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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13h

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As the Normans are everywhere all at once, here are my reading suggestions for those who want to know more normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/l... #medievalsky #skystorians

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Exeter Cathedral @exetercathedral.bsky.social · 20h

Announcement: A selection of The Exeter Book’s famous riddles are now on display for the first time since the opening of the Treasures Exhibition in 2025. The Exeter Book is a treasured item listed on the UK UNESCO Memory of the World Register, preserving nearly all surviving Anglo-Saxon riddles.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As the Normans are everywhere all at once, here are my reading suggestions for those who want to know more normanlandscapes.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/l... #medievalsky #skystorians

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Always good to find doors not working during a fire alarm. Honestly...

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy feast of St Michael and All Angels! May you defeat the dragons bothering you today.

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Dr Rebecca Tyson @tyguson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

1. #MedievalSky, grab a lifejacket and a seasickness bag, we’re casting off on a thread about the Norman invasion fleet in 1066! 960 years ago, the Normans landed at Pevensey and established a base at the Roman shore fort which was already succumbing to erosion from the sea on its south side. 1/20

Photograph of Pevensey Castle with an information board in the foreground showing an artists impression of how the view may have looked in 1066 when the sea came almost up to the walls.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This really has not been the best of train journeys.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ah, Sunday on the railway. Maths Half kindly giving me a lift to the next station along to avoid the inevitable rail replacement bus.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yorkshire finish a solid 5th in div 1 of the county championship and I would have taken that after the first few games. Commisserations to @adamchapman.bsky.social @historydan1066.bsky.social and other Somerset fans. I really did think it was your year this time. #cricket

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm doing quite a few talks and events at the moment. Last night was an event at the BM with @tostig1066.bsky.social discussing 'The Real World of the Bayeux Tapestry. It was really enjoyable and hopefully gave a flavour of how we use sources #Normans #BayeuxTapestry

Leonie on left of shot in a floral pattern dress and Michal on right of shot in a pale shirt standing in the magnificent British Museum reading room.

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Reposting for the weekend crowd. #BookHistory

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Cambridge Archaeological Unit @cambridgearch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The first phase of Over Needingworth’s Barrow 20 involved an in-situ cremation event followed by the construction of a turf mound. The cremation took place directly on the buried soil surface and left traces of the pyre remains.

An overhead drone shot showing a round barrow in the process of being excavated. Four slots one in each quadrant are present and the dark ring of the ditch is visible at the edge of the barrow.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Thanks to Charlie for spotting this. In which Hicks tries to do the most unlikely of things and talk about fashion. Thankfully the journalist took my advice and talked to Gale Owen-Crocker and @laurajcleaver.bsky.social...

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Fantaloupe @fantaloupe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's the final round of the County, and Kent are in serious danger of being promoted. Trade off one moment of joy for a whole next season of pain? Hampshire are down - next year sees SJA in Soton? Meanwhile, Somerset will do their annual re-enactment of Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football.

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Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Prof Lyla Mehta @lylamehta.bsky.social, head of climate, environment & sustainability dep at University of Sussex’s Institute of Development Studies, shared concerns that “as public funding for universities falls, there is a real danger that billionaire and corporate money begins to shape academia”.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Worried how the RNLI and it's amazing volunteers are being targeted? Take action with a one-off or monthly donation. Quick, easy, and much needed. Blocking and reporting misinformation also curtails those with nefarious aims who seek to monetise hate and spread division rnli.org/pages/ig/new...

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Not often Knottingley is in the news, but when it is, it is usually because something is closing or falling apart.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Missed connection. Fortunately I have head room and should still get to my office by 2 in time for 3pm...

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

As the new ug year approaches, I am feeling very angry and bitter about the - lack of opportunity for ECRs - the last 2 years of national/ local redundancies

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Great. First day of teaching and the signals have gone between Clapham and Waterloo. Again.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Compiling the bibliography for my book means I am reacquainted with some of my more snarky footnotes. This remains a favourite: 'William [of Malmesbury] also noted that the Thames met the sea at Dover, so clearly cannot be trusted on London prices.' He thought London prices were cheap...

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Absolutely. The destruction of important and irreplaceable context must stop.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 20/09/2026

Coming up this week, the Society hosts two events on history and the environment. The first, at 1pm on Thurs 24th, offers 'Historical Context' on 'The Climate Crisis': bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and bsky.app/profile/elly... All welcome.

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Historical Context: The Climate Crisis

A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Repeat after me, the legal definition of redundancy is that the work has "substantially ceased or diminished". This is not that.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

11 days to get this book MS done to the extent it can be sent to the publisher for peer review. Get to it, Hicks!

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026

What on earth is happening?

This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I wonder if they use the ghastly term right-sizing. More bad news for Humanities and Social Sciences.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A great result for Yorkshire. Unfortunately for Somerset (I really did think it was their year), they fell down a hill into a cliff.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A happy feast of Hildegard of Bingen to all, but especially to medievalists and nuns!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the scale of the financial system’s involvement in enslavement is greater than previously known or acknowledged.'

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Slave-trade wealth was embedded in Britain’s financial system, research finds

Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The minister has now read his brief...

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Sara Charles @saracharles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was very nice to come face-to-face with little Hugo Pictor today (MS Bodl. 717, fol. 287v). Unusually for a medieval scribe, Hugo is depicted as left-handed. He was also on the front cover of my book! #bookhistory #medievalsky

An image of a seated scribe with a quill dipped into an ink pot in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, held over a book on a stand. The scribe is in a blue robe with a tonsure

Full page of medieval manuscript with the image of a scribe in the bottom right

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11/09/2026

Every worker facing redundancy at the University of Birmingham is from a migrant or minority ethnic background. UCU members will meet on 17 September to decide whether to ballot for strike action. No compulsory redundancies. Release the equality impact assessment. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

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University of Birmingham staff to consider strike ballot over redundancies that fall entirely on minority ethnic staff

Staff at the University of Birmingham will meet next week to consider potential strike action in a battle against redundancies, the University and College Union (UCU) said today (11 September).

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Quick equalities check: across English, History/Politics/War Studies 6 women have lost their jobs and 0.5 men. 4 men and one woman are safe. English goes from 50:50 (6M, 6F) to 1 woman and 2.5 men.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Today my heart is with all colleagues facing redundancy (some for the umpteenth time), who were made redundant over the summer or who have simply had enough and left. Our sector is having its guts ripped out.

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Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...

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Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR at University of Southampton

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Sometimes I do things other than History.

A red and beaded knitted lace shawl with a red first prize card.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Usk Show day! A day off from Normans while enjoying a great agricultural show.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

'The pledge by the UK’s new science minister to adopt an “unrelenting focus” on science has prompted concern and confusion.' To put it mildly and very diplomatically.

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Chris McDonald’s ‘unrelenting’ science focus raises concerns

Arts and humanities leaders worried by new minister’s ‘very odd’ comments suggesting his sole concern is science R&D

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Dean on the Norman conquest and Jewish communities.

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Leonie V. Hicks @lvhicks.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The myth of the Norman Yoke as requested by @danherb10.bsky.social in the latest of my what do you want to know about the Normans? posts. The Norman Yoke is about legal matters, particularly obligations of tenure, right to plead in various courts and their preceived oppressive nature 1/

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