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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Two Oxford English dons have advised on Middle English dialogue for forthcoming horror film Werwulf, set in the 13th century. Dr Eleanor Baker and Professor Daniel Wakelin acted as consultants for director Robert Eggers. Werwulf will be released on New Year's Day. www.ign.com/articles/rob...

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“Does This Take Place in Hell?” Director Robert Eggers Teases Eerie Details About His 13th-Century Medieval Horror Film Werwulf

Director Robert Eggers reveals eerie new details about Werwulf, his upcoming medieval horror film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Willem Dafoe and Lily-Rose Depp.

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Now we wait for the reply guys telling @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social that people in medieval England couldn't look up, actually.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The cuts being made to humanities departments at UK HE institutions are reducing the opportunities that students have to study subjects like medieval literature, and amplifying pre-existing inequalities in the education system and beyond. Stop the cuts. #EnglishCreates #UCU #UKHE

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On a more personal note: this would not have been possible had I not, many moons ago, studied English Literature at Royal Holloway after attending non-selective state schools. It was at RHUL that I was introduced to Middle English by the fantastic medievalists who taught me.

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I can't explain how proud I am of @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social, the hard work she has done working with Eggers over the past year or so, and indeed how close I was to exploding the secret out of pride.

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'Do Not Sit Here to Smoke' made many a final stand outside hospital entrances 💔

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is worth getting engraved on a bench

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’ve stopped giving a shit about critical thinking skills or any type of “employability” vector, I now pretty strongly believe the purpose of a degree is to learn about the subject you study in that degree, if my graduates leave their degree knowing about history then my job is done.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

An American soldier helps French women harvest, Lucy-le-Bocage, 16 August 1918. Photograph by Lt P W Cloud, Signal Corps. catalog.archives.gov/id/55205299 #FWWHist #WW1

Black & white photo of two women wearing large white hats and long skirts, gathering corn into stooks. nearby by a man in military uniform does the same.

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SimpsonsQOTD @simpsonsqotd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

"A solar eclipse. The cosmic ballet goes on."

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

… but it is always health care! It should be funded through the NHS we are always saying that we need to “protect” (at the moment the NHS is mostly “protected” by hiving off social care and discharging elderly people to private facilities asap to avoid “bed blocking” or other horrible synonyms)

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The crossover event of the summer! @robertculshaw.bsky.social had me join his ICU team day to give a workshop on 'Caring Intensively in Medieval English Writings', featuring the charm against a wen, a recipe for curing constipation, and Margery Kempe.

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Anaesthesia @anaesjournal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

A good death in intensive care "Increasingly, ICU is recognised not only as a place of rescue, but also as a place where compassion, dignity and comfort can be provided at the end of life." #AnSky #ICUSky #MedSky doi.org/10.1111/anae...

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Keeping over a hundred DPhils in order during Saturday morning's graduation ceremony (feat. the 'Stick of Encouragement') @ox.ac.uk @bodleian.ox.ac.uk @burgonsociety.bsky.social.

Doctors of Philosophy being led into the Sheldonian Theatre by the Bedel during a graduation ceremony.
I'm wearing a bowler hat and shirt sleeves, riding the nerves and reassuring that all I expect is 'walk and bow'.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In 1918, the US Army adopted the French ‘Triage’ protocol for assessing & evacuating wounded. Arrival of wounded at Miomandre Hospital, Suippes, France #OTD 17 July 1918. Photo: Cpl R H Ingleston. Source: catalog.archives.gov/id/55192912

Black and white photo soldiers carry a casualty on a stretcher from the back of a motor ambulance, behind a sign over a doorway reads Triage.

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

'"We felt this would be inappropriate,” the senior manager said.' Having been dragged through the stress of a 'process' that came to nothing myself, this is heartbreaking. UK Treasury must change disciplinary process after worker’s suicide, mother says www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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UK Treasury must change disciplinary process after worker’s suicide, mother says

Chloe Moffat, 26, killed herself day after meeting about anonymous complaint in which she was not allowed to bring a colleague

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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I had not posted about it but as I am now earnestly grappling with it: I am writing another book for @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Bodleian Publishing, 'Tales of Horror from Medieval England'. Expect translated narratives of violence, sorcery, fearsome creatures, the undead, and the end times.

A medieval manuscript illustration of a skeleton representing death holds a spear aloft, ready to strike an emaciated man who lies in bed, an attendant at his side. From Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Selden Supra 53 F. 118r.

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

And of course the day (and video) starts off with me posing to photo-bomb someone through the gates on Broad Street... @ox.ac.uk youtube.com/shorts/VtYu9...

