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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apparently I'm giving an inaugural lecture - all very welcome! Thurs October 8th, 5pm, drinks to follow.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ditto (except Prosecco rather than Negroni).

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Map produced from the perspective of Galicia but applicable to the world before the revolutionary changes brought by arrival of the railway. By sea: A Coruña to London: 5 days. By land: Coruña to Madrid; 20 days.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lucerne is an absurdly pleasant pitstop with a beaver ramp on the hydroelecric dam and a nineteenth century wooden needle dam that they still use to control the level of Lake Lucerne. The delightful riverside restaurants we inspected last night magically turned this morning into a farmers’ market.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Professor Brooke negotiates the TGV to Strasbourg

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interesting concourse furniture at Gare de l’Est: all quite attractive and even rather cool, but also bolted to the floor at a distance just too far from the hip little tables to reach your coffee

Concourse furniture at Gare de l’est: random chairs and stools and tables.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Interesting list of projects - cheerful reading!

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Running away to sea … well, Lucerne at least, for today. Cheerful chaos at St Pancras this morning but we made it on to the 0731 to Paris #geriatricinterrailing

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 26/08/2026

Reminder that Dolly Parton's 9 to 5 is a film about three women taking over an office and introducing free childcare, paid vacation, and flexible hours, resulting in a 20% increase in productivity.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I am VERY EXCITED to see the ad come out for post-doc positions associated with my Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies: please pass on to anyone who might be interested and works across ancient regions/languages/worlds... www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

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Research Associate (Fixed Term)

Applications are sought for three Research Associates to join the Cambridge Lab for Ancient World Studies (CLAWS), directed by Professor Josephine Quinn. Starting no later than 1 October 2027, you wil...

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Dolly Parton, trade unionist.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

“[This suitcase] can accommodate eight bottles, making it perfect for business trips and weekend getaways” - I have to up my conference game

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

What I’ve read about the O’Reilly case is really shocking. Apparently Cambridge’s latest investigation into allegations against his work is still ongoing. To demonstrate their commitment to academic standards & probity across the board, that investigation should now reach a speedy conclusion.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Amplifying this (and the replies). The worst part of this and other investigations of misconduct towards students (not, I believe, part of the case against Arday) is the stress and work they put on the victims over long timelines for very little return. Time to clean up this house.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This really matters for context - Arday's resignation was right, of course, but shouldn't the same principle apply in parallel cases?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Worth remembering how mind-bogglingly recent the Magdalene Laundries were. The last one closed down on 25th September 1996, which means the Magdalene system outlived Tupac by two weeks.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Livened up the morning. S/he made a thorough inspection of the premises and has no doubt pottered off to report the groundplan to thieves bearing dreamers.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Still haven’t seen it myself, but I must say that this excellent piece by @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social makes me all the more intrigued

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

2,500-year-old gold torque stolen in daylight museum raid! Thieves raided a museum in Châtillon-sur-Seine in broad daylight Friday, making off with a 2,500-year-old gold torque of the 'Lady of Vix'. 👉 www.lefigaro.fr/culture/patr...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Luckily it’s been done for me much more comprehensively than that. By @josephinequinn.bsky.social en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the...

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How the World Made the West - Wikipedia

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Carol Atack @carolatack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My inbox is full of AI-generated messages telling me I'm not doing enough to promote my work... So here's some promotion for an online course I'm teaching in September, via Roundtable by The 92nd Street Y: 'Plato and Classical Athens: The Philosopher in the City'. roundtable.org/live-courses...

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Plato and Classical Athens: The Philosopher in the City

One philosopher described the whole Western philosophical tradition as footnotes to Plato, the philosopher who lived and worked in classical Athens. This class looks at Plato’s thought as a product of...

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Seth L. Sanders @nabalkattu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

It is not natural to write your own language; historically most literate people have just used 'writing' unrelated to what they spoke at home, whether Latin, Arabic, Sanskrit or Babylonian. The creation of written vernaculars is where script engages politics and space. Africa is interesting here...

