The Idea of Evangelisation: ‘Mission’, Theology and Scripture from the Early Church to the Age of Bede, by Samuel Cardwell. #OpenAccess! #medievalsky www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Clare Downham
@downham.bsky.social
Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
A nurse from Maine Medical Center has been kidnapped by ICE!! Please help spread the word! wgme.com/news/local/n...
Nurses at Maine Medical Center organize protest after ICE detained colleague
ICE agents took Debora Kapisha into custody at Boston Logan International Airport on July 30.
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Online seminar free and open to all #medievalsky #herstory #textiles #history #ireland #celtic www.ssns.org.uk/events/ssns-...
SSNS Seminar - Hannah Evans - 'For every woman who is an embroideress deserves more profit than even queens': gender, status, and textiles in medieval Ireland. - Scottish Society for Northern Studies ...
Stephen will explore why so many of the crucial incidents leading to the downfall of the Norse line of northern Scottish jarls in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.
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'Disability history largely remains a missing part of the UK's story. Understanding it helps explain why contemporary debates often feel so fraught' New article by me in The Conversation theconversation.com/todays-argum...
Today’s arguments about disability benefits have been raging for 500 years
From Tudor welfare claims to modern PIP assessments, disabled people have long faced suspicion and bureaucracy.
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Big Issue's shocking report on the energy used by London's data centres has inspired one reader to come up with a way of offsetting it.
'Data centres should be made to provide their own power'
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Publication Day! Our “Terms of Art” with @postmedieval.bsky.social was published today. In this essay, @basilaprice.bsky.social and I explore the “phantasm” of Valhalla in contemporary and medieval politics and culture. The article is OpenAccess. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Valhalla: A phantasm - postmedieval
This Terms of art examines Valhalla as a phantasmic construct that gathers fantasies of whiteness, masculinity, and militarism across political, religious, and temporal divides. Beginning with invocat...
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Given we are approaching that time of the year, my big piece from years back on the 1983 Cold War Crisis (and the role of Stanislav Petrov in it) over onto authory as a free-to-read. Over the years, the myth of what happened has been simplified. The reality was scarier. Because: Ronald Reagan.
The Day the World Didn’t End
At the height of the Cold War, with alarms screaming, one Soviet officer stopped to think. It cost him his career. It may also have saved the world. The morning of the 26th September 1983 had started ...
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Disappointed a couple of people by explaining the Viking Congress is an academic conference, no, we do not sing rowing songs wearing horned helmets while guzzling heroic amounts of mead. The Proceedings of the Viking Congress is a volume of research papers, not a saga of our antics #medievalsky
Viking Connections | Home
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Viking Congress
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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 This week on Leading, Alastair and Rory are joined by Clacton by-election candidate and intergalactic space warrior, Count Binface. He breaks down his manifesto and answers: does he really think he can win against Nigel Farage? Link in the replies 👇
In case anyone feels like signing the EMS open letter against the closure of maths degrees at Dundee: www.ems.ac.uk/open-letter-...
Open Letter to the University of Dundee – Edinburgh Mathematical Society
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Pug loved Leo dearly, but wished he wouldn't insist on taking selfies _everywhere_. #DominieAufUrlaub
2 August 1943 | Jewish prisoners at the German extermination center #Treblinka launched a successful revolt. Read more: https://www.polin.pl/en/the-treblinka-uprising
So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)
𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚🚨 Prisciliano Trejo, aged 29 becomes the 50th person to die in #ICE custody. He was denied medical care until it was too late. His family was denied the ability to see him when he was finally sent to the hospital. This thread is one you must spend time on. We cannot ignore the atrocities!
Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
🌱Great to hear two of our major reports spotlighted by James Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social on BBC Sounds: Radical with Amol Rajan. 👉Full episode: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Read the reports: ➡️'Farming for Change' ffcc.co.uk/publications... ➡️‘Paying the Price’ ffcc.co.uk/publications...
oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy
Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick
Apply for the Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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The #BronzeAge #UptonLovellShaman's burial in Wiltshire has long been considered an important religious figure & metalworker. It's been barely questioned someone of such status must be male. But now #aDNA analysis revealed that the body is in fact: a woman. 🏺 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on ancient DNA: a female shaman exposes our flawed assumptions about the past | Editorial
Editorial: Thanks to new technology we are are acquiring insights into earlier times, and realising how little we truly know
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Postgraduate funding opportunities- University of Liverpool #irish #medievalsky www.liverpool.ac.uk/histories-la...
Postgraduate research | School of Histories, Languages and Cultures | University of Liverpool
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Starting to pull together the PowerPoint for the Viking Congress in Oslo ‘Viking Age sculpture in West Cumbria: New Interpretations’ where I discuss Waberthwaite and Gosforth, building on an earlier talk about Gosforth Cross which was presented here #medievalsky m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2i3...
'A New Interpretation of the Gosforth Cross'
YouTube video by British Archaeological Association
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Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them. Stand up to their hate and division by adding your name. goodlawproject.org/s/3ec4c0
Stand up to hate and division by adding your name.
Jason is the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. Rightwing newspapers are trying to smear him with fake accusations of plagiarism. We can't let them.
goodlawproject.org
