The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.
15.08.2025 07:27 β π 2270 π 489 π¬ 51 π 42@hcarlton.bsky.social
Honorary Research Fellow - University of Birmingham. Focussing mainly on 17thC religion. Father, Grandfather and follower of lost causes (mainly in the form of LUFC and Kidderminster Harriers).
The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.
15.08.2025 07:27 β π 2270 π 489 π¬ 51 π 42Book cover for Vanished. Features a nineteenth-century print with a fossilised mastodon skeleton, Asian elephant being ridden by a turbaned man, Native and colonial figures looking on. In the background is a mountainous landscape and there is also a single passenger pigeon in the sky. The whole scene is framed by an ornate frame and foliage. Below the book is the following text: A love letter to the astonishing ways of being that have survived past extinctions, and an exhortation to create a worthwhile world.
Loveβs Labour Launches with a roar! Thanks to many roarsome people Iβve gone from peasant to PhD, to Professor, and Penguin author with Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction out today. π
Pls share, read, and help create a worthwhile world.
#WorldEnvironmentDay
#BookSky #HPS #Skystorians ποΈ
Satsuma VI has a certain alliterative appeal
09.05.2025 16:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oxford University press seem to have a number of line by line commentaries but I'm not sure if they have a complete set.
18.04.2025 16:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There are quite a number of no doubt highly commendable commentaries available, but if you want a slightly more popular and digestible take, I found Stephen Greenblatt's 'The Swerve: how the world became modern' very accessible.
18.04.2025 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Long shot "cease until"
27.03.2025 16:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Albeit Luther is much younger in the Cranach version
26.02.2025 14:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It bears a passing resemblance to this image:
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One version of this image seems to be a bus stop in Bethnal Green East London. Not sure whether the image is real or has been generated however
24.02.2025 18:38 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Fief or fiefdom is a possibility.
14.02.2025 08:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Until you reach the last chapter or so
21.01.2025 17:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Something like immerjederzeitnutzlos (which unfortunately doesn't exist)
21.01.2025 17:29 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Scored early then average nervy period when swfc seemed to be on top. A few half chances for us in the second half but kept the owls at bay until the game was finally put to bed by Ramazani and Tanaka in the last few minutes. Very enjoyable in retrospect but a bit twitchy in the middle
19.01.2025 22:16 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And apparently the founder of Amyraldism
08.01.2025 22:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Conclave every time
04.01.2025 18:12 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Managed a Y2K project under contract to a major UK retailer. Successfully averted any potential problems but did discover during testing that their in-house app would not have worked on the 1st of January of any year ...
29.12.2024 16:45 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.
21.12.2024 00:49 β π 22030 π 8732 π¬ 1060 π 1054A reddish sunrise is visible between two houses in Blakedown, Worcestershire
Sunrise in Worcestershire
20.12.2024 09:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Photograph of a Linear Accelerator at Worcestershire Oncology Centre
Radiotherapy is over! Many thanks to all of the lovely people at Worcestershire Oncology Centre
20.12.2024 08:15 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I suspect that the lack of replies is in fact a form of reply
06.12.2024 18:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tomorrow lunchtime, Isaac Chong (Shakespeare Institute) will be joining us at EMDG to share his research on Macbeth and conjuration magic π§πͺ
Full details (inc. the link to join) can be found via our website: scems.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/events
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Rob Boddice seems to be one of its primary proponents and has established a centre thereof at Tampere
Has been for several years
26.11.2024 18:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Bluesky,
Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING yβall to repost this
I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. Iβm scared the mass migration will impact this
He's not dead he's just resting
12.10.2024 11:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I wish we could standardise on something. It's too time-consuming, having to doom scroll through so many different social media platforms
12.10.2024 11:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Past is different
17.09.2024 17:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tbh thermostat did it automatically this morning
11.09.2024 21:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My only live gig was Wembley in the 90s. Could have seen them at Leeds Uni in the 70s but didn't feel like queuing for both the Stones and Led Zeppelin. Also was short of money
21.10.2023 16:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I think it would be fair to say that subsequent albums have had some good tracks but there hasn't really been a thoroughly solid end2end album since then
21.10.2023 15:44 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0