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Encaenia 2026 🎓 #oxforduniversity

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Alas, I am missing the @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social Issue 6: Cuts/Tears launch tonight, but my spirit is there as I celebrate a home! The latest issue has lots of ✂️cutting edge🔪 articles, and my piece 'Cut, Pasted and Pocketed: J.L. Carr’s Chaucer Pocketbook' inscriptionjournal.com/issue-6/

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Palestine Action is not like the suffragettes, it’s true. Because one suffragette threw a hatchet at the prime minister, while another bombed the chancellor’s house.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Very flattered to have been nominated for a 'Transformation in Education' award as part of the Oxford Lifelong Learning Inspiring Excellence Awards. All credit to the fantastic Astrophoria Foundation Year students, whose commitment and enthusiasm are a continual inspiration.

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Last night I was part way up to my shoulder in effluent, manually unclogging a bed pan masher. Happy #InternationalNursesDay.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

ITV News just vox-popped an older northern woman who said that she had switched from Labour to Reform because she was angry that illegal migrants were “getting hotels when British people can’t get hotels”. At some point Labour surely just has to say these people are completely politically illiterate

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Clinical lead for the NHS and registered mental health nurse Conaghan said she was feeling "excited and nervous".
"I can't wait to see where all this money is going and finally get it back on our streets," she said.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Next Sunday I'll be giving an online lecture for The Last Tuesday Society on my @bodleian.ox.ac.uk book ✨Book Curses✨. I'll be talking about curses like that of John Wryghtson, which sits opposite some rather threatening illustrations of surgical instruments (Ox, St John's, MS 76, f. 5v).

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

a woman got v shirty with me when I pointed out dogs aren’t allowed in the play park — I might not have actually said anything if the dog hadn’t been off the lead and bothering picnickers — and I’m not thrilled about a summer ahead of me of insisting that yes, children are more important than dogs

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Up there is @pixelatedboat.bsky.social's (I think) tweet response to 'how would you die in the 1800s' along the lines of 'blasting a railroad spoke through my skull to get me some of that Phineas Gage money'. 'mad Phineas Gage money' surprisingly regular addition to our vocabulary.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I realise I don't post on here much, you're not missing anything. However I turned up in a reel again @ox.ac.uk managing the doffing on the right-hand side. @burgonsociety.bsky.social @bodleian.ox.ac.uk . youtube.com/shorts/fthRh...

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You’ve just graduated from Oxford University 🎓 #OxfordUniversity

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Mustache guys are either no nonsense or 100% nonsense

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I am looking forward to seeing my weird article on J. L. Carr's Chaucer Pocketbook in print in @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social. This was a very much a 'I like these but do not know why, so let's think through it' writing experiment.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I used to write a lot about this and I just got so… tired. It hasn’t changed, it never changes.

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ʟɪɴᴇꜱ @lines.ink · 15/02/2026

This is really sad. I just feel so despairing about this and the fact that this profound failure won't be recognised as such by most politicians.

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

'The Towpath', Maida Hill Tunnel (1912) by Christopher RW Nevinson (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

It was a pleasure to talk to English teachers at the @engfacoutreach.bsky.social Teachers' Conference about the Humanities course/ English stream of the Astrophoria Foundation Year at Oxford 💙💜

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Robert Culshaw @robertculshaw.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

An illegal waste dump by an A Road in Oxford gets cleared, whilst one next to a primary school in one of the most deprived parts of Wigan...? On what is presumably the old Coal Board land, now 'owned by the Duchy of Lancaster'. Ah well you see, it's about the funds.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Outside the Level 2 Reading Room in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk there is a wellbeing display. Here are some it's little zines that genuinely made me smile.

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Intensive Care Society @ics-updates.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

A failure of leadership. A failure of the system. Our response to the #CovidInquiry Report finds a "toxic" culture led to a profound ignorance of how the #NHSFrontline functions. Clinical expertise was side-lined at the cost of 23,000 lives. Read our full response: ow.ly/1yjB50Y5rsk #IntensiveCare

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Emily Drabinski @edrabinski.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

He was a nurse.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

#OTD An unknown Women's Army Auxiliary Corps Forewoman, 1918 or 19, inscribed: 'With love & best wishes N., France Jan. 7.' She displays her Forewoman's rank badge, blue & white Signal Service brassard, & private metal identity bracelet. From young me's WW1 photo collection.

Sepia coloured photo of seated woman in her uniform in her thirties gazing at the camera.

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

A couple of days ago @robertculshaw.bsky.social proposed and I said yes 🍂

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