Racism isn’t “viewpoint neutral” and claiming that it is is fucking lunacy

As this is a #LowCountries event, let me add Johan Huizinga sending Nazis packing in 1933--partly because it's not a straightforward hero story. You don't have a duty to platform hatred; you do have a duty to safeguard institutions you're the caretaker of. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019...

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22h ago

We have had this conversation so many times. You do not have to platform/debate obscene views that are also false. I wrote during a wave of pressure on progressives to compromise with far-right haters:

also, final (?) thought, that we absolutely should change how a lot of humanities/ social sciences teach & integrate the study of religion into history/ lit/ politics/ etc we don't have to do the 1890s German/ 1970s/80s UK & American academic thing of segmenting off religion from other disciplines

This October, I'm running an online short course for Roundtable in New York. Four hour-long sessions, lunchtime in NY, teatime in the UK. Do come and join in.

How to Be a Renaissance Prince: The Borgias, Medici, and Farnese

Join Professor Catherine Fletcher to put together the theory of Machiavelli’s book The Prince and the practice of three Renaissance dynasties: the Borgias, Medici and Farnese. The Prince offered its s...

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The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org

Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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slow day in the office so we're starting beef with archaeologists

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 · 4w 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 · 2mo ago

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 · 3mo 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 · 3mo 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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