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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · 20d

Reminder: the deadline for proposals for the panels @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social and I are running on high medieval political culture is next Tuesday! Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions

Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Sep 8

Delighted to announce that Krisztina Ilko and I are organising a set of panels for next year's IMC as a continuation of the some of the themes of the Bonn workshop back in January, this time focusing on chronological shifts in high medieval political culture. Details below and do feel free to share!

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 29d

This is basically the range of the emotions that you experience if you catch a train from Cologne to Berlin. You will live all of this in the space of four hours.

Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 29d

Anything in the middle?

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Sep 8

Delighted to announce that Krisztina Ilko and I are organising a set of panels for next year's IMC as a continuation of the some of the themes of the Bonn workshop back in January, this time focusing on chronological shifts in high medieval political culture. Details below and do feel free to share!

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Aug 14

This looks fantastic - immediate Heimweh attack

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Jun 30

Shall be celebrating the news at Leeds next week (hopefully this time without breaking a foot...)

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Jun 30

Been meaning to post this for a while but, as some of you already know, I heard in May that I was successful in applying for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Gerda Henkel Stiftung. After what had been a very difficult year, I am enormously grateful to the Stiftung for their support

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · Jun 27

I’m not saying this is a cover up for Otto I coming back from the dead. I’m just saying that if the Holy Lance in Vienna goes missing we’ll know why.

Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social · Jun 25

Otto the Great’s Tomb Opened for Investigation and Conservation Work www.medievalists.net/2025/06/otto... #Medieval #archaeology #Ottonians #Germany

Otto the Great’s Tomb Opened for Investigation and Conservation Work - Medievalists.net

The tomb of Otto the Great has been opened in Magdeburg Cathedral. Conservators discovered human remains, medieval textiles, and grave goods as part of a major conservation project to save the…

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Jun 27

In the run up to Leeds, I am indeed feeling quite chicken-like today

(from Carlo Ginzburg's 'Our Words, and Theirs A Reflection on the Historian’s Craft, Today')

Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Jun 18

From Björn Weiler's cousin Jens. Do feel free to share the photos with those who will wish to see them.

The phrase we used was a favourite one of Matthew Paris as Björn had examined in some detail. We hope he would have found it fitting.

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · Jun 6

Stolen!

Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 16

Does anyone happen to have a pdf. of Nigel L. Ramsay and Margaret Sparks' 'The cult of St. Dunstan at Christ Church, Canterbury' in St. Dunstan. His Life, Times and Cult pp. 311-323? Would be very grateful for a copy!

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · May 15

Very excited to be involved with this alongside my Exeter colleagues!

Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · May 15

Congratulations to Prof Helen Fulton, Prof Ad Putter & Dr Anna Havinga who have received a GW4 Generator grant! 🥳

Their project, Medieval Studies Mobilising Digital Humanities, will develop new methodologies for research in medieval studies using emerging technologies

Read more 👉 bit.ly/44DUICr

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 14

Absolute genius www.youtube.com/watch?v=28vZ...

every episode of doctor who described by the thick of it

YouTube video by olgeorti

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 12

Your 'pro-growth' government deliberately designing policy to put off international students from studying in the UK.

As usual these days when Labour announces a new white paper, I am reminded of that Malcolm Tucker line.

'Think the unthinkable?! You can't even cope with thinking the thinkable!'

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · May 11

There is something bordering on abusive in the way ministers today are talking about public services – Jacqui Smith on universities, and Yvette Cooper on care homes.

They are blaming institutions for decisions forced on them by government, without admitting they or changing anything.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · May 12

There are plenty of proposals out there for a system which could secure broad consent, based on the country's needs and vulnerabilities on the one hand and the dignity of immigrants on the other. A government with a big majority, four years out from an election, could pursue that kind of plan.

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 9

Would any colleagues happen to have access to 2022 issue of the Zeitschrift für bayerische Landesgeschichte, specifically 'Der deutsche Episkopat im Alexandrinischen Schisma'
Boshof, Egon. (2022), pp. 159-196. The online availability (and Bonn's physical copies) don't include the last five years...

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 9

typical sort of thing she says:

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 9

From a show called Keeping Up Appearances www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LwX... basically a sitcom after the Thatcher years about a 'social climber' called Hyacinth Bucket ( who always insists her surname is pronounced Bouquet). Brilliant satire about middle-class snobbishness. Really recommend

Keeping Up Appearances - Singing for Emmet - S02 E07

YouTube video by Qtips videos

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 9

And down the rabbithole

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 9

A quote direct from Thomas Becket if ever I've seen one

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 9

Permit me Lord to read about this cardinal at least once without immediately thinking of...

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Ryan Kemp @ryan1992reading.bsky.social · May 8

Admonitio

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · May 8

Fantastic news.

Christopher Smith @christophersmith.bsky.social · May 8

I am delighted that AHRC and DFG have renewed our prestigious partnership.

This symbolises the determination of our countries to stand side by side in facing the future, committed to peace, prosperity & the flourishing of all humanity

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AHRC and German Research Foundation renew research partnership

AHRC and DFG have extended their bilateral funding agreement for a further five rounds.

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · May 8

Today marks 80 years since the end of the Second World War in Europe. Earlier this year at the GHIL, Lucy Noakes (@universityofessex.bsky.social / @royalhistsoc.org) and Frank Trentmann (@bbkhistorical.bsky.social) reflected on how the war has fundamentally shaped Germany and Britain after 1945.
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