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It would be very exciting if Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce were to be married by a schismatic Lefebvrian bishop. #sspx

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I have another friend.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I have a friend.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

This is the boy (and the rugby shirt) I fell in love with 32 years ago

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Michael J. Taylor @drmichaeljtaylor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Fashy Tech Bros: Back in Roman times, men were men. Just conquering the world with the boys, no time for woke feminist soi boi bullshit. Actual Roman who fought Hannibal: I'd like to share my recipe for poppyseed cheeseballs with you (Cato Agr. 79)

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

This feels like a significant failure of imagination in the marketing department

A building beside platform 1c at Nottingham Station called ‘The Place’

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

In Lausanne, where the metro is a funicular

Poster advertising prize giving tonight at the Payot Bookshop in Lausanne

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

How does this happen? Is he like the Fake Sheikh? Or does he just say Hi my name’s Isaac Chotiner and I’d love an on the record chat?

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

My main worry is that we’re banning social media for kids but not AI. So you can’t speak to real people online anymore, kids, but you sure can talk to your fake artificial friend who weirdly loves to talk about taking your own life!

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

If you couldn’t sleep for wondering about the Garamantes, the perfect solution airs in five minutes on Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Garamantes

The ancient civilisation which thrived in the Sahara Desert over 2,000 years ago.

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Just mixed a Speyside Blossom (apple, basil, lime-juice, and gin), except that when I was supposed to add soda water I picked up the wrong bottle & poured in a bit more gin instead. It is delicious.

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Paul Cotterill @bickerrecord.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Interesting assertion today from Goodwin that he saw so-called family voting "with his own eyes". As someone without a vote in the byelection, how and why was he within sight of one or more polling booths within a polling station, the only place in which 'family voting' can conceivably take place?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Under Zohran Mamdani, gas prices have spiked, the stock market has cratered, and the US is locked in a nonsensical war with Iran. Is this really what New Yorkers signed up for?

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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It is connections, not civilisations, that drive historical change. Historian @josephinequinn.bsky.social in How the world made the West

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I endorse this post. He‘s very nice.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Every so often you run into one of those policies that makes you speculate about the sequence of events that led someone to decide that the policy was necessary.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

In Episode 1, @anitaanand.bsky.social and I are joined by Josephine Quinn, author of How The World Made The West, and Professor of Ancient History at Cambridge University, to discuss the ancient Mediterranean city states on the brink of the Bronze Age Collapse of 1147 BCE. linktr.ee/empirepoduk

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Dominic Manchee @dpmanchee.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Great podcast from @willdalrymple.bsky.social @anitaanand.bsky.social in conversation w/ @josephinequinn.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oeJ... Some states/civilizations had own writing systems, this from @viewsproject.bsky.social www.youtube.com/@views_project, so how did trade happen ?

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The Bronze Age Was More Advanced Than You Think

YouTube video by Empire • World History

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I don't know what to write about this devastating news, other than that I too will miss Debbie Cameron so very much.

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

This is where I once again feel sad for having lost Old Twitter and all my South Asian friends on there. I was sure there was a project mapping all the medieval and Mughal sarais (caravanserais) across India — anyone know what I'm talking about?

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Humans have been managing ecosystems for a very long while. "People living in Sulawesi perhaps as early as 50,000 years ago ... transported warty pig species as far away as Timor." A crucial blow to the stadial theory of history: #Unlearn phys.org/news/2025-12...

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Genomic study reveals how people moved pigs across the Pacific

A new study, published in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to the introduction of invasive pig species all over the Asia-Pacific region.

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

This delicious glass of New Year champagne only exists because my beloved @chrisbrooke.bsky.social has made mixology his New Year resolution and we have to finish up the remains of the AMAZING French 75s he just concocted. (No photos of those because we were busy.)

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