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Robin Fleming

@robin-f.bsky.social
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Historian of Roman and early medieval Britain @ Boston College. Writes history from archaeology/material culture. Recently finished a book on Roman dogs. Distracting myself from thinking about the US political Hellscape by thinking about 5th c Britain.

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Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Want to learn how early medieval people living on the coast in Scotland hunted seals and seabirds? Or how collecting sea snails on the beach was part of new Christian practice? You should check out my new article in Water History! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #medievalsky
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Wild animals, small practices, and the formation of an early medieval coastal landscape on the Firth of Forth - Water History
The large-scale landscape changes that occurred in northern Britain from roughly 400–800 C.E. were built on a vast array of smaller shifting practices which reflected the realities of local environmen...
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
an essay I'm gonna write: 2000 - There's a digital divide in which rich kids have tech and poor kids don't. 2030 - There's a digital divide in which rich kids have humans and poor kids don't.
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Centre de recherches historiques @crh.ehess.fr · 26/04/2026
❗Des animaux bons à penser❗ 🪄 Autour de 📕 L'invention de l'animal. Essai d'anthropologie médiévale ▶️ bit.ly/4e9Yo3B, de P.O. Dittmar @crh.ehess.fr @ehess.fr #AHLoMA : ▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?1178 #Enattendantnadeau, n°242 ✍️par Pierre Senges 🗓️25/4/26 ▶️ www.en-attendant-nadeau.fr/2026/04/25/d...
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Wes Smith Ω 🧢 @wessmith123.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Who would’ve guessed? An administration filled with grossly incompetent people, led by the stupidest president to ever occupy the Oval Office, failed to end the illegal war they started. April 12, 2026.
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Great piece by Crusades historian @lollardfish.bsky.social about Hegseth et al’s misuse of medieval history. www.startribune.com/iran-war-isl...
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Perry: On Pete Hegseth and the right's dangerous obsession with the Crusades
In a recent prayer service, Minnesota's own Pete Hegseth called upon God to help the U.S. rain down "overwhelming violence … against those who deserve no mercy," contributing columnist David M. Perry ...
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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/04/2026
BREAKING: We're challenging President Trump's executive order that aims to restrict mail-in voting. Once again, the president is trying to seize power he doesn't have at the expense of our democracy.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"In immigration detention, he missed 4 out of 5 chemotherapy sessions scheduled in his fight against aggressive lymphoma. A scan last month showed the cancer had spread into his bone marrow. “I was in shock, seeing those little dots,” he said of the scan...” www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...
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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2026
i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Glad to see media is finally catching on to something our field has been arguing for like... over half a century? At least my esteemed colleague @jmharland.bsky.social is getting the recognition he deserves!
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The ancient Goths were an ethnically diverse group
Ancient DNA reveals that the Goths of eastern Europe, some of whom would ultimately sack the city of Rome, may have been a mix of peoples from three continents
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
For those of you with access to libraries that subscribe to Oxford Academic, the electronic version of my book is out today! Woof! #dogs #RomanBritain #RomanProvinces #RomanHistory #RomanArchaeology academic.oup.com/book/62385
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Thinking with Dogs in Roman Britain: Lived Experience, Inequality, and Ritual in a Roman Province
Abstract. This book argues that in Roman Britain, where little written evidence survives, some aspects of the past are more visible when we look not at peo
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
For those of you with access to libraries that subscribe to Oxford Academic, the electronic version of my book is out today! Woof! academic.oup.com/book/62385
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Please read and share. The “grassroots” support for the SAVE America Act is a lie. The campaign pushing this bill is being run by Cleta Mitchell and Scott Presler, two of the most notorious election deniers in the country.
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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NEW: This - on the signalling system that crossed Anatolia from Loulon to Constantinople -by @chrysoboullon.bsky.social is v cool. A 'trip wire' to alert Constantinople to the start of the Abbasid campaigning season. Tantalising hints that it 'employs knowledge of the longitudinal circumference... 👇
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Proud to see my university on the list!
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 12/02/2026
fyi mine & @lollardfish.bsky.social's newest book is 94% off -- only $1.99 -- as an ebook!!!! #medievalsky bookshop.org/p/books/oath...
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Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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UCD School of Archaeology, Dublin @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
‘Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England’ Congratulations Dr Anita Radini and co-authors from the University of York, led by Dr Steve Ashby, on this important new Open Access paper in Antiquity. doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Cuisine and culture-contact: lipid residue analysis reveals lack of aquatic products in pottery from Viking Age England
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
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How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The City of Philadelphia has introduced legislation to limited ICE in the city. The Federal Agents can not be masked, must have ID visible, must have arrested warrants signed by federal judges. They can't attack people. If they can't do this, they will be arrested. youtu.be/i5Yvg_HHfbE?...
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WATCH: Philadelphia lawmakers introduce 'ICE Out' legislation to restrict federal operations in city
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Elliott Payne @elliottpayne.org · 28/01/2026
This morning ICE attempted to enter into the Ecuadorian consulate on Central Ave but were barred from entering. I spoke with Ambassador Yanez this afternoon and they want to make sure the Ecuadorian community knows it’s still safe to come to the consulate.
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MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23/01/2026
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
The Gravamen of the Disclosure

