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Dr Florence H R Scott

@florencehrscott.bsky.social
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Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK. Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the medieval theological conception of heaven as both a place and a state of being is easy to understand when you're from Yorkshire
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We did a thing! We bought York Minster
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Transport sec Heidi Alexander says she will "never accept that state-owned means second best" as she bigs up rail renationalisation. She lays into Avanti West Coast, which goes down well
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For 9 years this cat has attempted to get me to feed him at 4 am every day and for 9 years he has not succeeded one time and his only takeaway has been well it's certainly not happening if I don't try again, and I'm starting to find him quite inspirational
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punk_floyd @woodbrook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just 'being able to do it' does not qualify you for employment. For that you have to be able to do it quickly, reliably, repeatedly, in the way you're instructed to, for hours a day, five days a week, under any conditions, all year round, and be prepared to take on other additional tasks.
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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ah yes the circle of life
• Dispatched
Sep 25 23:03 pm
In Transit
Sep 26 09:52 am
Delayed
Sep 26 10:57 am
Held By Carrier
Sep 26 15:07 pm
Destroyed
Sep 26 15:08 pm
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Am I justified in not returning calls when the caller leaves a voicemail that is just ‘I want to touch base’? Like Christ please send me an email when there is something specific to say???
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reading the Wikipedia for mockbusters and this is outrageously funny
Mockbusters are low budget, and their revenue is based entirely on the sales of their DVDs.[31] Low budgets also mean that directors need to think of creative yet cheap ways to achieve the endings that they desire. For example, Snakes on a Train capitalized on the Internet hype surrounding Snakes on a Plane. Consumers wanted what they saw. Latt said, "With only four days left of shooting my partner called and said everyone is really excited about Snakes on a Train, but they're more excited about the poster, which showed a snake swallowing a train. It was meant to be, you know, metaphorical. But the buyers wanted it, so I was given the mandate that the ending had to have the snake eat the train." At the same time, another representative of Asylum, David Rimawi, says that while a handful of their films do have "artistic elements", that's just not something they're concerned with. The Asylum does not claim to be an "artsy" production house.
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brent sewer socialist🚰🌹 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
‪Hitler ensuring only he could order reserve panzers to counter an Allied invasion and then sleeping through D-Day remains incredibly funny lmao moron ‬
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Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rose Walker explores how people in the 12th century found and exchanged skilled craftsmen, revealing how artistic expertise travelled through powerful social networks & shaped some of the most striking artworks of medieval Spain and Portugal. Read the blog: buff.ly/NQ1PqHC #HispanicHeritageMonth
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How Artistic Skill Travelled in the Twelfth Century
Rose Walker explores how artistic expertise could have been loaned or gifted as craftsman travelled across Twelfth-Century Iberia.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reading the Wikipedia for mockbusters and this is outrageously funny
Mockbusters are low budget, and their revenue is based entirely on the sales of their DVDs.[31] Low budgets also mean that directors need to think of creative yet cheap ways to achieve the endings that they desire. For example, Snakes on a Train capitalized on the Internet hype surrounding Snakes on a Plane. Consumers wanted what they saw. Latt said, "With only four days left of shooting my partner called and said everyone is really excited about Snakes on a Train, but they're more excited about the poster, which showed a snake swallowing a train. It was meant to be, you know, metaphorical. But the buyers wanted it, so I was given the mandate that the ending had to have the snake eat the train." At the same time, another representative of Asylum, David Rimawi, says that while a handful of their films do have "artistic elements", that's just not something they're concerned with. The Asylum does not claim to be an "artsy" production house.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The only thing I can say about this film is that it felt like an Amadeus mockbuster
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Should people in STEM be made to study history? No, only I should be allowed to study history. If you want to know something about the past you have to come to ME
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yesterday in Hebden Bridge there was a roadside protest for Palestine and every single car that passed it beeped
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She's from Texas, I can tell by the way He's two steppin' 'round the room And judgin' by the smile that's written on his face I only went with her cause she looks like you, My god
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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
She's from Texas, I can tell by the way He's two steppin' 'round the room And judgin' by the smile that's written on his face There's nothin' I can do It doesn't take a crystal ball to see A cowboy always finds a way to leave Drinkin' Jack all by myself He's choosin' Texas, I have wasted my life
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Young woman on train talking jovially about how when she goes on dates with her boyfriend he calls her ‘disgusting’ if she wants dessert and she doesn’t order it because he insists on paying and it ‘wouldn’t be fair‘ then she goes home and eats chocolate in secret. IT IS LIKE FEMINISM NEVER HAPPENED
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Omg Americans hate when everyone else isn’t American
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Couldn’t work out what all the frantic coffee discourse was about, hard to believe it originated with a nothing man who has ‘soccer referee’ in his bio
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WIRED @wired.com · 26/09/2026
A competition between the gravity of the inner core and other forces in the mantle is altering the Earth's rotation. www.wired.com/story/gravit...
