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Klaus Oschema @kpo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Tari, tara, die neue #Francia ist da! Am @dhi-paris.fr freuen wir uns über den neuen Look... Und: Mit dieser Ausgabe sind die Beiträge auch sofort #OA online verfügbar (kommt in wenigen Tagen) 😇 Viel Spass bei der Lektüre! #franco-allemand #medievalsky #history

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History Today @historytoday.com · 26/08/2026

A sophisticated ninth-century forgery became a core part of Church law. Its influence endured for centuries – even after its deceit was accepted. 🔒 Edward Roberts’ new article is now in the archive buff.ly/EjSgF5C

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The Medieval Forgery at the Heart of the Church

An audacious forgery in the ninth century helped transform the papacy and the medieval Church. Its influence persists today.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of the earliest castles in England, the motte at Ewyas Harold was first built by Osbern Pentecost, a Norman companion of Edward the Confessor in 1041. The ASC E text states that in 1052, upon the return of the exiled Godwin family, many Normans fled London for Pentecost’s castle. #MedievalSky

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Embrace historia @embracehistoria.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Because the middle ages are fucking cool.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

So I have reached Time Regained all for nothing:

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Radcliffe and Maconi seem very peppy this morning, now that they're Prime Minister.

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Distribution map of 3,300 oaks in England with a girth greater than 6 metres The UK has more ancient oaks than all other EU countries combined There are around 170 million oaks with almost 1 million in London alone Map: Justin Moat, GIS Unit, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

If you go back to the original post, this is precisely what the author did.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

It is surely not because the ability to read (some of) them pertained only to particular groups before that we should lock the door now.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

For me there's a huge missed potential missed opportunity here. Texts in languages which were only available with difficulty can now be translated rapidly (with faults,for sure) into a whole range of world languages.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I'd go further. It's not desirable either. Given the huge increase in the quality of automatic translation (which is kind of the mother and father of AI) there is now little excuse to just read stuff in one or two languages.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Are we also seriously saying that it is better not to consult a certain corpus at all than to use AI automatic translation?

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Particularly as there is some excellent AI for writing code.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Links being what they are: the poem is to the tune of "Just You Wait Henry Higgins" from My Fair Lady. If you listen to that first then read the poem, everything becomes clear.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Sometimes a joke takes a bit of time to sink in. I just got this one, made by Sue Towsend in 1984 and first read by me aged 9 in 1985. Compare and contrast. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pwNK...

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I think our expectations should be at a very controlled level.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Err... John Lee Miller? In what role I wonder.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

This kind of technique is good for search, but not accurate enough for a full transcription.

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Felipe Gaona @felipegaonar.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

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Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally

A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

In fact the most useful and effective bits of "AI" are automatic translation and search. As you would suspect given its origins in the application of hard core computing power (graphics processors) to old school natural language processing techniques (neural networks, but not just that).

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Right, so that makes 1hr 33m per portfolio. Without sleeping or eating, or anything else, obvs. Erm... sue the university for cruel and unusual punishment?

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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

A really exciting slate of papers for this year's Late Medieval France and Burgundy Seminar! If anyone will be in Durham and wants in (or maybe even wants to attend online, I don't know?), drop me a line and I can share details!

Saturday 13 December
9:00-9:30 – Meet at The Department of History, 43 North Bailey
9:30-10:30 – Session 4: Noblewomen and Conflict
‘Gendering Political Allegiance in Late-Medieval Gascony’ – Katy Bennett (York)
‘Debates over Female Authority during the Guerre Folle in France, c.1485-88’ – Andrew D. M. Green (Chichester)
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-11:45 – Session 5: Old and New Approaches to Texts (i)
Introduction – Graeme Small (Durham)
‘Innovative Middle Ages: Digital Humanities and Medieval Italian Studies (and Franco-Burgundian material)’ – Lorenzo Dell'Oso (Durham)
Responses and Roundtable Discussion
11:45-12:00 – Break
12:00-13:00 – Session 6: Old and New Approaches to Texts (ii)
‘Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : Tradition et Innovation depuis la Cour de Bourgogne jusqu’aux Presses Typographiques’ – Geoffrey Roger (U.L.I. Paris, online)
‘Upside-down Stemmatology: The Peace of Tournai (1385) and the Shape of the Manuscript Tradition of Froissart’s Chroniques’ – Godfried Croenen (Antwerp) & Natasha Romanova (Caen)
13:00-13:30 – Conference End and Discussion of Next Steps (for anyone interested)

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Still, all in a good cause. If not one with good historical foundations. Rumpole of the Bailey would be proud.

