Kate Wiles

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

HMMMMMMM

Screenshot of the Wayback Machine capture of the old entry for BL MS Add 49598

OMG PEOPLE! I have the BL hack of all BL hacks. Why didn't this occur to me before? It turns out the Wayback Machine has snapshots of MS metadata from the old Digitised Manuscripts site. I tried it for the Benedictional of St. Æthelwold, in honor of his day, and lo! web.archive.org/web/20140305...

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

Black Sails, Borgen, Battlestar Galactica (2004), Blackadder, and – watch me make it begin with B – the BBC's Pride and Prejudice miniseries (1995).

Students in England shun foreign languages at A-level, report finds Ofqual figures show a sharp fall in pupils taking exams in French and German

Contributing to a 20% fall in admissions to university language and area studies courses in the past five years. Not at all good news.

YES. THE IMPORTANT THINGS.

tv commissioner. I'd commission and then - and this is important - not cancel the good shows

Delighted to have Matthew challenging my interpretations, (this is the *point* of history) to decide for yourselves pls tune in and pick up a copy of Victoria’s Secret from tomorrow!! lnk.to/victoriassec...

Amazon review of Pride and Prejudice, left by carlton p morgan on 30 July 2010: "Just a bunch of people going to each other's houses"

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

If you fancy pre-ordering the paperback of PAGANS, due Feb next year, Waterstones are offering 25% off with the discount code SUMMER25, valid from now until Thursday this week! www.waterstones.com/book/pagans/... #WPreorder #BookSky

The cover for the book 'Why Q Needs U' by Danny Bate

With pride, joy and a great deal of nerves, I'd like to reveal the cover for my book 'Why Q Needs U'!, published by @bonnierbooksuk.bsky.social!

I love the cover, with the endorsement from its first reviewer, who also called it "a wonderful achievement" and "just couldn't recommend it more highly".

Text message saying “thanks babel” corrected to “babe”

Wake up babel new term of endearment for a linguist just dropped

The commentary has been SO good all Tour. But I get the impression they're not expecting to make the move over to Discovery next year? It'd be such a missed opportunity if they don't.

well, this is it. The end of the last Tour de France to be aired on ITV. An actual end of an era.

Thanks to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for notification of the death of Peter (P.J.) Marshall (1933-2025), a great historian of India and Empire, and a pioneering President of the Royal Historical Society. His last book is going to press so there is more of his work still to appreciate.

Oh I was definitely being diplomatic!

Okay so I have some massive news:

This 👇👇👇 is Victoria’s Secret.

Huge thanks to @hackblackburn.bsky.social for breaking this story, and if you want to scrutinise my evidence, preorder Victoria’s Secret NOW: linktr.ee/VictoriasSecretBook and tune into Channel 4 on Thursday July 31st @ 9 pm

Historian here! Actually people have always made sweeping statements that apply a single cause to a complex situation!

I am SCREAMING

Oh it’s ok, it let me do it eventually - I think the site was just overloaded

Apparently there's a new law, so it'll appear on multiple websites...

ok but more seriously what do I do if the site just doesn't work for me, either on laptop or on my phone, with multiple browsers?

well I don't care for it!

You can’t even send pictures on DM here. Why do I have to verify my age??

SO much work!

I also think the most interesting and productive thing is maybe the ability to spot similarities/influences, rather than the filling in of gaps.

*squints*

I think the last line of this article is the key one...

Wow, it looks like they really want to rename the University of Warwick to 'Beyond'

to which anyone reasonable would reply 'stop trying to make fetch happen, it's not going to happen'.

BRAND!!