Thanks, Margaret. I think there is something missing from the article!
25.09.2025 07:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@chrislangley.bsky.social
Historian at the Open University
Thanks, Margaret. I think there is something missing from the article!
25.09.2025 07:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hi Margaret, thank you for sharing this story. May I ask: on what basis is Ancestry demanding access to the records gratis?
24.09.2025 20:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is such a big step for you, but I know few other people that would represent people with such compassion and respect. And, as we all see around us, those are two values that we should promote more than anything else whatever our political views.
Good luck and soak up the experience!
Thereβs some fascinating analysis done by Ed Zitron about this stuff (and itβs even more intolerably preachy than me): www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
19.09.2025 20:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Peter, we need voices like yours to articulate clearly the risks of this sort of thing. Itβs bloody disheartening but we need people who can argue against the marketing BS & the endless parroting of Venture Capital talking points by elected leaders
19.09.2025 20:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0The latest special issue of @scottishhistreview.bsky.social, on Scotland's Environmental History, is out!
Thanks to the guest editors, Rebecca Main, Richard Oram & Annie Tindley, for their fantastic work.
Read the issue on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: www.euppublishing.com/toc/shr/104/2
Rubio furiously doodlingβ¦
26.08.2025 18:38 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thought you might be hiding from the Forest chairman?!
12.05.2025 21:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The front cover of "The Historian" Magazine. The top of the page includes a bright blue header with the title of the managzine. The bottom four fifths of the cover are dominated by a portrait of Charles I.
Fantastic to get my hands on the physical copies of the latest issue of "The Historian" @histassoc.bsky.social!
It was a pleasure to work with my @openarc.bsky.social colleagues Dr Charlotte Brownhill & Dr Sara Wolfson on this special issue to mark the 400th anniversary of Charles I's accession.
V v well done!!
05.05.2025 16:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0That sounds ominous! I look forward to finding out what you have planned!
03.05.2025 07:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Sad it isn't a story but we're now numb to voter apathy in LE elections. Is the average turnout in local authority and mayoral elections in England for the past few elections about 33%?
02.05.2025 20:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Fantastic visualisation! Where are you going to go with it next?
02.05.2025 20:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is a bit hyperbolic but I despise that piece of software. You've given me another reason to dislike it!
So long as you don't need serious annotation functions, try Okular by KDE. Good performance, open source and no machine learning bloat.
Oh my word. Is this message in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Peter?
22.04.2025 21:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0That staircaseβ¦
Hope itβs a productive stay for you!
You've been to my papers, haven't you...
31.03.2025 15:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A two-page magazine spread. It contains two pictures: one of a Church in Scotland. Another of the frontispiece of a seventeenth-century printed text. The rest of the page contains text.
The proofs for the next issue of The Historian (@histassoc.bsky.social) have arrived!
It has been a pleasure to work with my OU colleagues Charlotte Brownhill & Sara Wolfson on this issue on the life and legacy of Charles I.
Thank you, Jenni Hyde for the opportunity! @wallyberry.bsky.social
An appropriate typo, but a typo nonetheless! Congratulations, Amy!
28.03.2025 19:19 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Congregations, Amy!
28.03.2025 18:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Try UBlock Origin on your browser. Works wonders for other sites so might help: plus free and open source
27.03.2025 22:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm already imagining possible titles for your next article!
17.03.2025 14:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My new article βEcclesiastical Record Books and Political Legitimacy in Mid Seventeenth-Century Scotlandβ is available on advanced access in Journal of Ecclesiastical History
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Royal supremacy all day long.
08.03.2025 18:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If I were you, I'd be so tempted to get them to do the classic Gene Wilder forward roll, in unison!
25.02.2025 15:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Looking forward to speaking at the 'Wikidata and Wikibase: Curriculum Transformation in the Digital Humanities' workshop on 5 March.
Book your place using this link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wikidata-a...
Iβve dropped it into so many conversations over the years, hoping someone would bite
06.02.2025 23:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I lost sleep over those sermons. Desperate to transcribe them, given Lindsay's importance at the early Covenanter General Assemblies.
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