irritating in the same way

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

All children do, that's our tragedy

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

All I'm saying is Somerset Maugham could have cut out all the poor-little-clubfooted-boy-at school stuff and Of Human Bondage would have lost nothing. He also could have cut out that long bit where he tried and failed to be an accountant (?)

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

Okay thank god because I'm on chapter two and I'm not sure how much longer I can abide little Polly saying her prayers for papa

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

Anyway I just started reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte. Can anyone give me a heads up on childhood background to proper novel ratio?

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

I just want to know how much of it is a proper novel with adults in it and how much of it is a prissy little child asking to sit on papa's knee or being verbally abused by the cook etc

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

Every nineteenth-century novel should have a label on the back warning the reader what percentage of the narrative is set when the protagonist is a child in either a country house or boarding school

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

sometimes my partner and I text each other from different rooms and I say something funny and he types 'hahahahaha' but the house is silent

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 15d

Sorry I'm going i promise

Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 15d

me and who

two mice from brambly hedge leaving a tree stump cottage

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 15d

Having a little autumnal social media break in an attempt to achieve whatever this is

Mice from brambly hedge sitting by an open fire

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

Well, he goes real slow with the hammer down
He’s the country-fried president endorsed by a clown!

Bolsonaro! Bolsonaro

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

I thought this was the prince of wales for a second I need to go to bed

Rachel Bitecofer @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social · 16d

“What do YOU HAVE? You have NOTHING, you are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are hatred, YOU ARE NOTHING. You can build nothing, produce nothing, create nothing."

Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

As long as I think one person will probably understand my shit joke I will post it

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

You got me a bath bomb? Didn’t one of those kill Marat?

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

In my house we just call it the toilet

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

‘The internet was better when it was on a computer in a designated room and not in our pockets’, we all post, from our phones, that we purchased for significant money and use for hours every day

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 18d

It’s a good day to delete your account on academia dot edu

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

Look at all those schickens

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

What up I’m Jared I’m 19 and I never fucking learned how to read

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 17d

Short form video is ideal for jokes but terrible for conveying nuanced information. If you learned something from tiktok there’s an equal or larger chance that it was misinformation.

Bring back vine, basically.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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