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Ella Kirsh

@ellakirsh.bsky.social
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Stenography and social history in Late Antiquity. Junior Research Fellow, Christ's College, Cambridge.

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
Worth considering not only donating but also wearing an RNLI pin as a clear sign of the rejection of these appalling people and their enablers. shop.rnli.org/products/rnl...
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RNLI Flag Lapel Pin Badge, Gold
Show your support for the RNLI's lifesaving work with our classic pin badge. Our RNLI flag badge looks great on a jacket's lapel.
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simonmcdonald.bsky.social @simonmcdonald.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Deadline for nominations for Chancellor @cambridgeup.bsky.social has now passed. Old Schools will reveal full slate of candidates idc. Already clear that Sandi Toksvig offers necessary/unique blend of brains, comms skills, energy, inclusion & strong Cambridge links #Sandi4Chancellor109
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
A newly published Roman legal papyrus from Judaea. I try to give a flavour here, and to capture the immense hard work that goes into making sense of these discoveries. tinyurl.com/57eb3a88
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Classics showing its working | Blog post | Mary Beard
The big discovery for me this week (or at least it has only recently been published) was a papyrus, containing more than 100 lines of Greek text, which
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
New volume of The Journal of Roman Studies Vol. 114 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @theromansoc.bsky.social @ellakirsh.bsky.social @carlosfnorena.bsky.social
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Check out @ellakirsh.bsky.social 's fantastic article on the teaching of shorthand writing to often enslaved people in the later Roman empire - just published open access in the latest issue of the Journal of Roman Studies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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‘Etched into the Soul’: The Education of Shorthand-Writers in Late Antiquity | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
‘Etched into the Soul’: The Education of Shorthand-Writers in Late Antiquity - Volume 114
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Jon Blyth @disappointment.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Oooh, look at Sainsbury’s, with their fancy new Latin motto like they’re bleedin hogwarts Grow up
A large Sainsbury’s Store Front with the signs for the other shops laid out underneath. They are Argos Habitat Tu. sounds a bit Latin dunnit. lol eh

The fact they left out Specsavers leads me to think they knew what they were doing, and I’m probably just explaining their own joke to them
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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Forthcoming article: Duncan Bell, "John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire," History of Political Thought (2025) @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.academia.edu/110100929/Jo... via @academia
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John Stuart Mill on Federation, Civilization, and Empire
This article explores John Stuart Mill’s career-long interest in federal models of politics. Demonstrating how Mill’s multi-faceted account was shaped by his understanding of civilization and of empir...
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DoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It was great to talk to Ella Kirsch @ellakirsh.bsky.social and Hope Williard yesterday about enslaved stenographers and how we might access the intellectual and literary culture of the non-elite.
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Dave Addison @daveaddison.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Very happy to see my new article on Paschasius of Dumium and the Iberian translation of the Apophthegmata patrum published (open access) in Al-Masaq. Features Atlantic-Mediterranean connectivity, Evagrius Ponticus, and a crocodile. doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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Visions of the Desert in Atlantic Iberia: The Enigmas of Paschasius of Dumium’s Liber geronticon
The apophthegmata patrum or “sayings of the desert fathers” were an essential resource for Late Antique monastics. Compiled in Greek, they quickly circulated in an array of languages, including Cop...
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
My therapist: Don’t worry, Merovingian cursive is not real, it can’t hurt you Merovingian cursive:
Extremely difficult to read document in cursive script. Actually this is a charter of lady Clotilde, Paris AN/K//2/10, from 673
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James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
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Ella Kirsh @ellakirsh.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
First article, first post! Thrilled that my article on Greek shorthand in late antiquity has just been published by the Journal of Roman Studies, expertly ed. Myles Lavan. What do London taxi drivers have to do with late antique shorthand textbooks? Find out here: shorturl.at/6QERy
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‘Etched into the Soul’: The Education of Shorthand-Writers in Late Antiquity | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
‘Etched into the Soul’: The Education of Shorthand-Writers in Late Antiquity
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