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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

New audio editions of the first three of my 'Twilight of Empire' books available now, from Bloomsbury! (UK only for now, I'm afraid)

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James Fitzjames @captjamesfitzjames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Historical research conferences using AI generated images now... Sad state of affairs. Would they be alright with people submitting an AI generated paper, too? 🥲

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

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Alastair Millar @skriptorium.info · 07/05/2026

This is a periodic reaffirmation that I do not, and will not, use genAI in the conceptualisation, drafting, writing or editing of my stories and books, and will never use or commission genAI "art" for covers or illustrations. "AI author" is an oxymoron. Avoid prompt jockeys and sloperators.

The letters AI struck through by a diagonal red warning line in a red circle, surrounded by the words "Say no to generative AI use in publishing".

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

"I am sick to my stomach as I write this because I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas through writing and discussion, and that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."

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Teachers Are Not OK

AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Out today in paperback - KING'S ENEMY, the finale of my medieval trilogy!

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Here's my guest post on David Pillling's substack, discussing a little of the background to 'King's Enemy' (pb out on March 26th btw!) historystuff.substack.com/p/special-gu...

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This is a guest spot by Ian Ross, an acclaimed writer of historical fiction who is currently writing a series of novels set during the Montfortian wars in England.

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Narmada Thiranagama @narmada.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Loved “Mughals” at the V&A.

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Numancia. Site of heroic but doomed resistance of Iberians to Roman conquest and a foundation myth of Spanish nationalism in C19th. Both sides used its imagery during Spanish Civil War. Strongly recommend a visit just outside town of Soria, whose football team BTW is named after

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Kenilworth Castle in 1266. Map from my novel 'King's Enemy'.

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The 2025 Netflix 'The Leopard' cannot hope to compare to Visconti's 1963 'Il Gattopardo', one of the finest films ever made. But it looks lushly Sicilian and epic, so no doubt I shall give it a look...

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The Brescia Medallion, once believed to represent Galla Placidia and her two children, but most likely made in Roman Egypt, c.3rd-4th century. The lettering is in Alexandrian Greek, and reads ΒΟΥΝΝΕΡΙ ΚΕΡΑΜΙ, which perhaps means Bounnerus the Potter.

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Signed copies of my last book, 'King's Enemy', at the wonderful Topping & Company Booksellers in Bath. If anyone's passing through, you know where to go...

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Þo wende Sir Edward, toward þe holi londe..." Arms of some of the leading English and Scottish knights who went on what would later be called the Ninth Crusade, in 1270-71. (Images from Aspilogia.com)

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John Able Curtis @j-able.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today's books!

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Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

#ReliefWednesday - Marble votive relief showing Demeter enthroned and her daughter Persephone standing with two torches. Dated to the first quarter of the 5th century BC. Archaeological Museum of Eleusis, Greece.

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Published tomorrow in the USA! 'Battle Song' in paperback. This is the first book in my Medieval England trilogy, set amid the turmoil of the Second Barons' War. The subsequent two books should get a US paperback release over the coming year!

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Ian Ross @ianrossauthor.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Just to get started... Here's the knighting of Roland by King Charlemagne, from the 'Chanson d'Aspremonte' (manuscript illustrated c.1250, British Library).

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