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Dr Eleanor Janega

@goingmedieval.bsky.social
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That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie. eleanorjanega.com

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We’re Not So Different podcast @wnsdpod.bsky.social · 2h
Luke is sick so we are unlocking one of our recent bonuses on Mesopotamian beliefs in the afterlife, ghosts, and more! it’s one of our favorites we’ve done and covers everything from Jesus archetypes to the most advanced fear of fire in human history! Enjoy! www.spreaker.com/episode/patr...
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Patreon Ep Unlocked: Mesopotamian Afterlife
folks, we have referenced it a couple of times but now it's finally time to focus on the Mesopotamian Afterlife, including their underworld and ghosts. we talk
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We’re Not So Different podcast @wnsdpod.bsky.social · 2h
Ep 293 - Patreon Ep Unlocked: Mesopotamian Afterlife is available now.
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Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 10h
This is why I've always disagreed with the idea that "art" is purely subjectively defined. Art is a communication. The listener/viewer completes that communication in recieving it, but it is the intentionality of the creator that makes it art. "AI music" is no more music than traffic noise is.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 8h
Today on the Patreon I have an extensive review of a number of the historical problems in The Uprising and why they matter. I didn't even really get to do the bit about the lack of colour and the filth, cuz there's so much. You can check it out from only £1 per month. www.patreon.com/GoingMedieva...
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On the Uprising, or, Must Riser Harder | Dr Eleanor Janega
Paul Greengrass’s new film the Uprising presented an interesting opportunity to examine what happens during historical periods of exaggerate
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely devestated by the loss of one of my dearest friends, and one of the great political scientists of his generation. Philipp Köker was incredibly insightful, a generous scholar, and incredible friend. The world is a poorer place without him. rundblick-niedersachsen.de/politikwisse...
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Politikwissenschaftler stirbt überraschend mit 40 Jahren
Philipp Köker, habilitierter Politikwissenschaftler und Experte für die Erforschung politischer Institutionen, ist im Alter von 40 Jahren überraschend gestorben. Die Nachricht hat in Kreisen der Unive...
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm really enjoying this series of Culture, Power, Politics episodes on the concept of expertise and the current backlash against it. Absolutely worth spending some time with. www.podbean.com/ea/dir-g9rfs...
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Podbean App
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nice.
A shakey pic of my TV showing the Aussie rules. The Mighty Sydney Swans have 69 (nice). The hated Freemntle dockers have 42.
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm live and I'm bringing in the weekend with some cursed (and possibly non-cursed) videos people have been sending me www.twitch.tv/skthecrusader
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SKTheCrusader - Twitch
I'm SK (They/Them) and I just love doing things online — SKTheCrusader streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026
One of my friends is doing a sponsored virtual walk to raise funds for the UK charity #MedicalAid for #Palestinians, @medicalaidpal.bsky.social The work they do is vital. If you can make a wee donation or share this, please do. #Palestine medicalaidforpalestinians.enthuse.com/pf/marino-ma...
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Stride for Palestinians 26
Follow my journey as I complete 195km (virtually) in one month across Palestine, from Jenin to Gaza, for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP). The month of October marks the beginning of the olive harve
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Having a nice little proud PNWer time with the Macklemore Renaissance. If you are streaming/watching stuff right now and are wanting something other than the expected, I really love the Town, which makes me so homesick I want to cry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIBd...
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Macklemore "THE TOWN" Official Music Video
YouTube video by Zia Mohajerjasbi
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember the deal was: you give up collective bargaining and provisions to protect you in unemployment or ill health, and you gain cheap goods, social mobility and a house? And now nothing works, everything is expensive, the public realm is visibly degraded and about ten guys own the whole world.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Well, that’s refreshingly blunt.
The Times and Sunday Tim... » • 33m
We must start weaning the nation off the state pension
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We’re Not So Different podcast @wnsdpod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ep 291 - September Mailbag 1: Chateauneuf du Pape is available now
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The emboldening of these fucking dickheads including Labour government ministers saying it is right to protest against people seeking asylum (but not against genocide of course) has led to this absolute shitshow
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m taking about Bob Kraft, the Boston businessman in the Epstein Files.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My "I am not complicit" statement has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my statement.
A screen grap of an article in the independent with a headline reading "Ed Sheeran breaks silence on Macklemore tour drama: 'I am not complicit'.