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A Gravitational Battle Within the Earth Is Changing the Length of Days
A competition between the gravity of the inner core and other forces in the mantle is altering the Earth's rotation.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you try hard enough you too can purchase property with your favourite contemporary novelist
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In Surprisngly Adult news, this afternoon I've sent off the proofs of my Long Awaited Second Novel and bought a flat with @florencehrscott.bsky.social
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What was the Danegeld, and what legacy did the English payments to the Vikings leave? I'm in The Conversation discussing exactly that (in under 800 words!). #medieval #medievalsky
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The English paid off the Vikings for almost a century. But was the Danegeld such a bad idea?
It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Too late, injecting the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte into my own veins at home with a dirty needle
Google AI overview:

Normandy officially transitioned from a county (the County of Rouen) to a duchy between the years 996 and 1015.
This information is for general knowledge and should not be taken as medical advice; consult with a healthcare provider for any health concerns. While the territory was originally founded as a fiefdom in 911 via the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte, its first rulers—beginning with the Viking chieftain Rollo—held the title of "Count of Rouen" or "Jarl of the Northmen".
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 24/09/2026
@saltpublishing.com has reported an 86% rise in sales for the first half of 2026 compared to 2025, with growth attributed to “the calibre of writers now joining the list, a shift towards agented submissions and a sharper focus on books with clear readerships” 👇
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Salt Publishing on track for strongest sales in a decade as strategy shift 'pays off'
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Elisabeth Hungría @helisabethhh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For today's #OnlineArtExchange, we step into the Belle Époque with Charles Hoffbauer's "In the Restaurant" (1907). A canvas breathing with metallic light: shimmering gold sequins, a veil of sheer silver, and amber whispers of bronze. (The Hermitage Collection) @artukdotorg.bsky.social
Oil painting titled "In the Restaurant" (1907) by Charles Hoffbauer. A glamorous woman stands in the foreground of a softly lit Belle Époque restaurant. She wears an elegant, shimmering evening gown covered in gold sequins, paired with a sheer silver shawl and a red rose at her chest. In the background, other patrons sit at tables covered with white cloths under a warm, amber glow.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Just to make the point, I don’t think Shabana Mahmood is appeasing the far right because she thinks it’s electorally sensible. She’s doing so because she believes what they believe.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Making Rob watch a documentary with me about Atlas silk weavers and three minutes in he’s already said the sentence ‘I came here to weave and to fuck, and I’m all out of silk’
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
overton window has shifted so far Mogg is based now
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have always hated cottage cheese but its macronutrient profile is so good I’m giving it another go (this is the kind of thing I say now). Anyway. Cottage cheese accompaniments/recipe suggestions please
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Gary Bainbridge @garybainbridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
When "white sauce" in fish pie Contains cheese, it’s a lie. That’s a mornay.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There was an older lady on the tills in the charity shop satin-stitch embroidering butterflies onto every tear in a very torn up pair of jeans and I couldn’t quite voice how much of a G she was so I said nothing
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Wiz Ball @wizball50.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fireman Psalm 97:3 "A fire goes before Him, and does burns up His enemies."
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
guy in local fb group very sad that high street shop is closing down because he has fond memories of buying games in there for his ZX Spectrum
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Scuzzy Mortspider 🕷️ 🎃 @jussienorthside.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Is it for people with no background in economics, defence, education, social and foreign policy, or law to be asking politicians questions about these very, very controversial, difficult, complicated issues every Sunday, Laura?
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I mean… I’m too young to have seen the LOTR films first time round? I was like 5
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Kiyara ΘΔ Hagfag @kiyara.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Mom says it my turn with the legs!
maned wolf with bush dog legsbush dog with maned wolf legs
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My cup runneth over in York. I haven't even been to all the indie book shops yet and I've lived here 4 years
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Why bookshops are booming in the TikTok age
Proprietors explain why more independent bookshops are springing up in our towns and cities.
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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 18/09/2026
Fanfare please – THIS has arrived! 🥳🎉 A book of sheer brilliance from @robpalk.bsky.social #booksky #saltbooks
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I didn’t witness this conversation that allegedly took place in 1997, and have no insight deeper than the rest of the general public, but based purely on vibes here is what I‘m certain really happened:
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Mike Batt @mikebatt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A little conversation I had on Twitter 🙂
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big kakapo news
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James @studiousbadger.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
A century earlier, on 18th Jan 1881 the 'Visiter' ran ashore off Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire. No local boat could be launched due to the violence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought OVERLAND 6 miles to the bay itself. Through 7ft snowdrifts 200 men cleared the way by hand.
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Rob Palk @robpalk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Weirdly emotional seeing this old tart done up in a fancy new outfit
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We live in a society in which the pussy inspector shirt is in demand but contemporary feminist thought is not smh
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