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Roger Luckhurst @theprofrog.bsky.social · 8d

Publication day is October 2nd tomorrow. Launch tonight for the first day of the London Month of the Dead at Highgate Cemetery!

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 8d

Pinch, punch, it's the first of the month. And here's your medieval Labour of the Month, courtesy of a 13th century psalter:

Ennius @enniusredloeb.bsky.social · 9d

Treading grapes is thirsty work in October.
#MedievalCalendar
Bodleian Library MS. Add. A. 46; Calendar from a Psalter; 13th century, third quarter: f.5v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 8d

nah

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

It’s time to prepare for AI personhood | Jacy Reese Anthis

Technological advances will bring social upheaval. How will we treat digital minds, and how will they treat us?

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 9d

Fantastic piece on a fascinating aspect of early Irish law, by my former PhD student and @ceilteachomn.bsky.social graduate, Dr Viktoriia Krivoshchekova, who is now a postdoc at @scs-dias.bsky.social

#MedievalSky

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

How to get away with murder in medieval Ireland

Duinetháide murders, where the killer didn't leave a trace or a body, carry all the intrigue of a classic murder mystery

www.rte.ie

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Dr Sarah McKeagney @mckeagns.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks Eric ☺️

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JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

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Dr Sarah McKeagney @mckeagns.bsky.social · 9d

Oh hiya! Looking forward to spending the year writing about church courts, litigation and debt 🫡🎉

HRC York @hrcyork.bsky.social · 9d

Continuing to introduce our new HRC Postdoctoral Fellows! Today we are welcoming Sarah McKeagney 🎉 Sarah is a late-medieval social historian focusing on law and the courts in 15th century England. Sarah's thesis focused on breach of faith and perjury litigation in late medieval England.

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 10d

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800

ies.sas.ac.uk

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 10d

The quickest way to finish an article is to start it. It also helps if you can stay away from social media, tv and the internet. And your cell phone. And other people. You should also fight urges to clean and organise spaces, and to cook big meals.

In other words, it’s difficult to finish articles.

A monk is seated, working on a manuscript. He is writing in a book and the writing appears to be horizontal lines.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 13d

This is a problem.

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13d

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 14d

Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID

www.independent.co.uk

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14d

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

news.harvard.edu

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 15d

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖

Now available online! 👇📻

newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...

@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

The front cover of the book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London' - it has a red from cover and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut.

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Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social · 15d

Re last repost about teaching women's history in UK schools, it's extra frustrating because there are resources out there to tell much more interesting stories within the curriculum.

Full disclosure, I wrote this one: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/re...

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Esther Liberman Cuenca @estherlcuenca.bsky.social · 15d

Also, my monograph 'The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England' is about 50% off now, for algorithmically mysterious reasons. www.amazon.com/Making-Custo...

The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England

The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England [Cuenca, Esther Liberman] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Making of Urban Customary Law in Medieval and Reformation England

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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 17d

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

#earlymodern #economic #history

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

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Dr Sarah McKeagney @mckeagns.bsky.social · 17d

A highlight of this summer 🫡

Yorkist History Trust @yorkisthistory.bsky.social · 21d

Last month, the Trust had the privilege of offering scholarships to five PGRs and ECRs to attend the Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium. Each YHT Scholar has shared their thoughts on the experience on our #blog, which you can read here: yorkisthistorytrust.org/2025/09/18/y... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

YHT Scholars at the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium

The Trust On…YHT Scholars at the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium PGR/ECR presenters at the 2025 Harlaxton Medieval Symposium, including the five YHT scholars (courtesy of Ana Roda Sanchez) …

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 21d

Hug your parents, y'all, if they are still in your lives. Time goes quickly, health is fragile, and every scare is a real scare.

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Dr Sarah McKeagney @mckeagns.bsky.social · 27d

Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 28d

Want a quick way to find over 1,500 sole female plaintiffs bringing cases to Requests in the 16th Century? Just search REQ 2 for "SFP". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...

Search results: Sfp | The National Archives

The official archive of the UK government. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone...

discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social · 29d

Does anyone know of any (UK-based) ECRs in geography, history & archaeology working on the Little Ice Age? I'm looking for collaborators for a potential workshop!

@eseh.bsky.social @northernenvhistory.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @carsoncenter.bsky.social @greenhouseuis.net

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Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · 29d

You still have time #medievalsky to submit to the coolest sessions at Leeds ! 👇

Dr Basil Arnould Price @basilaprice.bsky.social · Aug 30

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER!
Please consider submitting an abstract to Daniel Reeve and I's proposed session(s) "Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" for @imc-leeds.bsky.social (6-9 July 2026). Full CFP below and accessibly HERE: tinyurl.com/BT-IMC.

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Dr Sarah McKeagney @mckeagns.bsky.social · Sep 9

Exactly 😂

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Hannah Armstrong @hjparmstrong.bsky.social · Sep 8

Finally caught up with the BBC's King and Conqueror series 👑🗡️. If you were interested in why shows and films set in the Middle Ages are so often filmed in Iceland, you might consider reading my chapter which touches on this in International Medievalisms (2023): www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

‘The Northland of Old’: The Use and ‘Misuse’ of (Medieval) Iceland (Chapter 6) - International Medievalisms

International Medievalisms - February 2023

www.cambridge.org

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Sep 4

I found a Shakespeare record. I'm trying to be cool about it (but it is pretty exciting). www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/s...

Shakespeare family will found by historian - The National Archives

Red sealing wax seal and string on 1642 parchment will of Thomas Nash

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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