It also has a picture of him looking a absolute mess, as per, with his arm around Macklemore.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The "Heartbreaking the worst person you know just made a great point" meme.
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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This glorious example of baffling survey questions is going to be front and centre in my next Questionnaire Clinic training session 😆 Let's stretch our brains this Friday - what's wrong with it?
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are having fun getting brain worms.
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Friendly Pumpkin @pumpkinpal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Tired: in 25,000 years they'll find your bones and blah blah blah your gender Wired: in 25,000 years they'll find your bones and find out about that mind-altering nut suck
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Me too bitch, you're not special.
A Guardian headline which reads "Indonesian forager may have sucked on mond-altwring nuts 25,000 years ago,  research finds"
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Justin and I did a bespoke Sex Jams. Tell us what to over think md baby, we will be there for you.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just as an FYI this week on Gone Medieval it is just me going on and on about my favourite thing - Bohemian History. So if you wanna know more about Přemýšl Ottakar I, I got you. share.google/SLudihslceae...
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Gone Medieval
Podcast · History Hit · From long-lost Viking ships to kings buried in unexpected places; from murders and power politics, to myths, religion, the lives of ordinary people: Gone Medieval is History Hi...
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Your annual reminder that the Act did not fully abolish slavery, and it continued to be legal in parts of the British Empire such as St Helena and Ceylon, and the massive territories under EIC control.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I am out here talking mad love and beauty behind my friends' backs. I am gonna say so many nice things about you the second you leave the table. I won't be stopped.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tomorrow. Start tomorrow. I hate those fuckers.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
mass extinctions may be all fun and games but Dimetrodon is also here with an important message, kids
Image of a dimetrodon with its large sail fin and a caption: "hey folks, it's me, dimetrodon, reminding you that l wasn't a dinosaur, I was a synapsid and more closely related to mammals despite my appearance"
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This reinstatement happened for one reason: a union contract. She was brought back against managements wishes because she won the highest level of the grievance procedure, arbitration. This is how you can take the power back from people like Jeff Bezos: form a union.
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Daniel @buckmeister.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You're not allowed a peasants uprising film incase anyone gets any ideas
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My disappointment about the Uprising Robinhood is that has a few lines. The first is it isn't giving American audiences credit. How are they supposed to judge whether or not the want a Peasants Uprising film if you never offer them one?
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Kade Peregrine @kadeperegrine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
All English folk heroes are now Robin Hood. It's a thing that happens in mythology. One favoured character is given the adventures of multiple heroes, which is responsible for a lot of the discrepancies in tellings, like "why didn't he use his magical macguffin?" Disappointing to see it happen.
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Bullying works.
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thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
no can do, buddy, no can do
altered dril post: and another thing: I was not crushed. please don't put in the academic journal that I got every bone fractured after being hit in the back by a stone from the largest trebuchet in Europe
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We’re Not So Different podcast @wnsdpod.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Ep 288 - Medieval News You Can Use is available now
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
just told him Bernard of Clairvaux isn't going to fuck him. cheers, dad's crying now.
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Zemyla @zemyla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There are some academics which can and must be judged, and some which must never be judged. What's the difference? You know.
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
academics saying it's bad when academics judge other academics because it's important to protect the academic right to judge other academics and academics judging academics might stop academics from judging academics
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Me, a US-based academic: I don’t care what any scholar believes, we all need to stand up publicly whenever someone’s academic freedom is threatened Me, continuing: also, the first time this has happened, motivating me to sign my first ever open letter, is in late 2026, to a race scientist, in Ghent
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Perfectly nice and correct article in the FT and yer Da is absolutely apopleptic in the comments - nude, red, and mad that an actual historian knows about history and his wank fantasies aren't real. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Why is the far right so obsessed with knights?
Medieval military monks have become a regular sight at political rallies and marches
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Populations, in a genetic sense, are not "races" in the racialist sense, no matter how much the new scientific racists try to elide the two. That's the most important thing to remember when they start in on the topic.
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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Because I've spent a lot of time in the paleogenomics space, I've been watching this new iteration of race science develop in real time over the past 15 or so years (same guys, in a lot of cases). I was really hoping it would disappear on its own, but we're really gonna have to fight this battle.
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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There’s still time to sign this and help save an innocent man. The daughter of the victim he was accused of killing is fighting to free him.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Notable how a not-insignificant number of the signatories on the letters supporting a racist signed on to letters supporting anti-trans extremists in 2018 or are high-profile anti-trans extremists themselves, almost as if there’s a connection between ‘everything is gender’ and ‘everything is race’
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Happy Hour at Hippel's @sanktmaxtci.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Robespierre, looking directly into the camera.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This nasty crank is the former head of the national equality body, now being paid big bucks to front up the big MAGA respectability drive. They poach our malicious wingnuts because most of their own are basically chuds themselves, and British crackpots sell fear and hate with panache.
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The veteran broadcaster on his big-money move to America, the rise of trans 'fantasists' and why some cultures are not 'desirable'
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TREVOR PHILLIPS:
•London liberals are only now realising how hated they are in Britain'
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The UK's condition makes a lot more sense when you sit with the knowledge that the British media maintains a set of prominent writers who are employed - and paid handsomely - specifically in order to promote racism and racist ideas.
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