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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 1h

Just got this to review - yet another history of fairies, just published 🧚‍♀️

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 1h

After three brilliant years, @beckierutherford.bsky.social's fellowship is coming to an end. A historian of health, gender, and activism in modern Britain, Beckie has edited a selection of incredible articles focused on the experiences and ideas of disabled people.

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Radical Object: The Radar Key

The Radar Key is a small but crucial part of the history of disabled people demanding rights and independence in modern Britain. Kirstie Stage explores the little-known history of this radical object.

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National Trust Archaeology @nattrustarch.bsky.social · 1h

Last week we shared a post on archaeological archives, but did you know there’s a whole online catalogue you can explore? National Trust Collections provides opportunities to search the over 1.1 million artefacts in our care, whether by property, category, or date. Perfect for #FindsFriday!

The homepage of the National Trust Collections website, with a search bar and the background of a box decorated with a range of people in raised embroidery dating to 1671 from Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 23h

Visit Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, a free exhibition by the National Library of Ireland, located at the Bank of Ireland Cultural and Heritage Centre, Westmoreland Street, Dublin. 🏛️ Open Mon-Sat: 10am-4pm Plan your visit: ow.ly/kmLB50ZUV2P

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

From 18 October there will be a new exhibition at the Museum of Cambridge devoted to folklore (and supported, among others, by the @folkloresociety.bsky.social)

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Daily bunny no.3463 is going to fix the place up

Two bunnies go through the ruins of a small stone house of sometime. The building is ruined and has no roof. One bunny looks through the top window, assessing the damages.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This Thursday 15.00-16.30GMT I’ll be joining a wider group of castle interpreters to exchange ideas and find common causes. We’re being hosted by the Castelo de São Jorge in Lisbon 🇵🇹. The webinar is free and open to all; please DM me if you’d like the URL to register 😊

Screengrab of a digital poster advertising the ‘Meeting Castles’ webinar.

Contact me for more information!

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can currently download my Norman Conquest book for 99p. www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...

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Andy Clark of the living dead @andycruns.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It really is remarkable just how many of the world issues could be significantly reduced by essentially limitless renewable energy and therefor all the more infuriating that the assholes in charge have decided to spend the money on evil fucking clippy instead

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Karl Bell @karlbell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It is World Maritime Day, so here's a timely reminder of The Perilous Deep: A Supernatural History of the Atlantic @reaktionbooks.bsky.social 'Bell ... brings exemplary scholarship as well as storytelling flair to the lightless depths of the “supernatural and monstrous Atlantic”.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Dr Duncan Berryman @dberryman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Hard to come to terms with the loss of my good friend @justrena.bsky.social She was an amazing woman and I’ll greatly miss her wit and intellect. A massive loss to the archaeological community and @ulster-archaeology.bsky.social especially

Rena Maguire giving a lecture about her research into Iron Age metal work

Rena Maguire looking exceptionally excited while doing some archaeological outreach, something she loved doing

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.

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Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Do I look old to you?” Well, yeah you do, because you’re well over 850 years old. North-east doorway of the cellar at Byland Abbey, with primary-phase iron pintles and a drawbar slot. #ADoorAbleThursday

Photograph of the north jamb of the north-east cellar door at Byland Abbey in Yorkshire.

Photograph of the north jamb’s weathered upper pintle, nearly sandwiched between courses of facing masonry. A grey material resting above its top side in the jamb may be lead.

Photograph of the lower pintle, of similar composition.

Photograph of the south jamb, showing a dressed drawbar slot.

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026

We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵

We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.

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Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

OCTOBER LECTURE: History in Our Bones: Uncovering Stories of Disability Through Time Through Pictish case studies, discover a project which is restoring disabled people as participants in the social worlds of the past at this free hybrid event on 15 October: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-in...

Facial reconstruction of a man with a beard and a large bump on his face; overlaid text reads: October lecture

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I love this painting my mum, Jo, inspired by a cottage I used to rent in Devon. It feels so utterly evocative of the place, and the time - the 1930s - when the place was almost certainly at its cultural peak. If you read this, you'll probably understand why: www.tom-cox.com/the-lion-the...

A painting, with echoes of cubism, inspired by the slightly gothic cottage where I lived in the grounds of Dartington Hall, Devon, from early 2014 to the end of 2017. (If you've read my books Ring The Hill and 21st-Century Yokel this place will probably feel quite familiar.)

