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Rose Walker on The Aftermath of Liturgical Reform in Twelfth-Century Iberia. The first @ihr.bsky.social 25/26 History of Liturgy Seminar Monday 27 October. Do join us! In person audiences esp welcome but you'll also be able to register for the livestream soon:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Here's a job! Cathedrals archaeologist at Rochester. www.rochestercathedral.org/job-vacancy-...?

This is the round my last (unsuccessful) application was in; it cost me most of a term's sabbatical...

Delighted that Oswald’s Head Reliquary 🤴 from Hildesheim Cathedral is part of @germanhistsoc.bsky.social’s “Glimpses of German History” series, which uses objects as a way to explore Germany’s vibrant and interesting history. 🇩🇪
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Paul Hemingway of Operation Nightingale, splendidly attired in ancient garb, playing an Iron Age carnyx in front of a lake.

The lake of Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey-one of those rare places where the veil between then & now can feel like mist, & never more so than, having spent the weekend hunting for its lost Iron Age artefacts, & with its ancient peat ingrained beneath fingernails, someone lifts a carnyx to their lips
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I have looked too and struggled to find any... If an unwatered down Hillsborough law were to be implemented then perhaps that.

Yes. Me too. Thanks for the reminder.

And once again the station staff @gwr.com Oxford go out of their way to be helpful and kind. Thank you! Through covid and afterwards, day in, day out, they brighten my days - and smooth things when they get tricky. A jewel in your crown @gwr.com!

I've been trying to build a reading list to help students doing an inter-disciplinary medieval studies degree think about disciplinary differences - which are often more hidden than made explicit. There were some really helpful suggestions in this thread; if anyone has others to add, I'd be glad.

Reminiscent of when @kent.ac.uk's librarians threw away Councils & Synods 1, part ii, thinking it was a duplicate copy... That sinking feeling when I realized I hadn't been hyper-vigilant enough...

.... but, goodness @newcastleuni.bsky.social library, as an alumna, what were you thinking!

'Post-natal depression followed - I could have died' - Banbury woman was too shocked to tell husband of trauma A Banbury woman who suffered birth trauma in the John Radcliffe maternity unit was too shocked to tell her husband for days.

"I pray when my daughter has babies she receives the care and attention she deserves, in her local hospital where staff haven't forgotten how to care, and she is shown [the] dignity and compassion I was not.” www.banburyguardian.co.uk/health/post-...

... & examine the geology.

Point out lost roof lines...

Impt of appreciating landscape context...

Pay day's far too far away to be tempted by anything thankfully but Zara's latest children's clothes add is quite the thing. Craigmillar Castle apparently.
www.zara.com/uk/en/kids-g...

From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy

“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.”

Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

The tribalism of social media is such that conversations about patient safety are mostly still only taking place on twitter; this from Michael Buchanan @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social on the announcement of an inquiry into maternity at Leeds is characteristically spot on. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We have a very exciting line up of people giving our main papers, including Richard Gameson offering a show and tell with mss in the Durham collections.
Send us your queries and abstracts by the 17th November.

At the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms conference, Jo Story @insularmss.bsky.social, talked about recent work on currents and I got the impression she was referring to something recently published; if so, I'd love to know what it was.

And for me! As for many. I hope there'll be a print of it sometime. I look forward to seeing your work properly, in person.

Pink and blue sunset with plant silhouette

Artist with sketchbook looking out of the window

A doorway with view to a sunlit garden

A cyanotype print of a dove with cross stitched details

Hello! It takes a lot of energy to build a new network after so long in "the other place", I'm wary of more precious time lost online but I'm here for art, nature, books & hopefully real community & kindness. Hoping for a few visitors to witchmountain.co.uk too, to keep the wolf from the door.

That is a fabulous Uffington!

A friend hired Beudy'r Gelli Bothy @nationaltrust.org.uk for her 50th; it was all vry last minute. I couldn't believe it when I found I'd woken up at Dinas Emrys! And that there's a copper mine there...

Can anyone point me to good maps of tides and currents around the British Isles / sailing times as relating to the early middle ages? I'm sure there's something good and recent but I'm struggling to find readily graspable maps for students.

This looks intriguing - and long needed - on the Irish roots for early written Old English: 'Gaelic literature provides a context for appreciating vernacular literature in Old English.'
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Interview about it here: wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

Scottish data centres powering AI already using enough water to fill 27 million bottles a year The volume of tap water used by Scotland's data centres has quadrupled since 2021, figures show.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Still a good article - & I'll be talking about it with students tomorrow 🙂

No one's been working harder than John to check and refine it, though.

Yes. I wondered about that tree.