4. The gravamen of the disclosure is as follows: 
a. By memorandum dated May 12, 2025 (“the May 12 Memo”), Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.

b. Specifically, in the May 12 Memo, the Acting ICE Director authorized ICE Agents to rely on Form I-205 (which is not a judicial warrant) to enter the residence of an alien subject to a final order of deportation, without consent, including by “a necessary and reasonable amount of force.”2c. While addressed to “All ICE Personnel,” in practice the May 12 Memo has not been formally distributed to all personnel. Instead, the May 12 Memo has been provided to select DHS officials who are then directed to verbally brief the new policy for action. Those supervisors then show the Memo to some employees, like our clients, and direct them to read the Memo and return it to the supervisor.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 21/01/2026
“He Can’t Do That” Is a Hope, Not a Strategy open.substack.com/pub/steadyst... "The question is are we prepared to respond when [Constitutional] limits are tested, ignored, or broken. History suggests that waiting until the law is fully cast aside is always too late."
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“He Can’t Do That” Is a Hope, Not a Strategy
The Steady State |by Steven A. Cash
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Make it viral.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
BREAKING NEWS: Actual facts appear for the first time on "Truth" Social.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Open access and hot off the presses for anyone interested in the end of Roman Britain.
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Establishing a Chronology for Roman and Post-Roman Stanwick, Northamptonshire | Britannia | Cambridge Core
Establishing a Chronology for Roman and Post-Roman Stanwick, Northamptonshire
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The White House has launched a webpage to report "media bias" tips. It would be a pity if it were flooded with tips about every show on Fox News. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips
The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat the baseless lies,
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Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
So pleased to learn that my book #FourDaysAWeek (HarperCollins Publishers) has been named one of the best productivity books of the year by the @nextbigidea.bsky.social Thanks to everyone there for supporting a much-needed break for workers. nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/12-...
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12 Best Productivity Books of 2025
These are the 2025 titles that helped people stay organized, focused, and finally finish what they started.
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Adrián Maldonado @archaeonado.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Hot off the presses! Thrilled to be a part of this important new initiative at National Museums Scotland: People of the past: Building a future for Scotland’s archaeological human remains, in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social magazine or with subscription at the-past.com/feature/peop...
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People of the past: Building a future for Scotland’s archaeological human remains  | The Past
National Museums Scotland holds one of the largest collections of archaeological human remains from Scotland. Following the creation of cutting-edge facilit ...
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
A Second Chance at Intellectual Life | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/news-and-ide...
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A Second Chance at Intellectual Life | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
How a newly minted Radcliffe fellowship program helped Lily Macrakis, at the time a stay-at-home mother with a master’s degree, reignite her bookish passions—and reach her full scholarly potential.
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
An early medieval traffic bollard (!??!) sighted outside a T-station in Cambridge, Mass.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
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First They Came for Black History
The erasure of African Americans from museum galleries is also a warning sign that any community's stories can be next.
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
For those interested in thinking about rethinking periodization, especially the line between the Roman and early medieval periods in British history and archaeology; www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Periodisation, Terminal Narratives, and the Beginning of the Middle Ages in Lowland Britain
This brief contribution seeks to remind readers that familiar periodisation schemes are deeply entrenched not so much because they have withstood the test of time but because scholars come of age a...
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Somebody who really understood the art of potting in fifth-century Hampshire and somebody who really didn’t. The one on the left from a cemetery at Itchen Abbess, the one on the right from Alton.
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Just out and open access: Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Rethinking Grand Narratives: Mobility, Diet, and Health in a Small Corner of Early Medieval Hampshire | Speculum: Vol 100, No 3
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Three late-Roman objects from Hampshire, decorated—as so many LR objects in Britain are—with dolphins. At the Hampshire City Museum.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17/04/2025
meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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Bloomberg Opinion @opinion.bloomberg.com · 03/04/2025
Trump’s tariff equation is nonsense, says @johnauthers.bsky.social. Here’s why 🎥
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Robin Fleming @robin-f.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Global Boston
Global Boston is a digital project chronicling the history of immigration to greater Boston since the early nineteenth century. Examining different time periods and ethnic groups, the site features ca...
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