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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Can anyone help with a passage from this will of 1450? Reading from "Et sinon..." in the top right corner. I'm getting stuck with "bonorum meorum in consilium? et p[ro?]vebil[?]" and then "post decessum predicte Margarete mancione mea nemi[?]detur?" Any suggestions very welcome!

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

live footage of me realizing that Leeds IMC is in fact, next week

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

reading the 1732 parliamentary report on the Cotton library fire, and I know it was a monumental loss to scholarship and tragedy for human knowledge etc etc but this is just objectively funny

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

This is a wonderful piece of writing

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/05/2025

‘𝘈𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘌𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥, with its orotund comma, has been carefully designed to compete for the attention of uncles who like history.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on popular history and its peccadilloes. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

if you were listening to Stravinsky last night on Radio 3 then you might have landed abruptly into me discussing placentas, diazepam, and the labour of neonatal care www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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The Essay - New Generation Thinkers 2024 - Birth Stories - BBC Sounds

From 'lying in' to bedside cots: Emily Baughan traces childbirth changes.

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

pfft, this so-called artisan bakery doesn't even keep the assize of bread

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Fancy a real paleography challenge? Try the deranged hieroglyphs of a para-literate 4yo

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

tonight Ru i'll be serving up some of that Greg Anderson realness, sashaying the radical alterity of the ontologies of past life-worlds

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

'Edward III liked to dress up as a bird. In 1348, at a tournament in Bury St Edmunds, he revealed himself as a gleaming pheasant with copper-pipe wings and real feathers.' Blisteringly eloquent from @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Tom Johnson · Who plucked the little dog? Kingship and its Discontents

The things that made a medieval king effective also wreaked havoc on government. Good kings took up too much room: when...

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Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

we're a non-profit, shoestring-budget, parent-led setting. if *we* can't survive the childcare funding crisis, then few will. 1/3 of settings have closed since 2020 and truly by 2030 unless something changes there'll be almost none left

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Any photoshop whizzes out there who can help me with some basic image processing for an article? I want to take the graininess out of some high-contrast monochrome photos of a manuscript Can offer a bit of money for services rendered. DM me if you're interested

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

wait, Marcel Mauss was Emile Durkheim's nephew?!

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

A desert in the middle of early-modern England: the Brecklands of northwestern Suffolk. In 1677, John Evelyn wrote that "the Travelling Sands...have so damaged the country, rolling from place to place, and like the sands in the Deserts of Libya, quite overwhelmed some gentlemen's whole estates"

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Happy New Year! I for one received a lovely belated Christmas gift in the form of my new article, out now on First View for Continuity and Change. It's even available Open Access for all to read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Final revisions submitted! Coming (not that) soon to P&P, an article that launches the central ideas of my current book project... (happy to share the draft for anyone interested)

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

An archivist with a sense of humor: the HMSPO mark stamped on this charter in the space that had been left for an illuminated capital in 1463 and never filled in

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I'll be teaching at the California Rare Book School next summer. If you'd like an intro to medieval manuscripts, please consider applying. And if you know anyone who would be interested, please spread the word. www.calrbs.org/introduction...

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Introduction to European Medieval Manuscripts (2025) – CalRBS

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Making a lasagna with the 3yo when I had to go and answer the door. Got back two minutes later to find both 3yo and a block of Parmesan missing. He had taken it into his sofa den like a literal wild animal. This is what I got back:

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Could I get a second pair of paleographical eyes on the Middle English word after "vocatur" here? I have an idea but it is a little out-there and would like a second opinion! It's a will of 1450, Suffolk archdeaconry, Walter Almygame

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

ok it is so much nicer here, I don't know what my problem was

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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Save the date for the 2024 Gender and Medieval Studies conference: 26-28 June 2024 (note the new summer date). C4P and more info to come soon! medievalgender.co.uk/conferences/ #MedievalSky #AcademicSky 🗃️

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Conferences – Gender and Medieval Studies

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Does anyone have a good go to resource for converting pre-Reformation dates - particularly feast days - and years, ideally for England? At the moment I am piecing them together from several different places and it is a great pain in ye olde butte

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Maternal guilt as a transhistorical phenomenon: The will of William Gardner, of Easton Bavents (Suffolk), from 1491, specifies to his children that "qwat chyld is most kynd to hys mothyr" may have his house.

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Today in creepy toddler: the train on the right is apparently called "No Face Thomas".

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

fortune cookie declares war on historians everywhere

A picture of a cookie fortune that reads "Don't let the past and useless details choke your existence"

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Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Hi medieval skeeters: I've been slowly rebuilding my collapsed Consistory site–with translations of late medieval church court witness testimony, about marriage, sex, debts, tithes, and other fun subjects. It's now consistory.org. Latin transcription soon also to be posted. 🗃️ @rauchway.bsky.social

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Consistory

London Metropolitan Archives, MS DL/C/A/001/MS09065B, fols 2v-3r This website features witness testimony from lawsuits heard in the 1480s and 1490s before the London Consistory, the highest-level chur...

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Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

today when I told 2yo we had to go shopping he said "no, I'll strip off your skin strip strip now you can't go", and so now I have to stay home forever

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

The existence of EP Thompson implies the existence of (an even longer, more expensive) LP Thompson 🗃️ #HistoryThoughts

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