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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Hello! I don't use bluesky as much as I should, but I know I have followers on here that I don't see elsewhere. I have a silly little blog where I write about lesser-known stories from early medieval England: it would mean the world to me if you could check it out! seaxeducation.substack.com

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SeaxEducation | Tristan Alphey | Substack

Historian of medieval England with a particular love of nicknames. Click to read SeaxEducation, by Tristan Alphey, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

'The Devil's Lightning: Divine Retribution in 11th Century England' - the latest in blog series on medieval stories you (probably) haven't heard of. seaxeducation.substack.com/p/the-devils...

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The Devil's Lightning: Divine Retribution in 11th Century England

A rare trifecta: tax abuse, sodomy, and the weather.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

'The Devil's Lightning: Divine Retribution in 11th Century England' - the latest in blog series on medieval stories you (probably) haven't heard of. seaxeducation.substack.com/p/the-devils...

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The Devil's Lightning: Divine Retribution in 11th Century England

A rare trifecta: tax abuse, sodomy, and the weather.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

seaxeducation.substack.com

SeaxEducation | Tristan Alphey | Substack

Historian of medieval England with a particular love of nicknames. Click to read SeaxEducation, by Tristan Alphey, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

'London and South East University Group' is a terrible name - chuck me 50 quid and I'll come up with a better one

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Good terminology use here, but I’d still go with ‘agnomina’!

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

I've started a new series on my blog where I retell some of the lesser-known stories from early medieval England. The latest (seaxeducation.substack.com/p/bothelms-b...) is about a monk, a broken arm, and the powers of divine moss. Do check it out, and maybe one day I can afford my rent!

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Bothelm's Broken Brones - The Healing Powers of Holy Moss

An injured monk seeks divine healing, and finds it in the mossy relic of a historic battle.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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Bothelm's Broken Brones - The Healing Powers of Holy Moss

An injured monk seeks divine healing, and finds it in the mossy relic of a historic battle.

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James Worth @worthjrw.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Excited to talk on the Associative Naming practices of Names as "Lombard Histories Beyond Paul the Deacon" at Tuesday's 14:15 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #onomastics panel as chaired by @seaxeducation.bsky.social.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Hello friends - what's the best introductory book to Court Rolls, as a type of source?

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Come join us @imc-leeds.bsky.social in 2026 to talk about names! Please share this CfP with anyone interested - all are welcome

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I would really like a job please and thank you...

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Dr Elena Rossi @elenarossi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Thank you to @seaxeducation.bsky.social for my PhD sword 🗡️

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Anybody happen to know what the go-to scholarly edition of Neal's History of the Puritans is?

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Does anybody know a modern historian who works on either George Canning or Lord Castlereagh? I'm trying to hunt down a specific quote I haven't been able to find yet.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Genuinely quite a scary experience being in the Gladstone Link as the lights suddenly shut off...

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Really want to start a subscription service that saves wierd and whacky vinyls - pay a small fee and get a monthly second-hand record sent to your door

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

An undergraduate in the library is two-screening a game of online poker and an endless stream of tiktoks and, honestly, you have to respect the graft

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Reading @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social 's PhD thesis and I think the sub-title 'Bede and the Cadaver Theory' would make an amazing name for a band...

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The job rejections are coming thick and fast which, while expected, is still soul-crushing

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Hello #medieval people. Please let me know if you know of any law codes, from whatever country or whatever period, that make explicit reference to the giving of nicknames!

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Lovely. Place your bets as to what the substance is....

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I'm a bit lost in life at the moment between terms - so much that could be done, but no idea where to start, or what to focus on

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

First day back in the library after the end of term was overwhelming and wildly unproductive...

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Oxford Medieval Studies @oxmedstud.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The 2025 Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays are fast approaching! As a special preview, join @hlaehnemann.bsky.social and Beyond Shakespeare for a walking tour around the route of the event @stedmundhall.bsky.social... Listen now at audioboom.com/posts/866279...

Dramatic poster for the Oxford Medieval Mystery Plays 2025, Saturday 26 April at St Edmund Hall, featuring an actress in a golden robe standing in a well.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

John of Salisbury suggests that William Rufus himself shot that arrow that killed him which would be...difficult. Was he incredibly fast, or was he aiming straight up....?

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The Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland @oxembi.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Today 11 March 2025, 16.00, Sue Brunning will be talking @oxembi.bsky.social on co-curating the Silk Roads exhibition. Balliol College, Gillis Lecture Theatre.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Any advice on putting together an academic book proposal? What do they want to see (or not want to see)?

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Ross Carroll @rosscarroll.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

If I had to have a medieval nickname I'd rather 'Fful of Thoght' than 'Fallinthewol' [well].

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

All signed up for @imc-leeds.bsky.social - my third, but the first I can put 'Dr' in front of my name!

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I don't know what I've got but whatever it is feels like being run over by a train

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Two red kites are circling the Radcliffe Camera, and I have to assume that this is a terrible omen...

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Corrections done, to be sent in the morning. If you would like a PDF of 'Nicknames in Early Medieval England: A Socio-onomastic Study of Agnomina Before the Twelfth Century' to read, drop me a message.

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I would kill for a desk. Just somewhere to go to everyday to work, and leave my stuff there instead of carting books back and forward every day

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

How does one begin thinking about choosing a publisher for a monograph? There are so many options! Any advice?

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Tristan 'count-fingers' Alphey @seaxeducation.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

right, anyone have any advice on turning a thesis into a book?

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

What are the recent publications on Anglo-Saxon church architecture? For a thing I'm writing, I'm keen to pull together major new studies made over the last ten years or so. Help gratefully received. I'll post a few 👇 to get things going.

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Editing pro tip: you can fix any paragraph with one handy footnote

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We have no budget for postage, so you'll just have to accept this electronic version instead!

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Simon Hamilton @tallinnstreets.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Count me in on this!

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Hello, world! We've shut down business over at The Other Place, and SOMEONE (*cough* @seaxeducation.bsky.social *cough*) asked if we were moving over here. Oh, go on, then. Our EiC always needs more social media accounts to manage!

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Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's also striking that, say, Dorothy Whitelock hasn't appeared once, despite publishing some of her most important work there.

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