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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New database of 13,000 British slave traders goes online The Register of British Slave-traders is the result of a five-year project researching Britain's slave trade Find out more 👉 www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/slavery...

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New database of 13,000 British slave traders goes online | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

The Register of British Slave-traders, a new online database of 13,000 Britons involved in the transatlantic slave trade, has launched

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Interested in late medieval witches? It's not too late to join sessions on the topic at the IMC2027, co-organised by a @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social PhD student, Ana Inés Aldazabal.

Although the witch-hunt reached its peak in the early modern era, it was during the medieval period that the foundations were laid for the stereotype that would characterise witch trial records. In late medieval Europe, the idea emerged that an organised group of individuals led by the Devil sought to destroy the Christian community through maleficia. By allegedly attacking livestock, poisoning populations, spreading disease, and destroying crops, witches came to be perceived both as a collective threat and as a counter-community: an imagined parallel society with its own cult and culture, constructed as a negative reflection of Christendom. As witchcraft beliefs took hold, accusations and persecution became a means of reaffirming social boundaries. However, they could also have deeply disruptive effects on community life.

For this panel, we welcome proposals dealing with witchcraft in relation to communities during the Middle Ages. We encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines (art history, history, law, literature, religious studies, etc.) and contributions that foster interdisciplinary dialogue from researchers at any stage of their career

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 18/09/2026

Crucifix from a cemetery in medieval Vilnius, Lithuania #FindsFriday Along with isotope data, it suggests the presence of Christian communities in the pagan city, painting a picture of Vilnius as a diverse and internationally connected city. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really happy to share the schedule for this semester's History Research Seminar in Maynooth. A fantastic lineup of speakers covering a wide range of geographic and temporal contexts. All are welcome to attend.

September 24
16:10-18:10 Rocque Lab Dr Patrick Doyle, (University of Limerick), ‘The Occupation of Heaven’: Catholic Political Economy, Land, and the Irish World, 1880-1930’.

October 01
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Dr Bernadette Cunningham, (Maynooth University), ‘Medieval Irish Women as Pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela’.

Launch of the new School of History and Ancient Classics, featuring launches of the new books Irish Townspeople: The Early Modern Urban Experience, c.1400-c.1640 by Prof Emeritus Colm Lennon and Akrasia and the Catullan Lover: Resisting Reason in Republican Rome by Dr Leah Hearn.

October 08
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Rocque Lab Dr Zhouxiang Lu, (Maynooth University), ‘Yellow River Piano Concerto: History, Politics and Identity’.

October 15
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab
Dr Idriss Jebari, (Trinity College Dublin), ‘Leaping Decolonization: North Africa in the Global Sixties and Seventies’.

October 22
16:10-17:10 Rocque Lab Dr Laura McAtackney, (University College Cork), ‘Material Worlds and Contested Histories: material revelations related to gender and class in Ireland’s recent past’.

November 05
16:10-17:10 Iontas Building
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Dr Angel Alcalde, (Melbourne University), ‘Four Global Moments in the History of Fascism’.

November 12
16:10-17:30 Rocque Lab
Dr Clodagh Tait, (Mary Immaculate College), ‘Robert Perceval’s wraith: death omens, family folklore, and male violence in late seventeenth-century London’.

November 19
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Lea Horvat, (University of Jena) ‘Coffee, gender, and labour on the southern semi-periphery of the Habsburg Empire (1867-1918)’.

November 26
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Siobhán Doyle, (National Museum of Ireland), ‘Irish Sport in 100 Objects: Writing a Public and Material History of Sports in Ireland’.
December 03
16:10-17:10
Rocque Lab
Dr Mina Hristova, (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), ‘Printing the Nation, Timing the Bloc: Temporalities of Money in Socialist Bulgaria, with Comp…

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was unfortunately reminded that Elon Musk still exists, so tonight's Low Quality Ad is T-shirt depicting Indiana Jones punching him in the face. I like to think it is something Harrison Ford would actually do, in or out of character. collabs.shop/24vpoh

A dark gray t-shirt featuring an illustration of Indiana Jones punching Elon Musk in the face, sending him flying backward.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just got the proofs back for this baby, now to check through and index (the publisher keeps checking that I actually want to index it myself, which makes me feel like I have some weird indexing kink) Publication in April #medievalsky

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The Vikings in Britain and Ireland

The impact of Scandinavian invaders on the peoples of the Britain and Ireland was incalculable. Raiders on a sometimes large scale, they initially attacked coastal and river settlements, but ended up ...

