Sounds like you need a holiday! Vancouver Island is a lovely part of the world...
13.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@proflroach.bsky.social
Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
Sounds like you need a holiday! Vancouver Island is a lovely part of the world...
13.10.2025 09:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And congrats, incidentally, on the parenthood! I hadn't realised you'd joined the club. (We really ought to have a catch-up at Pizzer Express some time.)
11.10.2025 20:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We've all been there...
11.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0A copy of Colmán Etchingham, Vikings in Early Medieval Ireland: Church-raiding, Politics and Kingship (Boydell and Brewer, 2025).
Just arrived. The posthumously published book of my late colleague, Dr Colmán Etchingham. Thanks to everyone who saw it through to publication. We plan to hold an event in Maynooth to mark its publication (details to follow). Available to order here: boydellandbrewer.com/book/vikings...
#MedievalSky
Assistant Professor in Irish and/or European Medieval History
Dublin City University - School of History & Geography #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOY744/a...
Interesting gender balance there.
09.10.2025 09:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is what peak performance looks like.
09.10.2025 07:27 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, indeed! A monumental achievement. She's a very good thing.
07.10.2025 07:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 00,75 Universitätsassistent:in Praedoc "Hochmittelalter" (Univ. Wien) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...
02.10.2025 19:09 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The Anthropic settlement list is up. Authors, check here to see if your books are included: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
02.10.2025 06:30 — 👍 82 🔁 103 💬 11 📌 13#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.
Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
29.09.2025 15:18 — 👍 71 🔁 79 💬 2 📌 8#Stellenauschreibung: Die Stadt #Göttingen sucht einen Archäologen für die #Stadtarchäologie (offenbar Nachfolge Betty Arndt).
#Archäologie 🏺 @Archaeodons group
📷 Göttinger Marktplatz mit altem Rathaus, Gänseliesel-Brunnen und Fußgängerzone ( Daniel Schwen, CC BY-SA 2.5)
Quite. All you can do is play your hand and hope for the best.
22.09.2025 20:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This is why I naturalized before having children here. ILR never felt truly safe. (Though I'd love to live in a world where it was!)
22.09.2025 20:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yes, and frankly what we do see looks very similar to what's going on elsewhere in Europe in that regard (Ireland, France, Netherlands, Germany).
22.09.2025 10:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The long arm of American Puritanism...
19.09.2025 15:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Articles may be good, but pizza is better! (And certainly goes better with a beer.)
19.09.2025 14:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.
18.09.2025 18:07 — 👍 42 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 1Eingangsportal der Monumenta Germaniae Historica in München
Grüße aus München: Der heutige Tag der MGH-Herbstakademie ist den frühmittelalterlichen Formelsammlungen gewidmet. Es unterrichten Horst Lößlein und Christoph Walther!
mgh.de/de/blog/post...
Very excited about this new project on early medieval correspondence starting in January 2026
15.09.2025 14:48 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Coming next spring ... yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
12.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 82 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 5Screenshot of the programme of the annual charters symposium.
To London, to the 29th annual @britishacademy.bsky.social Anglo-Saxon Charters Symposium! #charterrific
09.09.2025 08:47 — 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Hadn't realised that the Connecting People book is OA as a pdf - have grabbed it from trivent-publishing.eu/home/197-369....
04.09.2025 10:53 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The UK hasn't achieved a sustained period of net emigration since the 1970s. This is not a phenomenon associated with a successful country.
04.09.2025 05:58 — 👍 255 🔁 60 💬 18 📌 2On publication day for The First King of England, enormous thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social and Doug Young of PEW Literary for making it possible
02.09.2025 12:04 — 👍 102 🔁 23 💬 6 📌 1Please tell me you sing, 'let me see that O-o-ong!', as part of this.
29.08.2025 19:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Papal Banner depicted in the BBC series King and Conqueror
1/20 A thread about the appearance of the ‘Papal Banner’ in episode seven of #KingandConqueror. In an article that was published in 2021 in the @haskinssociety.bsky.social Journal, I expressed some scepticism about the veracity of William of Poitiers’ claim that the papacy sponsored the Norman...
29.08.2025 16:16 — 👍 14 🔁 10 💬 4 📌 1Do your students still know who Sisqo is?
29.08.2025 19:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It is clearly the case that asylum protests were smaller this weekend than the small over-hyped protests on August 8th, and smaller than in the second half of July.
No broadcast outlet has accurately conveyed that + asked why: they have explicitly stated and inferred growing protests