Someone in Labour needs to be clear. Freedom of movement was always a good thing. The objections to it were always both false and xenophobic.

Our new book is now available to purchase at the Library! 'Lambeth Palace Library', by Giles Mandelbrote, a volume in the 'Director's Choice' series, published by Scala Arts and Heritage Publishers. Pop in to get your copy alongside some lovely postcards!

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

According to the parliamentary annual report & accounts for the 2025/26 financial year, the cost of subsidising the bars in the House of Commons alone was around £5.8 million. Meanwhile, to save £3 million less than that, Jodrell Bank is being defunded and shut down. share.google/MRHIvCsCsKoc...

Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands

Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.

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Today is July 25th, often celebrated as the fall of Italian fascism. Mussolini passed draconian controls over pasta production which he considered decadent and overly reliant on foreign grain. Today, we celebrate his fall with a simple, defiant partisan dish: 1) Pasta 2) Creamy butter 3) Parmesan

Hard to find a stronger example of “fascists hate the actually existing glory of the countries they pretend to love” than “Mussolini fucked with pasta.”

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 2w ago

Today is July 25th, often celebrated as the fall of Italian fascism. Mussolini passed draconian controls over pasta production which he considered decadent and overly reliant on foreign grain. Today, we celebrate his fall with a simple, defiant partisan dish: 1) Pasta 2) Creamy butter 3) Parmesan

My little baby nephew has graduated — GRADUATED?!?! But would you look at how utterly stunning his final work is! An entire story of his own making with these these evocative illustrations. #ProudAunt

Première affiche du prochain long de Paul Greengrass, "The Uprising", avec Andrew Garfield dans le rôle principal Le pitch ? En Angleterre, un homme lance une rébellion contre la tyrannie du roi Richard II Première bande-annonce demain

Tomorrow's front page: Career politician drags UK into cynical stunt

Come one, come all! We have an amazing selection of papers on Wednesday and I can't wait to hear them all! #IMC2026

Dr Sarah McKeagney@mckeagns.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm gonna be so excited to be heading off to #IMC2026 in Leeds tomorrow once I can get my PowerPoint finished 🥳 Catch me at 9am on Wednesday where I'll be yapping about masculinity in church court litigation as part of a marvellous panel organised by @medievalmunn.bsky.social

Naomi Klein is always excellent.

They are so restrained, not yelling “THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT!”

Grantham Research Institute at LSE@granthamlse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.

Such a lovely two days at the Colloquium on Late Medieval and Early Modern Cities in Europe: Moving & Being Moved this week. Thank you to everyone who participated and to @arodsan95.bsky.social and @ebenbow.bsky.social for letting me help out as an organiser this year!

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

Will Bunch@willbunch.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

UK folks, let's jump on this AI regulation petition the Society of Authors emailed out! It's an actual parliament one so the government HAS to respond if it reaches the signature threshold. It calls for regulations to make AI developers disclose copyrighted works trained on. Sign & repost!! ❤️

Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data

We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...

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<adds to powerpoint of every single first lecture in Week 1> Because fuck yes. Embrace the friction, so you can actually be proud of your work and know you achieved something.

Len Scales.bsky.social@lenscales.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A pre-AI take on academic cheating (C.S. Lewis).

getting ready for “demanding accurate footnotes is popery” discourse

Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Pope says FACT CHECK YOUR SOURCES

Archaeologists uncovered a medieval notebook from a latrine in the city of Paderborn, W-Germany. The 700 to 800 year old notebook consists of wooden tablets coated in wax and is enclosed within a leather binding decorated with embossed lily motifs 📷LWL/ S. Brentführer www.lwl.org/pressemittei...

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

8000 fragments! Congratulations, @fragmentarium.bsky.social! Folks, PLEASE survey your early modern bindings and share what you find. #fragmentology

#CfP Failing Male Bodies. Body, #Gender, and #Masculinities in the #Medieval West (4th-15th Centuries) 📌 #Conference at DHI #Paris | January 28-29, 2027 | organised by @dhi-paris.fr, #CentreRolandMousnier and Laboratoire LaMOP 📅 Deadline: July 1st, 2026 🔗shorturl.at/LL8ft

Let it be clear: you are wanted here.

"Residue analysis identified frankincense and gypsum within the coffin and exotic resins in one of the glass vessels, offering a glimpse into how the body was treated after death." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Roman woman's remains found during Colchester hospital dig

The lead coffin found in Colchester contains the remains of a high-status woman, experts say.

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📢JOB ALERT 📢 We are looking to appoint a F/T open-ended Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700) @lancasteruni.bsky.social. This is an amazing opportunity that we are very proud to announce, so please spread the word far and wide! www.hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at Lancaster University: Lecturer in Medieval/Early Modern History

The School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Late Medieval / Early Modern History (1400-1700). This is a 1.0 FTE indefinite appointment to start on 1 August...

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I’d hypothesise this happened here too: hospitals, magistrates courts, police stations etc concentrated in bigger centres, so solid jobs go, local services then fold, shops close - a downward spiral 1/2

Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What happens when the state quietly disappears? A new paper finds that support for populism in Italy (2008–18) rose where hospitals closed, especially in remote municipalities. Greater distance to public services reinforced feelings of abandonment and boosted populist voting.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

Erin Grievances@erinbartram.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."

"But AI can transcribe quickly for me!" The lack of time for transcription in the archives is not natural, it is created. The time to transcribe, which is also time to read and think about material, has been taken from us by those with the power to fund our work. Now they want it without funding it.

Thanks everyone, this call for papers is now closed after a large number of responses were received. I will be in touch with those who have applied in the coming days!

Nick Munn@medievalmunn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Due to a couple of withdrawals, I am accepting paper proposals for my Constructing Masculinities and Ideas of Manhood in the Premodern World sessions at the upcoming @imc-leeds.bsky.social. Please see the attached poster for details! Thanks in advance 😊 #imc #medieval #history #conference

New in the Datini Letters explorer: click any city to focus on its correspondence routes. Shareable links capture the full state of the view. docuracy.github.io/datini/#mode... #MedievalSky #DigitalHumanities

Stephen Gadd@docuracy.co.uk · 3mo ago

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

This is a big one - one of my favourite journals publishing one of the first major outputs of my walking research. In the article 'Walking and Performances of Elite Masculinity' I establish a model for how the collective walking of men negotiates early modern gender politics. A big day! Link below

Elite Masculinity and Early Modern Performances of Walking | English Literary Renaissance: Vol 56, No 2

Abstract This essay explores the surprising importance of walking to the production of early modern masculine identity, demonstrating that pedestrianism was a culturally significant performance that w...

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