After weeks of being stuck on the sofa it was so refreshing to finally make it out of the house, and to such a brilliant conference no less! Such an incredible range of papers - testified by the reams of notes I took over the two days. Thanks so much to the organisers!

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IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar

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Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza

Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

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Just found the cutest experiment in Bod. Lib. Digby 67: Ut mureligus redeat ad domum tuam postquam semel fuerit in ea So that a cat (literally mouse-gatherer!) returns to your house after it has once been in it. Think I need to give this one a try 🫴🏼🐈‍⬛ Followed by one to make a dog follow you 🚶🏼‍♀️🐕

Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...

‘An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost’: ‘Non-medical’ Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts

Summary. This essay conducts a close examination of manuscripts of English provenance from the late Middle Ages which, while predominantly medical in natur

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