Elizabeth Boyle

Homes of ‘working-class Romans’ discovered during Rome metro dig Experts say the relics at Piazza Venezia appear to resemble a multistorey complex of homes and shops

'The archaeologist Marta Baumgartner said the discovery “represents an extraordinary opportunity to learn about the historical topography of central Rome”.'

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This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

This is a really, really important story, which is why I provided a gift link. Many people, when they think of higher education, think of elite universities. But most higher education is nonselective (i.e., they admit everyone), and a lot of it is community colleges.

This is fascinating on settler colonial violence in Australia and the dynamics of family and local settler caste memory. And Major Logue was an Irish Australian - one of many complicit and active in settler violence.

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

This is a long, important, horrifying & necessary article on a historic case of violence against Aboriginal Australians which has consequences reverberating into the present. On cyphers, silence, atrocity, truth-telling & Indigenous knowledge. A must-read.

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Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

"Her writings show that, alongside domestic and familial responsibilities, early modern women were fully engaged with the political events of their day."

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The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Yes, great album!

I can't wait to read this 👇🏻

Seems to be arguing for "critic" to be subsumed into "personal essayist". Strange.

Authority: Essays on Being Right by Andrea Long Chu review – scorching hot takes The Pulitzer-winning critic has some choice words for the likes of Zadie Smith, Hanya Yanagihara and Bret Easton Ellis

'The job of today’s critic is not so much to impart expertise but to become a storyteller in their own right: “The critic has become a witness, one whose job is to offer up an event within her own experience in such a way that the reader, if she is so inclined, may experience it too.”'

Mary Gaillard, Who Broke a Ceiling in Subatomic Research, Dies at 86

"Dr. Gaillard contributed key insights to what is now known as the Standard Model — scientists’ best theory about the properties and interactions of elementary particles — while overcoming discrimination as one of the few women in her field and inspiring other female physicists to do the same."

Wow, that tattoo is even better than the original work. Beautiful.

Thank you! She's really happy with it! 😀

My daughter's freshly-tattooed upper arm. The large tattoo, stretching from shoulder to elbow, depicts a gothic-style castle with a guitar neck emerging from the top as if it were a turret. The image is based on the cover art for Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, but has been reinterpreted in blackwork by the Irish tattooist Joseph Deegan.

The artwork for the 1975 album Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. The main foreground image is a castle, with a guitar neck rising out of the top as if it were a turret. A rainbow arcs across the background.

Today I went with my daughter to get her latest tattoo. Ever since she was little, her favourite album has been Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow (slightly random since her father & I are both metal fans but not particularly into Rainbow). This is her tribute to that album. [Tattoo artist: Joseph Deegan]

‘This wasn’t obvious’: the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor, researchers find Hybridisation event took place about 9 million years ago, helping to ‘spark the emergence of a new organ’

"Landmark research has found the potato evolved from a tomato ancestor nearly 9 million years ago." 🤯

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There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

Dreaming of Dead People by Rosalind Belben review – rivals anything by Virginia Woolf More than 40 years on from its first publication, this exploration of one woman’s thoughts and fantasies is a gem worthy of rediscovery

"The book is divided into six very different sections, including a stay in Venice, a treatise on masturbation, a description of a beloved dog’s euthanasia and a vivid erotic daydream involving Robin Hood."

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Overlooked No More: Ethel Lina White, Master of Suspense Who Inspired Hitchcock

"White was a powerhouse of the genre in the 1930s, publishing more than 100 short stories and 17 novels, three of which were adapted into films, most notably Hitchcock’s “The Lady Vanishes” (1938). That movie ... was named one of the top 100 films of the 20th century by the British Film Institute."

Ozzy Osbourne funeral latest: Sharon and Metallica stars attend private service The Black Sabbath frontman’s hearse drove down Broad Street as fans lined the pavement, ahead of a private funeral attended by close family and friends

Your love for me has just got to be real.

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Bid to save Cwm Rhondda chapel raises enough money to buy it - BBC News A bid to save the chapel where Bread of Heaven was first sung raises enough to buy the building.

A huge congratulations to all those involved in this brilliant campaign to save Capel Rhondda and protect Welsh heritage ⛪️

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm219nyk79jo.amp

#Wales #History

The launch of Old Irish: a beginners guide took place in the Royal Irish Academy. The book, by Dr Rebecca Shercliff, @cam.ac.uk‬, was launched by Dr Chantal Kobel, @maynoothuniversity.ie‬, and attendees included a number of students and staff from the DIAS Celtic Studies Summer School 2025

Hundreds of medieval medical manuscripts now accessible Over the course of the last three years, the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project has been enhancing the discoverability of medieval medical recipes in historic library collections across the ...

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project.
👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

‘The real issue is change’: Edinburgh University’s first Black philosophy professor on racism and reform Prof Tommy J Curry reflects on leading the institute’s slavery review – and why it must lead to meaningful action

"I don’t see that history as something that sits in the past with a closed door,” Frith adds. “It is something that directly affects all of us today in very different and uneven ways, but it nonetheless does affect the shape of our society, our relations, everything."

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025

Please submit your paper to us at lampsedinburgh@gmail.com
Deadline: 29th August 2025

As far as I know the Boydell & Brewer prices are correct, and I don't understand where that Brill/De Gruyter price has come from, but let me look into it - I'm guessing it's something to do with international distribution but I am not sure.

what a wonderful book. moved to tears. thank you for the recommendation

Zack Stentz @MuseZack • 12h In 1184 a bunch of German nobles got together in a building in Erfurt to mediate a land dispute...and ended up falling through rotting floorboards into the cesspit below. Sixty of them drowned in human waste. I maintain that this is how Game of Thrones should have ended. megan • @megievalist • 14h share your favorite piece of medieval lore

Today is the 841st anniversary of the Erfurt Latrine Disaster
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Also define doxxed? Their names made public? Like the names of every police officer, teacher, judge, govt employee?

‘He spoke up for me when I was in prison’: Anthrax, Lamb of God, Rick Wakeman and more share memories of Ozzy Osbourne After Osbourne’s death at 76, the heavy metal greats he inspired remember his pranks, generosity and quadruple brandies – and relive the tears at his farewell show

"The way he departed this world was absolutely magnificent. Raising all that money for charity with Back to the Beginning, bringing the whole scene together like this – and then he’s gone. It is very sad and at the same time, so perfect in a way."

Some amazing tributes here. ❤️