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Library of the Royal Irish Academy @rialibrary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS 23 P 10(iii). This 15th century medical manuscript contains a translation of the major part of Book 1 of the Rosa Anglica of John of Gaddesden, with occasional pieces from Bernard of Gordon and Gilbert the Englishman interspersed.

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Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I also don’t like the ‘who was the rightful king in 1066?’ question. I actually don’t believe in the rightfulness of kings? and maybe we shouldn’t still be arguing over that same question 1000 years later

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.

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Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

📣 new #bear paper! Dr Liam Lewis and I gathered the evidence for bears and bear-baiting in #medieval England and northern France. We looked at bones, literature and archival accounts. We found that evidence for live bears increased after the #Norman Conquest 🧵

A sculpture of a muzzled and chained bear lying down with its right front paw crossed over the left. It’s carved as the floor rest on the tomb of Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, located in the Beauchamp Chapel at the Collegiate Church of St Mary in Warwick. Photo by Liam Lewis.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This goes straight into my course this term, Thinking about Technology

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The interior of our #ScottishChurchOfTheWeek, Paisley Abbey is hugely impressive. For #WoodensDay, one notable feature are the beautiful choir stalls, designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in the 1920's. More on the SCT website 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/church/paisl... 🧵1/2

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As promised (threatened), here is a brief Norman history reading list for those who want to know more. It's not comprehensive becuase i haven't got all day, but it is a starting point normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/l... #Normans #medievalsky #skystorians #BayeuxTapestry.

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Leonie’s Norman History reading list!

The blog has been quiet for a while [gestures at UK HE problems], but given BBC Radio 4 is having a Normans day to mark the opening of the Bayeux Tapestry, it seemed sensible to put up some sensibl…

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bosham is one of only four English places named in the Bayeux Tapestry. Harold rides to its church before sailing for Normandy - and remarkably, Saxon fabric still survives in its chancel and tower. Explore this deeply layered place: ✨📸 👉 www.digest.andymarsh...

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Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 02/09/2026

The Great Fire of London began #OnThisDay in AD 1666, after baker Thomas Farriner left the fire heating his oven burning overnight. It subsequently spread between the closely-packed houses, ultimately resulting in 80% of the city's buildings being destroyed in the blaze 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2

Painting of the Great Fire of London, depicting London Bridge (left) and the Tower of London (right), as well as the parts of the city in between the two landmarks, ablaze.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

“likely the warmest during the entire Holocene”

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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

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An update to JSTOR’s free reading program

Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

told you it wasn't the dark ages they had LEDs

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the horrors persist but so does The Museum of English Rural Life

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The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Feet washed, grapes ready to be trampled! September, here we come! Part of the Book of Hours (use of Rouen), these pages depict the occupation of the month and accompanying star sign. September is for grape harvesting and treading, all under the watchful gaze of Virgo for most of the month.

Illuminated page showing a man treading grapes and a list of saints' days for September underneath.

Illuminated page showing the star sign Virgo as a woman in a field picking flowers and a list of saints' days for September underneath.

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Andy Marshall @fotofacade.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I press the shutter button, but these photographs are made by members. Without their support, the free shoots at churches, skilled crafts and historic buildings would not exist. Can you help support me and create the next image? See what membership makes possible - www.digest.andymarsh...

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National Library of Ireland @nlireland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Harps and their Stories 🎶 Collab with #HarpIreland Join researcher, harper + teacher Simon Chadwick for an exploration of Ireland’s early harpers, their music + traditions. Harper Eilís Lavelle performs tunes from Edward Bunting’s 1792 manuscript collection. 11 Sept 1pm: ow.ly/z93p50ZGqG8

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The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Tickets are available now for our next online talk, which will be on Saturday 12th September at 8pm. Dr Sophie Hollinshead will be discussing the story of a famous haunting at Byron's ancestral home, Newstead Abbey Tickets just £5+fees (including recording) from bit.ly/flaevents

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Have you visited a Norman castle this summer? Want to know more about the world of the Normans and the history behind the Bayeux Tapestry? Join our short course starting in September! historical-association.cademy.io/ha-short-cou...

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