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I like the footing. "Some academics". Good example for somebody though of the garbling of academic research (assuming they're thinking of something in particular) to support vague present-day normative assertions.

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

“Please sit down before you read the next sentence. The BBC Written Archives Centre has no catalogue of its holdings available to the public…Earlier this year, the BBC suddenly announced that it was altering its archival access policy. Enquiries from the general public are now ignored.” 🗃️

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Who controls the past

The BBC is restricting access to its archives

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Ghoul-in’ Dickey @colindickey.com · 26/11/2025

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Well, at least it's only 100km from Rome. Any idea of energy efficiency?

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

If you're looking for a past or present castle/fortification at a known place in France it's perhaps just as easy to use the layered maps on the Geoportail website (including Cassini, but also military maps of C19, 1950s aerial photos) www.geoportail.gouv.fr/donnees/cart...

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Géoportail

Accédez à l'information géographique de référence : cartes, photographies aériennes, données géographiques

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Listen now: Who Owns The Ground Beneath Our Feet? 🔈 bureauoflostculture.podbean.com/e/who-owns-t... 📚 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A delightful morning taking @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social students around the National Museum of Scotland, including this, the earliest Scottish tartan (!)

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Olive Morris's former squat and centre for the Brixton Ad-Hoc Committee against Police Repression. £1.4m themodernhouse.com/sales-list/t... www.decolonisingthearchive.com/remembering-...

"Original features have been reinstated, including floorboards, an ornate ceiling rose, cornicing, and a Victorian fireplace
This exceptional four-bedroom house can be found on Talma Road, a residential street lined with Victorian townhouses near Brixton Station. The house, which has a large private garden, has been extensively remodelled and extended; the volume-enhancing design places a strong emphasis on light and the footprint of the house now extends to just over 1,500 sq ft internally
The Building
During the 1970s, the house was home - for a time - to activist Olive Morris, a prominent community leader in feminist, Black nationalist, and squatter's rights campaigns. Talma Road was one of several Brixton residences she occupied during her activism, and her legacy is now formally recognised with an English Heritage Blue Plaque on the façade, a quiet but powerful marker of the building's place in local and political history.
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Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Turn on the caps? 100% yes, for the benefit of everyone at every level of UK higher education’s system

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Claire Hélie @clairehelie.cpesr.fr · 23/10/2025

🥳🥳🥳 Hâte de voir ce petit "passeport vers un territoire de femmes étrange et nouveau" entre toutes les mains 🫶🫶🫶 @saesfrance.org

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Sébastien Landrieux @landrieuxsbast1.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Après plusieurs années de recherche, elle est enfin là.

Manuscrit de thèse en histoire : Des "Chevaliers de la Lune" au "Gay Tapant" ? : une histoire des homosexualités masculines dans le département du Nord (France, 1891-1987)

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Claire Hélie @clairehelie.cpesr.fr · 16/10/2025

C'est demain. On vous attend (avec des cookie!)

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Hurrah! My new book, Europe in the Eleventh Century: Beyond Revolution and Reform is officially published today by Oxford University Press. 1/5 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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IRHiS–UMR 8529 (ULille, CNRS) @irhisulille.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

1ere conférence d’un cycle de 4 organisé par la Mairie de Lille Ici Pauline Triplet Doctorante IRHiS sur un contrat CIFRE entre l’ULille/IRHiS et la mairie de Lille

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Chris Fletcher @chrisfletcher.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

A packed programme for this year's seminar in English for doctoral students at Lille. It's in hybrid form, so if you're interested in taking part, ask me for a Zoom link. irhis.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...

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nora bouazzouni @nora.bz · 24/09/2025

📚 🗣️ Vous souhaitez inviter un·e auteur·ice pour une rencontre, dédicace ou table ronde ? ✅ Voici une checklist (non exhaustive), pour faire ça bien : www.canva.com/design/DAGz4... 🔁 Partagez, imprimez – et n'oubliez pas : auteur·ice, c'est notre métier, pas un hobby.

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