Dr Victoria Leonard

#TodayInQueerHistory
July 28 (1540)
Walter Hungerford is executed at Tower Hill in London. He was the first person killed under Henry VIII's Buggery Act.

Buggery remained a capital offence, that is, punishable by death, in the UK until 1861. The final executions for Buggery took place in 1835.

the David Brakke Festschrift! available now!

www.brepols.net/products/IS-...

A photo of the comedian Celya AB, historian Greg Jenner, and historian Prof Olivette Otele smiling as they sit side by side The You’re Dead To Me artwork is a funny play on the Bayeux Tapestry and shows an angry King Harold, with arrow in his eye, pointing accusingly at Willian of Normandy

🚨 ‘YOU’RE DEAD TO ME’🚨

NEW EPISODE! The amazing life and work of French writer Alexandre Dumas, who created the Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo

My fantastic guests are comedian Celya AB and historian @historianmemory.bsky.social
Listen on BBC SOUNDS, or wait 28 days for other apps

Medieval angel from Norwich Cathedral - one of several 14th century wall paintings located in the cathedral treasury. 📷 My own. #WednesdayWallpaintings #NorwichCathedral

I'm really sad not to be at #IMC2025 this year, please post about it! I will follow as many medievalists as I can using this #IMC2025 🤩

Poster for a set of sesssions sposored by the Digital Medievalist. The image features a photo of a manuscript, logo of the organisation and the contents that can be found here https://tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025

Any digital medievalists at @imc-leeds.bsky.social #IMC2025?
We've prepared an agenda featuring events sponsored by @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. Check it out and come say hi!
Full programme here: tinyurl.com/DMatIMC2025

I will also have some @royalhistsoc.org flyers and badges to promote the society. There are different levels of membership, including for postgrads royalhistsoc.org/membership/ #IMC2025

One of the Health and Wellbeing rooms in University House. There are comfy chairs and a table. There is also a tv screen a lamp, a clock and pictures on the walls.

#IMC2025 has a Lactation Room in University House: Woodsley Room This room is a private, comfortable space and will provide facilities for those who are breastfeeding/need to express milk during the day. A fridge, labels, paper towels, and wet wipes will be provided.

#MedievalSky #SkyStorians

Ireland's Oldest and Largest Medieval Book Shrine Goes on Public View for the First Time Found in 1986 and following a 39-year conservation project, Ireland's oldest and largest medieval book shrine is now on view.

Ireland’s Oldest and Largest Medieval Book Shrine Goes on Public View for the First Time 📜
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/06/loug...

Image description: Mars, the Roman god of war, stands on a plinth in a fresco from Pompeii. He holds a spear, shield and wears a crested helmet and a cloak, but is otherwise heroically nude. He appears in a garden seemingly at twilight a Gorgoneion seals the leafy border that frames the scene. Image credit to Carole Raddato.

This #FrescoFriday we’re in awe of the deep blue of this fresco from Pompeii. It depicts Mars, the god of war. He stands on a plinth adding a sculptural feel and is surrounded by bushes, trees, birds, and a rich blue sky that might be about to turn from twilight to night.

#AncientBluesky🏺

Vol. 88 is out!

It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social

sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C

Take a look at the contents below 🧵

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journal cover

New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55015 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Image from a ceramic kylix, Attica, created 480-470 BCE. With red figure decoration showing a woman standing, facing left, opening chest. Box or tray in left hand. Held by the Penn Museum: www.penn.museum/collections/...

Red figure Kylix, woman standing, facing left, opening chest. Box or tray in left hand. Created 480-470 BCE.

Monday 30 June, #WCCWiki online meetup & editing session, 12.00-14.00 GMT+1, please do join us! us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385

We'll be editing together to improve the gendered rep of classicists (broadly conceived) on #Wikipedia. We can tell you about #WCCWiki & provide training to start editing

Righto, gonna recreate some of my most viral twitter threads here for posterity. First up:

For a few decades in the first century CE, the Roman Empire was absolutely flooded with weird sex-coins and we're still not 100% why.

Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History at University of Bristol An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job open...

Senior Research Associate: Plants, Enslavement, and Public History
University of Bristol - Department of History (Historical Studies) #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK213/s...

A Pictish stone found at Inchyra House in 1945, now housed in the lovely new Perth Museum.
@stoneclub.bsky.social @megalithic.bsky.social
#perthhire
#pict

Call for Papers!

Peregrinations of Plenipotentiaries, Pilgrims, Peddlers, Pedagogues, Poets, and Painters:
Literary Exchanges between Ottoman Anatolia and Inner Asia for a two-day workshop held in the University of Oxford, 16-17 April 2026.

A treasure trove of new books to read during Pride Month From novels and short-story collections to genre-defying nonfiction studies, these works capture the range and diversity of LGBTQ life.

A treasure trove of new books to read during Pride Month - with a shout-out to @bschillace.brandyschillace.com's THE INTERMEDIARIES - a fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich.

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

It's a great article Graeme, I'm really pleased it's part of the Bics Special Issue, 'Orosius Through The Ages' #OrosiusThroughTheAges

Interested in annotated manuscripts of Orosius? the monastery of Moissac? tentative connections between southern France and Brittany? Then this article might be for you

academic.oup.com/bics/advance...

Fragmentary wall painting from Ostia Antica depicting a court scene. Dating to the first half of the 3rd century AD, the fresco is part of the collections at the Ostia Antica site museum. 📸 My own. #FrescoFriday #OstiaAntica #Roman

Relief depicting three spirits wearing hooded cloaks (genii cucullati) from a building that formed part of the vicus at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. The relief is on display in the site museum. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain

Page from the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 1903.

The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library was founded in 1903. Today it's published by Manchester University Press.

From the Spring 2025 issue (published in July), it will be Open Access and available for free to read.

Find the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library on manchesterhive.com.

#cfp Gender and History in the Americas Seminar Series, 2025-26

Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) invites proposals for its upcoming series of monthly seminars on the histories of women, gender, and sexuality across the Americas.

Deadline: 1st August

Betty Radice - Wikipedia

We should have a comparable seminar series on translating & editing texts from antiquity, celebrating Betty Radice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_R.... Radice was editor of Penguin Classics, a series of translations, for 21 yrs. The series began in 1946 with Rieu's translation of Homer's Odyssey

The seminar series celebrates the historian Betty Behran, and here is her Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_B...

And Erika Hagelberg's: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erika_H...

#WCCWiki

And by the way, this envelope should be the only way to receive expenses 💜

There's one more seminar this Thursday, with Robert Evans: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-betty-...

@clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

Image of leaflet and note paper advertising the Betty Behrans seminar

Leaflet showing speakers for the Betty Behrans seminar

Image of two people standing and smiling in front of a portrait of a person

Image of an envelope with writing

It was an honour & a lovely excuse to talk about Orosius's Historiae at Cambridge as part of the Betty Behrans Seminar on historiography. Many thanks to Davide Caddedu for his really warm hospitality. Pictured here with Prof. Erika Hagelberg, who pioneered extracting DNA from ancient bones