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Jamie Calhoun

@jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social
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Aberdeen / Obar Dheathain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 I like: Roman history, Gàidhlig, tartans, cats, haggis, stout, but not necessarily in that order.

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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New term as Department Head calls for a new @newyorker.com cartoon on the office door. Appropriate given that I am teaching Caesar this term.
A New Yorker cartoon featuring Caesar’s murder with a humourous quip by Caesar.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
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University of Manitoba's Egyptian exhibit offers glimpse into ancient life
The University of Manitoba is going back in time with its latest exhibit, The Ancient Inbox. The collection of rare letters and documents from Egypt gives people a chance to better understand what lif...
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C.M. Sampson @samosafuz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
With big thanks to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca : U of M exhibition brings ancient documents to life www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
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U of M exhibition brings ancient Roman Egyptian documents to life
Two thousand years ago, people in Roman Egypt wrote letters, kept receipts, made lists and dealt with the everyday bureaucracy of life. Some of those pieces of ancient life are now on display in Winni...
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Today I got to experience a piece of Canadian history...a DHC Beaver flight around the Lake of the Woods.
Me standing in front of a DeHavilland Canada (DHC) Beaver at Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada.View of the cockpit of the DHC Beaver.View of Lake of the Woods from the wing of the DHC Beaver.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I am without an office for the next two weeks it seems. On a positive note, new lot of Cambridge green and yellows have arrived.
A stack of five Cambridge Greek and Latin commentaries.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The first reviews are in: www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/0...
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I have resumed my duties as Head and I have settled back into my office. Here are two new companions, Artemis and Hermes, to watch over me.
Two Play Mobil Greek gods on a bookshelf with some ancient Greek commentaries behind them.
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C.M. Sampson @samosafuz.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Just over 24 hrs until the Summer Institute in Papyrology begins in @umanitoba.bsky.social’s Dafoe Library. The participants and 3+ dozen @umichlibrary.bsky.social papyri have arrived in Winnipeg for 5 weeks of research sponsored by the American Society of Papyrologists and @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca.
Three glazed papyrus fragments laid flat on a library table.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Watching my new MP Douglas Lumsden (Scottish Conservative and Unionist, Aberdeen South) being sworn in makes me reflect about how fortunate I am to be a citizen of two democracies. www.youtube.com/shorts/6Grji...
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IT'S OFFICIAL: Your newest Scottish Conservative MP, Douglas Lumsden.
YouTube video by Scottish Conservatives
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Some news from my constituency.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Aberdeen South: Scottish Conservative and Unionist Gain from SNP. @scottories.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Today at the Warfare in the Ancient World conference @uwinnipeg.bsky.social, I am presenting 'Military Discipline in Frontinus' Stratagems'.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Salve! The Warfare in the Ancient World Conference is now underway, hosted jointly by the University of Madrid and @uwinnipeg.bsky.social. #wawic2026
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A nice article on one of our @umanitoba.bsky.social Classics graduates: umtoday.ca/stories/hold...
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Holding history in his hands
Fascinated with the ancient world, this classics grad found his path in archeology.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Campaigning for the Aberdeen South by-election is in full swing! I ran into the @scottories.bsky.social on my walk through Mannofield. #aberdeen #scotland #aberdeensouth
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Shameless selfie. When in Roma...
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
One of the wonderful things about Italy is that there are bookshops everywhere. They all have a good selection of ancient history books and even a section for Greek and Latin. #rome #roma #italy #italia #ancienthistory
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
I turned 53 today, which according to Generation Z means that I have entered old age. So, here I am on a sunny afternoon in Duthie Park in Aberdeen.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
I am fair wappit after a very long walk to Dunnottar Castle.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I am in Athens this week. It has been cloudy mostly, but I have enjoyed visiting the sites and eating good Greek food. Here I am paying my respects to Hephaestus at his temple by the Agora. Look the other way and there is this great view of the Acropolis. #athens #greece
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
www.chronicle.com/article/when...
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Opinion | When Faculty Stop Showing Up
Faculty disengagement is reshaping campus life, one closed door at a time.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Poutine and marag dhubh (black pudding) is a thing in Aberdeen. Result. #aberdeen #blackpudding
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Aberdeen on Sunday. Mary, Queen of Scots on telly while having haggis pakoras and an IRN BRU for lunch.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Another research leave achievement: learning to make fresh Scottish porridge.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
And so a successful week of library work, a museum visit, and writing in Cambridge has come to an end. Time to get back home to Aberdeen.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Ancient bone found in Spain could be from Hannibal's war elephants
It would be the first hard evidence that elephants were used in battle by General Hannibal.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
theatlantic.com
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save Classics and Medieval Studies at the University of Calgary!
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
For the first time (as far as I can remember), I have done some Boxing Day shopping: I have ordered the new Loeb of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
We have some new ornaments this year from our travels: Dùn Èideann (Edinburgh), Nürnberg, Salzburg, and of course my other home town, Obar Dheathain (Aberdeen).
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Fröhliche Weihnacht überall.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I am working at the Institute for Classical Studies library in London this week. They have a Christmas tree made of Loebs!
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A Currywurst and a beer in München. Sehr gut.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Nürnberg Weihnachtsmarkt. Der Glühwein war schön.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
This is either a late breakfast or an early lunch. Affa fine day in Edina.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
On holiday this week in Norway. Today I am in Bergen. Shortly after this pic I treated myself to a beer and pickled herring.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Sitting on a rock in the middle of the River Deveron, Huntly, Aberdeenshire
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Inbhir Nis.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Because drinking a beer at 11 in the morning with a beautiful view of the Austrian countryside is a thing.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
One has to start off the day in Wien in the right way.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Perverse Consequences of the Easy A
In the era of grade inflation, students at top colleges are more stressed than ever.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It is a pretty good day when you are writing about ancient military manuals and you can cite Aristophanes' Frogs.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today | CBC Radio
For leaders who built empires throughout history, The Aeneid has been a blueprint for how to take over land that belongs to someone else. Now when empires are making a comeback, it's worth asking if t...
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Aberdeen in summer: a still life.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
A good afternoon for walk through Ferryhill and Duthie Park.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
My first day of Administrative Leave. Some light writing on a grey day with Wimbledon on the telly. Result.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Aberdeen beach on a lovely day.
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
My administrative leave relocation to Aberdeen is now complete.
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pro.democracy.truck.driver (Steve) @pro-democracy-otr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?
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Jamie Calhoun @jamiecalhounabz.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
And here we go. Winnipeg-Toronto-Chicago-London-Glasgow-Dundee-Aberdeen.
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