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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My 2008 essay that started it all (nice to see here; over on FB the AI clickbait spammy recaps of the story, sometimes with terrible AI photos, always with inaccuracies, circulate).

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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 01/09/2025

happy labor day

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

me: I'm going to follow this footnote from vol. 1 of the Selden Society. me, 45 min. later:

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Observing the international 'At Least You Tried' day, by practicing buttoning up my tunic with just three fingers on my left hand.

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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sad news I've only just heard: Albert Derolez has left us. He was 91, and one of the foremost palaeographers and codicologists in the world.

Albert Derolez last year, holding his latest publication on the Liber Floridus, a Dutch popular science book.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

As a man, with some interest in the technical development of... things like this, I want to say that this is super cool and that the idea of wire-wrap-thread-screws is the most important thing I have learned about in ages.

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Dr. Krista A. Milne @kmilne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

!!! The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England: Institutional Collections (2025) has already been viewed over 8000 times 😭 thanks for the interest in this book everyone! Free open access copy available here: academic.oup.com/book/59790

Citation and view counter, with 2 citations and 8020 views

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Found academic job opening to teach a course that practically has my name on it. But- it's just one course, probably just one term, in a city two provinces over. On and it was just posted, 10 days before the deadline....

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BLOOD WORK @bloodwork.show · 11/06/2026

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A flip of the Futurama title card which now reads 'BLOOD WORK'.

The tagline beneath reads 'Now with 30% more 'FEELING BAD''

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Arc Humanities Press @archumanities.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

{{Paperback}} The Social Lives of Medieval Rings Edited by Jitske Jasperse www.arc-humanities.org/978180270350...

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Need to shout into the void about a 6 year stretch without a real job but I can't afford to travel to the void. Social media will have to do.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

this is what a modern reproduction would look like, if anyone was crazy enough to try and do it... sooo clean!

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK. This is not a drill. MARC BLOCH COMIC BOOK!!! www.tallandier.com/livre/marc-b... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

the cover a comic book with the title Marc Bloch l'historien combattant

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

is that the 'super rememberer' test? I hate that name, but it's nice to know that a really good memory for faces isn't all that common (and should compensate for me profound inability to remember names).

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Sort of felt like this looking for tenure posts but now, when the holder dies, they get rid of the post. A different sort of crime drama, I guess.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

And with one of only 3 medieval depictions of someone practicing swordsmanship against a 'pel', as described in Vegetius

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Len Scales.bsky.social @lenscales.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 27/05/2026

Interview with the vampire 2nd interview with the vampire Just circling back with the vampire Final interview with the vampire Hiring the vampire Probation period with the vampire Everyone’s going in on a card for Geoff, it’s his birthday on Saturday but we’ll do a party on Friday with the Vampire

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

[John Baker busting through the wall like the Kool Aid man] WHERE!

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

getting ready for “demanding accurate footnotes is popery” discourse

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

8 February, 1590, Jane Money of Rainham, Kent was fatally wounded by the discharge of a 'snapphawnse' which was resting on a table when a small pet dog jumped onto it and set it off (TNA KB 9/676b m248 - reshare.ukdataservice.ac.uk/857912/) mutatis mutandis

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Sixteenth-Century English Accident Inquests, 1500-1600 - ReShare

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Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

READ THIS THREAD!!!!

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Use particle-board citations and leave put load-bearing supports and whatever you build falls apart. If not under your own weight, than at the slightest push from outside. /end

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This is a cliché of historians, that we write in footnotes but it really works this way. By analogy, citations aren't just a foundation, they are the principle building material, it's what you frame in the rooms with, and put under the floors, and seal up the roof with. /9

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

clue as to how well the paper would turn out. At one point I was explaining some citation problem I had found and a student asked 'wait, are you checking all our citations?' Me: yes, yes I am student: .... Me: This is as important as the stuff you actually write. /8

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

and that I would check (these were usually 10 page papers with a minimum 5 sources and a style guide that told them how to do it). Actually I got into the habit of looking at a paper's citations first before marking them as it was a very reliable /7

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

But with all of these cases, the person doing the citing has actually looked up the material or discloses in some way how, or to what extent, the source was used, or not. This was important enough when I taught that I told students that they could only cite what they actually looked at /6

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

.. that I have tried to find for years, but are now probably lost and the authors are untraceable). Sometimes there are even unpublished books that are cited on the confident assumption they will appear in print, but never did (I think I have 3 examples of this)... /5

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It can get wooly when you are trying to cite new or obscure work. Citing unpublished conference papers is treacherous, and graduate work (of the BA Honours or MA level) if even worse, since many institutions don't retain them indefinitely (there are two MA dissertations .. /4

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

- to contain X or Y but were not directly used by the author happens, but that's not the sort of citation that is 'load bearing' in an argument. Similarly, making a citation that says 'A, quoting B' without having double-checked B, is done, but again, only when you can safely do so /3

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

There are, naturally, serious differences in the accepted practice of use and citation in different disciplines and the humanities are often the most pedantic about only citing what the author has personally consulted. Sometimes general citations to sources that are 'known' /2

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

I'm going to say my thing regarding this, and then leave it alone. 1/

Screen capture from twitter of Lenka Zdeborova's comment "have you read all the sources you ever cited? During my PhD we, along with dozens of other papers, cited a paper that I later found did not contain the result for which it was commonly cited. I should be banned I guess."

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

wow [thinking bitterly of 15th c. Yorkshire coroner inquisitions written in crayon, or burnt stick]

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Sam Ottewill-Soulsby @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This summary of different early medieval literature is still one of my favourite things on the internet. #medievalsky

Screenshot of Tumblr post by user sunshinemoonrx, reading:

‘Old Welsh lit: Dave punched Steve. This incurred a fine of twelve cattle and a nine-inch rod of silver and is known as one of the Three Mildly Annoying Blows of the Isle of Britain

Old Irish lit: Dave punched Steve so that the top of his skull came out of his chin, and gore flooded the house, and he drove his fists down the street performing his battle-feats so that the corpses were so numerous there was no room for them to fall down. It was like “the fox among the hens” and “the oncoming tide” and “that time Emily had eight drinks when we all know she should stop at six”

Old English lit: Dave, the hard man, the fierce man, the fist-man, gave Steve such a blow the like has not been seen since the feud between the Hylfings and the Wends. Thus it is rightly said that violence only begets more violence, unless of course it is particularly sicknasty. Amen.’

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Just published in Acta Periodica Duellatorum: bop.unibe.ch/apd/article/...

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View of Unsafe Practice and Dangerous Play

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

In my happy place today, looking at King's Bench Plea Rolls. This beauty is from Easter term 1662. TNA KB 27/1842

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Jeff de Boer @jeffdeboer.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

On the last two chased crowns for the Fat Henry VIII mouse armour project. It’s been an entire week of very careful work to get this far. #jeffdeboer #mousearmour #crowns #miniatureart #chasingandrepousse

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

oh wait, saw the original thread. Well, as a neurospicey person as well... yeah.

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Dr. M.R. Geldof FRHistS @drviolence.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

if it softens it any, I'm fairly Oxbridge (DPhil) and the last 5 years has been a parade of rejections (well, about 50/50 rejections vs nothings)

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