Rebecca Langlands

Pretty Vacant Full disclosure: I was one of those academics who, when Wikipedia first appeared, warned students against using it in no uncertain terms. To be fair, in those days most of its articles on ancient h…

Musk’s Grokipedia is almost certainly even worse than you thought it would be.

thesphinxblog.com/2025/10/30/p...

Great afternoon of talks by lecturers from the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter for Classics for All.Talks on Roman coins, Latin etymology and Pompeiian graffiti to students from local schools from Exeter and Crediton showed how broad a subject Classics can be.

Arts & Culture Exeter | Creative Fellowship 2025-26: Callout for Artists Applications are invited from creative practitioners for this year's Arts and Culture Creative Fellowship, which will be hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Collective, and will focus on reimagining th...

📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢

4-5 week paid placement for creative practitioner to work alongside the Gender and Sexuality Collective at Uni of Exeter.

💡Visual | Digital | Sound | Performing | Design | Lit | Film | Music
💡 Budget: £6,000
🗓️ Deadline: Sun 2 Nov

🔗 www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/creativ...

Agreed. It’s my first port of call when I am researching.

My University has opened a virtual scholar scheme for scholars from Gaza. Please share widely and help stop scholasticide. www.exeter.ac.uk/faculties/ha...

Sign the Petition Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community

Attention all Allies of LGTBQ people supporting trans people please see this Petition!

www.change.org/p/not-in-our...

Just ten years ago the UK was top of the list - the best place in Europe for LGBT rights. We are now 22nd

The only country to drop faster in one year than us is Hungary

The government needs to act in a major way before this becomes their entire legacy

YouTube video by QueerAF | Understand the LGBTQIA+ news Trans judge taking UK to European Court Of Human Rights speaks out during Trans+ History Week

Hello World!

Welcome to followers changing channels from LinkedIn. Thank you everyone following me for the first time.
Here is a video link to an address I gave at the start of Trans History Week. Wherever you are, know the UK is trans-hostile. It will take 12mins of your life.
youtu.be/IPU6XN4lOvw

Exeter

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Don't believe what the UK media is telling you about the Runcorn and Helsby by-election: www.cheryl-morgan.co...

Patriarchal Hammers Some thoughts on the recent judgement by the Supreme Court

The fabulous @saranahmed.bsky.social being brilliant as usual:
feministkilljoys.substack.com/p/patriarcha...

Modern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsolete Advanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics

A response: www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.

REF2029: concerns about the implications of decoupling | The English Association : Please read this important joint letter we have written (on behalf of us, our chair @jennyrichards.bsky.social ) along with @ies-sas.bsky.social & @univeng.bsky.social
englishassociation.ac.uk/ref2029-conc...

Society for the Study of the Past A new history of the world...

We launched the Society for the Study of the Past yesterday at our Palestine event - a response to the fact that our disciplinary associations have failed us. It’s already looking like the only club I want to be in… More coming soon, but for now check it out here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Sign the Petition Save Cardiff University Ancient History Degree

Petition to support ancient history at Cardiff, set up by students there chng.it/MSXnH968ZQ

A screen shot of a computer screen showing various windows, each showing a digital slice through a Roman ring. You can variously see different views and orientations, internal damage and the intaglio gem

A Roman intaglio gem set in a corroded iron ring. The gem is blue and engraved with an image of a lion seemingly holding something in its mouth.

This is pretty cool... we sent off our Roman iron ring with lion-engraved intaglio to be micro-CT scanned by some Exeter university students.

We can now virtually slice the ring in any orientation to see internal corrosion and the intaglio itself (from any angle).

Resolution is... 6 microns!! 😮😎

Uncovering Roman Carlisle

To begin, I want to introduce the Uncovering Roman Carlisle project; I work on engaging my community their incredible, but almost invisible Roman heritage.
Check us out: www.uncoveringromancarlisle.co.uk
Feedback and critique always welcomed - through challenge we learn!

Critical Ancient World Studies | The Case for Forgetting Classics | Ma This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself

Hello BlueSky. I don’t really know what this place is or what I’m doing here, but I do have two things to say. 1) Free Palestine 🇵🇸 2) our Critical Ancient World Studies book is out - you can find it here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...