Reposted by Dr Will WyethAndrew Rait @andrewrait.bsky.social · 7hBut I enjoyed the current Govts comms dept response 😂 16445136
Reposted by Dr Will WyethLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17978419
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 03/10/2026growinguptransgender.com/2026/10/02/l...growinguptransgender.comLeaving the UK with a heavy heartToday, as a family, we have booked our flights and our one-way ticket out of the UK. This has not felt like a choice. This feels like fleeing to protect ourselves. For the past 7 years we have look… 042
Reposted by Dr Will WyethAriadne Griffin @ariadnereviews.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Miranda Hart coming out the grave looking like Zombie Hitler 💀 #CelebrityTraitors 413528
Reposted by Dr Will WyethRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/10/2026Applications now invited for the Society's new 'Social History Archive Partnership' bit.ly/4iFNuF0 This offers free 6-month access to content in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. The scheme aims to support independent historians who lack access to such resources #Skystoriansbit.lySociety launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHSThe Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ... 086
Reposted by Dr Will WyethRobert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"But I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders." Everyone struggles with impostor syndrome sometimes, including Charles Darwin who scrawled this in a letter to Charles Lyell #OTD in 1861. 🧪 www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter?docId... 29321
Reposted by Dr Will WyethDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026This is the same place in November 2023. 212979
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Happy #ADoorAbleThursday! Here’s the porch of St Giles’ church in Bowes in the land of the haliwerfolc, though originally in the land of Alan rufus of the OG Richmond. 082
Reposted by Dr Will Wyeth𝔖𝔦𝔪𝔬𝔫 ℜ @sjramsden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.theguardian.com/science/2026...theguardian.com‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of ChristianityCommunity-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore 082
Reposted by Dr Will WyethKate North @curatorkate.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The beautiful shrine to St. Tibba, in Peterborough Cathedral 🤩 Tibba is the patron saint of falconers and is thought to have lived in the area that is now Rutland, during the 7th century. 1647
Reposted by Dr Will WyethEarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 29/09/2026A huge £27.9 million raised in hope of securing the Rothbury Estate for #NatureRecovery, wildlife, heritage & public benefit. To stop it being broken up and sold off. Let’s hope philanthropic donor(s) help @northwildlife.bsky.social to close the final gap. ➡️ www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...wildlifetrusts.orgDonate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife TrustsStretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni... 11611
Reposted by Dr Will WyethAncient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026My word-power is the strengthening of my flesh. My transfiguring power is the protection of my limbs. The crane cries out at the greeting. The Nine Gods stand at my say. (BDQ) 0178
Reposted by Dr Will WyethKevin Moorebidity @kevinwmoore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn. 111797487
Reposted by Dr Will WyethDoSSE Project @dosse-project.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Today, we had our last official meeting as a project. We are proud of what we've achieved, sad that's formally over, and excited about what's still to come. The project may have reached the end of its funding timeline, but our team is carrying on as a research network. 142
Reposted by Dr Will Wyethgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible. 4622021306
Reposted by Dr Will WyethDr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Falmouth University's Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society welcomes PhD applications for 2027 that take creative, critical approaches to heritage www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/cen... #research #phd #heritage #ICHfalmouth.ac.ukCentre for Heritage, Culture & SocietyThe Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society addresses people’s relationships with past, present and future cultural places and landscapes. 186
Reposted by Dr Will WyethSarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 24/09/20262yrs after I finished my MA History at Goldsmiths, my research rights were bought and I was hired to work as historical consultant on this TV show. It's had BAFTA and International Emmy nominations. I got a book deal, too. Goldsmiths: "No point in MA History, let's fire everyone and delete it." 627291
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not helpful but the ship on image 2 looks to show diamond roves on the ship, but I think on the wrong side (should be inside) - if it’s not just decorative. Not a revelation but possibly cool! 020
Reposted by Dr Will WyethCharlie Rozier @rozierhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Cutting-edge fashion with @laurajcleaver.bsky.social and @lvhicks.bsky.social ! www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...theguardian.comFrom bling and birds to ‘really fancy armour’ – the best dressed characters of the Bayeux tapestryMedieval experts talk us through the fashion of the near-1,000-year-old embroidered work, and what it says about the characters wearing it 1208
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Me now realising I’ve been posting medieval door iron dick pics this entire time 😬 1132
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Surprised and outraged at myself for not checking the etymology, and lo and behold… en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pintle 140
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Do I look old to you?” Well, yeah you do, because you’re well over 850 years old. North-east doorway of the cellar at Byland Abbey, with primary-phase iron pintles and a drawbar slot. #ADoorAbleThursday 2556
Reposted by Dr Will WyethLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 24/09/2026Discrimination in the UK is when you can't have a pint in the stands at the football. But banning trans people from everything is not discrimination. Clear? 1041574
Reposted by Dr Will WyethTerry O'Connor @osteoconnor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I nearly didn't post this one from Private Eye. Then thought 'Go on. @justrena.bsky.social would have loved it'. I hope so. 05116
Reposted by Dr Will WyethThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How can films designed for audiences in the past be made accessible to viewers today? Our new blogpost reflects on our ongoing project to restore, digitise, and share a collection of 1,800 films depicting historic farming life. merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...merl.reading.ac.ukBeyond nostalgiaHow do we help audiences of today encounter films from the past? 414838
