Dr Victoria Leonard

A black and white photograph of a colliery. Showing machinery and trams.

#OTD 1860 • The Black Vein Colliery Disaster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

On the 1st of December 1860, 142 men and boys were killed in an explosion at the colliery in Risca.

🔗 www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/1807276...

#Wales #History

The Importance of Being Gorgeous by Susanna Elm - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Link here: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-im...

Front cover of Susanna Elm's The Importance of Being Gorgeous, featuring a marble carved head of a man and title

There isn't much of 2025 left, but Susanna Elm's new book promises to be the book of the year!!

The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity

That cover is gorgeous, and it's open-access so you can just download it!

Unfortunately, the Black Trowel Collective Microgrants is paused again due to the program losing its non-profit status in the US.

Find full details on our blog post.

Author Ellen Muehlberger on Building a Book Author Ellen Muehlberger on her path to writing THINGS UNSEEN.

"Your writing is your response to what you are consuming, and ideas can come from unexpected places."

THINGS UNSEEN author Ellen Muehlberger dispense valuable advice when crafting your book in our latest #AARSBL2025 author post:

#WCCWiki is happening this morning!

Publication – Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, Bastiaan Waagmeester, Charles West, « Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050 » The local priest was the most ubiquitous embodiment of the Church for many people in medieval Christian Europe. By centring this key figure in post-Carolingian Europe, this book provides a fresh pe…

Publication – Alice Hicklin, Steffen Patzold, Bastiaan Waagmeester, Charles West, « Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050 »

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Lilian Hamilton Jeffery - Wikipedia

Pictured: Lilian Hamilton "Anne" Jeffery FBA (1915 – 1986) was an archaeologist, classical philologist and epigraphist.

Learn more about her here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_...

Black and white picture of 7 men in suits and 1 women, formal portrait

A black and white picture of Lilian Hamilton Jeffery riding a donkey side-saddle in Greece

#WCCWiki holds a monthly Wikipedia editing session to improve the rep of classicists (v. broadly conceived) of those who identify as women & non-binary. Our next #WCCWiki meet-up is happening online on Friday 25 Nov, 11am-1pm GMT. Everyone is welcome!

Join online here: us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168

Wow! This is beautiful

Medieval stained glass from the porch of St. Mary`s Church at Dymock in Gloucestershire. 📸 My own. #StainedGlassSunday #Dymock #Gloucestershire

Olive Dennis in B&W headshot photo #WomenInSTEM

Olive Dennis 1st US Service #Engineer. Her design innovations changed the nature of rail travel. "No matter how successful a business may seem to be" she said "it can gain even greater success if it gives consideration to a woman's viewpoint". b. #OTD Nov 20 1885 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_D...

Effat Tejaratchi in flying helmet & pushed up goggles sat in open cockpit of plane

Effat Tejaratchi (1917-99) 1st Iranian woman to earn pilot license. Father encouraged her 2 take up flying. 1939 Iranian Aero Club founded, joined & #OTD 18 Nov 1940 took 1st independent flight. Post #WWII Iranian Royal Air Force flight officer. Director of Aero Club en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effat_T...

The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care? The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...

Developing and Writing Funding Applications

Join us next week for this helpful session on developing & writing funding proposals.
Dr Andrew Fairweather-Tall, Director of Research & Innovation @uolondon.bsky.social
Prof Philip Murphy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
@nlwillson.bsky.social IBAR
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The winners of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award have been announced!

Italian historian Marco di Branco was awarded in the Translation category for OROSIUS (Pisa University Press, 2024), his translation into English of "Kitāb Hurūshiyūsh."

For more information, visit the award website: www.zayedaward.ae

Read the latest issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies on Orosius Through The Ages academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...

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Once again @booktrust.org.uk, a UK charity which gifts books to disadvantaged children, is running its Christmas donation drive. I’ve been a BookTrust supporter for many years; please consider making a donation to this excellent cause 📚💖

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Very pleased to see the WCC UK restate its commitment to the support of trans and non-binary folk in the discipline, particularly in light of the current political climate.

Martock is a really interesting place - and the church especially so), we touch on some of that interest in our Somerset volume 4 (available @bho.bsky.social).

The vault and chest tomb reflect a period of concentrated prosperity for the village/townlet very obvious in its streetscape. [cont.]

Elsie MacGill in B&W headshot #WomenInSTEM

Elsie MacGill Queen of the Hurricanes. Prob 1st woman to earn aeronautical engineering degree, 1st woman in #Canada to earn BA in electrical engineering. #WWII Aeronautical engineer & @ Canadian Car & Foundry then ran consulting business d. #OTD 4 Nov 1980 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsie_M...

New issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies Vol. 68, No. 1 (2025) academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6... @ics.bsky.social @tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social @camwachowich.bsky.social @graemeyward.bsky.social

Ireland as the earthly culmination of translatio imperii in Suidiugud Tellaig Temra Abstract. This paper discusses Orosius’ concept of translatio imperii, as repurposed in the Middle Irish narrative, Suidiugud Tellaig Temra ‘The Establishm

Everything you wanted to know about medieval dreams of Ireland's apocalyptic imperial destiny but were afraid to ask! My article on the reception of Orosius' historiography by the Middle Irish narrative, Suidiugud Tellaig Temra, is now freely available on open access academic.oup.com/bics/article...

Did You know Facts about Orosius:

Queen Victoria, Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes, & William Morris all owned early printed editions of the Historiae

The Historiae was 1 of few Latin texts to be translated into Arabic (10th cen.)

Not universally popular, Orosius has been indexed as Historian, alleged 😆

Tagging authors Graeme Ward @graemeyward.bsky.social and Daniel James Watson @totalmediation.bsky.social, and one of our editors @camwachowich.bsky.social

Volume 68 Issue 1 | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies | Oxford Academic The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies promotes cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research in all areas of classical studies broadly defined, including ...

See the full Issue here: academic.oup.com/bics/issue/6...

If anyone needs access to the Issue, please get in touch! Victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk

Volume 68 Issue 1 | Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies | Oxford Academic The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies promotes cutting-edge and interdisciplinary research in all areas of classical studies broadly defined, including ...

The Issue brings together a wonderful selection of papers on the reception of Orosius's Historiae - see ToC above.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this project, & special thanks to the ICS @ics.bsky.social for their support. It's exciting to think where this field of study can go next!

Image of front cover of BICS Journal Issue, Orosius Through the Ages

Image of Table of Contents of BICS Special Issue Orosius Through the Ages

The Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Orosius Through the Ages, is out!!

Co-edited with Elisabeth Manzo & Cameron Wachowich, on the boil since 2019, we're so pleased with the final output. Both Dr M. & Dr W. have completed their PhDs since then too!

It's #MosaicMonday! Here we have a scene from the Gladiator Mosaic in Galleria Borghese!

A victorious retiarius, alumnus, stands over his defeated opponent, the secutor, Mazicinus.

3rd-4th C. AD, from an excavated villa at the Borghese's Torrenova estate.

#AncientBlueSky🏺

Happy to report that our book 'Local Priests in the Latin West, 900-1050' has been published! It is Open Access, so you can read (or download) it here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...