Reposted by Dr Will WyethAlisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Archaeologists discovered 3,400yr-old fragment of world's oldest known peace treaty...signed c.1269 BCE by Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II & Hittite king Hattusili III...the fragment contains text...related to treatment of refugees...It reminds us of our responsibility to protect human life & dignity" 05424
Reposted by Dr Will WyethSunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It is probably right to make it the headline. To omit it entirely while finding space for "organised recent protests" looks like bowlderising the news out of some curiously skewed idea that being even handed means out leaving out the facts www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...theguardian.comFar-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboardThomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover 313424
Reposted by Dr Will WyethSamantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org 5470221
Reposted by Dr Will WyethModernités médiévales @modernmedieval.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Appel à articles en français et anglais pour la revue Frontière.s, sur le sujet « Les sociétés de frontière ». Propositions sur l’Antiquité, le Moyen Âge ou leurs représentations. Date limite : 30 avril 2027. Plus d’informations sur notre page ⬇️ modmed.hypotheses.org/9962modmed.hypotheses.orgAppel à articles : “Les sociétés de frontières”Appel à articles en français et anglais pour un prochain numéro de la revue Frontière.s, sur le sujet « Les sociétés de frontière », dirigé par Maxime Emion et Charles-Alban Horvais. Les propositions ... 011
Reposted by Dr Will WyethInternet Archaeology @intarcheditor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Who tells your story? Diversifying narratives of the past through storytelling as an archaeological 🏺 method by @hlsteyne.bsky.social and Milica Rajić doi.org/10.11141/ia.... #archaeology #method #storytelling #socialjustice #diversity #inclusion #narrative 33116
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Until visiting Bowes Castle for the 3rd time last week, I didn’t realise there was a whacking great well right by Henry II’s wee tower. It’s a weird position for a well, and if my general theory about wells at early castles is correct, might suggest there has been an elite complex here pre-C12. 081
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 22/09/202612th century episcopal jaunt in the land of St Cuthbert. What is not to love. 161
Reposted by Dr Will WyethMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026'The collection is free to search and accessible to anyone who creates an Ancestry account.' #Skystoriansancestry.comEnslavement Registers for Former British Colonies - AncestryResearch on Ancestry, the enslavement registers for former British Colonies in the Caribbean, Central America & Indian Ocean. 0156
Reposted by Dr Will WyethDr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 21/09/2026A damaged magical amulet featuring a human-like figure surrounded by Arabic incantations (ca. 11th-12th c). The figure (human, jinn, demon?) has a snake draped over its shoulders. The text is mostly nonsense sounds intended to invoke a magical effect when recited. @theul.bsky.social #medievalsky 16315
Reposted by Dr Will WyethTrevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Want 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... #medievalskylink.springer.comWild animals, small practices, and the formation of an early medieval coastal landscape on the Firth of Forth - Water HistoryThe 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... 510345
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...bbc.co.ukSir Jim Ratcliffe: Man Utd co-owner 'must go' says Muslim fan groupThe Manchester United Muslim Supporters Club says United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe "must go" after he spoke out against immigration and said the country was "on the slide". 012
Reposted by Dr Will WyethInstitute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026...If you have an interest in history, joining and membership renewals is open to everyone; you don't need to be a current university student or staff member, it's free and you don't need to show ID - just fill out the online form - www.history.ac.uk/library/libr...history.ac.ukLibrary MembershipThe IHR Library offers free membership for academic staff, students and researchers. 12719
Reposted by Dr Will WyethEwan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The BBC’s Ratcliffe interview is shocking. He’s allowed to spout unchallenged nonsense about politics, economics and energy. Ratcliffe is worth listening to because he represents an emboldened and retrograde section of Britain’s ruling class 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBillionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UKIneos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea. 1316765
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026When a sign invites more questions than it answers. Chapel of Thornton-le-Beans, N Yorks. 170
Reposted by Dr Will WyethAidan O'Sullivan @aidanosullivan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Prof Tadhg O’Keeffe used his vast knowledge of medieval architecture, to seek out and identify the original 13th century elements in a structure long thought to be a castle in name only, a 19th century building manning centuries old architecture www.ucd.ie/newsandopini...ucd.ie‘Lost’ medieval castle found hiding inside UCD building 0305
Reposted by Dr Will WyethDr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 19/09/2026On a wet morning in Cymru/Wales, imagine stepping into the spacious comfort of Llys Rhosyr, the C13th royal court of the Princes of Gwynedd on Ynys Mon/Anglesey 😮🤩 This stunning Tolkein-esque reconstruction can be visited at St Fagans museum, near Cardiff 📷 My own, 2026 731049
Reposted by Dr Will WyethEuan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Edinburgh University created the first ever Chair in Celtic in Scotland in 1882 (Donald Mackinnon of Colonsay). This is a cultural retreat happening before our eyes where there was once leadership. 4181100
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Byland Abbey is like a beached medieval spiritual battleship, it’s bloody ‘uge. 073
Reposted by Dr Will WyethJames_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The extent of the programmes being cut at the University of Edinburgh (where I took part in an event with Raja Shehadeh a fortnight ago) is extraordinary (archive.is/tACqv) - Celtic & Scottish Lit (UG), Scottish Literature (UG) & BD Divinity (UG) among the 90, not to mention Arabic & Persian. 53523